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Newser) – It’s Presidents Day, so surely you’re wondering: Who is America’s greatest president? A recent Gallup poll has your answer: Ronald Reagan, according to 19% of respondents. Gallup has asked the same "greatest president" question eight times over the last 12 years, and Reagan has come out on top three of those times. The other top vote-getters are Abraham Lincoln, with four wins, and John F. Kennedy with two (one was a tie with Lincoln). This year’s top 10:


1.Ronald Reagan: 19%
2.Abraham Lincoln: 14%
3.Bill Clinton: 13%
4.John F. Kennedy: 11%
5.George Washington: 10%
6.Franklin Roosevelt: 8%
Happy Presidents Day: Ronald Reagan Was America's Greatest President, Says Gallup Poll

Five percent of the folks made a terrible mistake for #7....
 
Newser) – It’s Presidents Day, so surely you’re wondering: Who is America’s greatest president? A recent Gallup poll has your answer: Ronald Reagan, according to 19% of respondents. Gallup has asked the same "greatest president" question eight times over the last 12 years, and Reagan has come out on top three of those times. The other top vote-getters are Abraham Lincoln, with four wins, and John F. Kennedy with two (one was a tie with Lincoln). This year’s top 10:


1.Ronald Reagan: 19%
2.Abraham Lincoln: 14%
3.Bill Clinton: 13%
4.John F. Kennedy: 11%
5.George Washington: 10%
6.Franklin Roosevelt: 8%
Happy Presidents Day: Ronald Reagan Was America's Greatest President, Says Gallup Poll

Five percent of the folks made a terrible mistake for #7....

And 55% of the readers of the poll find that "Depressing," as they should. :lol:

Lincoln, Washington, FDR are consistently ranked the top 3, not necessarily in that order.

Reagan? Pfft. :razz:
 
Newser) – It’s Presidents Day, so surely you’re wondering: Who is America’s greatest president? A recent Gallup poll has your answer: Ronald Reagan, according to 19% of respondents. Gallup has asked the same "greatest president" question eight times over the last 12 years, and Reagan has come out on top three of those times. The other top vote-getters are Abraham Lincoln, with four wins, and John F. Kennedy with two (one was a tie with Lincoln). This year’s top 10:


1.Ronald Reagan: 19%
2.Abraham Lincoln: 14%
3.Bill Clinton: 13%
4.John F. Kennedy: 11%
5.George Washington: 10%
6.Franklin Roosevelt: 8%
Happy Presidents Day: Ronald Reagan Was America's Greatest President, Says Gallup Poll

Five percent of the folks made a terrible mistake for #7....

And 55% of the readers of the poll find that "Depressing," as they should. :lol:

Lincoln, Washington, FDR are consistently ranked the top 3, not necessarily in that order.

Reagan? Pfft. :razz:
FDR? Pfft. :eusa_whistle:
 
AMERICA DUMBING DOWN

19% are TOTAL DUMMIES who believe Reagan is America's greatest president because, among other things, he "destroyed the Soviet Union".

"I could have stayed in power for the rest of my life. There was no serious political or economic crisis in the Soviet Union when I became General Secretary of the Comunist Party".

Mikhail Gorbachev, Hard Talk, BBC
 
Newser) – It’s Presidents Day, so surely you’re wondering: Who is America’s greatest president? A recent Gallup poll has your answer: Ronald Reagan, according to 19% of respondents. Gallup has asked the same "greatest president" question eight times over the last 12 years, and Reagan has come out on top three of those times. The other top vote-getters are Abraham Lincoln, with four wins, and John F. Kennedy with two (one was a tie with Lincoln). This year’s top 10:


1.Ronald Reagan: 19%
2.Abraham Lincoln: 14%
3.Bill Clinton: 13%
4.John F. Kennedy: 11%
5.George Washington: 10%
6.Franklin Roosevelt: 8%
Happy Presidents Day: Ronald Reagan Was America's Greatest President, Says Gallup Poll

Five percent of the folks made a terrible mistake for #7....

And 55% of the readers of the poll find that "Depressing," as they should. :lol:

Lincoln, Washington, FDR are consistently ranked the top 3, not necessarily in that order.

Reagan? Pfft. :razz:
FDR? Pfft. :eusa_whistle:

Tell it to historians the world over. They look beyond silly soundbytes.
 
And 55% of the readers of the poll find that "Depressing," as they should. :lol:

Lincoln, Washington, FDR are consistently ranked the top 3, not necessarily in that order.

Reagan? Pfft. :razz:
FDR? Pfft. :eusa_whistle:

Tell it to historians the world over. They look beyond silly soundbytes.

Well since academics write the history books these days, it's to be expected that historians think FDR was a super hero. He was a corrupt Constitution hating commie.
 
Anyway you look at it. George was the one who shaped the Presidency and the beginning of this great country. He did not try to take lifetime control and set the precedent of a term limit. Another person in that office at that time and things might have turned out a lot differently. Washington was a unifying figure in a time that this country needed to become one entity and he succeeded where most others could have failed.

Even though other Presidents had good reigns most of the ones at the top of the list are because the were war presidents. Lincoln has his place because he preserved the Union and should be second. Reagan was a powerful figure that brought this country back and led to the end of the cold war. But to judge him correctly we need another generation to pass before having a realistic judgment of his terms.
 
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Reagan was a powerful figure that brought this country back and led to the end of the cold war.

"I could have stayed in power for the rest of my life. There was no serious political or economic crisis in the Soviet Union when I became General Secretary of the Comunist Party".

Mikhail Gorbachev, Hard Talk, BBC
 
José;3349934 said:
Originally posted by zzzz
Reagan was a powerful figure that brought this country back and led to the end of the cold war.

"I could have stayed in power for the rest of my life. There was no serious political or economic crisis in the Soviet Union when I became General Secretary of the Comunist Party".

Mikhail Gorbachev, Hard Talk, BBC

And how about this one, too...

"How the Russians invented baseball and other essays of enlightenment."
John Leo.
 
I'd add Calvin Coolidge and remove Clinton, JFK, and FDR.

Just sayin'.
 
what a surpirze all the neocons voted for Reagan.

The rest of Americans actually picked there choices based on facts.
 
Andrew Jackson should at least be in the Top 5 as America’s greatest president.

And definitely in 1st place as the most interesting president. :cool:

I used to feel that way, as well, and still have soft spot for the only President to leave without a national debt, but....

“Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War,” by A.J. Langguth (C-Span Lecture)


1. Our first non-aristocrat President, and the first without a college education, Jackson’s determination to push the Cherokee nation off their land was the most troubling aspect of his presidency. Emotional and driven, Jefferson said of him, “ He could never speak on account of the rashness of his feelings…I have seen him choked with rage.” Adams said of Jackson: he is "a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name."


2. The Indians in question were known as “The Five Civilized Tribes,” the Choctaw, Seminoles, Chicasaw, Creek and the Cherokee. They lived in the areas of Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas. These tribes adapted best to white culture, with the wives responsible for the communal farming and the chores, while the men did the hunting. Soft spoken and obedient, the women found favor among the whites and were often taken as wives.

a. Drink was a problem, and English traders used this fact, bringing rum to barter. Among the Indians, they forgave any infraction except murder when under the influence of alcohol.
b. Northern missionaries were shocked to find that the Cherokee held slaves, and not just of other tribes! When cotton farming became profitable, they, like white Southerners, bought African slaves.
c. Settlers bought land from these Indians, to such an extent, that their councils instituted “The Blood Law:” If a Cherokee sold land without the council’s permission, they could be murdered!
d. When problems with the United States arose, the Cherokee practiceded a kind of passive resistance, never taking up arms against this nation.

3. President Jackson supported an Indian removal bill in an 1829 speech, and the South was in favor of any way of gaining access to Indian lands. In Congress, New Jersey Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen and Congressman Davy Crockett of Tennessee spoke out against the legislation. The Removal Act was passed after bitter debate in Congress The vote took place April 26, 1830: the Senate vote for 28-19; the House also for, by 102-97. Jackson signed it on May 28, 1830

a. While the Marshall Court found that the removal would have to be voluntary, by 1835, enough of the Cherokee agreed, that the removal began under President Van Buren.
 
How many moonbats know Obama's record of deficit spending?
 
So when Reagan did it it was fine but after being left the biggest mess in decades Obama and Bush's deficits were bad.

Oh but you only blame Obama not Bush huh?
 
It's all name recognition and pop-culture education. You could get any answer you want by polling a selective demographic.
 
And 55% of the readers of the poll find that "Depressing," as they should. :lol:

Lincoln, Washington, FDR are consistently ranked the top 3, not necessarily in that order.

Reagan? Pfft. :razz:
FDR? Pfft. :eusa_whistle:

Tell it to historians the world over. They look beyond silly soundbytes.

And internment camps, and millions of starving people and mass unemployment… And that it all got better once his policies were repealed.
 

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