Rank the Presidents from first to last

[TJ in Oregon]

I'm not a huge fan of the modern Democrats, and James Buchanan was a terrible president.

1. Lincoln
2. Washington
3. Reagan
4. Adams
5. Eisenhower
6. Truman
7. T. Roosevelt
8. H.W. Bush
9. Nixon
10. Madison
11. Grant
12. W. Bush
13. McKinley
14. Monroe
15. Jefferson
16. Polk
17. W.H. Harrison
18. Garfield
19. LBJ
20. Taylor
21. Pierce
22. B. Harrison
23. Arthur
24. Taft
25. Cleveland
26. J.Q. Adams
27. Tyler
28. Van Buren
29. Wilson
30. Coolidge
31. Hayes
32. Kennedy
33. FDR
34. Hoover
35. Fillmore
36. Ford
37. A. Johnson
38. Harding
39. Clinton
40. Obama
41. Jackson
42. Carter
43. Buchanan

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Wow, what a balanced and non-hackish list.

[TJ in Oregon]

Wow, what a balanced and non-hackish list.

I won't argue that my list is clearly written from a Republican perspective. After all, this is the "Individual Politics" part of the forum. Personally, I don't really have a ton of respect for any president who supported abortion after 1973 and that is represented quite well on my list. I don't want to sidetrack this thread but if you want an explanation, there it is. I think mine is at least somewhat fair if you ignore every president chronologically after LBJ.

Perhaps it would be interesting to "average" everyone's lists once a few more people post and get a more non-ideological one.

[WillK]

42. Buchanan
43. W. Bush

This is clearly not partisan hackery.

Yes clearly its a partisan insult to Buchanan to suggest he could have been almost as awful as Bush. 

;-)

[Del Tachi]

1.  James Monroe, 1817-1825
2.  Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
3.  Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-1961
4.  George Washington, 1789-1797
5.  Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
6.  Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989
7.  Bill Clinton, 1993-2001
8.  Warren Harding, 1921-1923
9.  James K. Polk, 1845-1849
10.  Richard Nixon, 1969-1974
11.  James Madison, 1809-1817
12.  Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945
13.  Gerald Ford, 1974-1977
14.  Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
15.  Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1969
16.  Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881
17.  William H. Taft, 1909-1913
18.  Chester A. Arthur, 1881-1885
19.  William Henry Harrison, 1841
20.  William McKinley, 1897-1901
21.  Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933
22.  James Buchanan, 1857-1861
23.  Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
24.  Ulysses Grant, 1869-1877
25.  George W. Bush, 2001-2009
26.  John Tyler, 1841-1845
27.  James A. Garfield, 1881
28.  Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
29.  Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
30.  Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
31.  John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963
32.  John Q. Adams, 1825-1829
33.  George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993
34.  Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
35.  Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
36.  Barack Obama, 2009-Present
37.  Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
38.  Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897
39.  John Adams, 1797-1801
40.  Harry Truman, 1945-1953
41.  Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
42.  Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981
43.  Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Woah, what's your beef with Truman?

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Woah, what's your beef with Truman?

Or Cleveland?

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

1. F. Roosevelt
2. Lincoln
3. Jefferson
4. Kennedy
5. Monroe
6. Polk
7. Taft
8. Arthur
9. Washington
10. Nixon
11. T. Roosevelt
12. Garfield
13. A. Johnson
14. Obama
15. Eisenhower
16. Clinton
17. L. Johnson
18. Wilson
19. Madison
20. Carter
21. Ford
22. Taylor
23. J.Q. Adams
24. B. Harrison
25. Grant
26. Van Buren
27. Truman
28. J. Adams
29. G.H.W. Bush
30. Fillmore
31. Cleveland
32. Harding
33. W.H. Harrison
34. Pierce
35. G.W. Bush
36. Hoover
37. McKinley
38. Tyler
39. Hayes
40. Reagan
41. Jackson
42. Coolidge
43. Buchanan

[Del Tachi]

Woah, what's your beef with Truman?

He was pretty much a do-nothing president, and he was soft on communism.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Woah, what's your beef with Truman?

He was pretty much a do-nothing president, and he was soft on communism.

By "do-nothing" you probably mean that everything he tried to do was voted down by the hack-filled Congress.