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    Who's been the best wartime president in the history of the US? Lincoln? Woodrow Wilson? FDR? Truman? LBJ? Let's leave Bush 43 out so this thread won't devolve as well as the fact that he still has nearly 3 years left on his term and so we don't know how the story turns out.

    I'll vote for Lincoln. He served during a most trying time and was a brilliant team builder that was able to navigate through some difficult times while still maintaining control of his generals as the CINC.
    "So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3

  • #2
    Lincoln.
    Meat cutting classification NAMP 1174; the porterhouse is NAMP 1173.

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    • #3
      Lincoln. Hands down.
      “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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      • #4
        Polk.
        I enjoy being wrong too much to change my mind.

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        • #5
          Lincoln?

          I thought the man was an unmitigated disaster as pres, but hey....what do i know.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by M21Sniper
            Lincoln?

            I thought the man was an unmitigated disaster as pres, but hey....what do i know.
            Policy wise, I agree. Almost as bad as FDR, maybe worse. When the show got on the road, though, he seemed to be a good war leader. On the other hand, my Civil War knowledge is woefully inadequate, so maybe I'm wrong.
            I enjoy being wrong too much to change my mind.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by ArmchairGeneral
              Policy wise, I agree. Almost as bad as FDR, maybe worse. When the show got on the road, though, he seemed to be a good war leader. On the other hand, my Civil War knowledge is woefully inadequate, so maybe I'm wrong.
              Not my strength either, but it sure seems as if Lincoln went out of his way to instigate the south into war.

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              • #8
                Fdr
                In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.

                Leibniz

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by parihaka
                  Fdr
                  LOL, that's gonna piss Confed off.

                  He considers FDR to be a disgrace cause of the internment issue.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by M21Sniper
                    LOL, that's gonna piss Confed off.

                    He considers FDR to be a disgrace cause of the internment issue.
                    And a socialist to boot.
                    Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.
                    http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html

                    Besides, I haven't had an arguement with Confed for ages.....
                    In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.

                    Leibniz

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                    • #11
                      I will grudgingly say that FDR was all right, maybe pretty good as a war leader. But during peacetime, he sucked royally. Geee-reat politician, though. No coherent policy, just politics, please the masses.
                      I enjoy being wrong too much to change my mind.

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                      • #12
                        This might be a technicality but Reagan won the Cold War.

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                        • #13
                          lincoln.

                          m21,

                          the idea of lincoln getting elected was grounds for the south to secede in the first place. he didn't have to instigate it, as he did that by merely running for office
                          There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by parihaka
                            And a socialist to boot.
                            Well i believe that too.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by astralis
                              lincoln.

                              m21,

                              the idea of lincoln getting elected was grounds for the south to secede in the first place. he didn't have to instigate it, as he did that by merely running for office
                              you guys are going to have to work very hard if you want to convince me that lincoln was anything but a devisive 19th century version of GW Bush.

                              LOL.... ;)

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