What rank does Obama have?

[Bo]

He'd be 18th on my list, just ahead of Clinton.

[Bo]

tb75, why are Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton so high up on your list?

[Bo]

1. Ronald Reagan
2. Dwight Eisenhower
3. Teddy Roosevelt
4. George Washington
5. Abraham Lincoln (controversial, manipulative, but effective)

What makes Reagan and Ike better than TR, Washington, and Lincoln?

[Bo]

1. Ronald Reagan
2. Dwight Eisenhower
3. Teddy Roosevelt
4. George Washington
5. Abraham Lincoln (controversial, manipulative, but effective)

What makes Reagan and Ike better than TR, Washington, and Lincoln?

Lincoln? I struggled to put him in there. He was an unstable sociopath who manipulated enough people to make it that far. Ronald Reagan's advocacy for the free market and peace through strength makes him the best on my list. He understood that with capitalism and a free market, a socialist country CANNOT compete because it is not possible for socialism to grow an economy. We defeated the USSR because of capitalism. If not for Reagan, they would've taken over our country by the time Bubba stumbled along.

lol. The U.S.S.R. would have collapsed even without Reagan. Its economy was already stagnating long before Reagan came into office. Reagan just got lucky because Gorbachev came to power under his watch. Gorbachev played a much greater role in the collapse of the U.S.S.R. than Reagan did. As for Lincoln, he won the Civil War and freed the slaves. Enough said.