Franklin Roosevelt vs. Ronald Reagan

[DevotedDemocrat]

Who was the better President, and why?

[Goldwater]

Reagan.

[AggregateDemand]

Reagan was a better politician and president, but he had the benefit of 50 extra years of economic policy data.

[LeBron]

FDR because of pretty much these comparisons where FDR dominates:

While Reagan was busy giving tax breaks to the wealthy that would "trickle down" to the poor and middle class, Roosevelt issued a number of liberal reforms that helped the economy grow with more people finding jobs.

While Reagan was busy firing thousands of air traffic controllers for striking for better wages, FDR signed the Fair Labor Standards Act and Wagner Acts which together established a minimum wage, gave the rights to unionize and collectively bargain, set the maximum number of hours for workers, and established unemployment benefits.

And while Reagan was busy secretly supplying weapons and aid to the Contras and even Osama Bin Laden, Roosevelt and Congress made one of the only decisions where war was justified to join the war cause against Germany while we maintained strong, government-run war industries at home run by some of our late great Riveters.

[Mordecai]

FDR obviously.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

And while ReaganRoosevelt was busy secretly supplying weapons and aid to the Contras KMT and even Osama Bin Laden Stalin ...

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

FDR (Normal)

Voted Reagan out of sympathy.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

And while Reagan was busy secretly supplying weapons and aid to the Contras and even Osama Bin Laden, Roosevelt and Congress made one of the only decisions where war was justified to join the war cause against Germany while we maintained strong, government-run war industries at home run by some of our late great Riveters.

You seem to forget Roosevelt's own thoughts when it came to Nicaragua...

[ElectionsGuy]

Reagan.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

FDR because of pretty much these comparisons where FDR dominates:

While Reagan was busy giving tax breaks to the wealthy that would "trickle down" to the poor and middle class, Roosevelt was dead, and had been for decades.

While Reagan was busy firing thousands of air traffic controllers for striking for better wages, FDR continued to decompose, perhaps gently rotating inside his coffin.

And while Reagan was busy secretly supplying weapons and aid to the Contras and even Osama Bin Laden, Roosevelt's ghost looked down from the heavens and shed a single tear.

ftfy

but yeah, roosevelt was easily better.

[SWE]

The one who didn't commit high treason

[TDAS04]

FDR.

[RogueBeaver]

Reagan.

[Clarence Boddicker]

The best president of the 20th century versus the worst. This is a tough choice.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

The best president of the 20th century versus the worst. This is a tough choice.

Carter? Harding? Hoover?

[Goldwater]

The best president of the 20th century versus the worst. This is a tough choice.

Come on, let's be reasonable. FDR wasn't the worst President of the 20th century.

[Consciously Unconscious]

The best president of the 20th century versus the worst. This is a tough choice.

You're right.  Reagan was definitely the best president of the 20th century. 

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Reagan by a mile.

[H. Ross Peron]

FDR of course

[TNF]

The one who supported the cause of labor, not sided with scabs.

[Randy Bobandy]

The one who wasn't an unintelligent homophobic fundy.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

The one who wasn't an unintelligent homophobic fundy.

All of the presidents except Clinton and Obama were/are homophobic.

[SWE]

The one who wasn't an unintelligent homophobic fundy.

All of the presidents except Clinton and Obama were/are homophobic.

Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford say hi

[H. Ross Peron]

The one who wasn't an unintelligent homophobic fundy.

All of the presidents except Clinton and Obama were/are homophobic.

George HW Bush de facto endorsed gay marriage by participating as a witness at one a few months back. Also Reagan was a fairly infrequent church attender, divorced, and consulted fortune tellers so it'd be a stretch to call him a fundie. 

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Reagan, but not by much.