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Who was the best US president in the last 40 years?

Poll - Total Votes: 53
Carter
Reagan
Bush 1
Clinton
Bush 2
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Trump
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ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@YourMomsSecretCrush 😂 The man who admitted to running illegal wars, importing drugs, selling weapons to terrorists, etc., and then claimed it was all okay because he was too senile to remember doing it? Not to mention his crackpot economic theories? Yeah -- great choice.
@ChipmunkErnie He must not have been too bad. When he ran against Mondale.... he won 49 states out of 50. Including California and New York.
@YourMomsSecretCrush “Not too bad” doesn’t make him [b]best[/b], though.
Keepitsimple · 51-55, F
I remember being in high school and going on a class trip and they had scheduling all wrong and almost made us leave but President Reagan said no and spoke to us. It was pretty cool and the secret service were there. Boring until he started speaking but it was an experience. All I will say is I’m in the front 😂.[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRqRtNYt6Y]@YourMomsSecretCrush
@YourMomsSecretCrush Reagan was the first prez to try to give the 1% a totally tax free ride.......and to pay for that he was the first prez to attack Social Security and Medicare benefits by taxing them to make up for the shortfall caused by the 1% paying way less into the system that supported those things. (Trump is using that argument now after passing his tax scam.) Reagan was the president that started the trend of the rich screwing the poor to benefit themselves.

For the last 18-22 months he was in office all business was conducted for him by his staff because he had dementia. The last year of his presidency he couldn't even deliver a speech publically.

Throughout his presidency he never made one decision based on logic, facts or reasoning. Reagan would not give one opinion or take action on anything until he first consulted his personal Taro Card reading physic. That's leadership, huh

Reagan invented the "Trickle Down Economics" scam that basically said the rich in America should be allowed to be richer and richer and richer---with no or little taxes so they can be wealthy past description. The logic behind that was...once the rich get soooooo rich it's obscene, they will sooner or later have to spend some of it to built a second house---or a want a yacht built---and for 90-120 days (while those things are being built) the poor people who do the work building them for the billionaire....will really make out because they'll be earning minimum wage for 2-3 months to do the work.

He was a real jewel alright.
@anythingoes477 and that being said...... he still beat the best thing the democrats had to offer, 49 states to 1.
@YourMomsSecretCrush Hitler beat out Kaiser Fraiser. What's ur point?
@anythingoes477 means that even as bad as he was (your words), democrats still couldnt beat him. LOL
@YourMomsSecretCrush You're as stupid as you look. How does winning over someone else have ANYTHING to do with how poorly you perform AFTER you're elected??????
@anythingoes477 of course, it had to come down to personal insults. very classy.
@anythingoes477 and by the way..... when he beat Mondale, it was after he served four years as president. the country already had four years of Reagan, and obviously approved of the job he was doing.
@YourMomsSecretCrush You don't want facts and you damned sure are no Reagan expert. You were 6-9 years old when he left office.

What one does in office---or anything else for that matter--cannot be fully assessed for how productive---or damaging----it was for years after it happened. A pro GOP commentary on Reagan says he walked on water, cured cancer and was close friends with Jesus Christ. A more objective appraisal of him and what he did for the nation while in office would be to recount the problems he left for us after he left office. So far "he beat Mondale" is your only facts. I know the reason for that....like most Trumpers....facts are meaningless to you. Only thing that matters is "oh yeah...well what about...?" and past that..........zip. I'd tell you to read FACTUAL history of Reagan dumping us deeper in national debt in 8 years than the United States of America had accumulated before him for 200 years COMBINED....Iran Contra....dismal civil rights policies...and the rest. But I know Trumpers.........

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@anythingoes477 Im not a Reagan expert, you are correct. But I do know this.....
@anythingoes477 the absolute best the democratic party had to offer..... lost 49 to 1. LOL to a guy who was "that bad" LOL
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@YourMomsSecretCrush So if someone is elected to office overwhelmingly, their performance after they are in office has nothing to do with how good a president they are? Interesting theory. Using that logic, the world's best leaders in the past 100 years would be Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.

How about judging someone's performance in the job based on how they actually perform?
@YourMomsSecretCrush Trump managed that, assuming he received no foreign “assistance”. And he’s the worst candidate anyone’s offered in modern times. The American voting public is at best a crapshoot.