Rate the Presidents, Installment #32: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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He was astonishingly good at being President. That's a cautious house of words. I don't agree with a lot of what he did; but he was very very very good in the role he was given; and dealt with two huge crises astonishingly well.

Of course, the people who should be most thankful for FDR are conservatives and libertarians; as the New Deal largely killed off any remaining hope of a mass appeal Socialist party.

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I guess the true question is: is he better than Chester Alan Arthur

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The best, five stars. If Arthur does better I will pull my hair out.

The people of Hiroshima would like to have a word with you.

We aren't talking about Truman.

I was assuming Sanchez was making a dark comedic reference to one of the symptoms of radiation poisoning.

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Clark's increasingly reactionary editorialising had reached such distressing levels that editors at The Daily Planet were forced to let him go. Now he's back for revenge on Atlas Forum...!

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Atlas' skews towards contrarian. Sometimes it is contrarian, it turns contrarian on typical contrarian talking points (e.g. Glorification of failed presidents like LBJ/Nixon/Carter)

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What! He's a moderate!! Moderates can't be impolite!!!!!!!! They are moderate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, it seems fairly odd to label someone who names themselves after Tony Blair as an "extremist".