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Charles XII: most underrated and overrated U.S. Presidents?
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Date: July 20th, 2018 9:27 PM Author: Dashing scourge upon the earth brunch I would like to compare my list to yours.
Overrated: Jackson, Wilson, FDR, JFK, LBJ Underrated: Polk, Cleveland, McKinley, Coolidge, Eisenhower |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:34 PM Author: sadistic naked hell lettuce most agree Eisenhower was 180, and Coolidge's greatness is hardly overlooked. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471570) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:35 PM Author: poppy state whenever professional historians are polled, Coolidge is placed in the bottom 5 presidents. it is a common trope to say he did nothing at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471580) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:38 PM Author: sadistic naked hell lettuce (((professional historians))) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471590) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:12 PM Author: Vengeful floppy ceo gunner "Professional historians" are hacks whose judgment can be safely ignored. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471719) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:22 PM Author: Sinister Sapphire Newt very odd case (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471776) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:36 PM Author: erotic nowag Post removed by moderator for violating The Law of The Land. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471581) |
Date: July 21st, 2018 3:34 PM Author: Dashing scourge upon the earth brunch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471566) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:36 PM Author: erotic nowag Post removed by moderator for violating The Law of The Land. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471583) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:48 PM Author: smoky set How is Jackson overrated? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471631) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:11 PM Author: Vengeful floppy ceo gunner Ten years ago I would have called Grant underrated but he's being revised upwards of late. Similarly, Wilson would have been overrated but most people are wising up to his downsides.
I agree with all your underrated presidents save Polk, who I think is pretty fairly rated (everybody knows he was effective, it's just a matter of how you morally judge the Mexican War). I'd add Arthur as well, who was a perfectly decent president in the mold of Coolidge but rarely gets much praise for it.
For overrated I'd agree on FDR, JFK, and LBJ, while adding Adams, Jefferson, and Madison, all of whom get, IMO, a big "Founding Father" bump for their middling efforts as chief executive. |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:13 PM Author: Trip garnet abode corn cake uhhh the louisiana purchase called... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471721) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:15 PM Author: Vengeful floppy ceo gunner The Louisiana Purchase simply fell into Jefferson's lap. I don't see why he deserves much credit for it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471732) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:15 PM Author: Trip garnet abode corn cake he could have said no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471736) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:16 PM Author: smoky set Because a substantial number of people thought it was unconstitutional and he did it anyway? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471744) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:18 PM Author: poppy state more importantly, he probably secretly thought it was unconstitutional
it's damning that Jefferson's biggest accomplishment required him to violate his ideology |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:18 PM Author: smoky set And secure a future for white children (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471761) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:27 PM Author: Vengeful floppy ceo gunner I don't really get *why* it was supposedly unconstitutional. The Constitution plainly allows the POTUS to make treaties subject to Senate approval, and transfer of territory is a routine treaty provision. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471811) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:15 PM Author: smoky set literally the most important founding father, it's a deserved bump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471735) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:20 PM Author: poppy state Embargo Act and Non-Intercourse Act = two of the most TTT laws ever passed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471768) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:48 PM Author: Dashing scourge upon the earth brunch I guess you forgot that Washington is a founding father. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471899) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:30 PM Author: aromatic high-end round eye *Calls Madison overrated*
*Exposes self as a nonlawyer but more importantly an idiot*
Edit nvm, you qualified 'as POTUS.' But that is a dumb limit |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:32 PM Author: Vengeful floppy ceo gunner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471829) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:32 PM Author: aromatic high-end round eye See edit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471830) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:35 PM Author: Marvelous Chapel I believe that was BEFORE he was POTUS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471844) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:36 PM Author: Vengeful floppy ceo gunner Why is it dumb to evaluate presidents based on their actions as president? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471847) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:47 PM Author: aromatic high-end round eye What is the point of that limitation? What is the point of ranking presidents? Presumably to gauge their importance. Otherwise it is nonfalsifiable and a stupid exercise (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471892) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:19 PM Author: poppy state IMO, Jefferson and Madison were unmitigated disasters as POTUS and get a yuge boost from their pre-POTUS work as founding fathers
Monroe actually underrated IMO - he hired a great cabinet and mostly let guys like John Quincy Adams and a young, not yet insane John C. Calhoun do their thing |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:21 PM Author: Vengeful floppy ceo gunner CR.
Why are you less sour on Adams? Alien and Sedition Acts were huge TTTs as well.
I guess Adams is less "overrated" though, as he's usually put a rung below the other Founding presidents, HBO series notwithstanding. |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:22 PM Author: poppy state does anyone consider Adams to be a good POTUS? Even the musical Hamilton shits all over him.
Now John QUINCY Adams, there is an overrated POTUS |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:23 PM Author: Vengeful floppy ceo gunner Quincy is almost always rated pretty badly in my experience, unless he recently benefited from some revisionism. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471781) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:27 PM Author: Dashing scourge upon the earth brunch Monroe was great. He's the last POTUS to win every electoral college vote. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471810) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:27 PM Author: smoky set Just do lose a war and your capital (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471815) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:25 PM Author: orange embarrassed to the bone hairy legs home underrated - Polk
overrated - Obama
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:48 PM Author: Dashing scourge upon the earth brunch I despise Obama, but it's too early to fairly judge recent presidents. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471898) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:52 PM Author: orange embarrassed to the bone hairy legs home not if they win nobel peace prize before even taking the oath and had done nothing in their life till then except for winning the presidency
i dont see how somebody can be more overrated than obama |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 5:00 PM Author: Dashing scourge upon the earth brunch Oh I agree. The shitlib media anointed him as the second coming of the messiah. I'm just saying that from a historical perspective, we need to wait before assessing his true legacy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471942) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 4:54 PM Author: Cream Hominid Stock Car Most overrated is obviously Lincoln (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031379&forum_id=2#36471919) |
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Date: July 21st, 2018 5:01 PM Author: Charismatic Clear Brethren underrated - TRUMP overrated - also TRUMP |