Posted on 02/28/2010 7:43:02 AM PST by Borges
I guess William Henry Harrison didn’t get enough at bats to qualify for the batting title. :)
Jimmy Carter at #8? I’d say the author smoked too much hash during Carter’s term.
Clinton only spent less once he was hemmed in by a conservative GOP Congress. It doesn’t seem right to grade him well based on what he didn’t really want to do.
I stopped reading when I saw that they ranked Jimmy Carter the 8th best president. I was alive when that incompetent was president and there couldn’t have been 3 US presidents WORSE than he was, much less 36.
Vaillancourt = Nuts!
Libertarians don’t get the basic truism that liberty and small government begins with a safe and secure homeland.
That that requires more than a just a nod to national defense.
Jimmy Carter is #8, Reagan is #34.
And that’s all that needs to be said about that.
Didn’t you catch that when they ranked Ronald Reagan at the bottom? The President who defeated Communism in Eastern Europe? And who inspired one of the greatest economies in our history?
This author is a complete idiot.....
Filed under *garbage in, garbage out*.
Not to mention he slashed the military budget.
Honorable mention for sideburns:
U.S. Grant was always my favorite. The more i read about him, the more i realize what a great man he was. His main flaw was that he trusted some people who were better not to be trusted. His autobiography is an absolute masterpiece. And when so many people wanted the south whipped forever, he did not cooperate and reunited the nation.
His only flaw was that he was too decent of a man for the S.O.B.s in DC. That’s not much of a flaw if you think about it.
Any ranking that puts Ronald Reagan behind FDR is
totally bogus at best.
Not entirely. Carter was seen as a failure because he came into DC with all sorts of ideas about how the place should work, was confronted with how it actually worked, and accomplished basically nothing.
Since the metric here is “presidents who did nothing” - Carter ranks pretty well up there.
Mark Twain helped him with that autobiography.
“Any ranking that puts Ronald Reagan behind FDR is
totally bogus at best.”
Well put,,,
I guess this history scholar never heard of "The Era of Good Feeling." And Reagan 34th? This list isn't eccentric, it's psychotic.
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