I have no problem with that, although I might at least include a passing reference to the fact that her husband once had a walk-on appearance on Star Trek: Voyager: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Abdullah_II_King_Of_Jordan
No! I put him down as a great President, but the majority are choosing Lincoln.
Teddy did quite well in both our Greatest President and Greatest American games, finishing ahead of FDR both times and I think pipping Washington in the Greatest American contest, but I imagine people here played the odds, and odds were it would be Lincoln or Washington.
I don’t actually think W is the worst; the pre-Civil War presidents did more damage. But he was the way to bet.
- George Washington
- George W. Bush
- history
- energy
- Rome
- North Korea
- Prime Rib
- French President Sarkozy
- Bachmann
- lecturer
For 8 - he’s got to bring Carla along.
muldoonthief is #44.
Not for another 14 months!
- Lincoln
- George W. Bush
- servants
- economy
- Beijing
- Iran
- Lobster
- Queen Elizabeth
- Pelosi
- ambassador
I had a hard time picking just one country for question 6 - there are so many governments out there that the world would be better off without.
- Kennedy
- Bush 2
- Maids
- Rights
- New York
- N. Korea
7.Lobster - Italian Prime Minister
- Boehner
- retirement
Dang it! I didn’t think of Bachmann.
- Washington
- Bush Jr
- Food
- Medicine
- London
- Iran
- Steak
- UK PM
- Lieberman
- Peacebroker
- Reagan
- G.W. Bush
- history
- economy
- Morgantown, WV
- North Korea
- Lobster
- Harper
- Barney Frank
- drinking
- Abraham Lincoln
- George W. Bush
- Food
- Economy
- Paris
- North Korea
- Steak
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Michelle Bachmann
- Gigolo
I apologize for the sidetrack, but according to James Bradley, author of The Imperial Cruise, he was. Here’s the NYT Review Link. The book posits that Roosevelt was a racist who fought unnecessary wars, unwittingly bungled the US’ relationships with Japan, China and the Philippines, and who entered unconstitutional side agreements with those countries.
This concludes the sidetrack. Back to the Feud!
Jeez, can someone put this Feud out of its misery? 
I believe we are stuck at 49!
This is a bump for one more!
I’ll get this scored today.
Roosevelt was not a racist by the standards of his time (albeit it was a pretty racist time). He was certainly less racist than people like William Jennings Bryan, Alton Parker, and Woodrow Wilson.
As for his foreign policies, Roosevelt was openly an imperialist. He believed that Great Powers (like the United States) should make colonies out of small powers. He ran on that platform and he followed it when he became President. It may have been a bad idea but Roosevelt shouldn’t be singled out for having it.
- George Washington
- Richard Nixon
- Food
- Economy
- New Orleans
- Iran
- Beef Wellington
- David Cameron
- None
- Playboy
Regarding number 9 - I believe in separation of powers and don’t think that the POTUS should mess around with democratically elected members of the Legislative branch, even if he has the ability to.
I urge anyone who’s at all interested in T.R. to read Edmund Morris’s The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (re: his pre-White House years) and Theodore Rex (as President). Both are vivid, richly detailed, very readable accounts of T.R. and his times. T.R. was definitely progressive in his racial views, and was raked over the coals by Southerners for inviting Booker T. Washington to the White House. Later, when rednecks ran out a black postmistress T.R. had appointed to a small Alabama town, T.R. refused to appoint a replacement, closed the post office and forced the townsfolk to go get their mail 20-some miles away.
T.R. was indeed an imperialist, but Morris makes the point that T.R. could have started any number of wars… and didn’t. He believed in, and practiced, a policy of showing the Big Stick but speaking softly. He deserved his Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War.