Best US Presidents: Obama Tops Reagan, Elmer Fudd Tops G W Bush…………..
“Say what you like about George W Bush – and many people have done just that – but he was no Richard Nixon. He was worse, according to America's leading presidential scholars…. Top of the pile, again, is Franklin Roosevelt, who has won the poll every time it has been held over the past 28 years….Interestingly, his namesake, Teddy Roosevelt comes in second….. There then follows a clutch of the usual suspects on any great presidents list: Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson through Eisenhower and Kennedy. Barack Obama makes an appearance at number 15, three places above Ronald Reagan, which will have Fox News squawking about liberal bias….. Nixon sits at number 30, boosted by high scores for imagination, foreign policy accomplishments and intelligence. He at least comes bottom on integrity and the ability to avoid crucial mistakes…. But buried near the bottom of that list – at 39th out of 43 – is G W Bush. He is close to rock bottom on ability to compromise, imagination and foreign policy accomplishments. He is second to bottom on intelligence. Apparently he is brighter than Warren Harding ……”
Bush was rated brighter than Warren Harding, but he was not brighter than President Elmer Fudd.
This shows that the American people have a good sense of their presidents. Roosevelt is the man who saved the country from both extremes in the 1930s. They know that he created Social Security and other safety nets that the Republican Confederates would like to dismantle but dare not and cannot. They also know that his spirit was behind the Medicare of LBJ and the Health Care of Obama.
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