A poll of 238 presidential experts at the Siena Research Institute has ranked the USA's presidents. This is the fifth time they have published such a list; the last one was in 2002. For the first time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt came in at number one. The top five are:
President Obama ranks #15. You can see the complete rankings in .pdf form. Link -via J-Walk Blog
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. George Washington
5. Thomas Jefferson
President Obama ranks #15. You can see the complete rankings in .pdf form. Link -via J-Walk Blog
Putting Obama as 15 when his term is only half over says everything in this poll by "presidential experts". Especially when he is put above presidents like John Adams.
How do you even rank a standing president who's contributions to history are yet to be determined?
I think this list says more about the political bias in our education system than it does about the presidents.
With categories like luck, I am surprised that strength agility and charisma weren't also added.
Hah!
Yay! Kool-Aid!
You're absolutely spot-on about selling arms to Iran, but don't forget Reagan's support of Central American dictators, and dismantling the New Deal, and "trickle down" economics, and tripling the national debt!
Yup. Reagan should be right up there with Lincoln.
Kool-Aid indeed. You Reagan worshippers need to learn your history.
Next, please.