Best/Worst Presidents

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SamuelRSmith said:

PDF said:
I am not only interested in the policies, and legacy but also there political ability.

I also found the OP list silly. Choosing people like Harding who was surrounded in scandal over Lincoln who kept this country together. Your argument against Lincoln is silly as well. What should Lincoln have done? Not tried to keep the nation together?

Do you care about liberty vs tyranny? Or do you just care about keeping the Federal Government in control, no matter what?

What a biased video. No the emancipation proclamation didn't abolish slavery, the thirteenth amendment did. Yes the war was essentially over slavery - primarily the fear that slavery would become legal in the free states. Attempts to paint it otherwise are generally historical revisionism by states rights advocates who don't want to be seen as standing up for slavery but supported the right of the southern states to secede.

 

I'm not arguing that Lincoln didn't have a strong authoritarian streak or that he didn't trample quite a few human rights in his time in office, but he did abolish slavery and the war was largely about slavery.

 

@PDF. Post presidency he's taken some pretty extensive diplomatic action in N. Korea, the Middle East, Africa and S.E Asia. Rather than summarize I'll just link the relevant section of the wiki article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_carter#Diplomacy