With the Surge Working and the Economy being Strong will Bush be a top 5 President?

Question

Here are my revised top 5;

1. Lincoln - Kept the country together/ Freed the Slaves.

2. Washington - Could have been King. Chose Democracy

3. Reagan – The Great Communicator Brought the Soviet Union to it's knees. Created 20 million new jobs.

4. Teddy Roosevelt - the first real free trader and environmentalist.

5. GWB – The Great Liberator Kept America safe from Terrorists Attacks after 9/11. Liberated 50 million hopeless Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq (Soon to be Iran)


Bottom 5

1. Woodrow Wilson - WWI was a horrible choice.

2. Andrew Johnson - Impeached

3. Carter – Soviets marching everywhere, hostages being taken, long gas lines, high interest rates and unemployment. Basically the worst parts of the Bible.

4. Clinton – The Great Fornicator Brought a 19 year old Chubby Intern to her knees, lied about it and was IMPEACHED. Then he was disbarred.

5. LBJ

Answer 1

I give you a 65% on this

Bottom 5 should have

1) Ulisses S. Grant
2) Reagan
3) Jimmy carter
4) GW Bush
5) Nixon

Answer 2

1. Lincoln didn't keep the country together, there was a civil war going on during his Administration. The reason is because the country was split. Yes, he freed the slaves. Lincoln is, for a variety of reasons the best and FDR is usually with him in 1st or is in 2nd for many of the same reasons.
2. Absolutely correct about Washington.
3. Reagan didn't do that all by himself. There were several presidents before him that worked on the fall of the Soviet Union, which still existed all through Reagan's presedency. Did you see the recent vote with 60% supposedly for Putin? Reagan rates near the top of the middle group of presidents.
4. Teddy Roosevelt is, indeed, in the top 5. He was a progressive (liberal) that put an end to child labor, did some trust busting and brought America onto the world stage as a formidable naval power.
5. Total hogwash, poppycock, twaddle, malarcy.

Here is data from a survey of over 500 historians.

1 Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican
2 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 Democrat
3 George Washington 1789–1797 Unaffiliated (Pro-Administration)
4 Thomas Jefferson 1801–1809 Democratic-Republican
5 Theodore Roosevelt 1901–1909 Republican
6 Woodrow Wilson 1913–1921 Democrat
7 Harry S. Truman 1945–1953 Democrat
8 Andrew Jackson 1829–1837 Democrat
9 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953–1961 Republican
10 James K. Polk 1845–1849 Democrat
11 John Adams 1797–1801 Federalist
12 John F. Kennedy 1961–1963 Democrat
13 James Madison 1809–1817 Democratic-Republican
14 Lyndon B. Johnson 1963–1969 Democrat
15 James Monroe 1817–1825 Democratic-Republican
16 Grover Cleveland 1885–1889 and 1893-1897 Democrat
17 Ronald Reagan 1981–1989 Republican
18 William McKinley 1897–1901 Republican
19 John Quincy Adams 1825–1829 Democratic-Republican
20 William Howard Taft 1909–1913 Republican
21 Bill Clinton 1993–2001 Democrat
22 George W. Bush 2001– Republican
23 Martin Van Buren 1837–1841 Democrat
24 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877–1881 Republican
25 George H. W. Bush 1989–1993 Republican
26 Chester A. Arthur 1881–1885 Republican
27 Herbert Hoover 1929–1933 Republican
28 (tie) Jimmy Carter 1977–1981 Democrat
28 (tie) Gerald Ford 1974–1977 Republican
30 Benjamin Harrison 1889–1893 Republican
31 Calvin Coolidge 1923–1929 Republican
32 Richard Nixon 1969–1974 Republican
33 James A. Garfield 1881 Republican
34 Zachary Taylor 1849–1850 Whig
35 John Tyler 1841–1845 Whig/none
36 Millard Fillmore 1850–1853 Whig
37 Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 Republican
38 William Henry Harrison 1841 Whig
39 Andrew Johnson 1865–1869 National Union
40 Franklin Pierce 1853–1857 Democrat
41 James Buchanan 1857–1861 Democrat
42 Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 Republican

I suggest those who were surveyed know much more than you or I do.

Answer 3

that is so funny. I hope your kidding about that statement. The economy is doing very poorly and anyone who has taken a economics class knows that the country is heading into a recession. The deficit grows 1 million $ every minute. Think about that. crazy right.
As for Iraq we are still there and have NO time frame to get out so how is that good. Bush brought over more troops but now its costing everyone of us $10,000 to support Iraq. Is that good? Bush also back drafted taxes so when he gets out the bill for Iraq will hit. He is also printing up more money without backing so the value of the dollar is falling.
So how is all this good? Turn off your propaganda radio/fox news and coming into the real world and find out what is happening.

Answer 4

Sorry GW isn't worthy of shining Lincoln, Roosevelt, Washington, Carter, Clinton, Reagan or LBJ's shoes.

1993-2001, no acts of terrorism on American soil. Do you give Clinton credit for making us safe?

Clinton- you're reducing a 2-term president to one issue?

Andrew Johnson was in the wrong place at the wrong time. That itself doesn't make him bad. Got any other reasons?

Ronald Reagan was in the right place at the right time. that doesn't make him good. Got any other reasons?

Answer 5

No. No President in the information age can be on the list of top 5. Lincoln never could have kept the country together the way he did if he had the media in his face all the time.

Answer 6

I like a lot about the list and although I don't think bush should make top 5, he is not a bad president. Iraq, (as long as the democrats don't screw things up by withdrawing too soon. vietnam, the only american conflict ever lost was lost because of early withdrawl) will serve as a focal point for democracy in a region surrounded by radical islam. He was a lot better a choice for president than Kerry. If Kerry was elected, he and a democrat controlled congress would dig our country's deficit into oblivion. I'm personally a fan of the lists. I think Teddy roosevelt could have made it higher on the list.

Answer 7

Wrong on all counts. Historians have a tendency to be a bit more thorough than you are at evaluating the record. All factual successes and failures are considered with their impact on American history. Partisan cherry-picking is not a valid evaluation tool.

Answer 8

No

worst President ever.

you can tell he is going to be one of the worst when his supporters (like you) have no choice but to give him credit for Victories he has NOT achieved yet.

why don't you wait and see what happens in Iraq and Afghanistan before you give him credit for the win ?
(because history will show he screwed them both up)

Answer 9

you must be joking, right ?

Your sense of history is laughable. Reagan brought the USSR to its knees? LOL!!! You can't have your wife re- write history.

The surge means nothing, Iraq is a mess, Bush is a momumental failure.

Deal with it.

Answer 10

Only if the fact that Bush is able to feed himself qualifies him as one of the top 5.