Scholars Rank Obama the 15th Best President

EpyonXero · 07-06-2010, 09:43 AM

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...31-503544.html

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A group of presidential scholars has ranked President Obama as the 15th best U.S. president of all time, a new survey shows, while his predecessor, President George W. Bush, is relegated to the bottom five.

Mr. Obama also has an advantage in the rankings over President Ronald Reagan, who came in 18th, but President Bill Clinton beats them both in 13th place.

The Siena College Research Institute's Survey of U.S. Presidents, which has been conducted five times since 1982, asked 238 presidential scholars to rank the 43 U.S. presidents on a number of characteristics.

The presidents were given rankings for six personal attributes (background, imagination, integrity, intelligence, luck and willingness to take risks), five forms of ability (compromising, executive, leadership, communication and overall), and eight areas of accomplishment (economic, other domestic affairs, working with Congress, party leadership, Supreme Court appointments, executive branch appointments, avoiding mistakes and foreign policy).

President Franklin D. Roosevelt was ranked the best president ever, followed by Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

While he has only been in office a year and a half, Mr. Obama was rated highly in areas such as imagination, communication and intelligence.

By comparison, Mr. Bush was ranked 23rd when the survey was conducted in 2002, after his first year in office. This year, Mr. Bush was ranked 39th after receiving poor ratings in communication, foreign policy, intelligence, the economy and his ability to compromise. Mr. Bush's best ranking came in the category of "luck," for which he was rated the 18th best president.

The four presidents who were ranked more poorly than Mr. Bush were Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin Pierce.

Particle Man · 07-06-2010, 09:44 AM

I'm surprised he's that high

tommymac · 07-06-2010, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Particle Man

I'm surprised he's that high

We will see how it goes in a few yrs, I bet he will drop down.

z06boy · 07-06-2010, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Particle Man

I'm surprised he's that high

Me too. However as mentioned...kind of silly since his term isn't even over.

derf · 07-06-2010, 09:54 AM

Yeh there is always a grace period ther first 2 years, hes gonna go down

Trip · 07-06-2010, 09:55 AM

FDR is the highest, that shows how faulty this is... World War 2 should be the highest instead of FDR.

goof2 · 07-06-2010, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Trip

FDR is the highest, that shows how faulty this is... World War 2 should be the highest instead of FDR.

That is what I was thinking. I hope FDR was ranked 1st on luck because the Japanese and the American soldier saved his ass as far as his legacy is concerned.

Dave · 07-06-2010, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Trip

FDR is the highest, that shows how faulty this is... World War 2 should be the highest instead of FDR.

Glenn beck was ranting about this Friday, said considering the source he was surprised they didn't put woodrow wilson first

Smittie61984 · 07-06-2010, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Trip

FDR is the highest, that shows how faulty this is... World War 2 should be the highest instead of FDR.

WW2 for Prez!

My number one would be someone who lacks all of those skills and because of lack of skills doesn't do shit. FDR has done the most (for now) which I do not like.

EpyonXero · 07-06-2010, 10:03 AM

Im amazed that Bush was 23 at one point.

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