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« on: January 04, 2017, 04:14:03 PM »
To contrast with the other poll - who do you think is the kindest of these presidents? I'd probably go with Carter.
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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2017, 04:20:02 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2017, 04:31:55 PM »
Carter? LOL.

I mean, it's clearly the man whose cabinet hated that he kept on pardoning every civil war deserter whose clemency plea came across his desk.
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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2017, 04:35:15 PM »

If I had included a fifth option, it would definitely have been him.
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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2017, 04:55:24 PM »
WI: Gerald Ford, whose kind words and his fight against alcoholic abuse were amazing.
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2017, 05:19:53 PM »
Probably Carter.
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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2017, 05:37:15 PM »
Carter, who was too kind to operate efficiently as President.
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« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2017, 05:55:19 PM »
Lincoln neglected his wife's psychological suffering, Eisenhower was a military man which necessarily implies a certain roughness, and Obama is far too savvy and self-aware. Probably Carter.
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« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2017, 07:03:13 PM »
Lincoln, hands down.
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« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2017, 07:31:04 PM »
Should've included McKinley.
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« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2017, 08:13:07 PM »
Quote from: Bigby on January 04, 2017, 05:37:15 PM
Carter, who was too kind to operate efficiently as President.

Whatever you guys say...
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« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2017, 08:26:50 PM »
Quote from: RINO Tom on January 04, 2017, 08:13:07 PM
Quote from: Bigby on January 04, 2017, 05:37:15 PM
Carter, who was too kind to operate efficiently as President.

Whatever you guys say...

And just what's wrong with that statement?

Are you suggesting that there can be kind presidents that get things done? Or do you dispute the niceness of Carter? Or Both?
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« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2017, 08:42:58 PM »
« Edited: January 04, 2017, 08:45:39 PM by RINO Tom »
Quote from: L.D. Smith on January 04, 2017, 08:26:50 PM
Quote from: RINO Tom on January 04, 2017, 08:13:07 PM
Quote from: Bigby on January 04, 2017, 05:37:15 PM
Carter, who was too kind to operate efficiently as President.

Whatever you guys say...

And just what's wrong with that statement?

Are you suggesting that there can be kind presidents that get things done? Or do you dispute the niceness of Carter? Or Both?

I think Carter's niceness/humbleness is ridiculously overstated.  My hypotheses are that 1) liberals are mad that he ushered in Reagan and the ensuing era, so they try to legitimize him in a historical context and 2) the fact that he is so often viewed as such an incompetent President is "explained away" by him being a nice guy who wasn't cut out for Washington, rather than just ... well, a bad President.

EDIT: I also think there's a small-but-non-negligible group of conservative Southerners who very much prefer to think of their grandparents as being as conservative as they were (the old "I didn't leave the Democratic Party, it left me" bullshlt), and in order to come to terms with the fact that their family voted for a liberal Democrat who just happened to have the same accent as they did, they manufacture a fondness for Carter as some type of "different Democrat."
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« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2017, 08:58:15 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2017, 09:22:46 PM »
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« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2017, 10:15:05 PM »
Hard to say.
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« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2017, 11:23:06 PM »
Carter or Lincoln
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« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2017, 03:12:22 AM »
I do wonder why Taft and Ford aren't included.
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« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2017, 05:46:14 AM »
Uncle Abe or Carter.

Overall likely Ford, whose nickname was "Mr. Nice Guy".
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« Reply #19 on: January 07, 2017, 02:58:09 PM »
Quote from: L.D. Smith on January 05, 2017, 03:12:22 AM
I do wonder why Taft and Ford aren't included.
Quote from: President Johnson on January 07, 2017, 05:46:14 AM
Overall likely Ford, whose nickname was "Mr. Nice Guy".
I agree with both sentiments..

I voted for Lincoln as someone who likes great Presidents in general.
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