Zachary Taylor:
Pluses: "Ole Rough and Ready (like all of my gals)" This Tennessean opposed slavery's spread into the new territorities. A decorated field commander, and a true redneck, Taylor defied the Whig platform and otherwise was a true maverick...the Arlen Specter of his day, because no one actually could make sense of his many conflicting positions. Let's hear it for ambiguity. Detested Manifest Destiny.
Minuses: From Tennessee, slaveowner until his death, states' righter, and asserted the US sphere of influence over Latin America.
Millard Fillmore:
Pluses: ummm, one. Began the White House library..
Minuses: Shit, where to start. Appointed Brigham Young as Utah's Governor, sent Adm. Perry to Japan, sold out his State and his party by capitulating to slavery, used feds to hunt down slaves
Abraham Lincoln:
Pluses: If you don't know this one, I can't help you, brother.
Minuses: waffling racist, bad taste in women, wiped his ass on the Constitution, again, if you don't know this stuff, I can't help you.
U.S. Grant:
Pluses: Knew how to scowl with a cigar, was one helluva' field commander and -to other soldiers- comported himself with grace and humility, went after the Klan, signed the post-Civil War, Civil Rights bills
Minuses: Corrupt to his soul, murdered and subdued Indians at an amazing rate and was a fierce colonialist in that respect, saw the downslide of the currency while waffling what to do about it.
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