Greatest Democratic President of All Time

[Stellonia]

This thread is based on the one about the greatest Republican President of all time. Since I am allowed only ten poll options and there have been fourteen Democratic presidents thus far, I choose to omit Van Buren, Pierce, Buchanan, Cleveland, and Carter (one of the spots went to "Other"), seeing as these five are ranked in the bottom half of presidents, while the other nine are ranked in the top half.

[Heloin]

Van Buren had the best facial hair out of the Democratic Presidents.

[Geneviev]

Obama was the only one in my lifetime so far, so he's obviously the best. Other than him, I like FDR as well.

[The Remote Islands]

Obama was the best President for memes.

[US-SSR]

FDR, recovered from the Great Depression, led national effort to win global war on two fronts, promoted the United Nations, won election four times. Four. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4. Take a suck of that, Republicans. otoh a lousy husband and martini mixer (he reversed the proportions of gin and vermouth. ick). Oh and he fucking had polio.

[Jedi Council]

Almost certainly FDR.

Apart from Vietnam, Johnson and Kennedy were both good.

Clinton had his moments, and Obama was largely successful even with the GOP becoming more and more unreasonable as his tenure went on.

[South Reinkalistan]

FDR, out of those, was the best; American Presidents, however, have not set a very high bar in terms of... anything, really.

[Sundiata]

1) FDR
2) LBJ
3) Obama
4) Kennedy
5) Clinton

From best to worst in the modern era.

[New Bremerton]

FDR transformed America from a poverty-stricken, Third World, neoliberal shithole in the throes of a debilitating Great Depression into an industrialized, First World nation with a well-regulated, mixed economy, defeated Japan, and cemented the nation's superpower status, setting the stage for a confrontation with the USSR that it would later win. FDR Made America Great Again.

[Radiatia]

Surprisingly difficult question, I never realised how little I rate Democratic Presidents until now.

I would have to say either Truman or Kennedy.

I was tempted to say FDR, but his internment of Japanese Americans is a line in the sand I won't cross, anyone before FDR is just nope, LBJ was awful, Carter was (a very decent human but) not a very good President, Clinton and Obama have good qualities but nothing that's likely to go down in history (Obama's skin colour notwithstanding).

[Washington Resistance Army]

FDR, recovered from the Great Depression, led national effort to win global war on two fronts, promoted the United Nations, won election four times. Four. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4. Take a suck of that, Republicans. otoh a lousy husband and martini mixer (he reversed the proportions of gin and vermouth. ick). Oh and he fucking had polio.

Ignoring the entirely false claim of him causing a recovery from the Depression (effects of which were still felt into the late 1940's and early 1950's) he also used the IRS to harass political opponents, tried to rig the courts and in the process bullied them into granting more or less total approval to his very unconstitutional programs, massively expanded government powers, spied on domestic groups, taxed constitutional rights, refused to sign an anti-lynching bill because it would have harmed him politically, set up race based concentration camps. The list goes on and on, but I guess authoritarianism is only bad when the other party does it.

[The Blaatschapen]

Van Buren. He had the best mother tongue

[Ethel mermania]

Van Buren. He had the best mother tongue

Dutchies of a feather stick together eh?


Give em hell harry is my top choice.

[The Blaatschapen]

Van Buren. He had the best mother tongue

Dutchies of a feather stick together eh?


Give em hell harry is my top choice.

It was either him or the only Catholic of the bunch, Kennedy. Obama is too soon to tell.

Because no way I'd go for a WASP.

[Ethel mermania]

Dutchies of a feather stick together eh?


Give em hell harry is my top choice.

It was either him or the only Catholic of the bunch, Kennedy. Obama is too soon to tell.

Because no way I'd go for a WASP.

Kennedy is a hard choice simply because of the assination. You dont know what he would have turned out to be.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

It was either him or the only Catholic of the bunch, Kennedy. Obama is too soon to tell.

Because no way I'd go for a WASP.

Kennedy is a hard choice simply because of the assination. You dont know what he would have turned out to be.

Impeached for adultery probably.

[Middle Barael]

It’s got to be FDR for establishing our social security net and Bringing us out of the Great Depression, and Obama for Medicare and brining us out of the 2008 crash. Only problem with saying either of them was the Japanese-Internment Camps and FDR ignoring the rule of law on occasions, and the fact that Obama is just so current it’s hard to tell. But I guess they’re better than the others.

[The Blaatschapen]

Kennedy is a hard choice simply because of the assination. You dont know what he would have turned out to be.

Impeached for adultery probably.

That would set a nice precedent later on for Clinton and maybe even Trump (though Trump's was allegedly before his time in office).

[Ethel mermania]

Kennedy is a hard choice simply because of the assination. You dont know what he would have turned out to be.

Impeached for adultery probably.

Nah, in those days president were suppose to fuck around.

[Stellonia]

Van Buren. He had the best mother tongue

Everyone else is tied for second.

[Rojava Free State]

I'm glad most of the responses weren't "Obama was the best ever," because while I know Trump has lowered the bar all the way down to the devil, Obama wasn't exactly my cup of tea.

[Asle Leopolka]

FDR is objectively the GOAT but Kennedy is my fave.

[Kargintina the Third]

Probably Kennedy

[Dominioan]

FDR all the way
EDIT: Well the poll seems to agree

[Chan Island]

FDR for how he handled the Depression and the War, LBJ for civil rights and Van Buren for that boss-level hairdo.

Edit: By the way, Wilson was trash and deserves nothing.