Who do you think is the most overrated / underrated president?

[Kill Dat Noize]

If all you can speak on are the presidents that have been around while you were alive, then I ask that you sit this one out.

But for those of you that are well versed in this kind of thing, historically who do you believe is the most overrated and underrated U.S. president?

 

[Tate]

JFK is easily the most overrated by ostensibly left people.

 

[hayesc0]

JFK is easily the most overrated by ostensibly left people.

Bullshyt both side of the political spectrum overate him.



Oh and Reagan is the most overrated easily.

 

[Starman]

FDR is my most overrated.

 

[King Kreole]

Overrated: JFK
Underrated: Nixon

 

[King Kreole]

FDR is my most overrated.

 

[Starman]

fukk 'em.

 

[DEAD7]

overrated: Bill Clinton
underrated: Calvin Coolidge

 

[hayesc0]

William Henry Harrison is underrated

 

[Scoop]

Overrated: FDR. WW2 is what largely ended the Depression. Court packing. Johnson did the welfare state better.

Underrated: Nixon. Watergate destroyed what was a pretty good presidency.

 

[hayesc0]

Overrated: FDR. WW2 is what largely ended the Depression. Court packing. Johnson did the welfare state better.

Underrated: Nixon. Watergate destroyed what was a pretty good presidency.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Overrated: FDR. WW2 is what largely ended the Depression. Court packing. Johnson did the welfare state better.

Underrated: Nixon. Watergate destroyed what was a pretty good presidency.

I wouldn't call it a pretty good presidency, but I was really surprised to learn he was in favor of a guaranteed income for every American.

 

[Broke Wave]

Overrated: FDR. WW2 is what largely ended the Depression. Court packing. Johnson did the welfare state better.

Underrated: Nixon. Watergate destroyed what was a pretty good presidency.

Is this guy fukking nuts

A good presidency in Nixon? The man started the war on drugs and mass incarceration as a RACIAL strategy. The man helped usher in the southern strategy. He escalated the war in Vietnam and started bombing Cambodia... only to destabilize the situation further and allow the Khmer Rouge to hit the high score in human savagery. He was pressured into making the EPA and so what he went to China. Big fukking deal. Very bad president.

As for FDR? WW2 is not what "largely ended" the Depression. You need to really just do a basic wikipedia search before you post stuff.

 

[Scoop]

I wouldn't call it a pretty good presidency, but I was really surprised to learn he was in favor of a guaranteed income for every American.

Is this guy fukking nuts

A good presidency in Nixon? The man started the war on drugs and mass incarceration as a RACIAL strategy. The man helped usher in the southern strategy. He escalated the war in Vietnam and started bombing Cambodia... only to destabilize the situation further and allow the Khmer Rouge to hit the high score in human savagery. He was pressured into making the EPA and so what he went to China. Big fukking deal. Very bad president.

As for FDR? WW2 is not what "largely ended" the Depression. You need to really just do a basic wikipedia search before you post stuff.

First off the question was overrated/underrated not who was the best/worst president. I'm posting under the assumption that people think Nixon was a pile of dog turd and FDR is top 3 DOA.

Y'all don't even know anything about Nixon. You just hear his name go "lol Nixon cac rethug"

- Ended Vietnam War (please note we haven't even ended Iraq/Afghan Wars yet)
- Thawed relation with China
- Established the EPA
- Desegregated Schools
- Presided over the moon landing
- Implemented the "Philadephia Plan" (the first major federal affirmative action plan)
- Clean Air Act
- Formed OSHA

He has negatives too of course, but that's a pretty solid list of accomplishments for 5.5 years.

 

[Broke Wave]

First off the question was overrated/underrated not who was the best/worst president. I'm posting under the assumption that people think Nixon was a pile of dog turd and FDR is top 3 or so DOA.

Y'all don't even know anything about Nixon. You just hear his name go "lol Nixon cac rethug"

- Ended Vietnam War (please note we haven't even ended Iraq/Afghan Wars yet)
- Thawed relation with China
- Established the EPA
- Desegregated Schools
- Presided over the moon landing
- Implemented the "Philadephia Plan" (the first major federal affirmative action plan)
- Clean Air Act
- Formed OSHA

He has negatives too of course, but that's a pretty solid list of accomplishments for 5.5 years.

You cac he ended vietnam by force... He had to. He escalated the bombings and the entire war in general. He didnt desegregate schools that was court ordered and mandated since the 50s. This is so mind bogglingly misleading.