Somehow I find the opinion of someone advocating for domestic terrorism in the “Censorship” thread completely irrelevant.
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Worst in my lifetime.
Just read he’s currently receiving hospice care.
Sorry to hear that; 98 is really old.
Man dedicated his life to service of others.
A great man. And a gentleman. 98 or not, the hospice thing is very sad to me.
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As far as Jimmy Carter. I believe that a man that is 98 and in Hospice deserves a certain amount of dignity.
They will be an appropriate time and place for me to bloviate about his time on earth.
I lived through the Carter administration. Now’s not the time to criticize
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I voted for Carter in my 4th grade elementary school election.
I ended up regretting it
The best ex-president in US history and it isn’t even close.
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It all depends on who is doing the ranking. Libs will always rank democrats higher and conservatives will always rank republicans higher. Since most of academia is liberal, the democrats get higher ranked, deserving or not.
A person can be a very effective president and also be an A-hole. In Carter’s case, he was a great person but an ineffective president. Nixon’s first term was very effective, but his second term was not because he was upto his neck in Watergate.
Trump was effective but such an A-hole it cost him a 2nd term. Biden is dependent on his handlers keeping him from looking even worse than he is. Even his party leaders don’t want him to run again.
Surely both parties can come up with better candidates in 2024.
Historians are typically more concerned with accuracy than ideology. Notice that there are four Republicans listed in the top 10. I think the rankings are fair and generally correct.
Carter was a good President and human being much better than this country deserved he failed because the economy because of Viet Nam guns and butter scenario, fought the war but didn’t raise taxes to pay for it resulting in inflation. 2ndly he didn’t give the warmongers what
They wanted, a war with Iran, (Bush disaster in Iraq showed he made the right decision) which he resisted. Carter in my summation was probably really the only true Christian Presidents we had, not with his mouth but by how he lived. He paid for it by not being re-elected POTUS. IMHO he was too good for America, America didn’t deserve him.
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Don’t confuse the roles of a president and a pastor. As long as a person is a great president that does a good job looking out for the best interests of the country, I’m not too concerned with how religious he or she is.
“United States never fired a shot in anger while I was president.”
-Jimmy Carter
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He looked out for the best interest of the country by not getting in engaged in war with Iran which would have been the wrong war with the wrong enemy at the time. He was a good shepherd. Any idiot can start a war, i.e. Bush
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Not a good president, but a great human being.
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He was Great Prez Imho. Find it funny he was the only leader in the world who negotiated a peace treaty between 2 bitter enemies that stills last to this day Israel and Egypt. A true man of faith. History is going to judge him much more better than his contemporaries. He resisted war and made peace. Blessed are the peacemakers of the world my Lord has said for they will be called the sons of God.
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Ironically, based on his resume before taking office, Buchanan should have been among the best: Served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. Foreign diplomat and U.S. secretary of state. Oh, and he was morally opposed to slavery. Kind of like being personally opposed to abortion. And then that Civil War thing began.
As for Harding, here is a list of his accomplishments during his term shortened by death in office according to 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents by David Pietrusza: Disarmament treaties; taxes lowered; national debt reduced by $26 billion; reduced unemployment from 12 to 3%; abolished 12-hour workday in steel industry; established Bureau of the Budget; first federal conference on unemployment; first federal social welfare law; first federal highway program. Southern Democrats in Senate blocked an anti-lynching bill passed by House.
Interestingly, Harding also pardoned twenty-four prisoners who had violated the wartime espionage laws because of Wilson, who appears at #11 on this list. Eugene V. Debs, of all people, was invited to the White House: "‘Well, I have heard so damned much about you,’ he said to the surprised Socialist leader, shaking his hand and leading him into the White House. When Debs emerged he told reporters, “‘Mr. Harding appears to me to be a kind gentleman. We understand each other perfectly.’”
I’m generally suspicious of ranking US presidents. At least Reagan is ahead of LBJ.
I should probably edit my previous post to clarify that the Southern Democrats’ blocking of the anti-lynching bill is NOT an accomplishment. Instead, let the record show that Harding denounced lynching in no better place than Alabama. Politico states that “Harding had advocated civil rights for blacks.”
Harding ?
After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including Teapot Dome, as well as an extramarital affair with Nan Britton, which diminished his reputation.
It irrevocably damaged the reputation of the Harding administration, which was already severely diminished by its controversial handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and Harding’s veto of the Bonus Bill in 1922.[3] Congress subsequently passed legislation, enduring to this day, giving subpoena power to the House and Senate for review of tax records of any U.S. citizen regardless of elected or appointed position
Harding was already married and involved in a passionate affair with Carrie Fulton Phillips, wife of James Phillips, co-owner of a local department store
Enough said.