On the heels of Indy's President's Day thread-
Who are your top 5 presidents?
Mine-
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
3. Teddy Roosevelt
4. Thomas Jefferson
5. Jimmy Carter
Bottom 5-
1. Donald Trump
2. Richard Nixon
3. Andrew Jackson
4. Andrew Johnson
5. George W. Bush
The top 4 are obvious. I include Jimmy Carter because he don't have a bad bone in his body. Maybe the most honest President ever.
I voted Trump the worst for obvious reasons. He's playing President like he acted like someone important on WWE.
THIS is our President?
http://youtu.be/dVxVDDYwNvU (http://youtu.be/dVxVDDYwNvU)
Best of the bunch:
1. Washington
2. Lincoln
3. Theodore Roosevelt
4. Ronald Reagan
5. FDR.
Worst of the lot:
1. Buchanan
2. Harding
3. Obama
4. LBJ
5. Andrew Johnson
TOP 5:
Lincoln
Washington
FDR
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry Truman
BOTTOM 5
Andrew Johnson
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Calvin Coolidge
John Tyler
MOST OVERRATED: John F. Kennedy
PS: I would probably put Trump in the bottom five, except that I don't think it's fair to rate any President until he's been out of office for a decade or more.
Top
1 Lincoln
2 FDR
3 Obama
4 Teddy Roosevelt
5 Clinton
Bottom
1 Trump
2 Nixon
3 Andrew Johnson
4 George W Bush
5 Warren G Harding
Quote from: indianasmith on February 19, 2020, 08:06:55 PM
TOP 5:
Lincoln
Washington
FDR
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry Truman...
Fantastic. I think I agree with
Indy's TOP list. I'll be considerate and avoid a worst list.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 19, 2020, 06:41:19 PM
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Bottom 5-
1. Donald Trump
2. Richard Nixon
3. Andrew Jackson
4. Andrew Johnson
5. George W. Bush
...
Okay, the hell with that.
There's a TOP 5 WORST list I can dig.
I think we've done this before, but why not? I'm ranking these as much on character as achievement.
Top 5:
1. Lincoln
2. Washington
3. Jefferson
4. Madison (as a Founding Father, he's probably #1)
5. Teddy Roosevelt
Bottom 5:
1. Buchanan
2. Pierce
3. Andrew Johnson
4. Nixon
5. Trump
The scandal outweighs all the good things Nixon did; without Watergate he would be in the top half.