What president in your lifetime had the best administration?

Bill Clinton for me as well. My first presidential election I could vote in was in '96 and he got my vote.

Clinton

Obama

Kennedy

Johnson

And yet what accomplishments can Clinton point to? DADT? DOMA? NAFTA?

In my lifetime?

I was too young to remember, but it has to be Kennedy.

Clinton and Obama.

Johnson

Obama

Clinton (waaaay behind the 1st 2)

I’d say Obama. Bill lost me after the lies and NAFTA. NAFTA was really fucked up for a Democrat. I don’t know how that happened.

This..

Johnson.

The best: Clinton - Obama - Biden

The worst: Trump II - Reagan - Trump I - Dubya - H.W. Bush

I'm old, too, r9. My vote is for the JFK Administration.

Kennedy Cabinet:

That was not a gay RickRoll at r12! I don't know why it failed!

JFK.

"NAFTA was really fucked up for a Democrat. I don’t know how that happened."

Follow the money trail. Before NAFTA, the Clintons were barely holding it together financially.

After NAFTA, when the Clintons sold out the American worker for their own financial benefit, the Clintons were suddenly wealthy, courtesy of Wall Street.

And Democrats simply cannot understand why Ohio, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Missouri are all solidly and reliably red.

Obviously the current one.

[quote]Trump And RFK Jr. Can Tell If Kids Are Autistic Just By Looking At Their Dicks

[quote]It goes: Snippy snip OUCH MY DING DONG! —> Oh look, Tylenols! —> Autisms.

Kennedy, hands down.

Kennedy? Really?

The same administration that featured Robert McNamara as head of DOD, the chief architect of the Viet Nam War, which sent thousands of American men to their deaths for absolutely no reason, then or now.

Surely you jest!

If Kennedy had lived there might not have been a Vietman war at all, R18.

FDR, despite its shortcomings.

NAFTA wasn't really the problem. China entering the WTO was.

An integrated North American economy with resources from Canada, capital from the USA and yes labor from Mexico made/makes sense.

So to does raising the over all standard of living for Mexican workers if people are truly concerned about them coming here illegally.

JFK had smart educated men, intellectuals even, not the clown show in our current administration.

Clinton. Reversed that horrible Bush economy. The ‘90s were an era of stability and prosperity. .

But Kennedy did not live and there was a very costly, very deadly Viet Nam war, R19.

What is the point of your idle speculation?

And US involvement in the Viet Nam war began under the Eisenhower administration. It continued under the Kennedy administration, so saying the Viet Nam war might not have happened had Kennedy lived is complete nonsense.

Jimmy Carter picked the smartest people he could find in every field.

[quote]What is the point of your idle speculation?

It is the flipside of pointless bitchery.

Herbert Hoover

LBJ was technically in my lifetime but I don't remember it.

Clinton, he had an experienced foreign policy team. Neo-liberalism didn’t work out and his wife was a disaster.

Clinton was a good POTUS, but he was no Jack Kennedy,

HillaryCare was Clinton’s biggest fail.

Harry Truman.

I agree with you…he surely knew how to administer that organ of his to my naive self.

I love reading the young guys with no idea of what was going on at the time trying to drag Clinton about DADT and DOMA. No sense of the times whatsoever.

Clinton and Obama but both were mediocre and have mixed legacies. Still, all of the Democrats outrank all of the Republicans. The best Republican for me (born in 68) was probably Gerald Ford, which says a lot because he's not ranked very highly. But alongside Nixon, Reagan, Bushes I & II and the current disaster, he was the least fascist.

Did you hear the one about the Reagan administration calling up the taliban and requesting our hostages be held in captivity until AFTER Reagan was inaugurated? The Carter admin had successfully negotiated the terms for the hostages release!

The taliban did not exist in 1980 and they never existed in Iran.

F. Go back and study harder, R36.

If JFK hadn't been assassinated, I think the country would be different now. He had vision.

If JFKJR hadn't been assassinated, there would be no maga

Just imagine what the world would be like today if JFK and RFK hadn't been killed and each served two terms as President of the United States. No Vietnam, no Nixon and possibly no Reagan. The world would be unrecognizable to us.

Obama. Clinton normalized too much bigotry.

Clinton knew how to connect with the average working class voter.

First, I cannot forget the very real, nearly catastrophic financial crisis we were in starting in 2007-2008 and 2009. Seriously bad shit. Obama got us back on our feet. He did. He put together a great team and stabilized our economy, and it grew under his leadership. He killed Osama Bin Laden. He gave us the affordable Care Act. Other than that his policies were very favorable to the Gay community.

Lyndon Johnson put together his Great Society programs and they were good for the country, and he supported voting right, but he was undone by the Vietnam war. He owned it.

FDR was not in my lifetime. But my parents who were in high school during the Great Depression, used to get teary-eyed talking about him and Eleanor long after they were dead.

Carter had an excellent team but couldn't get anything done because of Congress. He ran the Russians out of Afghanistan and earned Russia's everlasting anger at the humiliation. He was strong on the Environment and Human Rights. He also was able to broker Peace in the Middle East with the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, which was a huge deal. No country did more to contribute to the instability in the Middle East, than Russia. Carter knew this and he really kicked their asses. Syria, Lebanon, and Iran were clients of Russia and Iran Hostage crisis was payback.

Biden accomplish a lot legislatively and his huge Infrastructure Bill was important. He strengthened NATO. He was strong on the environment. He failed to prosecute Trump and his t op collaborators for the Insurrection. He was unable to deal with Netanyahu. It seemed for a long time that our strategy for Ukraine, was to use Ukraine to hammer Russia in such a way as to drain Russia of the ability to fight, and destroy the Russian economy. The longer the war lasted the harder it was for Russia to prosecute it effectively. Biden seemed OK with that. It took forever for the U.S. to send the kind of weapons systems Ukraine needed to make progress. Now, Russia has North Koreans, and soldiers from couple of Middle Eastern countries. Iran and North Korea are supplying weapons and China is financing. None of this is exactly Biden's fault. It is Trump, who would not be President if not for Biden. So that's my summary and you can disagree. I thought Clinton's foreign policy was terrible. We had Rwandan genocide, we had Bosnia, we had a few terrorist attacks, and yes NAFTA was Bush's baby, but Clinton took up the cause and got it passed.

I guess after reflection I have to say Obama because he gave us stability and healthcare and rebuilt our international reputation.

Obama.

His people coming in fresh saved the American economy from a very serious recession, or worse.

And despite the fascist GOP blocking anything they could, he still made progress, without the trashiness of the Clinton pack.

Eisenhower or Carter

Elon Musk

R44 Clinton was the trashiest person in the Clinton Administration. He had a very good cabinet and staff.

Very curious how people have no memory of the economic recession or the pandemic. Both catastrophic events mismanaged under Republicans. R43

[quote]He had a very good staff.

Good, but messy.

R48 I haven't forgotten. I remember how well Obama handled t he Ebola outbreak and how he set up an agency to handle pandemics and even a step by step internal book for how to address it. He was working closely with China. Xi and Obama got along well and Xi was not one of the bad guys back then. He seemed like someone open to limited cooperation. Certainly true as far as pandemics go. Trump upon assuming office, one of the first things he did was to dismantle that office and ditch the protocols. Trump new by December,2016, that a pandemic was coming, he told a few people in January, and in late January/early February, McConnell got together with the Republican caucus, and told them we were having a pandemic, and they used that confidential information to buy and sell stocks. Jared Kushner refused to share equipment with hospitals that needed ventilators, and nurses were pictured on the front pages of the NY Post wearing trash bags. I remember the refrigerator trucks repurposed as temporary morgues and people not being able to see loved ones who were critically ill in the hospital. I Remember not being able to go to funerals. I remember losing a cousin and a best friend to COVID back then. All brought to us by corrupt, incompetent Republicans. George Bush's recession was another bad time. Obama gave us the tools we needed to address pandemics and those tools were spurned. Thank goodness Biden was able to get the vaccines ready and distributed. The Dems always rebuild the economy and stabilize everything. We knowhow to govern. The Republicans know how to lie, cheat, and steal.

Definitely Obama. Clinton's cabinet were picked from stereotypes. LBJ was the most effecive, however.

People think the recession ended when Maga lite demanded Americans go out to shop to end the recession, this protest occurred two years later after the recession "ended".