JJM wrote:What made Polk so great?
only president to fulfill all his campaign promises. whether by doing so he made america better is another topic...
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JJM wrote:What made Polk so great?
SultanOfSurreal wrote:JJM wrote:What made Polk so great?
only president to fulfill all his campaign promises. whether by doing so he made america better is another topic...
He lied in order to git us all that land and he wanted to continue Andrew Jackson policy. In fact his nickname was young hickory.the.killing.44 wrote:SultanOfSurreal wrote:JJM wrote:What made Polk so great?
only president to fulfill all his campaign promises. whether by doing so he made america better is another topic...
Meh. I mean, he got us a lot of land, but he was dishonest by saying that the first shot was fired in "USA Texas" to Congress to get the war to start. But he got the US to its current size and acquired a helluva lot of land, so i give 'im props for that.
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JJM wrote:What made Polk so great?
clapper011 wrote:back on topic people!
SultanOfSurreal wrote:clapper011 wrote:back on topic people!
yes
quickpoll: are the 13 people who voted for reagan simply ignorant of history or are they genuine retards
targetman377 wrote:your stupided always keeps me entertainedbut no i did not pick reagon i would not put him up on my top 3 but then again lincon and fdr are not in my top 10 at all
SultanOfSurreal wrote:targetman377 wrote:your stupided always keeps me entertainedbut no i did not pick reagon i would not put him up on my top 3 but then again lincon and fdr are not in my top 10 at all
wow fascinating
jonesthecurl wrote:Polk may have grabbed a lot of land, but that's seen as a bad thing in most cases.
Like Tibet? Checkoslovakia? Poland? Kuwait?
What made Polk so great?
only president to fulfill all his campaign promises. whether by doing so he made america better is another topic...
Meh. I mean, he got us a lot of land, but he was dishonest by saying that the first shot was fired in "USA Texas" to Congress to get the war to start. But he got the US to its current size and acquired a helluva lot of land, so i give 'im props for that.
He lied in order to git us all that land and he wanted to continue Andrew Jackson policy. In fact his nickname was young hickory.
SultanOfSurreal wrote:
quickpoll: are the 13 people who voted for reagan simply ignorant of history or are they genuine retards
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
Captain_Scarlet wrote:the discussion on Dakota got me interested -
presidents have come from 21 of the 50 states - so is this a inbuilt bias in the political system?
and why wasn't Clinton included in your poll?
1. George Washington (1789-97) Virginia
2. John Adams (1797-1801) Massachusetts
3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-09) Virginia
4. James Madison (1809-17) Virginia
5. James Monroe (1817-25) Virginia
6. John Quincy Adams (1825-29) Massachusetts
7. Andrew Jackson (1829-37) South Carolina
8. Martin Van Buren (1837-41) New York
9. William Henry Harrison (1841) Virginia
10. John Tyler (1841-45) Virginia
11. James K. Polk (1845-49) North Carolina
12. Zachary Taylor (1849-50) Virginia
13. Millard Fillmore (1850-53) New York
14. Franklin Pierce (1853-57) New Hampshire
15. James Buchanan (1857-61) Pennsylvania
16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-65) Kentucky
17. Andrew Johnson (1865-69) North Carolina
18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77) Ohio
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-81) Ohio
20. James A. Garfield (1881) Ohio
21. Chester A. Arthur (1881-85) Vermont
22. Grover Cleveland (1885-89) New Jersey
23. Benjamin Harrison (1889-93) Ohio
24. Grover Cleveland (1893-97) New Jersey
25. William McKinley (1897-1901) Ohio
26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) New York
27. William H. Taft (1909-13) Ohio
28. Woodrow Wilson (1913-21) Virginia
29. Warren G. Harding (1921-23) Ohio
30. Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) Vermont
31. Herbert Hoover (1929-33) Iowa
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45) New York
33. Harry S. Truman (1945-53) Missouri
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61) Texas
35. John F. Kennedy (1961-63) Massachusetts
36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69) Texas
37. Richard M. Nixon (1969-74) California
38. Gerald R. Ford (1974-77) Nebraska
39. Jimmy Carter (1977-81) Georgia
40. Ronald Reagan (1981-89) Illinois
41. George Bush (1989-93) Massachusetts
42. William J. Clinton (1993-2001) Arkansas
43. George W. Bush (2001-2008) Connecticut
44. Barack Obama (2009 -) Hawaii
notyou2 wrote:So the listing of the states are the states they were born in? It didnt make sense as I thought Lincoln and Obama were from Illinois, Bush Sr from Texas, and Reagan from California. I also thought Taft was from Massachusetts.
muy_thaiguy wrote:notyou2 wrote:So the listing of the states are the states they were born in? It didnt make sense as I thought Lincoln and Obama were from Illinois, Bush Sr from Texas, and Reagan from California. I also thought Taft was from Massachusetts.
Yep, ones they were born in.
neanderpaul14 wrote:muy_thaiguy wrote:notyou2 wrote:So the listing of the states are the states they were born in? It didnt make sense as I thought Lincoln and Obama were from Illinois, Bush Sr from Texas, and Reagan from California. I also thought Taft was from Massachusetts.
Yep, ones they were born in.
Actually Lincoln was born in Kentucky, Obama was born in Hawaii, and Bush Sr was born in Massachusetts. And sadly as much as it pains me Little Georgie Bush was born in my home state of Connecticut.
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