Ranking the presidents, best to worst

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. Theodore Roosevelt

3. Abraham Lincoln

4. George Washington

5. Thomas Jefferson

6. James Madison

7. James Monroe

8. Woodrow Wilson

9. Harry Truman

10. Dwight D. Eisenhower

11. John F. Kennedy

12. James K. Polk

13. William Clinton

14. Andrew Jackson

15. Barack Obama

16. Lyndon B. Johnson

17. John Adams

18. Ronald Reagan

19. John Quincy Adams

20. Grover Cleveland

21. William McKinley

22. George H. W. Bush

23. Martin Van Buren

24. William Howard Taft

25. Chester Arthur

26. Ulysses S. Grant

27. James Garfield

28. Gerald Ford

29. Calvin Coolidge

30. Richard Nixon

31. Rutherford B. Hayes

32. James Carter

33. Zachary Taylor

34. Benjamin Harrison

35. William Henry Harrison

36. Herbert Hoover

37. John Tyler

38. Millard Fillmore

39. George W. Bush

40. Franklin Pierce

41. Warren G. Harding

42. James Buchanan

43. Andrew Johnson
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/07/02/survey-ranks-obama-15th-best-president-bush-among-worst

 

If Obama is a white guy, he drops to 44. You know it, and I know it. Of course, if he's white, he probably doesn't get elected in the first place. Because he's just another Democrat. Nothing exciting to market......... or give him a Nobel Prize for....... before he actually does anything.

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt? Doesn't deserve anywhere near the top twenty. A big government interventionalist that continue his failed policies all throughout his terms and is only number one because of WWII.

Abraham Lincoln at number three? Yes... Lets have him in the top five! A racist and tyrant... Who only believed that blacks aren't equal to whites in any mental capacity, committed scorch eat tactics towards the Confederate States(Burn, rape and plunder), rigged elections, had protesters shot under his watch, arrested elected officials, shut down media outlets for having a different opinion and instigated a war by shifting soldiers in key forts in the south. Truly a visionary President...

Edit: If this were 2004 or 2005.. Bush would be ranked in the top 20 for being the "Great Leader" in our time.

 

President Obama had to face unique challenges because of his skin color and family situation. People love a guy who has humble beginnings and makes an unlikely assent. Much better story than W.

 

Ahh, more accolades for something other than actual job performance.

 

It is incredibly difficult to objectively rank the Presidents. All of them have positive attributes and negative attributes. None, in my opinion, can be quantitatively ranked on a scale of one to forty three.

 

Move raygun to 39
bush the failure to 43
And swap LBJ and Obama and I'll go with it.

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Typical for the right to only look at race.
But they aren't racists......right?

 

Shouldn't Obama be ranked #40 or #38? Everything he is doing now is exactly what Bush did, except on a bigger scale.

Good thing this survey isn't suppose to be taken seriously.

 

Yes, he is essentially Bush with a (D) after his name. Most people only care about the (D) and not the actual positions though.

 

All of Obama's sins include: Bigger deficits, more wars, a serious mismanagement of the economy, a bigger intrusion in health care, even lower interests rates, bigger bailouts, protectionism, a greater expansion in education, more government regulations.

Stop me when I get to something Bush hasn't done already.

Talk to me when 20,000 + people are reading your economic analysis and taking your investing advice.

 

I really don't think presidential quality is linear organizeable.

It would be less subjective to create a clear set of dimensions and objectively plot each president and then weight each dimension and produce a series of linear lists based on subjective configurations.

 

LOL Can you say waffle, spin, and obfuscate?


Face it, Obama is the worst President in American History by a large margin, and only massive voter fraud put him in office again.


He remains and will always be an illegitimate failure President.


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Only if you rule out Nixon, Ford, Bush the senile, Bush the Lesser, Coolidge, Harding, Buchanan, Madison, J Adams, JQ Adams and Reagan and all the other 19th Century duds.

 

No. Quite easy to rank Reagan, Nixon and Bush the Lesser. America would have been better off without them.

 

LOL (*)(*)(*)(*)ing hilarious...I assume you have proof of this "massive voter fraud" other than your parties crushing defeat?

 

How did Madison make the bottom of your list? I can see all the others...but Madison?

 

Had to throw out a few good ones to get Obama to the bottom of the same stack with Washington, Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Eisnehower, TR and Truman on top.

 

For me, it would have to be Lincoln at first place.
He presided over the worst time in the nation's history and saved the union.
Next, I would say Washington, for setting the example of peaceful transfer of power.
After that, it becomes more an ideological issue.

 

Personally, I put Madison at #1. FDR and Lincoln are near the bottom of my list along with Andrew Jackson, Bush Jr. and Obama. I rank from least authoritarian at the top to most authoritarian at the bottom.

 

Lol...Nobody really cares what the lunatic fringe thinks about Obama.

 

Worst to best hunh? Must be other wise you'd have FDR at the bottom where he belongs. Please again tell me what unique challenges Barack faced Mommie was an upper middle class lefty with a thing for black guys whose parents allowed her to travel a lot. Probably because she was such a dipstick mom and dad were too embarrased to let her hang around. Dude did not growup in the 'hood' or working class he grew up pampered and spoiled, and governs like it.

 

I like Teddy at number one
Then Jefferson awashigton and Polk
Then bush jr

But I am an American Expansionist after all

 

The reason Obama is ranked so high, is because he has cleaned up Shrub's mess. He saved the economy from total collapse after Shrub destroyed it. Saved the auto industry. Ended that stupid Iraq war that Shrub wasted $3 trillion on. And got Bin Laden. And he did it all with the cons obstructing him every step of the way. In a few more years, Obama will be in the top ten. And cons will whine about it for a hundred years, just like they have with FDR.