President’s Day Redux

Best & Worst Presidents of the last 50 Years

Let’s just look at our “lifetime” and leave the discussion of weather Lincoln would have been disgusted by George Bush aside. (PS. Lincoln would have been disgusted by Bush, Nixon and Reagan.)

Here is the definitive “Best to Worst” list of Presidents over the last 50 years.

1) Kennedy – D
2) Clinton -D
3) Eisenhower – R
4) Carter – D
5) Johnson – D
6) Ford – R
7) Bush I – R
8.) Reagan – R
9) Nixon – R
10) Bush II – R

Note: Reagan/Nixon are a tossup for second worst. Eisenhower was the best Republican by far, but not as good as Clinton.

13 thoughts on “President’s Day Redux”

  1. Delaware Dem

    So the starting point would be 1959.

    1. Kennedy
    2. Clinton
    3. Eisenhower
    4. Johnson
    5. Reagan
    6. Ford
    7. Bush I
    8. Carter
    9. Nixon
    10. Bush II

    I am not a Carter Presidency fan. And I give more props to Reagan than you.

  3. Unstable Isotope

    I wonder about Johnson’s ranking. He had the poverty programs and voting rights in his favor, but a big strike against him for Vietnam.

    Kennedy was really not president long enough to make a good judgment, IMO. I think he could have been great, but wasn’t there long enough to show us.

  4. RSmitty

    Yeah, J, I don’t know how you remember Carter as a President, but I agree with DD’s positioning of him more than you. Even your own party couldn’t stand the presence of him by the mid-terms in ’78. History kind of cleaned him up a little bit, but he was somewhat of an arrogant jagazz in the real-time era and was a cause of many impasses between the executive and legislative levels.

  6. RSmitty

    Mis – I do think J was a little close to Valero yesterday and inhaled more of that escaped Nitrogen Oxide over the other chemicals. I will give him the benefit and claim that was a chemical-induced positioning on his part.

    In my view, the best thing Carter gave us was an impression by Dan Aykroyd on SNL when “Carter” (Aykroyd) talked a caller down from a hallucinegenic (sp?) overdose.

  7. RSmitty

    (EDIT: I just reposted this comment without my DP URL and it worked, so I have to wonder if that is a filter now???)

    Mis – I do think J was a little close to Valero yesterday and inhaled more of that escaped Nitrogen Oxide over the other chemicals. I will give him the benefit and claim that was a chemical-induced positioning on his part.

    In my view, the best thing Carter gave us was an impression by Dan Aykroyd on SNL when “Carter” (Aykroyd) talked a caller down from a hallucinegenic (sp?) overdose.

  8. Art Downs

    These ratings (by ‘historians’) carry about as much weight as an evaluation of the morals of student nurses by Richard Speck.

    We are looking at a lot of ideological inbreeding among history profs. How many bow down to the unrepentent Stalinist Howard Zinn?

  9. Steve Newton

    Rsmitty–No, my favorite SNL Carter was when he and Amy told everybody to burn half of their money.

    Ratings games like this generally tell you more about the rater than the ratee….

  10. Dana

    Best to worst:

    1 – Ronald Reagan
    2- George H W Bush
    3- George W Bush
    4- John F Kennedy
    5- Dwight D Eisenhower
    6- William J Clinton
    7- Gerald R Ford
    8 – Lyndon B Johnson
    9- Richard M Nixon
    10- James E Carter

  12. Unstable Isotope

    Wow.

    Jason, it just proves something you wrote before. There are two Americas – the real America and the alternate reality America that Republicans live in.

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