Rating the presidents

[Liar]

Re: It's all about the hair!

The following are ranked in order of best hair. Tallest to shortest.

W. Clinton - Tallest, thickest and most natural without crap in it all the time.

J.F. Kennedy - Hands down the best hair, imo, but slightly shorter than Clinton's. Great smile too.

R. Reagan - Great hair color and thickness, but sadly it was always full of brill cream or whatever it is.

J. Carter - The style is simple but would still work today. Not bad.

F. D. Roosevelt - Good hair and a genuine smiley grandpa face.

L. B. Johnson - Really good hair, though he sported it in a mobster slick back coiffe.

Harry Truman - Pretty good hair and a friendly face.

Woodrow Wilson - Good hair. A little bit thin, but otherwise nice.

R. Nixon - Good hair, styled like L.B.J. but the nose!

G. Bush - Same as the last few in style, sheen and hurricane proofing.

G. Ford - Not a huge fan of the hair, but it's alright. It's the eyebrows that need help on this one.

Herbert Hoover - The hair isn't all that great, but no amount of stylinlg would have helped his face.

Teddy Roosevelt - Serious helmet hair and a bushy handlebar moustache.

W. H. Taft - Awful hair and moustache. Up: He gave the White House its first set of "wheels." He had the stables converted into a garage for four cars, all ordered in 1909. (This simple fact puts him at the top of my list, but sticking to the hair premise his sucks.)

Warren G. Harding - Total troll.

Calvin Coolidge - Three miles of forehead.

Dwight Eisenhower - Five miles of forehead. Nuff said.

Lucky, don't do that. You know it only hurts when I laugh.

 

[Blarneystoned]

Funny Stuff

Colleen great thread.

Lucky that was a funny rating


Shereads obviously you didnt read the opener about not arguing on this thread...you know that newspaper ink you have on your hands is carcinogenic.

Cheers

Blarneystoned

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Wasn't Taft the one who was too overweight and a special bath tub was brought in for him?

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Wasn't Taft the one who was too overweight and a special bath tub was brought in for him?

Sure enough. He was over 300 lbs and they brought in a special bathtub large enough to hold four regular sized people.

~lucky

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Sure enough. He was over 300 lbs and they brought in a special bathtub large enough to hold four regular sized people.

~lucky

I've come to the conclusion that we are vaults of interesting yet useless knowledge.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I've come to the conclusion that we are vaults of interesting yet useless knowledge.

I blame Google.

~lucky

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I blame Google.

~lucky

I blame game shows.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

You must be Taft!

There is no such thing as useless knowledge. There's only knowledge that you haven't learned the need to know it for

If anybody ever asks: "What would happen if we supersized the president?" You could tell them.

 

[Blarneystoned]

Taft

was Teddy Roosevelts right hand man...ye was six foot something, overweight, and very sensitive. In the end he betrayed his best friend and was nominated for the Presidency...Teddy ran under the Bull Moose party and lost. So Taft loses major face in my book by not sticking by Teddy's side.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

But what ever happened to the bathtub?

 

[Uther_Pendragon]

First: FDR. The US met the worst two challenges of
the 20th century under his administration.
Second: Truman. He had his weaknesses, but he kept things
going.
Four mixed reviews:
Kennedy. Got the economy moving again, but his cold-war
rhetoric sent all the wrong messages.
LBJ. Again, great leadership domestically, but he got us
mired in VN. And the man couldn't tell the truth if he
tried.
Wilson. Great vision, too little understanding of
and Congressional political actors.
Hoover. He wasn't up to dealing with the Great Depression,
but who was?
Eisenhower. "Fine man, wrong job." (HST, accurately)
Clinton. Fine job, wrong man.
Carter. He saw ends, but hadn't the leadership to get there.
TR. *All* rhetoric.
The others are forgetable, deservedly. Even Dubya can
be forgotten today.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Thank's Rumple. I notice we both had JFK ninth. Did you get to Kennedy and then have to start really groping? I found 1 through 5 to be very easy, with only a slight bit of hesitation between T.R. & F.D.R. I put Kenedy ninth based as much on what he hoped to accomplish as what he did accomplish. We also had Hoover & Harding as 16th & 17th.

-Colly

Colly,

What can I tell you? Great minds think alike.

For me, the mid-list crew was the hardest to rank. The top five and bottom four were fairly simple. Harding was a morally weak, indecisive, incompetent party hack-but nobody's perfect. Hoover was a real package. A smart, compassionate man who still let economic principles come before starving people.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Colly,

What can I tell you? Great minds think alike.

For me, the mid-list crew was the hardest to rank. The top five and bottom four were fairly simple. Harding was a morally weak, indecisive, incompetent party hack-but nobody's perfect. Hoover was a real package. A smart, compassionate man who still let economic principles come before starving people.

Rumple Foreskin

I did the top 9 first, then the bottom four. When Ilooked at my list and saw JFK was ninth I actually questioned myself, but it really fell out that way.

Harding's father's quote abou this son has always been my favorite presidentially releated quote



-Colly

Edited to add: Hoover always fascinated me. Extremely intelligent, and a capable administrator, but so locked in on traditional methods and formulas.

 

[shereads]

Re: Taft

Taft loses major face in my book by not sticking by Teddy's side.

Too easy. Nevermind.

 

[shereads]

They didn't have DNA testing back then.

No, but they can use DNA to prove that two people are related by blood. (Thomas Jefferson's legitimate descendents matched with descendents of his slave, Sally Hemings.)

Colly, if Washington slept in all of those places, he might really be the father of our country.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

No, but they can use DNA to prove that two people are related by blood. (Thomas Jefferson's legitimate descendents matched with descendents of his slave, Sally Hemings.)

Colly, if Washington slept in all of those places, he might really be the father of our country.

Have to remember I live right next to west point, it was our major bastion and the only reason the brits weren't able to split the country by controling the Hudson. Soldier's billets being what they were, i don't think it takes much to see why he would have chosen to bed down in the house of anyone willing to put him up for the night. Plus you have Washington's HQ farther north as well as Knox's HQ, fort Montgomery is to the south and Mad anthony Waye's HQ is up the pallisades. Considering he would ahve been bouncing from point to point day in and day out, there is no reason to assume he was philandering, but it's still fun to imagine

-Colly

 

[shereads]

Considering he would ahve been bouncing from point to point day in and day out, there is no reason to assume he was philandering, but it's still fun to imagine

Hmm..I don't know. Those portraits might not do him justice, but the whole powdered-wig era just doesn't do much for me.

I think our problems began when we entered the Presidents Without Beards phase of American history. They looked smarter.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Hmm..I don't know. Those portraits might not do him justice, but the whole powdered-wig era just doesn't do much for me.

I think our problems began when we entered the Presidents Without Beards phase of American history. They looked smarter.

One of the more interesting things in american history is to read contemporary accounts of women meeting General Washington. From the many I have seen you reach the inescapable conclusion that his portraits don't do him justice, or that the idea of handsome has gone through a lot of revision

-Colly

 

[Pure]

The only ranking that counts... historically speaking.

Cocksman. Which Pres's gave the best fuck.

John F. K. Legendary in number as well as prowess.

Teddy R. Carried the 'big stick'

Johnson The name says it all. Legendary size.

Willie Clinton Overuse of the cigar, kept him from the top. Imaginative use of state police troopers.

Dwight D. As we know, boinked his secretary; how many others we don't know. Nicknamed: El Supremo

Carter Only pres ever to admit publically to lust. I suspect unheralded talents, but too Christian.

FDR: Got around, I'm told, but more into giving head. Extra points for having a wife who fucked around?

Bush I. Armed forces experience.

Truman Daughter issues, probably limited him to the kinky stuff.
Exhibitionist from the 'show me' state. But feisty.

Calvin Coolidge: Barnyard wisdom. There's something behind that famous comment about there needing to be only one rooster.

**

Wilson: Idealist fucker. Did it for the good of humanity, only

Herbert Hoover: Quaker virtue, but a bit too restrained, I fear.

Bush II: Usually too coked up or drunk in the old days; hard to tell, now.

W. H. Taft - Probably too fat to fuck. Unknown.

Warren G. Harding - Pros only. Though his mixed race background shows someone was getting in the cookie jar.

Nixon: too drunk and busy 'fucking' the Cambodians to do anyone, except Pat (the wife who *least fucked around), a way back in the late 40s.

G. Ford - Too clumsy to find the proper hole. Managed to fuck up his only historical role (the pardon).

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Jeez, i forgot RR. Where the hell should I put him? Jane Wyman liked him till he got too into commie hunting. I'd say about up there marked by **, below Coolidge. Cannot picture him making Cal's famous remark.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I really don't think I'm qualified to judge, but I get the feeling from reading this that we're really not talking so much about a president's success in legislation and accomplishments, but about how he makes us feel about America and our place in the world, and whether we personally liked the man or not.

I wasn't around for most of these guys, but it's hard to think that we ever felt better about things than we did when Teddy Roosevelt was President, or that we ever felt worse about ourselves than we do right now. I don't want to inject contemporary politics into the discussion, but I think it's pretty shocking when you look at where we were 4 years ago and where we are today.

---dr.M.