Ranking U.S. Presidents 1-42....best to worst

I was just thinking about this the other day. I'll have to put my list together tonight sometime. Hmmmm....

 

I wasn't taught to hate Jackson by any school teacher. I always do my own research and form my own opinions. If a group of people invaded my land, killed the men, raped the women, and tried to claim it for their own, I would be peeling heads as well.

 

Here would be my criteria:

CRISIS: How did this leader handle the various problems that arose? Wars? Conflicts?

ECONOMY: How did the leader deal with all aspects of the economy? Recessions?

FOREIGN RELATIONS: How did this leader effectively deal with our international allies?

SOCIAL JUSTICE: How did this leader pursue civil rights and civil liberties?

PERFORMANCE: Or (getting the job done!) How effective was this leader getting his agenda across? Did it work? Did he have even have one?

SCANDALS: Did this leader violate any criminal laws or the U.S. Constitution?

I don't care much for popularity contests, opinion polls or "approval ratings". I don't really care too much about how "moral" the President was.

 

Ok, here's the LIBERTINE TOP 20 PRESIDENTS... and 5 WORST!

Top 20

1- Theodore Roosevelt
2- Abraham Lincoln
3- George Washington
4- Thomas Jefferson
5- Harry Truman
6- Dwight Eisenhower
7- James Madison
8- Grover Cleveland
9- Woodrow Wilson
10- Franklin D. Roosevelt
11- Ronald Reagan
12- Lyndon B. Johnson
13- Bill Clinton
14- John F. Kennedy
15- George Bush (I)
16- James K. Polk
17- William McKinley
18- James Monroe
19- Martin Van Buren
20- John Quincy Adams

Five Worst: (1) being the worst

5- Richard Nixon
4- Andrew Jackson
3- George W. Bush
2- Herbert Hoover
1- James Buchanan

 

I have issues with Taft because of the 1912 election, the GOP establishment where in strong support of him but the GOP (democratically elected) primaries favored Roosevelt; and because I have tendency to favor primaries over caucus I tend to think of Roosevelt as the "People's Candidate" whilst I think of Taft as the "Establishment Candidate," so that's why I call him the an "enemy of the working class."

I personally disagree with Coolidge's tax cuts (I disagree with most tax cuts in general), I know few people could have predicted 1929 (a lot of factors went into the crash) some of which couldn't be prevented, however he should have prudent and done something to warn the American people about the possibility of a "rainy day."

 

Are you drunk? George "Warmongering" Bush is one the worst presidents.

 

Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!!

 

Bull Shit

 

International

Liberator.


Sorry but the best way to have free speech is to have healthy debate.

 

I put presidents like Buchanan, Pierce, and Polk at the top. So what, they didn't stop the civil war. They also didn't overstep the boundaries laid out by the constitution like Lincoln, Roosevelt, Bush, and Clinton. (and all the Presidents of the 20th century.

 

The best President in recent times was:Ronald Regan. He took on the intransigent Communist empire & won & he did it by sheer will & the force of his genuine-held belief that it was a corrupt,bankrupt:Evil Empire.
He brought to an end: 'The Cold War'.
I'm sorry,I am too cynical to list the Prez in order from good to bad.

Richard Nixon was crooked but did set up a dialogue with Chairman Mao.Had he not done so,Red China would have sunk into further isolation & narcisstic absurdity.

L.B.J. was too much like John Wayne. (incidentially-in 1964 John Wayne urged everyone to vote:Barry Goldwater).

John F.Kennedy was courageous & decent but only from the waste up - which appears to have been Bill Clinton's weakness/achilles heel too.

 

First: Jimmy Carter. Habitat for Humanity is a stellar outreach.



Last: Ronald Dickhead. He was an actor.

 

Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer, what's your point. Carter is a great humanitarian, he's done wonderful work for people, but he really was not a good president.

 

I actually did a project on waren G. harding and he sucked. there is some evidance that he was in the KKK. also a shit lode of scandles. has anyone red america the book by jon stuart..."warren g. harding was a worthless peice of shit. fuck him." i love that book.

 

Woodrow Wilson who so many people put in their top 10 on here(including myself) was highly rascist.

And for Harding's scandals, I think what he was most guilty of was appointing friends to high posistions, friends that were highly corrupt.

 

how do you know he was racist??

 

nah but he was a real person. i'm sick of this thread.....i'm outta here!

 

i think the worst president is Bush lol

 

Yeah, Wilson was racist.

Reagan did well on helping to stop communism, but did it with disregard to human rights (Nicaragua, supporting Guatemala and El Salvador), and I don't agree with some of his economic policies, etc, etc, but I'm a bleeding heart, knee jerk liberal, so there you go.

Jackson- well, he did do some good things. He killed the national bank and wasn't afraid to get "all up in peoples' grills", so to speak. My history teacher called him "saint andy." But still, his policies with the native americans were not so great- though, he acted probably just like any other white man of the time period. And I think the Trail of Tears is attributed to him because he signed the act forcing the march.

I'm an FDR fan too. I don't buy into the pearl harbor conspiracy, and I don't really care if he was prez for 4 terms, he wasn't breaking any rules at the time and everything turned out fine, right?