POP QUIZ: Name the best President in American history... in your opinion.

[Agschmid]

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Now check and see if he was a millionaire.

I've got a 79% chance of making my point...

The meme that Hillary isn't qualified to be president because she is a 1%er is bull, this historical context shows that.

[cali]

1. what is your point?

Is it that all wealthy people aren't bad? If so, that isn't something anyone here would argue.

[Agschmid]

2. Yup that's my point.

Except that some people here see wealth as an automatic disqualification for the job.

[cali]

4. some people say.... I have never seen anyone here say that.

[Agschmid]

5. It's happening right now in GDP.

I'm not about to link to it, but seriously it is right there.

[cali]

7. seriously, if you can't link to it, I don't buy it.

[Agschmid]

8. Ok.

I'm not going to risk a hide to make my point, so then that's it.

[NCTraveler]

24. People on this board regularly make that argument.

As one of this boards most prolific posters, you are very well aware it is the truth.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251521230#post5

Took all of twenty seconds to find on the first page.

[Nay]

3. Lincoln. Turns out he was about the poorest. But man, did he have a brain.

[Agschmid]

6. Bottom nine, he is the one people might pick who wasn't a millionaire.

[KingCharlemagne]

10. Such a man that it almost makes this atheist think America was

actually blessed by Providence. I am proud to have cast my vote for the same candidate as you!

[KingCharlemagne]

9. Lincoln - nt

[packman]

11. The guys on that mountainside out west

and I'd throw Truman into the mix.

[hootinholler]

12. Quiz...

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

[Agschmid]

13. Why not?

[hootinholler]

14. Your OP is an exercise to possibly gain knowledge

Not a test of knowledge already gained.

[Agschmid]

17. It should have been gained in 7th grade...

Unfortunately it seems it was not.

[dsc]

19. actually a well designed quiz or test can do both

though the gaining of knowledge is admittedly secondary.

[Yupster]

15. George Washington

He could have made himself king and instead stepped down after two terms. He set the model for all others.

[Agschmid]

20. The definition of a 1%er.

But yes, mostly a good guy.

[LWolf]

16. Lincoln.

He was a Republican, and he wasn't a millionaire.

[BainsBane]

18. Hillary's wealth disqualifies her

in the minds of some because she has exceeded her place in life. JFK was entitled to be rich. He was male, same with FDR and the others. Hillary has earned a whole lot of money from writing a book and speaking fees, money that she has no right to because she is a woman. It is similar to why Oprah Winfrey's wealth is seen as unacceptable yet Elon Musk's and Bill Maher's is okay.

[Stuart G]

21. How about this..and I don't know who.. "Greatest Non War President?"

I don't have a clue....??? Maybe T. Roosevelt..? Washington?..(war hero??) F D R...(first 2 terms?) Carter?..

[Agschmid]

22. Haven't really been a lot of "non-war" Presidents...

But I think that makes your point.

[ericson00]

23. The Clintons were born into middle class families and lived the American dream

not the same for JFK, Bushes, the Roosevelts. And not the same as Presidential hopefuls such as Jeb Bush, Trump, Chafee, etc.