Ten Best, ten worst Presidents

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

Some variation on this has been made five billion times already, but #yolo.

Best:
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt (PBUH)
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Harry S. Truman
4. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Lyndon B. Johnson
6. Ulysses S. Grant
7. Dwight D. Eisenhower
8. George Washington
9. Thomas Jefferson
10. Barack Obama

Worst:
1. Ronald Reagan
2. Andrew Jackson
3. George W. Bush
4. James Buchanan
5. Warren G. Harding
6. Calvin Coolidge
7. Herbert Hoover
8. Richard Nixon
9. Bill Clinton
10. Rutherford B. Hayes

[MurrayBannerman]

Best
1. Lincoln
2. Washington
3. Teddy Roosevelt
4. FDR
5. Eisenhower
6. Jefferson
7. Wilson
8. Reagan
9. Truman
10. Kennedy

Worst
1. Buchanan
2. Andrew Johnson
3. Pierce
4. Harding
5. Fillmore
6. Harrison
7. LBJ
8. Tyler
9. Taylor
10. Grant

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Best

Lincoln
Washington
FDR
TR
Eisenhower
Polk
Monroe
Jefferson
Truman
John Adams

Worst
Buchanan
Pierce
Johnson
Garfield
Harding
Bush the lesser
Hoover
Carter
Fillmore
Harrison

[JerryArkansas]

Best in no particular order

Jefferson
Adams
Lincoln
FDR
Clinton
Jackson
Madison
Truman
Eisenhower
Washington


Really, I can't have a bottom ten, Can't think of any really bad.

[RTX]

I'll go top 5, bottom 5

Best, no particular order:
Jefferson
Washington
Eisenhower
Reagan
Coolidge
Honorable Mention:
JFK
Clinton

Worst, no particular order:
LBJ
Lincoln
FDR
Wilson
Obama
Honorable Mention:
Andrew Johnson
Jimmy Carter

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Worst:

1) Andrew Johnson
2) Richard Nixon
3) James Buchanan
4) Franklin Pierce
5) George W. Bush
6) Warren Harding
7) Rutherford Hayes
8 ) John Tyler
9) Andrew Jackson
10) James Madison

Special mentions: Coolidge for sitting around and doing nothing, Hoover for the silly tariff, those who managed to dumbly kill themselves by not wearing coats or eating too many cherries, B. Harrison for the coddling business, Clinton for being more concerned about getting laid than running the country, Wilson for so so much etc.

Best:

1) Abraham Lincoln
2) Franklin Roosevelt
3) George Washington
4) Thomas Jefferson
5) Theodore Roosevelt
6) Dwight Eisenhower
7) James Monroe
8 ) Lyndon B Johnson
9) Chester A Arthur
10) Harry Truman

Special Mention: Taft, Obama and Garfield.

[Mr. Smith]

Let's get the worst out the way

10. Millard Fillmore
9. Calvin Coolidge
8. Warren G. Harding
7. Richard Nixon
6. John Tyler
5. Ronald Reagan
4. Andrew Johnson
3. George W. Bush
2. Franklin Pierce
1. James Buchanan

Now for the best

10. Dwight Eisenhower
9. Thomas Jefferson
8. Jimmy Carter
7. Teddy Roosevelt
6. Harry Truman
5. Lyndon Johnson
4. JFK
3. George Washington
2. Abraham Lincoln
1. FDR

[Phony Moderate]

Best:

1. Lincoln
2. Washington
3. FDR
4. TR
5. Eisenhower
6. Jefferson
7. LBJ
8. Monroe
9. Carter
10. Quincy Adams

Worst:

1. Buchanan
2. Andrew Johnson
3. Fillmore
4. Pierce
5. Hoover
6. W. Bush
7. Tyler
8. Hayes
9. Coolidge
10. Benjamin Harrison

[SWE]

Best
1. Abraham Lincoln
2.Ulysses S. Grant
3. FDR
4. Thomas Jefferson
5. Zachary Taylor
6. George Washington
7. Martin Van Buren
8. William Howard Taft
9. Jimmy Carter
10. Chester Arthur

Worst
1. Andrew Johnson
2. Millard Fillmore
3. George W. Bush
4. Richard Nixon
5. James Buchanan
6. Franklin Pierce
7. Ronald Reagan
8. Rutherford B. Hayes
9. James K. Polk
10. William McKinley

[H. Ross Peron]

Best:
1. Lincoln
2. FDR
3. Washington
4. LBJ
5. Truman
6. Polk
7. Jefferson
8. TR
9. Grant
10. Obama (tentatively)

Worst:
1. Buchanan
2. Andrew Johnson
3. Pierce
4. Fillmore
5. Tyler
6. Hayes
7. Coolidge
8. Hoover
9. GW Bush
10. Madison

[The Dowager Mod]

Washington
Adams
Jefferson
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Wilson
Roosevelt
Truman
JFK
LBJ


Madison
Jackson
Polk
Buchanan
Hayes
Taft
Hoover
Nixon
Reagan
Bush II

[Rockefeller GOP]

Best:

1. Lincoln
2. Washington
3. FDR
4. Teddy
5. Eisenhower

Worst:

1. Buchanan
2. A. Johnson
3. Pierce
4. Wilson
5. Harding (though I like him)

Not anywhere near worst but terribly overrated:

1. LBJ
2. LBJ
3. LBJ

Not anywhere near best but terribly underrated:

1. Coolidge
2. George H. W. Bush
3. Grant

[Colbert]

best (no particular order)

Wilson
washington
adams
jackson
teddy roosevelt
truman
eisenhower
kennedy
nixon
GH Bush



worst :

lincoln (illegal war, even if slavery)
fd roosevelt (the most overrated man in history, cf. unemployment level in 1939...)
reagan
clinton
gw bush
hoover
taft
grant


don't know very much the others (for the worst list)

[Sol]

Worst:
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
Warren G. Harding
Herbert Hoover
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Bush the Younger

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

Best:
Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Tyler
Taylor
Cleveland
Carter
Reagan
Bush
Bush 2

[ElectionsGuy]

No order whatsoever

Top 10:

Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Van Buren, Cleveland, Coolidge, Harding, Madison, Monroe, Arthur

Bottom 10:

Buchanan, Pierce, LBJ, Nixon, GWB, Obama, Wilson, A. Johnson, TR, McKinley

[H. Ross Peron]

Best:
Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Tyler
Taylor
Cleveland
Carter
Reagan
Bush
Bush 2

Its not good to rate Presidents by picking their names out of a hat.

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Obviously every person does these lists on their own metric. Some look into the wider career and personality of the presidents beyond their term in influence, which favours influential people who had lousy Presidencies like JQA and Madison. Others focus on the influence the president, which boosts people like Jackson and Polk. And you can of course rank them through the lens of ideology - whether it be libertarian or conservatism or socialism.  All that said, I can't fathom outofbox's list at all. How is it actually possible to put Carter or Bush II on a top ten list? I mean what is it about Dubya that could make anyone think "Yes, this man definitely tops Monroe/Truman/Eisenhower. Heck, I can't see an argument for him besting very middling Presidents like Taft or Adams or Coolidge.

@ElectionsGuy; which AJ are you referring to?

[ElectionsGuy]

@ElectionsGuy; which AJ are you referring to?

Johnson

[Mordecai]

Obviously every person does these lists on their own metric. Some look into the wider career and personality of the presidents beyond their term in influence, which favours influential people who had lousy Presidencies like JQA and Madison. Others focus on the influence the president, which boosts people like Jackson and Polk. And you can of course rank them through the lens of ideology - whether it be libertarian or conservatism or socialism.  All that said, I can't fathom outofbox's list at all. How is it actually possible to put Carter or Bush II on a top ten list? I mean what is it about Dubya that could make anyone think "Yes, this man definitely tops Monroe/Truman/Eisenhower. Heck, I can't see an argument for him besting very middling Presidents like Taft or Adams or Coolidge.

@ElectionsGuy; which AJ are you referring to?

Carter is the reason why the Egyptian president just announced his support for Israel:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/15425-egyptian-president-says-his-regime-is-ready-to-protect-israel

Considering everything else that's going on in the Middle East, that is a pretty amazing accomplishment.

[Rooney]

Best (none were that great but this list suffices)
1. Martin van Buren
2. Franklin Pierce
3. Grover Cleveland
4. Ulysses Grant
5. William Henry Harrison (he died quickly and allowed Tyler to become president) 
6. John Tyler
7. Andrew Jackson
8. James Polk
9. Jimmy Carter
10. Calvin Coolidge

Worst (easy list to compile):
1. Harry Truman
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. George W. Bush
4. William McKinley
5. Ronald Reagan
6. Lyndon Johnson
7. George H.W. Bush
8. Benjamin Harrison
9. James Madison
10. Bill Clinton

And that's the way it is...

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Obviously every person does these lists on their own metric. Some look into the wider career and personality of the presidents beyond their term in influence, which favours influential people who had lousy Presidencies like JQA and Madison. Others focus on the influence the president, which boosts people like Jackson and Polk. And you can of course rank them through the lens of ideology - whether it be libertarian or conservatism or socialism.  All that said, I can't fathom outofbox's list at all. How is it actually possible to put Carter or Bush II on a top ten list? I mean what is it about Dubya that could make anyone think "Yes, this man definitely tops Monroe/Truman/Eisenhower. Heck, I can't see an argument for him besting very middling Presidents like Taft or Adams or Coolidge.

@ElectionsGuy; which AJ are you referring to?

Carter is the reason why the Egyptian president just announced his support for Israel:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/15425-egyptian-president-says-his-regime-is-ready-to-protect-israel

Considering everything else that's going on in the Middle East, that is a pretty amazing accomplishment.

How is that a good thing?

[Del Tachi]

Best:  Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, L. Johnson, Nixon, G.W. Bush

Worst: Lincoln, A. Johnson, Grant, Cleveland, Wilson, Hoover, Kennedy, Obama and I can't think of 2 more "bad" presidents....

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Best:  Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, L. Johnson, Nixon, G.W. Bush

Worst: Lincoln, A. Johnson, Grant, Cleveland, Wilson, Hoover, Kennedy, Obama and I can't think of 2 more "bad" presidents....

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[Rockefeller GOP]

Best:  Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, L. Johnson, Nixon, G.W. Bush

Worst: Lincoln, A. Johnson, Grant, Cleveland, Wilson, Hoover, Kennedy, Obama and I can't think of 2 more "bad" presidents....

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I don't agree with his list at ALL, but why don't you post one of your own instead of critique?