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

you lose

 

he was sympathetic to joe stalin too.

 

he and his friends risked their lives so that america would no longer have foreign rulers. that's pretty signifigant to me, even though this is reversing right before our eyes.

 

LOL! nuff said.

 

new list:

1. George Washington(still above all for setting the 2 term precedent)
2. Teddy Roosevelt
3. Lincoln
4. Calvin Coolidge
5. FDR

 

Bush ... worse president ever... we are going to feel it for decades

 

Best

Washington
Roosevelt
Jackson
FDR
Lincoln
Jefferson


Worst

Carter
Harding
Buchanan
Fillmore

 

Andrew Jackson was a racist who instituted forced relocation of Native tribes. Put him in the bottom five, not the top.

 

You are more than welcome to put him in whatever five you would like and I will keep him in my top five.

Wounded Revolutionary war vet
former POW
Hero in 1812
A true patriot

He was also the only president to ever pay off the national debt. That alone gets him into my top 5.

 

All of those things make for a great soldier, not a great president.

 

FDR used a war as an excuse to extand his presidency and got us unnecessarily involved in foreign conflict. there was also a great depression thanks to his friends in the banking cabals.

 

The Depression started three years before FDR ever took office.

 

cal, i never said it did begin during roosevelt's presidency as you imply i did. but it couldn't be anymore obvious that he was a bedfellow with movers and shakers of the financial and banking world. though it's obvious to everyone that your average citizen didn't cause it.

 

Yeah right. History has proven you wrong....

 

Then that shows your ignorance of history.

 

Because they know what the are talking about and don't believe revisionist lies. If FDR hadn't gotten us involved in WWII when he did we would now be speaking German....

 

Not really, Germany never had the resources to make operation Sea Lion against the UK ever really, work, let alone some kind of German invasion of the US

 

I think you've got this wrong. A president can't "extend" his presidency unless he gets re-elected. So if anyone "extended" it, it was the electorate.

And if you're implying that the banks caused the Great Depression, then you'll get a lot of argument there, too. And you're misreading his relationship with them, anyway. Yes, he was from the rich and privileged class, but he was at odds with the bankers and Wall Street mucky-mucks from the beginning. He even fought his Secretary of the Treasury over this.

 

Best:
the Roosevelts tie - they are just fucking awesome
Jefferson
Lincoln
Jackson
Ford (honorable mention)

Worst:
Taylor
Kennedy
Nixon
everyone after Ford

 

Ford? He was an idiot. During a debate he stated that there was no Soviet presence in Eastern Europe and he pardoned Tricky Dick(head) Nixon.