Ranking the Presidents in my lifetime
1. Eisenhower
2. Obama
3. JFK
4. Reagan
5. LBJ
6. Clinton
7. Bush 41
8. Nixon
9. Ford
10. Carter
11. Bush 43
12. Trump
Interesting.
You and I were both born when Eisenhower was president. I was born in his last year. Which was a very busy year in the baby boom years.
I would say of the republicans in my lifetime Eisenhower was the best of them all. He may have left office warning America of the military industrial complex, a warning we should have followed, Eisenhower was one of the guys who started it all. So he was basically warning America of what he helped to create. I don't give him much credit for that.
It was very hard for me to rank the republicans after him. I couldn't really decide who was worse. nixon tried to subvert the democratic process in America then obstructed justice. He is the president who opened up China to America which at the time was a big diplomatic accomplishment. Today, we see the result. He did created good environmental laws which have been whittled away through the years.
I see ford worse than nixon because he pardoned nixon thus setting the policy of allowing presidents to escape responsibility for their crimes. That has done a lot of harm to our nation.
I see reagan as worse than ford. In so many, many, many ways. My main problem with him was, he changed our country to the failure economic and social policies that have done so much horrible harm to our nation and our people.
I don't see the first bush as being worse than reagan. I see him being as bad.
The bush boy was a nightmare. From the election in 2000 until he left office in 2009. I couldn't believe what I was watching. I couldn't believe what I was experiencing. It was something I never thought our nation would experience. I realized in his presidency that the republican presidents have progressively gotten worse since Eisenhower. I realized that the next republican president was going to be worse than the bush boy. At the time I just couldn't imagine what would be worse. I didn't want to find out. I hoped that the American people had finally learned.
Now we have trump. Which I knew would be worse than the bush boy but I had no idea he would be this bad. By the time he leaves office nearly 200 thousand Americans will be dead from the virus. If not more. From the day he went down that escalator to this very day, it's been worse than a nightmare. The down right frightening thing that should keep every real American awake at night, the next republican president will be worse than trump. I know we all can't imagine what is worse than this but I thought that in the bush boy years. All we can do is vote and hope that it will be a very long time before our nation has to find out what is worse than trump.
The greatest president of the 20th century was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The greatest president of the 21st century, so far, is Barack H. Obama.
Here's how I rate the presidents of my lifetime.
1. Obama
2. Clinton
3. JFK
4. Carter
5. LBJ
6. Eisenhower
7. nixon
8. ford
9. bush the first
10. reagan
11. the bush boy
12. trump