Rank The Presidents...

[Oklahomahawk]

Try this out and see if you agree/disagree...Personally I am fine with W and the Big O being way down towards the bottom of the list, but there are several of their rankings I don't agree with.

But what about you guys?

[jpx7]

First, rapid blush: Reagan's at least ten spots too high, Nixon's at least ten spots too low.

[weso1]

Seems like an ok ranking. To be fair I would have Obama above G-Dub. I think Clinton is too high. Reagan is a bit too low. Washington is too high. FDR is way too high.

[jpx7]

Seems like an ok ranking. To be fair I would have Obama above G-Dub. I think Clinton is too high. Reagan is a bit too low. Washington is too high. FDR is way too high.

I thought the positioning of both Roosevelts was just about right.

[weso1]

Keep in mind I know nothing about any president that came before Reagan.

[Gary82]

Keep in mind I know nothing about any president that came before Reagan.

Open up a book, doofus.

[Carp]

Seems like an ok ranking. To be fair I would have Obama above G-Dub. I think Clinton is too high. Reagan is a bit too low. Washington is too high. FDR is way too high.

Not sure how Washington can ever be too high. He should be either 1 or 2 on everybody's list. The guy friggin declined a second term till we begged him. And then absolutely refused to do a 3rd term, despite overwhelming support.

[zitothebrave]

Not sure how Washington can ever be too high. He should be either 1 or 2 on everybody's list. The guy friggin declined a second term till we begged him. And then absolutely refused to do a 3rd term, despite overwhelming support.

Washington is super high cause basically he invented the president. I put FDR and Lincoln over him personally, and probably Jefferson as well. But he certainly deserves to be in the mix at the top. Just depends what you consider to be most important. To me Civil War, WWII, and Louisiana purchase were 3 of the biggest most important events in American history.

[Carp]

Washington guided the country through it's infancy state, which cannot be over looked. He established the Presidential Cabinet. Established the US Navy. Signed the Judicial Act into law. Established foreign relations with England and Spain. Ended the Northwest Indian War.

[NinersSBChamps]

Millard Fillmore should be number one.

[50PoundHead]

I really avoid these lists. They all faced challenges when they assumed the office and undoubtedly some embraced those challenges better than others. But they were all dealt a hand not of their choosing.

Hawk, I get what you're saying about Nixon. He was arguably the last liberal president we've had in terms of domestic policy. People decry Johnson for the war on poverty, but Nixon inflated a lot of those programs (which Reagan subsequently dismantled through block grants). But the North Vietnamese were right to fear Nixon. It's pretty obvious he was nuts.

I think Lincoln deserves much of the acclaim and high rankings he's accorded, but I somehow still think in all the plaudits, he is overrated. He was an enigma of sorts, which allows thinkers of any stripe to adopt him as one of their own. That has created this wild hagiography which has vaulted him into demigod status.

[acesfull86]

I don't hate Lincoln, I'm a fan of his, though I'd probably have Washington #1

[Hawk]

I always seem to disengage from reviewing these lists that have Washington and Lincoln ranked first and second.

Okay, we get it ... how about the meat and potatoes?

[57Brave]

These lists are like the OSCARS.

[AerchAngel]

These lists are like the OSCARS.

Let me guess your list.

1 thru whatever all Dems with Carter 1, Clinton 2 and Obama 3 respectively and then all Repubs working on down you hate the most with Dubya II last.