Which President was most pro-common people, and which was most anti-common people?

[Kievan Rus]

I would definitely have to take Franklin D. Roosevelt as the President that was most for the common American citizen. FDR had the concept of a Second Bill of Rights that would eliminate monopolies, grant legal rights to healthcare, a job with a living wage, and so forth and so on. His efforts at pushing Social Security through Congress created an important social safety net that is so accepted today that even the most brainwashed corporate shills take for granted. The Federal tax code was in order under FDR's administration. Labor unions successfully organized under the Roosevelt administration, and worker rights were expanded with the National Labor Relations Act. He worked tirelessly to end the Great Depression.

On the other hand, Ronald Reagan is without a doubt (in addition to being the worst President in history) the most anti-common citizen, most pro-wealthy President in the history of the United States. He supported the broken concept of supply-side economics, an economic theory so flawed that even Dubya's father criticized and derisively referred to it as "Voodoo Economics." Taxes for the rich were slashed while the tax burden remained largely the same on the common American taxpayer. Reagan was vehemently anti-union, and if he could have outlawed unions, he would have done it in a heartbeat. He was no friend of Social Security either, as it was under his watch to start taxing Social Security benefits upon which many retired poor and middle-class Americans depend on. The great dichotomy of the rich getting obscenely richer while most people struggle to make ends meet started under Reagan. And his failed, broken supply-side nonsense, also championed by Bush II, is largely the reason why our economy is currently in the greatest dive that it has been in since the Great Depression.

Who would you pick for the most pro-common citizen President, and the one most opposed to the common American?

[Skittles]

1. in my lifetime, I think Clinton was most pro-common

reagan was most anti-common - he appealed to a great many people (fucking idiots) but his greatest concern was rich folk

[saltpoint]

2. Had he lived, been nominated in Chicago, and defeated Nixon, Robert Kennedy

would have been the president I'd consider most in tune with the common man or woman.

His brother John was no slouch at it.

As for the least attuned, possibly Poppy Bush, or going back a bit, James Buchanan.

[Canuckistanian]

3. I'd say pro - Jimmy Carter/anti - Dick Nixon

Based on their histories to date.

[Oregone]

8. I really wonder today...

What party Nixon would of registered under if he was alive today. He was an odd character full of racism and hatred. But...ya know, on the political spectrum he just might come up to a left of some of the so called "Blue Dogs"

[Canuckistanian]

10. Yeah, I take that back about Nixon

For someone who created the EPA, affirmative action, NOAA, went to China, presided over Roe v. Wade, abolished conscription....

Yeah, he wasn't so terrible after all.

[Autumn]

4. Bill Clinton was most pro-common,

Bush was most anti-common. i would have almost tied him with Regan, but I think Regan was already out of it and his people set his policy.

[Gwereeya]

11. Okay.....

...I was gonna say that about Reagan, but I didn't want to get banned for being mean or anything. But I see you have a 1000+ posts under your belt, so:

Reagan was too out of it to be considered. In my lifetime, Carter was the best and Dick Cheney the worst. (What??? You think Dubya was the real President?????)

[Autumn]

14. Actually I meant Bush

the elder. Yeah big dick had his hand so far up georges ,ass what people thought was his tongue was really cheneys thumb. Welcome to DU.:hi:

[IndianaGreen]

5. FDR was the most 'pro-common people.'

Ronald Reagan, despite his being proclaimed a god by many fools in our country, was the most "anti-common people" President of all time.

[Oregone]

7. Thats probably a good summary

Unfortunately, I lack knowledge on some of the more obscure presidents. But, FDR also had circumstances that allowed him to be.

[ipaint]

6. The best for wage slaves FDR

The worst for wage slaves reagan- trickle down and clinton- welfare reform, nafta.

[Crosseyed Jesus]

9. The Commander & Chimp...............

Bu$h*t surly took the moniker of anti-common away from, the Prince for the Rich, son of a bitch, Ronald Reagan.
I would like to say that Clinton was pro-common, but I know better then that. I would have to give it to Jimmy Carter. I am comfortable with that statement.

[Gwereeya]

12. As stated above and echoed by me.....

...Reagan was too out-of-it to really be considered one way or the other.

[Kaleva]

13. Andrew Jackson was probably the most pro-common people

One of the Presidents from the latter half of the 1800's when the robber barons held sway and political corruption was rampant might be a good candidate for the most anti-common people.

[delete_bush]

15. Andrew Jackson was in office

from 1829-1837.
He supported slavery and Indian removal. The Trail of Tears, that sort of thing.

[harun]

16. Pro, FDR, anti, Reagan.

[NoSheep]

17. I have a perception that FDR and LBJ were both pro-common.

Bush 2 gets my vote for anti-common....I do not know a great deal about any president between the first several and before FDR.