Name your favorite Presidents / least favorite

[TBoneTX 45,309]

Sidebar:

Ecuador uses the U.S. dollar, si man, and they use our dollar coins far more than our $1 bills. By far, the coins that I've seen are of that Indian chick, Sacagawea or whomever. Those coins are a decade old and are all pretty worn down.

Mrs. T-B.'s sister has a store in their rather small hometown (which has one bank, not really connected with any network of banks there), and sister continually has trouble finding enough dollar coins with which to make change. On my various trips down, I'd take (for example) 5 rolls of dollar coins ($25 each = $125) and sell the batch to her for $110. She'd then begin passing them out, and half of her customers would view them suspiciously as "funny money." However, sister is no-nonsense, and it's "they're new, and they're good -- take those as change, or go without, si man."

Last visit, I gave her rolls of Franklin Pierce coins. I paid a taxi-driver the standard $1 fare to drop me by sister's store, and I gave him a Pierce coin. He looked at it with great interest and a smile. I mustered my entire Spanish vocabulary and said (translated here) "It's new, from my bank in the U.S. More inside," and I pointed him into the store. He parked his cab and ran inside, presumably to get more.

A couple of Mrs. T-B.'s cousins just visited us, and I sent them back with (dig this) 3 rolls of William Henry Harrison dollar coins that had been gathering dust in a local bank's vault. I got the impression that the bank had a zillion of those, si man. Sister appreciated them.

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Also, in the parts of Ecuador where our $2 bill is recognized, it's considered to be extremely good luck. On the last night of our last visit, Mrs. T-B. said "I want crabs." Resisting the urge of dumping her on any seedy local, I accompanied her to a crab-house. (They spoke no English, so I couldn't use my standard "Waiter! Do you serve crabs here?" "Why, yes, sir -- we serve anybody.") I paid part of our tab with a $2 bill. The waiter took it to the manager, who was at another table counting money. His eyebrows went up, and he looked over at me expectantly. I indicated that I had one more. With great relish, he traded me two worn, crab-greased Sacagawea coins for it. I used those to pay our very last taxi-fare, after which I thankfully had no more dollar coins to lug back to the U.S., no man.

As a great-great-great-grandniece of Uncle Chet, thank you.

Are you kidding, si man?!

[Leatherneck 693]

Sidebar:

Ecuador uses the U.S. dollar, si man, and they use our dollar coins far more than our $1 bills. By far, the coins that I've seen are of that Indian chick, Sacagawea or whomever. Those coins are a decade old and are all pretty worn down.

Mrs. T-B.'s sister has a store in their rather small hometown (which has one bank, not really connected with any network of banks there), and sister continually has trouble finding enough dollar coins with which to make change. On my various trips down, I'd take (for example) 5 rolls of dollar coins ($25 each = $125) and sell the batch to her for $110. She'd then begin passing them out, and half of her customers would view them suspiciously as "funny money." However, sister is no-nonsense, and it's "they're new, and they're good -- take those as change, or go without, si man."

Last visit, I gave her rolls of Franklin Pierce coins. I paid a taxi-driver the standard $1 fare to drop me by sister's store, and I gave him a Pierce coin. He looked at it with great interest and a smile. I mustered my entire Spanish vocabulary and said (translated here) "It's new, from my bank in the U.S. More inside," and I pointed him into the store. He parked his cab and ran inside, presumably to get more.

A couple of Mrs. T-B.'s cousins just visited us, and I sent them back with (dig this) 3 rolls of William Henry Harrison dollar coins that had been gathering dust in a local bank's vault. I got the impression that the bank had a zillion of those, si man. Sister appreciated them.

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Also, in the parts of Ecuador where our $2 bill is recognized, it's considered to be extremely good luck. On the last night of our last visit, Mrs. T-B. said "I want crabs." Resisting the urge of dumping her on any seedy local, I accompanied her to a crab-house. (They spoke no English, so I couldn't use my standard "Waiter! Do you serve crabs here?" "Why, yes, sir -- we serve anybody.") I paid part of our tab with a $2 bill. The waiter took it to the manager, who was at another table counting money. His eyebrows went up, and he looked over at me expectantly. I indicated that I had one more. With great relish, he traded me two worn, crab-greased Sacagawea coins for it. I used those to pay our very last taxi-fare, after which I thankfully had no more dollar coins to lug back to the U.S., no man.

Are you kidding, si man?!

TBone, whats the skinny on that bank and the WHH coins? Can more rolls be gotten? Were those 25 to a roll?

[Misha & Ira 113]

Worst Presidents

#1

Abraham Lincoln

The first Republican President....supposedly freed the slaves...to this day, blacks overwhelmingly vote democrat. The penultimate failure, free a constituency and lose it to the other party for all eternity.

#2 Jimmy Carter

Americans taken hostage! What to do? No big deal....Send a couple helicopters...maybe they will dialogue with us....never mind inflation in double digits....never mind double digit mortgage rates, unemployment....gas lines...We can solve everything by lowering the speed limit to 55. Loves Fidel, B.O., Chavez.

...go back to growing peanuts!

#3 Barack Hussein Obama

"What, me worry?"

"It aint my money"

....No wait shouldn't I be 4th?

#4 LBJ

Vietnam anyone? Even though my predecessor got us in there, he was sainted by Lee Harvey Oawald and his magick bullet....I did nothing but get us more involved...never mind it was Nixon who got us out....he can take the blame cuz of his paranoia...

#5 Richard Millhouse Nixon

"I am not an idiot...no wait crook"

Best

#1

George Washington

Won the war...Declined Crown...'nuff said

#2 T. Jefforson...

Despite odd tendencies, did pen the Declaration of Independance...

#3 Ronald Reagan.

Acknowledged the error of Lincoln and the growth of the federal government and repudiated FDR, withstood immeasurable criticism and set the stage for the growth in the economy that lasted through the Clinton years

#4 FDR

Despite all the advances made in socialism made through this man....he did manage to pick the right side of WW2 to get us in to.

#5 Harry S. Truman

For having the balls to drop the bomb and win against the Japs decisively.

Honorable mention

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Chester A Arthur - Mentioned in T-Bone' write-up

Edited December 20, 2011 by Misha & Ira

[Dakine10 5,452]

I mean by freeing the slaves. Lincoln stated time and time again, he had no intention of freeing the slaves where they were and he had no desire of repealing any laws that were against the slaves either.

That's not even getting into the laws that were passed without the southern states. "Unity" decided without the south's consent. Reconstruction wasn't about being too light, it was about being too harsh. It crippled the south.

Lincoln stated publicly that the war was not about ending slavery. In his personal letters, he is unequivocal about his desire that all men should be free. Politically, he said what people wanted to hear.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Worst/Least favorite

1 Woodrow Wilson

2 Andrew Johnson

3 James Buchanan

4 Warren Harding

5 Andrew Jackson

Best/Favorite

1 George Washington

2 Thomas Jefferson

3 Franklin Roosevelt

4 Grover Cleveland

5 Dwight Eisenhower

[TBoneTX 45,309]

TBone, whats the skinny on that bank and the WHH coins? Can more rolls be gotten? Were those 25 to a roll?

PM sent; almost certainly so; si man.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

My favorite was Abraham Lincoln.