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This might be more like history but it's bound to get political so I'm going to put it here.
Who in your opinion is the most overrated president and why? It could be any of the 44 (counting Cleveland once).
IMHO, Ronald Reagan. His policies led directly to the income inequality we are seeing today. He recongnized that his massive tax cuts bloated the deficit to unprecedented levels and tried to make up for it by stealing $3 TRILLION from the Social Security Trust Fund (and it was never put back). He ignored the AIDS crisis and was complicit, though not directly responsible, for the selling of arms tio Iran and the Taliban. He does get points for helping end the Cold War, but as we are beginning to see it never really ended, and Russia probably only backed down because they thought Reagan was crazy. The fact that he wanted to put giant laser beams in space to shoot down nukes means they were probably correct. He also gets way too much credit (that being any at all) for the release of the American hostages in Iran. Jimmy Carter didn't sleep for the last two days of his presidency as he was in constant contact with the Iranians to ensure the hostages' release. The only reason Reagan gets credit is because they waited until the precise moment he was president to leave Iranian air space so as to embarrass Jimmy Carter.
Told you it would get political...
Agreed, although every president since then has also found new ways to deregulate the financial industries. Only Obama has attempted to reinstate some regulations.
I think pretty much every president was overrated... I feel JFK, Obama, Reagan, and FDR were all overrated... Obama is not in the same league as the other guys but winning the Nobel prize? Please ...
I think pretty much every president was overrated... I feel JFK, Obama, Reagan, and FDR were all overrated... Obama is not in the same league as the other guys but winning the Nobel prize? Please ...
Buchanan is probably underrated. I mean what the heck was he supposed to do?
Lincoln saved the Union. It is Robert E. Lee who was the traitor. Taking up arms against his own country, the United States of America.
How is it "treasonous" for the states to simply......leave? It's not like the Southern states wanted to take over the U.S.
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