Featured Presidential Poll: Reagan Best, Obama Worst in Last 100 Years

One observation is that Obama should be included in the polls after his term of office like the rest of the Presidents. The comments about Kennedy are unfounded. There was a big gap between Johnson and Kennedy. Also, for those who degrade Kennedy, (and this was discussed in another thread) Kennedy campaigned to the right of and governed to the right of every Republican nominee and President since 1988. I notice not a one of you mention that Bush and Bush were not on the top of the list.

Also, the comments against Truman are unfounded. He was not a liberal in any sense of the word. He had the guts to do what was necessary to end the war with Japan. He opposed union activity numerous times. He was a leader, unlike the last five spineless Presidents since 1988.

 

The country was started the slide to reactionary socialism under Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave it a big boost with Social Security, the move was accelerated under Lyndon Baines Johnson with Mediscare, and was shoved on the slippery slope to destruction by Baraak Hussein Obamma and Obammacare. All these men were elitists or wannabe elitists and saw the rest of the folks as serfs, peons, slaves, whatever word fits best!

 

Right on! I'd also add FDR's New Deal programs like WPA and TVA to the list and LBJ's Medicaid and Great Society programs (War on Poverty, etc.) Notice it's usually Dems that add socialistic like programs but let's not forget George W. Bush's Medicare drug benefit.

 

WPA, We Piddle Around. I can remember a little about them. And you are correct about Medicare, Part D. I had prescription drug coverage as part of my retirement. When Part D came along it apparently took over the corporation's obligation except the corporation covered the "donut hole". Then they cut out supplemental completely except for a small stipend. It could have been worse, some people lose it all.

If Congress don't reform Social Security and Medicare NOW the baby boomers will lose both. It might be just retribution since they sat on their thumbs while the reactionary-democrat party-of-death presided over the slaughter of one third of those who would pay for their retirement. Instead of three paying into the system for each retiree there are only two. Those two may get tired of paying.

 

WPA = We Piddle Around. LOL! My Dad, rest his soul, used that phrase. He also used MediScare.

 

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I have no idea who YouGov is but I know and highly respect the New York Times. Here's their ranking:

In January 2013, New York Times journalist and statistician Nate Silver composed a composite list of previous presidential rankings by scholars for the purpose of predicting incumbent President Barack Obama's ranking among presidents.[42]

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. George Washington
4. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Thomas Jefferson
6. Harry Truman
7. Woodrow Wilson
8. Dwight D. Eisenhower
9. John F. Kennedy
10. Ronald Reagan
11. James K. Polk
12. Lyndon B. Johnson
13. Andrew Jackson
14. James Monroe
15. James Madison
16. John Adams
17. Barack Obama
18. Bill Clinton
19. William McKinley
20. John Quincy Adams
21. Grover Cleveland
22. George H.W. Bush
23. Ulysses S. Grant
24. Gerald Ford
25. William Howard Taft
26. Jimmy Carter
27. Calvin Coolidge
28. Chester A. Arthur
29. Richard Nixon
30. James A. Garfield
31. Martin Van Buren
32. Rutherford B. Hayes
33. Zachary Taylor
34. Benjamin Harrison
35. Herbert Hoover
36. John Tyler
37. Millard Fillmore
38. George W. Bush
39. Andrew Johnson
40. William Henry Harrison
41. Warren G. Harding
42. Franklin Pierce
43. James Buchanan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

There are a large number of polls presented on this site and NONE give the results you present. I'd say that your's is a highly partician and inaccurate perspective.

 

That list is about as useless as mammary glands on a boar hog and about as accurate as Obama's statements about Obamacare:

If you like your insurance plan you can keep it, PERIOD!

If you like your doctor you can keep him, PERIOD!

 

Well, of course you do, bless your little socialist heart!