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Less than three years into his first term, more Americans identify Barack Obama as the best-ever president than Theodore Roosevelt or Thomas Jefferson.
Gallup, in a poll released Friday, asked 1,015 adults to name the president they regard as the greatest in history.
Ronald Reagan finished first at 19 percent, followed by Abraham Lincoln at 14 percent and Bill Clinton at 13 percent.
One in 20 named Obama — who ranked seventh overall — behind Franklin Roosevelt but ahead of his Republican distant cousin, Theodore.
[LEFT] Americans rate Reagan best U.S. president - James Hohmann - POLITICO.com
Good tastes, he was a wonderful president
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very sad. this shows how ignorant americans are of their own history when they rate bloodthirsty warlords like lincoln, clinton and obama as their favorites. i suppose that can be put down to the dept of education. what's most hilarious is that they always honor fdr as the president who delivered us from the great depression. he did no such thing. at a time when people were starving, his brilliant idea was to plow under millions of acres of crops, destroy livestock and take money from those very people who were suffering and pay farmers not to produce. if you control the federal propaganda machine and you can lie with a straight face, i guess you can bewilder a nation
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very sad. this shows how ignorant americans are of their own history when they rate bloodthirsty warlords like lincoln, clinton and obama as their favorites. i suppose that can be put down to the dept of education. what's most hilarious is that they always honor fdr as the president who delivered us from the great depression. he did no such thing. at a time when people were starving, his brilliant idea was to plow under millions of acres of crops, destroy livestock and take money from those very people who were suffering and pay farmers not to produce. if you control the federal propaganda machine and you can lie with a straight face, i guess you can bewilder a nation
The last 100 years of presidents in this country has been such a joke. Of course people like Ronnie Reagan, they don't know any better.
it is a joke. more and more people are starting to understand that the dude with real clout is the head of the federal reserve. presidents need congressional approval for everything whereas this guy does what he wants with no oversight.
if president obama wants to bail out california or michigan for instance, there will be marches across the country. if ben bernanke wants to bail them out all he has to do is tell the banks that the fed will accept state treasuries as collateral for fed loans.
Lets wait till all the baby boomers die off or are so senile they can't remember Reagan. Then the people who have to clean up problems created by the Reagan mentality can decide
Reagan increased spending and lowered taxes. He increased the debt and put us in the direction to where we are now. I'm betting many in this poll voted for him because they reaped the benefits. Good for them, but it doesn't make him a good president.
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