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I got Clinton for choosing "Character is a journey, not a destination."
Switching to "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction" got me Reagan
Choosing "People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that." got me HW Bush
Switching from pork rinds to mexican foods made me a dubya

You are most like Martin Van Buren




You might not be a very good president, but one day you'll have a gang named after you.

sturner wrote:

I bet none of the presidents have much good said about them in this little "game".

a) huh?

b) do any of them deserve much praise?  Maybe a few (I singled out Jefferson and Carter, for instance).  But really... they are a rather motley lot.

- Kin Hubbard wrote:

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

You Are Most Like John F. Kennedy



You live a fairy tale life that most people envy.
And while you may have a few dark secrets, few people know them.

JakeTheTall wrote:

You Are Most Like John F. Kennedy

http://images.blogthings.com/whatmodern … iz/jfk.jpg

You live a fairy tale life that most people envy.
And while you may have a few dark secrets, few people know them.

I'd stay away from Dallas...

(I was going to spoof the answer as 'RFK'. But that's another bullet point.)

sturner wrote:

Oh Jake, do tell, what dark secrets?

Few people know them.

Hank Rearden wrote:

So, I did a little quiz, and horror or horrors:

You Are Most Like George W. Bush

http://images.blogthings.com/whatmodern … gwbush.jpg

So what if you're not exactly popular? You still rule the free world.
And while you may be quite conservative now, you knew how to party back in the day!

What Modern US President Are You Most Like?

http://www.blogthings.com/whatmodernusp … tlikequiz/

Now, I personally think that that boils down to me liking Mexican food.

However, it brings up another question...

...if you could choose any previous president of the US to be president today, whom would you choose?

I'd have to choose either Thomas Jefferson or Jimmy Carter

Yeah I got dubya too. Pretty absurd quiz, really.

As for my fave prezzies, hmm ... I'd have to go with FDR (internationalist but not imperialist), Lincoln (keeping it together during the darkest chapter in American history), and Carter (best. ex. prez. EVAR.).

I think of FDR and Lincoln embodying best qualities of hope and optimism in the American character, but without the darker impuses. Not that they were pure of course.

Sometimes I'm like George W. Bush.

In bed I pretend that my wife is the American People.

iSeamas wrote:

Hank Rearden wrote:

ShnickyShnack wrote:

Lincoln embodying best qualities of hope and optimism in the American character

Lincoln embodies a lot of what Dubya stands for.  He invented the elimination of habeus corpus, etc. and stood by while the South was decimated following the war... quite parallel to what's going on in Iraq, I think.

Thus I personally hold back on giving him too high praise.

As I recall, Lincoln didn't do much standing in any manner following the Civil War.

True, that.  But there was plenty of crapola during the war and during his brief life afterward.

In any case, seeing as he defended the rights of owners of escaped slaves during his time as a lawyer, one might rightfully assume that the slavery issue was not really his reason for the war, but was a convenient wedge issue.

Hank Rearden wrote:

iSeamas wrote:

Hank Rearden wrote:

Lincoln embodies a lot of what Dubya stands for.  He invented the elimination of habeus corpus, etc. and stood by while the South was decimated following the war... quite parallel to what's going on in Iraq, I think.

Thus I personally hold back on giving him too high praise.

As I recall, Lincoln didn't do much standing in any manner following the Civil War.

True, that.  But there was plenty of crapola during the war and during his brief life afterward.

In any case, seeing as he defended the rights of owners of escaped slaves during his time as a lawyer, one might rightfully assume that the slavery issue was not really his reason for the war, but was a convenient wedge issue.

I guess we're going off topic, but his reasons for the war had to do with US fortifications coming under attack and a commitment to preserve the Union.
While he may have defended slave owners as a lawyer, he was advocating for the rule of law of the time. His sympathy for abolitionists was the chief reason the Slave states chose secession, as it was evident for some time before they chose to attack.

Hank Rearden wrote:

ShnickyShnack wrote:

Lincoln embodying best qualities of hope and optimism in the American character

Lincoln embodies a lot of what Dubya stands for.  He invented the elimination of habeus corpus, etc. and stood by while the South was decimated following the war... quite parallel to what's going on in Iraq, I think.

Thus I personally hold back on giving him too high praise.

I suggest you revisit your history. Reconstruction would've been very different had he not been assassinated. He didn't "stand by," he was murdered before all the Southern troops had even surrendered.

As for the habeus corpus, I agree that was dicey. There was a lot worse, such as the concentration camps that Southern civilians were subjected to. Not to justify all that, but hindsight is, as they say, 20/20, and considering the threat to the union and its founding principles, it's damn hard to know where the line should be drawn. Certainly Lincoln's steps were preferable to a Confederate victory.

Hank Rearden wrote:

Lincoln embodies a lot of what Dubya stands for.  He invented the elimination of habeus corpus, etc.

Don't you think that's a poor choice of wording?

The text of the Constitution acknowledges that habeus corpus can be suspended...