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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhich presidents in our history
have inherited the biggest mess when they took office?
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Joe Biden | |
0 (0%) |
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Gerald Ford | |
0 (0%) |
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LBJ | |
0 (0%) |
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FDR | |
7 (35%) |
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Abraham Lincoln | |
13 (65%) |
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Other (specify) | |
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Which presidents in our history (Original Post)
Mr.Bill
Dec 2022
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Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)1. No Obama?
Mr.Bill
(24,280 posts)2. Certainly an argument can be made for him.
After some conversation with my wife, maybe George Washington, who basically inherited nothing and had to be the first to do anything he did.
Shermann
(7,412 posts)6. Nothing isn't really a "mess". Nothing is just nothing. nt
Polybius
(15,381 posts)3. George HW Bush, Clinton, and Obama should be choices
Can you edit the poll?
Mr.Bill
(24,280 posts)4. Well, yes, I could,
but that's what the "other" choice is there for. I just put a few out there from what could be a list of fifty of them. The thing with Obama is I think many underestimate the weight he carried as the first black president. Everything he did would be judged under that banner. Thanks for your comment.
Polybius
(15,381 posts)5. Understandable
I will vote Other. My vote would have went for Obama.