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Ranking of US Presidents [by biased historians]
C-Span ^ | February 16, 2009 | C-Span/ liberal historians

Posted on 02/16/2009 7:15:08 PM PST by lonestar67

President/ Score/ rank 2009/rank 2000

Abraham Lincoln 902 1 1 George Washington 854 2 3 Franklin D. Roosevelt 837 3 2 Theodore Roosevelt 781 4 4 Harry S. Truman 708 5 5 John F. Kennedy 701 6 8 Thomas Jefferson 698 7 7 Dwight D. Eisenhower 689 8 9 Woodrow Wilson 683 9 6 Ronald Reagan 671 10 11

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: historians; presidents; rankings; topten
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To: garyhope

I really think it is important with Bush, Palin and others that it is important for conservatives to defend them even when they find them less than perfect. Liberals are epistemologically poisoning our society. They control what is “true”

Until we are willing to ‘get in their faces’ about our preference for limited government and genuine patriotism we will find ourselves victimized by the 1/3 of the public that simply follows a mediated lead.


21 posted on 02/16/2009 7:29:40 PM PST by lonestar67 (Israel is not the enemy.)
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To: jveritas

I knew what you meant because I think I understand where your heart is on these matters.

I have always admired that about you.


22 posted on 02/16/2009 7:31:39 PM PST by lonestar67 (Israel is not the enemy.)
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To: lonestar67

Bill Clinton’s legacy didn’t last too long.


23 posted on 02/16/2009 7:32:45 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: lonestar67
Just a note on the rating scale. Specifically, I don't see how Benjamin Harrison can even be rated as a President - he was President for only about a month before he died.
24 posted on 02/16/2009 7:34:25 PM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Johnson? Heck, Lincoln destroyed and overthrew the Constitution. Hussein and Baines were his legitimate children.


25 posted on 02/16/2009 7:34:32 PM PST by sobieski
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To: lonestar67

Thank you very much :)


26 posted on 02/16/2009 7:34:38 PM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: lonestar67

Got my own ranking, starting from the worst”

Abraham Lincoln; for tearing the country apart, and being responsible for the deaths of more men than were killed in all other U.S. wars put together.

Next worst: nobody else even comes close/


27 posted on 02/16/2009 7:34:47 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: LjubivojeRadosavljevic

Yes, but he was a Miami Ohio grad.


28 posted on 02/16/2009 7:35:34 PM PST by lonestar67 (Israel is not the enemy.)
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To: lonestar67
Kennedy, Wilson and FDR way too high. Kennedy accomplished little, if anything, while President. I would rate Grover Cleveland in the top 10.
29 posted on 02/16/2009 7:35:34 PM PST by mak5
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To: LjubivojeRadosavljevic
I don't see how Benjamin Harrison can even be rated as a President - he was President for only about a month before he died.

Nope. That was William Henry Harrison.

30 posted on 02/16/2009 7:36:24 PM PST by Chunga (Vote Republican)
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To: LjubivojeRadosavljevic

Which tells you how stupid are the so called Historians who made this rating.


31 posted on 02/16/2009 7:36:50 PM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: Chunga

You are right but still the rating is idiotic.


32 posted on 02/16/2009 7:37:36 PM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: lonestar67

Who really gives two craps about this? Such exercises can only be classified as mental masturbation by people who have nothing more important to do with their time.


33 posted on 02/16/2009 7:38:24 PM PST by USMA '71
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To: lonestar67

Some vastly underrated:
James K. Polk, Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge
All better than JFK in my opinion


34 posted on 02/16/2009 7:38:39 PM PST by SMCC1
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

That is all it ever was. Johnson, Wilson, and Roosevelt; three of the biggest socialists of the past century are all near the top.


35 posted on 02/16/2009 7:40:07 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. Margret Thatcher)
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To: lonestar67
#3: Promoted Friendly Fascism and prolonged the Depression. Gave Eastern europe away to his buddy Uncle Joe Stalin.

#4: Many outstanding accomplishments, marred by his metamorphosis into a Bull-Progressive-RINO-Moose.

#5: Lost China, failed to prosecute Soviet spies in his Administration, didn't win in Korea, fired MacArthur.

Yeah, the libs still love them.

36 posted on 02/16/2009 7:41:48 PM PST by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: lonestar67

LBJ, a one-term failure, ahead of Reagan, Polk, Jackson and Monroe?! This list is a scam.


37 posted on 02/16/2009 7:45:15 PM PST by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: lonestar67

If they did this one month after Harry Truman left office, he’d be dead last.


38 posted on 02/16/2009 7:46:56 PM PST by kinghorse
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To: jveritas
"President G W Bush already changed the course of history in a way very few Presidents before him and after him will do."

Yes he has. But where do we start?

He's decimated the ranks of a Republican Party that should have been poised to bury the Donkeys after their decisive 2004 victory; He betrayed the GOP's platform of "smaller government and fiscal responsibility"; He left the Mexican border W-I-D-E open, enabling an Illegal Invasion to swarm the United States of America; He had border patrol agents arrested for defending that border from drug-dealers...

Dubya campaigned for RINO Senator Arlen Specter in 2004 instead of conservative Pat Toomey; He admitted the "evidence" and reasons for the Iraq War and ousting Saddam Hussein were BS; He lied to the American public during his campaign, maintaining that "America was NOT about "Nation Building," when it became so...

Instead of VETOing CRA, he approved this sham $440 billion mortgage giveaway to deadbeats back in 2002; He supported the $700 billion bail-out of Wall St....

Worst of all, Dubya Bush's dopey, ill-advised NWO/Gobalist-First policies ushered in the Marxist, Racist, punk-@ss Rat, Barry Soetoro-0bama and Democrat blitzkrieg of BOTH Houses, leaving the GOP impotent to stop ANY liberal "Hope" and "Change" the Democrats have ever fantasized about...And an America that may never recover.

In short George W. Bush was the RINO-of-RINOs, a fake conservative, and disaster for conservatives and America.

George W. Bush??:

WORST.

PRESIDENT.

EVER.

39 posted on 02/16/2009 7:47:39 PM PST by F16Fighter (Blame W. Bush who campaigned for victorious lib Specter instead of Toomey back in 2004 (1.5% diff))
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To: LjubivojeRadosavljevic
"Just a note on the rating scale. Specifically, I don't see how Benjamin Harrison can even be rated as a President - he was President for only about a month before he died.

That would STILL rate him light years ahead of George W. Trainwreck.

40 posted on 02/16/2009 7:49:30 PM PST by F16Fighter (Blame W. Bush who campaigned for victorious lib Specter instead of Toomey back in 2004 (1.5% diff))
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