Presidents' Day Poll
 

PRESIDENT'S DAY WEEKEND! A Holiday to celebrate the Presidents!

It used to be Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's Birthday ... but when the holidays were combined in the Nixon era, it was someone's bright idea to celebrate all the Presidents.

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So, of the Presidents serving in your lifetime, who has been your fave?

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and assume I'm among the oldest .... but if anyone remembers a President before JFK, feel free to post about your write-in candidate.

So who did you like, and why?

I didn't want to make the poll the negative version, as in "Who's Your Most Reviled President" - - but feel free to post about your most loathed POTUS and why, as well.

I rather liked Carter. But then again it was Jr. High. But I remember him the most. And for his good works since. It's not really for any political reasons I just liked him as a person.

Picking a favorite POTUS from this list reminds me of my choice every time I go to the polls to vote for one: the least bad candidate usually gets my vote.
In this case, I went out on a limb and didn't pick the most ineffectual or innocuous, though if I were a little older, my second choice may have been my first.

Technically I go back to Ford but if you go by memory I would have to start with Reagan which doesn't leave a very interesting list.

Carter and Bush Sr. are probably the best people but weren't really good or effective presidents.

Forced to choose between Clinton and Reagan I ultimately have to go with Reagan.

I heart Bubba.

Anyone like to posit a guess as to whom I cast my vote for?

I'll have to ponder this one a bit - JFK is a bit too easy a pick for all the mythology that's developed around him. If Nixon weren't mixed up in the MCarthy thing, I might warm to him over the whole Nixon in China thing. I thought it cool Carter was in the Nuke Navy, I think he got a bad rap for starting a turn around that Reagan would take credit for (as all Presidents do). Clinton's the only one I ever met personally - huge hands on that man - And I think, getting a blow-job in the Oval office a plus, but then I have to go back to JFK again as the much swankier Womanizer - and Hello Jackie O? Yeah, I guess I'll stick with him.

Well, Carter was my first voting experience in 1980. As a human being, post presidential, Carter still gets my vote and he did today.

JFK is one of my earliest memories, I was barely 3 when he died, but I grew up with the mythology and he was long my favorite president. Indiscretions, heck, they all have them. He was friends with the Rat Pack, tres swanky.

I was a big JFK fan growing up and I read several biographys. My second choice would be Regan.

I went with JFK, even though I was only a few months old when he was killed. Second would be Clinton.