FDR best President, Obama 15th, scholars say

[TheGreatOne]

If Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover had been successful, the Republicans would have placed them in the top 5 Presidents in U.S. history.  These guys held the exact same policies as Reagan, except Hoover changed his beleifs when he saw that some of his Republican economic policies were hurting the United States.  My point is that we judge our Presidents by things they had no control over.  Reagan didn't create a good economy by lowering taxes.  That's a myth beleived by people who think lowering taxes has major effects on our economy.   Our best economy was during the 1960s, when taxes were at 70% or higher.  There are other factors that effect our economy like the availability of credit, war and the regulation or deregulation of certain areas of our economy.

[TheGreatOne]

Since the professorial field is overwhelmingly liberal Democrat, these findings are worthy of an eye roll and nothing more.  Anyone who thinks Bill Clinton was a better President than Ronald Reagan needs their head examined.  Obama in the top 15?  Lol.

Reagan was a sh**t President.  If he was a Democrat, the Republicans would have cut him down for spending so much during his administration in a peace-time economy.  His intervention in the middle east also caused alot of the major problems that we are dealing with today.  He gave Iraq the chemical weapons that the Bush Administration complained about, and supported Saddam's invasion of Iran and genocide of the kurds.  He also traded weapons to Iran for hostages.  His economic success were caused by the invention of the credit card, which became big in the 1980s.  

My top ten: Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Polk, Wilson, and Madison.


Honorable mention:  Monroe

Overated Presidents: Washington, Reagan, JFK, and Lyndon Johnson

[TheGreatOne]

Where the hell is President Polk?

#12.

Polk should be in the top 10.