List your top 10 US Presidents

[Yelnoc]

We've had so few good presidents that creating a top 10 is incredibly difficult. Below is my attempt. Remember to say why you added people to your list.

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt (for the New Deal and management of World War II)
2. Abraham Lincoln (for his management of the Civil War)
3. Lyndon B. Johnson (for ramming through the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, and for his Great Society programs)
4. George Washington (for setting generally positive presidents and favoring Hamilton over Jefferson)
5. Theodore Roosevelt (for trust-busting, food and drug regulations, and national parks)
6. James Garfield (for civil service reform and progressive actions on civil rights)
7. William H. Taft (for enacting much of T. Roosevelt's agenda)
8. Barack Obama (for Gay Rights, and the attempts and healthcare and financial reform)
9. Chester A. Arthur (for enacting much of Garfield's agenda)
10. Jimmy Carter (for a sane nuclear policy and not being as much of a fascist as his predecessor or successor)

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

1. FDR (PBUH)
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Theodore Roosevelt
4. Lyndon B. Johnson
5. Harry S. Truman
6. Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. George Washington
8. James Garfield
9. Chester A. Arthur
10. Barack Obama

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

1. Grover Cleveland
2. Calvin Coolidge
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. George Washington
5. Abraham Lincoln
6. Ronald Reagan
7. Chester Arthur
8. Gerald Ford
9. James Polk
10. Richard Nixon

[ScottieF]

Oh what the hell, I'll bite.

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt for redefining freedom through the New Deal, helping to overcome the greatest evil in human history during WWII, and working to establish a New World Order of globalism and Pax Americana.

2. Abraham Lincoln for managing the Civil War, freeing the slaves, and establishing the supremacy of the federal government over the states.

3. Theodore Roosevelt for modernizing and revitalizing the presidency after decades of mediocre leadership, curbing the excesses of the Gilded Age, and championing Progressive ideals.

4. George Washington for establishing the precedents of the office and offering solid leadership in the fledgling days of the new nation.

5. Lyndon B. Johnson for his unparalleled legislative maneuvering, which gave us Civil Rights and the Great Society.

6. Dwight D. Eisenhower for his acute understanding of the relationship between domestic and foreign policy, reducing the defense budget after swiftly ending Korea and investing in highways, Social Security and the growth of the modern middle class.

7. Harry S. Truman for the Marshall Plan, the desegregation of the armed forces, and generally positive leadership during the greatest shift in America's world role it has ever seen.

8. Ulysses S. Grant for his courage in confronting Southern Democrats, crushing the Ku Klux Klan, and pursing peace with Native Americans.

9. Woodrow Wilson for Progressive legislative accomplishments unmatched until the New Deal, contributing to a quicker end to the bloodbath of WWI, and his visionary advocacy of American internationalism that we have enacted in action but rarely in spirit.

10. Andrew Jackson for preventing a Civil War during the Nullification Crisis, erasing the national debt for the only time in our history, and expanding participatory democracy to levels the Founders never imagined.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

1. Franklin Roosevelt
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Lyndon Johnson
4. George Washington
5. Dwight Eisenhower
6. Harry Truman
7. Theodore Roosevelt
8. Woodrow Wilson
9. Ulysses Grant
10. TIE: Ronald Reagan, James Garfield

[Rockefeller GOP]

1. Lincoln
2. Washington
3. Eisenhower
4. FDR (bad economic policy and shaky civil rights but great WWII leadership that can't be ignored)
5. Teddy Roosevelt (National parks, international leadership and, despite popular myth, disliking monopolies is not a "liberal" thing, haha)
6. Reagan
7. Grant
8. Monroe
9. Coolidge
10. Madison (personal liking, not necessarily his policies, though he gets an unfair rap)

This was off the top of my head, it's subject to change!

[OSR stands with Israel]

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

[Grumpier Than Thou]

1. FDR
2. Teddy
3. LBJ
4. JFK
5. Obama

that's basically it

[H. Ross Peron]

Pretty sure we had a thread on this a few days ago...

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. FDR
3. George Washington
4. Lyndon B. Johnson
5. Harry Truman
6. James K. Polk
7. Thomas Jefferson
8. Ulysses S. Grant
9. Theodore Roosevelt
10. Barack Obama

[AlphaMale192]

All fat losers.

WHAT THE  YOU GONA DO.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. George Washington
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Ronald Reagan
6. Thomas Jefferson
7. Dwight D. Eisenhower
8. Harry S Truman
9. Ulysses S. Grant
10. James Madison

[Miles]

1. FDR
2. Lincoln
3. Wilson
4. Teddy
5. Jackson
6. Washington
7. Kennedy
8. LBJ
9. Eisenhower
10. Clinton

[SWE]

1. Lincoln
2. Grant
3. FDR
4. Taylor
5. Jefferson
6. Washington
7. MVB
8. Taft
9. Harding
10. B. Harrison

[Türkisblau]

1. Lincoln
2. Grant
3. FDR
4. Taylor
5. Jefferson
6. Washington
7. MVB
8. Taft
9. Harding
10. B. Harrison

Could you explain Taylor, Van Buren, Harding, Harrison, and Grant being #2 on your list?

1. F. Roosevelt (New Deal & WWII)
2. T. Roosevelt (Progressive reforms)
3. Washington (Precedents for future presidents)
4. Lincoln (Handling of Civil War)
5. Wilson (Foreign policy leadership & progressive reforms)
6. Polk (Foreign policy success & securing of agenda)
7. Truman (Domestic reform & foreign policy)
8. Eisenhower (Sound leadership & continuation of Truman's policies)
9. Arthur (Civil service reform)
10. J.Q. Adams (Created Monroe Doctrine & work with Clay)

[SWE]

1. Lincoln
2. Grant
3. FDR
4. Taylor
5. Jefferson
6. Washington
7. MVB
8. Taft
9. Harding
10. B. Harrison

Could you explain Taylor, Van Buren, Harding, Harrison, and Grant being #2 on your list?

Taylor: Opposed expansion of slavery, promised to veto Fugitive Slave Act, supported hanging Jefferson Davis
Van Buren: Refused to annex Texas because he knew it would result in war with Mexico and he opposed expanding slavery
Harding: Debs pardon, advocated civil rights for African-Americans and Catholics
Harrison: Sherman Anti-Trust Act, civil rights
Grant: Reconstruction, civil rights, 15th amendment

Most of the presidents on my list are only on there for being the least terrible.

[Türkisblau]

1. Lincoln
2. Grant
3. FDR
4. Taylor
5. Jefferson
6. Washington
7. MVB
8. Taft
9. Harding
10. B. Harrison

Could you explain Taylor, Van Buren, Harding, Harrison, and Grant being #2 on your list?

Taylor: Opposed expansion of slavery, promised to veto Fugitive Slave Act, supported hanging Jefferson Davis
Van Buren: Refused to annex Texas because he knew it would result in war with Mexico and he opposed expanding slavery
Harding: Debs pardon, advocated civil rights for African-Americans and Catholics
Harrison: Sherman Anti-Trust Act, civil rights
Grant: Reconstruction, civil rights, 15th amendment

Most of the presidents on my list are only on there for being the least terrible.

Ah, alright. I guess I can respect that.

[TNF]

The only Presidents I can say that I really admire are Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, and both on account of their revolutionary leadership.

[Yelnoc]

The only Presidents I can say that I really admire are Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, and both on account of their revolutionary leadership.

Jefferson? Please, do explain.

[Enderman]

1 John Adams
2 Abraham Lincoln
3 George Washington
4 John F Kennedy
5 Ronald Reagan or Ulysses S Grant
6 Franklin D Roosevelt
7 James Monroe
8 Andrew Jackson
9 Teddy Roosevelt
10 Andrew Jackson

Honorable Mentions:

William Henry Harrison
James Madison
LBJ
Jerry Ford
Bill Clinton

[TNF]

The only Presidents I can say that I really admire are Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, and both on account of their revolutionary leadership.

Jefferson? Please, do explain.

The Declaration of Independence plus his commitment to religious liberty and his efforts to prevent Federalist counterrevolution in the late 1790s and early 1800s put him up there for me. Of course, as far as founders go he's one of the better ones, and doesn't have his record tarred by participating in the coup of 1789. (Although his personal ownership of and treatment of slaves is unquestionably wrong and unconscionable no matter what he did elsewhere)