[Dan from Michigan]

Great Read. FDR was IMO, the WORST president we ever had.

[Theodore R.]

For years, Dan, the Republicans have been "stealing" the Democrat "heroes," particularly FDR and HST. Even Goldwater and Reagan foolishly claimed that HST was the "greatest" president of the century. Yet it was HST who so mishandled Korea that he had a 24 percent job approval rating in 1952, low enough to convince Harry that the best case scenario for him was that only a few people were even "mild about Harry." Nixon even went so far as to rate the hapless Woodrow Wilson as the "greatest" president. Never, however, did the Republicans embrace a real Democrat hero like Al Smith. And I have yet to find the Democrats promote any Republican "heroes," other than Lincoln. In fact, most Democrats today will you tell you point-blank that Lincoln was a Democrat. They could have been absent the day the teacher taught that Lincoln was the first elected Republican president. Of course, in today's PC curriculum "it" may not "say" that Lincoln was a Republican!

[folklore]

Was that Al Smith in 1936 or Ron Paul in 2001? Great find.

[Slyfox]

Great Read. FDR was IMO, the WORST president we ever had.

FDR was the first in line of three presidents who helped to move our nation towards socialism. The second was LBJ who was FDR's point man and protege. LBJ capitalized on what FDR had begun. The Great Society put a deadlocking economic strain our nation that we are STILL trying to fend off. It was Clinton who tried to polish all of the work of FDR and LBJ. If it weren't for our Republican Congress in 1994, we'd be in a whole lot of hurt today.

[ihatemyalarmclock]

FDR was IMO, the WORST president we ever had.

Truly. He did great and lasting damage to this country and its founding principles. But the damage was so insidious, that today even Republicans argue not about whether wealth-redistribution programs are unconstitutional, but only that they need to be about 10 percent smaller.

Given current circumstances, we could have done much worse than George W. Bush, but that's the main reason I didn't vote for him, either.