Best and Worst U.S. Presidents?

[Aratus]

FDR, Lincoln, LBJ and R.M Nixon are strong potuses and possibly imperial potuses...

homeland security right now is the huston plan on steroids with a civil servant overlay...

madison was one of our brighter founding fathers... mckinley is janus-like between
two centuries, and as woodrow wilson astutely observed in his book, mckinley
departs from the legislature dominating the whitehouse, which is a by-product
of the trial of andy johnson. wilson in turn goes from keeping out of a war to going
into an already existing war. i just did a link to a book by smedley butler earlier today...

karl rove took mckinley era political lore to a new high recently, and actually mark twain
is an ANTI-IMPERIALIST! not simply a socialist! eugene debs was the socialist of the hour.

 

[coyote_sprit]

BEST

1. James Madison

2. Monroe

3. Jefferson

4. Grover Cleveland

5. Washington

6. Quincy Adams

7. Van Buren

8. Barack Obama

9. JFK

10. Jimmy Carter

WORST

1. Woodrow Wilson

2. FDR

3. Lyndon Johnson

4. George Herbert Walker Bush

5. George W. Bush

6. Reagan

7. Polk

8. McKinnley

9. John Tyler

10. Eisenhower

So you have Barack Obama as a best and Jimmy Carter too?

 

[Aratus]

that could be what the public may do this november.
if obama moves past hillary and mccain does a verbal
faux-pas once again in the mass media gloriously...

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Plageristic, Silver-Tongued Devil Presidential GOP HACK MIKE HUCKABEE? CNN, CNBC, NBC

I would like to take this time to point out that 4 out of the 5 Presidents you chose were Non-Christians.

Grover Cleveland was Presbyterian.

Just a thought.

Yeah... It's called Separation of Church and State... notice they were the most rational pragmatic presidents?

The latest example... look how that POS; Pandering, Plageristic, Silver-Tongued Devil Presidential GOP HACK MIKE HUCKABEE? His "HOLY CRUSADE" playing the regional card, having those SLIMY TELEVANGIST PANDER monies for the people for his GAIN. It goes on and on... shows you the the mental psychee of the American voters... do we deserve what we believe?

Plainly, American Voters on the majority, are the Dumbest, Moronic, Idiots with the absolute most Pathetic, Irrational reasons to supporting some of these Presidential Hacks. Also Lazy not to do their research...ARGH!

 

[Kade]

Yeah... It's called Separation of Church and State... notice they were the most rational pragmatic presidents?

The latest example... look how that POS; Pandering, Plageristic, Silver-Tongued Devil Presidential GOP HACK MIKE HUCKABEE? His "HOLY CRUSADE" playing the regional card, having those SLIMY TELEVANGIST PANDER monies for the people for his GAIN. It goes on and on... shows you the the mental psychee of the American voters... do we deserve what we believe?

Plainly, American Voters on the majority, are the Dumbest, Moronic, Idiots with the absolute most Pathetic, Irrational reasons to supporting some of these Presidential Hacks. Also Lazy not to do their research...ARGH!

I can't disagree with anything you've said here.

 

[Galileo Galilei]

So you have Barack Obama as a best and Jimmy Carter too?

compared to every other president we've had recently, Carter was the least corrupt, least militaristic, and the softest drug warrior.

Obama has the potential to be a good president because he is now getting the majority of his campaign money, like Ron Paul, on the Internet, so he has the potential to be free of special interest money. He also promises to bring our troops home, so we can only hope that he will do that.

Any other comments?

 

[Aratus]

obama seems to not be a pawn of the obvious special interests...
the clintons in the 1990s had a small group of democrat fatcats
who had a gravitas equal to the republican ones around both bushes...

 

[Aratus]

obama, who has yet to be sworn in, has a fulsome range of comparisons...
g.w bush over time may be eased up on, yet is at the lists bottom... now

 

[Freedom 4 all]

Worsts: Bush and LBJ but the worst thing about him is his defeat of Goldwater. How the hell did he get such a big mandate for jackassery against common sense?

Bests: Jefferson, Washington

 

[asimplegirl]

Well, I have quite a few for small reasons that just don't agree with my personal politics. The only one I can think of off the top of my head as an *actual* BAD president would have to be Lincoln. Starting a war that killed over 600,000 people that wanted to secede peacefully ranks right up there as my number one reason for not liking him. And that does not even include the people from his own side.

I feel that this government will one day do this type of thing again, considering that history has a way of repeating itself, and I feel that we are on our way with rights being denied our own citizens. Our government never has, and never will let any section of it go, especially when money is involved. And, no matter where in the world, if there is a war, you'd better believe we have a stake in it.

Please do not let this start another debate on the civil war. I did not intend for that to be the outcome, I was answering the question from my opinion only.

 

[scandinaviany3]

that is pretty close to the truth

The worst presidents would go:

FDR
Wilson
Lincoln
LBJ
Dubya

pretty close to the truth

 

[scandinaviany3]

seem to agree on this set.

My favorite: Andrew Jackson for fighting against the banks

Worst: Bush

Seem to agree on this set but add in bush senior

 

[The_Orlonater]

If you have read America's Great Depression, Coolidge wasn't that great.

Harding was OK.

 

[xd9fan]

Bush is the worst in my lifetime....so far
He destroyed my Grand old party.

 

[haaaylee]

so what made some of these great presidents so great?

 

[Kludge]

so what made some of these great presidents so great?

Good choices and good circumstances, I imagine.

 

[haaaylee]

Good choices and good circumstances, I imagine.

Specifically though. Are there any good documentaries on some of these guys maybe?