[Vision2020] Presidential Rankings (2009)

[Donovan Arnold]

I think Andrew Jackson was the worst President. He allowed the US to slaughter so many Indians rather than using them as a resource and treating them as human beings. Most of his accomplishments were actually fables and lies. He was popular amongst the people, yes, and he did end some corruption in DC, which was badly needed. But his policies were horrible, wrong, and he is largely responsible for the slaughter of entire races of people simply out of hatred. The US would be such a richer nation if it were not the policies and slaughter of a valuable people, the Native Americans. He even slaughter the ones that fought with him and saved his skin in war, he slaughtered them like cattle and their children. That to me shows a man missing a soul. 

I am not convinced that Andrew Johnson and Buchanan were as bad as history treats them, they just had the misfortune of being on either side of the Greatest President, ever, Lincoln. And had the worst possible time to be President, during a split. 

I also believe that Ronald Reagan and JFK are overrated. Reagan did some real good, and so did JFK, not more significant over that Washington, Jefferson, or Cleveland. 

I rank the Presidents as:

Lincoln
Washington
Jefferson
TR
FDR

Worst:
Johnson
Wilson
W. Bush
Harding
Jackson

Smartest President:
Woodrow Wilson or Jefferson or Truman
Dumbest President
Johnson or Harding
Most Corrupt
Harding or Grant or Nixon
Most Prejudiced:
Wilson and Jackson
Most Funniest:
Calvin Coolidge
Most Ugly
Buchanan
Best Looking
JFK or Peirce or Obama
Youngest
TR
Longest Serving:
FDR
Shortest Serving:
W.H. Harrison 
Most Fit:
Obama or TR
Least Fit:
Taft or Cleveland
Most Sincere:
Lincoln:
Most Liked:
Washington
Most Hated
W. Bush, or Truman


--- On Mon, 2/16/09, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Presidential Rankings (2009)
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 5:52 PM




 
 

 

 

 

 







Courtesy
of USA 
Today at: 

   

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/02/62913403/1 

  

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Abraham
Lincoln comes in first again in C-SPAN's second Historians Survey of
Presidential Leadership -- an index that takes the views of 65 presidential
historians and ranks the 42 former presidents according to 10 "attributes
of leadership." 

   

The
public affairs cable news network first produced a Presidents Day ranking of
presidents in 2000. So this is its initial look at where former president
George W. Bush ranks. He comes in at No. 36. 

   

As
for the rest, historians' opinions haven't changed too much. George Washington
(now No. 2) and Franklin Roosevelt (No. 3) switched places. Bill Clinton moved
up from No. 21 in the previous index to No. 15 now. Ulysses S. Grant moved up
10 places, to No. 23. Rutherford B. Hayes lost 7 places, and now stands at No.
33. 

   

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Courtesy
of C-SPAN 

   

 

   

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Seeya
round town, Moscow . 

   

Tom
Hansen 

Moscow, Idaho 

   



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