Best Presidents!
Clubber
Florida
After tiredtravaler's list of "Worst presidents" topic, I thought a list of the best was in order.
The below shocked the hell completely out of me, obama was the FIFTH BEST!!!
Texas A&M Study Calls Obama 5th Best President in America
Good research work by a fine institution.
OBAMA RATED 5TH BEST PRESIDENT IN OUR HISTORY
From a total of 44 US Presidents, Obama has been rated as the 5th best according
to a study completed at Texas A&M University. The Public Relations Office at A&M
released this statement: “After only 7+ years in office, Americans have rated
President Obama the 5th best President in U.S. history.”
These are the results according to Texas A&M:
1. Reagan & Lincoln tied for first
2. Seventeen presidents tied for second
3. Twenty-three other presidents tied for third
4. Jimmy Carter came in fourth, and…
5. Obama was fifth.
The below shocked the hell completely out of me, obama was the FIFTH BEST!!!
Texas A&M Study Calls Obama 5th Best President in America
Good research work by a fine institution.
OBAMA RATED 5TH BEST PRESIDENT IN OUR HISTORY
From a total of 44 US Presidents, Obama has been rated as the 5th best according
to a study completed at Texas A&M University. The Public Relations Office at A&M
released this statement: “After only 7+ years in office, Americans have rated
President Obama the 5th best President in U.S. history.”
These are the results according to Texas A&M:
1. Reagan & Lincoln tied for first
2. Seventeen presidents tied for second
3. Twenty-three other presidents tied for third
4. Jimmy Carter came in fourth, and…
5. Obama was fifth.
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I believe the obama disaster in the middle east, alone, is worse than anything Carter did.
SJG
Carter and Obama were the worst, they were are both inept.
Honorable mention:
+ George Washington (in a parallel universe, he could have been groomed to have been the King of England. He was that good)
+ Lincoln (arguably he overthrew the first constitutional republic and replaced with his vision of a strong federal government. Good and bad. The 13th, 14th, and 15 Amendments in his wake still have ripple effects to this day).
+ Teddy Roosevelt (arguable the first POTUS to look out globally and intervene, hawkish on the environment, progressive yet conservative, intervened in labor without overtly supporting unions during strikes, he was hard on large corporations and central banks, an early POTUS to fight against corruption (money in politics).
+ Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the New Deal and public works were welcomed for the masses at the time. He got us through the Great Depression, helped institute Glass-Stegall Act, and got us through World War II to defeat the Nazi sonnofabitch. The capitalist class and the wealthy elite went along with it until enough was enough and Reagan started to dismantle the remnants of FDR's New Deal in the '80s.)
+ John Kennedy (civil rights and the "space race" for the Moon Landing. Helped us out-spend the Soviets and get to the Moon, first. I understand the Apollo project (NASA) comprised upwards of 1.5% of the budget. That was huge and would have NOT been undertaken unless it was a national security interest.)
+ Ronald Reagan (Iranian hostages, Supply side economics probably helped thwart stagflation but really didn't help wages for the middle class .. benefit was overwhelming for the affluent and wealthy, who were tired of funding wealth redistribution policies, Reagan over-spent the Soviets to oblivion, which probably escalated the collapse of the USSR at the end of the Cold War, cut taxes but kept spending for popular programs (medicaid, medicare, SS), deficit spending through selling bonds to the Chinese, neutral on his support for gays and funding for HIV/AIDS research -- largely affecting homosexual men, he wait until 1985 to fund and support the AIDS/HIV research. Reagan does not get proper respect from some vocal in the LGBT community, given the environment at the time. Until HIV come along, no one really had seen an infectious disease with a 100% mortality rate. Compared with infectious diseases he would have known -- Measles, Polio, etc., none of those were anything like HIV. Maybe he wasn't the best friend of the LGBT community, however, he was far from their enemy. There are just limits to what, how fast, how soon, and how publicly supportive a traditional values, religious, conservative politician can be. Tempered progress. Patient, young gays. Gay family structure really rocks the boat. Win their hearts and minds slowly.
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Grant
FDR
Unfortunately the threat of modern terrorism and the manner in which it shows itself, is a direct result of Ronald Reagans policies.
No doubt Reagan's arming of and then abandoning the Afghani fighters in their war agaist the Soviets contributed to their hate against us but because of their hate towards western values they'd be fucking with us even if we stood out of that war.
Forms of terror were practiced by both sides during the Crusades. Fact is muslims have been fighting even amongst each other and practicing terrorism since the 7th century..
Extremism within Islam goes back to the 7th century to the Kharijites. From their essentially political position, they developed extreme doctrines that set them apart from both mainstream Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. The Kharijites were particularly noted for adopting a radical approach of Takfir, whereby they declared other Muslims to be unbelievers and therefore deemed them worthy of death.