Who was the best U.S. President? II

"Still, you must make multiple arguments in a debate." -PatriotPersonI. Countering your arguments. "I can not address your arguments because they address the man, not the president." Only the third one addresses the man. The first and second on addressed the president. Problems with the New DealMy source: http://www.cato.org... FDR's New Deal put excise taxes on everyday things like alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, matches, candy, chewing gum, margarine, fruit juice, soft drinks, cars, tires (including tires on wheelchairs), telephone calls, movie tickets, playing cards, electricity, radios -- these and many other everyday things were subject to New Deal excise taxes, which means the New Deal was substantially financed by the middle class and poor people. Yes, to hear FDR's "Fireside Chats", one had to pay FDR excise taxes for a radio and electricity! A Treasury Department report acknowledged that excise taxes "often fell disproportionately on the less affluent." Please refer to the other paragraphs and statements given in the article in the source...it cleary explains why the New Deal was bad, and it counters pretty much most of your arguments about the New Deal."The New Deal helped many people survive and live immensly better." Oh, so ridiculous taxes on everyday things that poor people needed and deserved helped them? It made their lives WORSE."If the Con could, please stick to the presidential ideals and not the moral ideals." The establishment of Japanese-American internment camps is not just a moral ideal. It also, majorly, fits with his presidential performance. The best president would not make innocent citizens of his own country go into camps. That is a very un-American thing to do, and FDR did just that. How does that effect his performance as president, you ask? Well, there's the fact that thousands of his Japanese-American supporters turned against him, and I believe that lowered his approval rating significantly. Also, every action a president does is either good or bad. That's why being president is so stressful, and why they start looking older really quickly. The action of putting Japanese-Americans in internment camps is quite obviously a bad one. Bad actions cause normal or good presidents to become bad presidents. And since this debate is about who was the best president, a president cannot be the best if they do too many bad things. "Franklin D. Roosevelt truly 'inherited' a massive economic problem from his predecessor, Herbert Hoover. He handled it perfectly and got us out of the problem." Not really. Though he is partly responsible for the end of the Great Depression, we have to recognize that the New Deal was also a hard thing on America. So, in other words, FDR threw out one bad thing and put in a new one. And my arguments about the poor quality of the New Deal counter the majority of your "B. and C." arguments."He was responsible for leading the United States during World War II, still he died shortly before the end of the war." He was only partly responsible. Most of the leadership of the USA during WW2 was also caused by his multiple VPs, Harry Truman (for the few months of WWII he was president), and the rest of his cabinet. Not to mention all the brave men that fought in the military, and all the great women who worked and contributed much of their time to the allied cause.as well as Joseph Stalin and Russia." Obviously those weren't that great, speaking as there was this thing called the Cold War almost directly after WWII.