Who is your favorite President? Why? Who is your least favorite President? Why?

To honor President's Week on The OTB, give us your favorite and least favorite Presidents and tell us why you like/dislike them.

I am always torn between Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt as to my favorite. Usually, I go with Jefferson because of his influence on politics and policies for the following generations; his political theory was/is, in my opinion, second to none. He also lived such an interesting life that I love to study him. Sure, he had his flaws and at times acted in contradiction to his views (wanted weak executive branch but extended the power of the branch while in office with the La Purchase/"All men created equal", yet was a slave holder and, even though he had wanted to free all of his slaves at the end of his life, was forced to sell off his slaves to settle debts he incurred from living beyond his means), but he's someone I greatly admire.

Least favorite is also a hard one to choose. There haven't been many good presidents as of late, and there are a ton of bad ones to choose from in the past, but I usually always go with Jimmy Carter. Being from Georgia, I often doubt if any Georgian will ever be elected again because of the specter of ol' Jimmy. I'm not ashamed of him (the office of President is one that should be respected, I'll never be ashamed of it), but he was just a failure on many different fronts. There are many idealists out there, but Jimmy is an idealist to a fault. He lacked the means to deal with the energy crisis, recession/stagflation, and foreign policy issues such as the Iran hostage situation and the increase in Soviet aggression. He seems like a nice guy, but was a terrible president.