school help: who do you think has been the best president since (not including) Woodrow Wilson? - Help.com

Who? I know who Regan is but who is the other dude?

President Clinton was a great president. Our best times as a nation happened during his two terms. Low inflation, booming economy, peace at home and abroad, very little rancor in the House and Senate, and the only president in recent memory that has presided over a balanced budget. The guy was good; real good. Indeed, democrats in particular and Americans in general will likely never have it as good as they did during the Clinton years. He was a true leader and when he spoke people listened. Hard to see that with our choices today.

Lincoln was the greatest, freed the slaves and made america a whole and not divided. Despite being assinated he did so much with his time alive. He was sa leader and honest at that much, something you dont find in presidents anymore.

OOOOO lol, well Id have to go with clinton just because he helped our economy out so greatly and despite his in house problems he still kept helping america.

Best? Probably Clinton. He had the largest positive impact on the economy, foreign relations, and national morale in decades. Then Bush came along and shat all over everything he worked for. I dislike Reagan due to all of the illogical pot war crap. Right when the country was ready for a good change, he had to go and do that… But that’s just me.

reagan ftw!!

now who likes ron paul?? :p

Jimmy Carter.Master of peace making.Still working hard every day
to improve the world.

Biggest misconception about Clinton is that the economy prospered because of his actions, when in fact he just happened to be president during a high point of the economic cycle since you know, the economy is a cycle of high points and low points. What was horrible with him besides the perjury he had committed was that he also turned a blind eye to genocide in the Rwanda incident. Thousands of people were massacred. :(

Greatest President since Woodrow Wilson though? I’m going to say either Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Dwight D. Eisenhower. Roosevelt’s New Deal plan successfully pulled the United States from it’s stagnant economic recessionary state. He was amazing and the major things he did far outweighed his shortcomings (Japanese Internment, Isolationism).

Dwight D. Eisenhower had allowed for the creation of the Interstate System with the Interstate Highway Act. I doubt that the consumer market and a myriad of other systems would not be as good of shape as they are today without it. As a Republican, he had great cooperation with left. Finally, his work against racism was a great benefit to many. Down points include him worsening the situation in the Middle East and him ignoring the ridiculousness of McCarthyism.

Runner-ups would probably be Clinton or Truman. And I feel bad for those who still believe that Ron Paul will do anything useful. There are so many things wrong with him that I don’t know where to start. Perhaps the fact that he’s anti-semetic, homophobic, racist, and a believer in extreme right-wing paranoid conspiracy theory ramblings is a good place to begin.

Hmm… so this depression- I mean “recession”- I mean “economic slump” that we’re in isn’t Bush’s fault, it’s just the way the economy happens to be right now? Mmmm… I’m gonna go with a “disagree” on that one. Maybe Clinton’s positive foreign relations (thus, beneficial trade) and reluctance to start WWIII (thus, no several-trillion-dollar-deficit)had something to do with the economy at the time?

Sorry… that came out meaner than intended.

I didn’t perceive your reply as being mean spirited at all. In a graphical display of the gross domestic product, the link provided below, it is shown very blatantly that economic growth is approximately the same for the two administrations. Something to quote from that website:

What’s also impressive is that the economy has only shrunk during three quarters since 1991 — once directly attributable to 9/11, and the other two certainly related to the bursting of the stock market bubble of the late 1990s.

Most people attribute the economic growth to Clinton’s actions claiming that he balanced the federal budget which led to lower long term interest rates, subsequently stimulating more investment. However this in itself is a stretch. The effects by the budget changes on interest rates are too minuscule to have had any noticeable positive impact on growth.

There were federal policy shifts which Clinton cannot claim credit for that economists posit were responsible for the economic growth. The economic policies that he actually can claim responsibility for such as the World Trade Organization or the North American Free Trade Agreement, what you talked about in your last reply, did not cause much change. According to the World Banks publications, specifically Hafbauer’s “NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges 2005″, link provided below, the North American Free Trade Agreement overall has not caused trade diversion aside from textiles and apparel. It is also shown that the collected NAFTA imports’ percentage growth was accompanied by an almost similar increase of non-NAFTA exports. This makes it evident that NAFTA did not have a profound impact on trade.

In the late 1990s, there was the stock market bubble that Clinton cannot claim responsibility for either. In essence this was a fourteen trillion increase in stock holdings over the last decade. This had caused higher income households to spend freely which provided a considerable stimulus to the economy - about the same as a large increase in federal government deficit spending. Clinton’s foreign economic policy devastated poor countries, making an economically unsustainable trade deficit.

Now, President Bush is a different story. Just because the economy does work in what economists call a ‘cycle’ does not mean that it can be the sole reason that we’re in debt at this point. Different circumstances affect different presidential administrations.

b>Links /b>
http://tinyurl.com/68rvzz (Hufbauer)
http://www.gongol.com/research/econom…

I’ll have to come back to read that, I don’t have time right now. Sorry.

Yeah, don’t worry about. :)