My Favorite President

Good Stuff, Patriotism

Who else but Calvin Coolidge?  Watch this video, and realize two things:

Our current problems are neither new nor exclusive.  Immigration, taxation rates, federal spending, employment, whatever:  they existed in the 1920s, and Coolidge addressed them all, and properly.

Character matters.  Character, public character, matters.  Compare and contrast that of Coolidge with any modern president (i.e after Eisenhower), and realize how rare it is to find someone who can govern on principle — principle based on the Constitution and not on some other basis.

At the end of the above video, one of the commentators says, “He is exactly what we need at this point in time.”

I beg to differ.  We need such a man all the time, every time, to be our President.

I want all our future presidents to be more like Coolidge.  So does Amity Shlaes.

End of story.

4 comments

  1. unfortunately we now have public sector unions who will resist any and all “right sizing” of government. Far too many bureaucrats are far too well compensated for marginal “work.”

    Whenever the government has “shut down” because Congress is playing games with the budget, does anyone other than the government workers and their families realize that the government has been shut down? The last time it happened was under Barry Soteoro’s regime and they installed fences and gates around outdoor monuments and parks in Washington, DC in order to inconvenience taxpayers. It was a publicity stunt by bathhouse Barry.

    1. “Better 1000 dead bodies in the street, than one .gov employee lose their job”…..(I think I created that quote, if I didn’t I’ll gladly attribute it to the proper source).

  2. My fav as well. The most libertarian president ever. Quiet competence. Possibly apocryphal but I like the quote nohow: a woman seated next to him at a dinner said to him, trying to goad him, “I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you.” He replied, “You lose.”

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