Barack Obama was the best president since....

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Eisenhower or Truman.

[RFayette]

Bill Clinton, I guess

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Eisenhower. I will never understand the Jimmy Carter fetishism on this site.

It's not Carter fetishism to say that every President since Carter has been pretty bad.

[MT Treasurer]

Eisenhower. I will never understand the Jimmy Carter fetishism on this site.

It's not Carter fetishism to say that every President since Carter has been pretty bad.

Exactly.

[Mr. Smith]

Carter.


Also:

He was no FDR, I think we can say that much confidently.

In retrospect there's something uniquely pathetic about all of our television-era presidents. Johnson and Eisenhower are probably the last presidents to serve without their chief qualification for national office being their mastery of that medium.

Every president that we've had since then has depended on his talent for doing politics in a time of video-dominated media . Is it a coincidence that no one can get out without becoming either a clown or maniac? (If they weren't one or both in the first place.)

How were Richard "Oh g*&h I lost to JFK, no more debates ever" Nixon, Jimmy "Okay how about yet another attempt at a fireside chat, when they won't even play 'Hail to the Chief' for me anymore" Carter, or "Chicken George" HW Bush really masters of the medium?



But this:

Eisenhower. I will never understand the Jimmy Carter fetishism on this site.

It's not Carter fetishism to say that every President since Carter has been pretty bad.

Exactly.

this is the reason.

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Eisenhower. Although worth noting that he is still a failed president, as every single post-Eisenhower POTUS have been.

Eisenhower. I will never understand the Jimmy Carter fetishism on this site.

It's not Carter fetishism to say that every President since Carter has been pretty bad.

Exactly.

but Carter was objectively an inept disaster?

[Antonio the Sixth]

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That might technically be true (if you insist on particularly uncharitable interpretations of those Presidents' accomplishments), but even then, the only reason Eisenhower didn't "fail" is because he didn't try much of anything. I'd rather have a President who attempts to change society for the better and fails than a do-nothing.

[Intell]

Before Carter; Obama would be the best president since FDR.

[MT Treasurer]

I disagree that Carter was an "inept disaster", but even if that were the case, virtually all of his successors were much worse.

[anthonyjg]

I'm stuck between since Carter and since FDR. Lean since Carter on the basis that I like Carter's foreign policy way more than Obama's.

[Illiniwek]

Eisenhower.

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That might technically be true (if you insist on particularly uncharitable interpretations of those Presidents' accomplishments), but even then, the only reason Eisenhower didn't "fail" is because he didn't try much of anything. I'd rather have a President who attempts to change society for the better and fails than a do-nothing.

yes, and it's also worth noting that Eisenhower unleasing the Dulles upon the world may have been the worst foreign policy legacy of any president (given that Bush saw the happy accidental death of Cheney-brand neoconservatism, while the Dulles legacy still lives today), so I don't count Dwight particularly high tbh. Nor do I count Truman very high, for that matter.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

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That might technically be true (if you insist on particularly uncharitable interpretations of those Presidents' accomplishments), but even then, the only reason Eisenhower didn't "fail" is because he didn't try much of anything. I'd rather have a President who attempts to change society for the better and fails than a do-nothing.

Uh, Eisenhower started the largest infrastructure project in the history of the world, and that changed transportation and commerce in the US forever.

[Maxwell]

ever since the election of Trump my opinion of Obama has gone down, which says quite a bit when I STILL say he's the best President we've had since LBJ.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Obama was the best (and worst) president since George W. Bush.

[Sir Mohamed]

I voted the best since Lyndon B. Johnson. Both Kennedy and Johnson are about equal with Obama in my judgement. All these three have been fine presidents, slightly better than Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. All of them had different skills and successes as well as flaws.

[Gass3268]

Best since Truman or Ike, maybe LBJ if I can look pat Nam.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Best since his immediate predecessor.

[bagelman]

Mom said he's the best in her lifetime, she was born shortly after the 1952 election. Voted on her behalf.

[Ljube]

Bush.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Bumping because it's his last day.


Wow, we have a lot of hacks.

[bagelman]

Bumping because it's his last day.


Wow, we have a lot of hacks.

He's leaving tomorrow, lots of otherwise lukewarm supporters miss him already

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Bumping because it's his last day.


Wow, we have a lot of hacks.

the Dubya people?

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Ike, but definitely not because he was good.

I suspect JFK will be his most apt comparison - smart, charismatic, intelligent. attractive. A lot of people identified with him and loved him because of that, not seeing that he was pretty ineffective. History will probably be kinder to him than it should be.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Bumping because it's his last day.


Wow, we have a lot of hacks.

the Dubya people?

I meant the Even Further Back people, but those work too.