Gallup Poll: And the Greatest US President of All Time Is…
**Written by Doug Powers
Time Magazine’s spin on this might be that Reagan and Obama are tied for first, because as you know, aside from their views on big government, national defense, abortion, appeasement and wealth transfer, they’re virtually indistinguishable.
Here’s the full list:
1. Ronald Reagan (19%)
2. Abraham Lincoln (14%)
3. Bill Clinton (13%)
4. John F. Kennedy (11%)
5. George Washington (10%)
6. Franklin Roosevelt (8%)
7. Barack Obama (5%)
8. No opinion (5%)
9. Theodore Roosevelt (3%)
10. Harry Truman (3%)
11. George W. Bush (2%)
12. Thomas Jefferson (2%)
13. **Jimmy Carter (1%)
14. Dwight Eisenhower (1%)
15. George H. W. Bush (1%)
16. Other(1%)
17. None (1%)
18. Andrew Jackson (0%)
19. Lyndon Johnson (0%)
20. Richard Nixon (0%)
**Carter poll results have a margin of error of plus or minus Hamas
Here’s how it broke down along party lines:
After the hype of 2008 and 2009, would you have thought that within a couple of years Democrats would choose two other presidents from their party as greater than Barack Obama?
**Written by Doug Powers
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Just got to love this! So, bho is at 5%? I’m surprised it is that high.
I love what you said about carter Doug!
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The dems voted Clinton as the best overall? I guess they are the Bevis and Butthead generation that thinks he is a stud because he got some side action in the Oval Office.
Reagan, Washington and Lincoln vs Clinton, Kennedy and theone for the Dems. . . . pretty much says it all. I wonder if Lenin would have aced out Kennedy had he been included in the poll?
How did no opinion beat Teddy Roosevelt?
I’m still amazed that Obama cracks 7 out of 20… My own opinions on Clinton aside, I have to like how he more than doubles the One – you can walk away from the podium now, Barack. And look who is sneaking up the list, just outside the top 10. Miss him yet?
But of all of it, the big point is that LBJ is dead last, tied with a man that the left has vilified for more than 40 years. Apparently that 5% they gave Obama took all of the wind out of their sails. There is only enough room to defend one disastrous big-government liberal.
40 years of marxist indoctrination has indeed taken its toll. Does anybody study history anymore? (and I don’t mean Zinn’s communist version)
1. Washington
2. Jefferson
3. Lincoln
Clinton, Carter, and Owebowmao are among the worst.
*I still have to go with Washington; We wouldn’t be here if not for his leadership on the battlefield beginning in 1776; And he then gave us a roadmap before he left office; We should have paid attention, but it is still not too late.
*Waiting for the worst ever presidential poll; If truth wins out, P-BO in a landslide!
Where’s Chester A. Arthur?
He successfully hid/destroyed his records to hide his fathers non-citizen status long before Owebowmao.
You’d think the left would be grateful for showing how it’s done.
His party wisely decided he should not run for reelction before he was exposed.
Come on now, let’s be fair. OBambi just needs a little more time and exposure to tie Richard Nixon and LBJ.
How in the world did Obummer even get on that list? How did Hugh Hefner, I mean Clinton, ever get to third place?
That list is all screwed up. George Washington built this Country from scratch, so how did Clinton and Kennedy rate ahead of him?
I agree with them about Reagan and Lincoln. But Washington should rate higher.
And I know now why Obummer keeps invoking Reagan and Lincoln to make himself look better.
LBJ was the worst until The One Idiot.
Man, LBJ was so bad…. Unleashing the Great Marxist Society, totally screwing up Vietnam. Wasn’t he the one who started using SS funds into the general fund so he could pay for the war and his socialist welfare programs?
Man, what a jerk. Only obama is worse.
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HI BJC–#8. My feelings exactly–GW is #1. We owe our country to his courage. With Abraham Lincoln second due to his determination to keep our nation together. With FDR as third due to his arming up and fighting WW2 when our country was isolationist.
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John Bibb
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I am heartened to see Reagan, certainly the finest President of my lifetime, do so well. Damn Democrats did not include George Washington at all? Our Progressive schools have done their evil well denigrating our founders and thus our Constitution. But to place our beloved Reagan above George Washington tells me much about how little history even many of our Republicans understand.
Plus or minus Hamas was priceless-for everything else there is MasterCard.
A Republican Congress made Clinton look good.
I am only sorry that as a recovering liberal I didn’t appreciate Reagan while he was in office.
I like Reagan as much as anyone else, arguably the best president of the 20th century, but Washington at #5? Come on.
Way down there G. W. Bush tied with Thomas Jefferson (of whom I admittedly have a lot of criticisms)? Oh, double please.
And Abraham Lincoln just edging out Bill Clinton?!?! Win the Future!
Actually, that’s not just sad, it’s pathetic. It tells us far more about the state of the education system in this country than anything else.
The fact that Clinton, an impeached President, and JFK, who served less than three years, are above Washington is beyond comprehension.
Not to mention that Jimmuh Cartuh should be number 43 and Barry should be number 44.
No wonder the Obamoron got elected.
The only real surprise I see here is the Democrats rating FDR fourth.
Only ten percent of Democrats now consider FDR the greatest? Fifty years ago that number would have been +90%.
I guess most of the modern Democrat Party now regard FDR as a warmonger who saved that awful capitalism.
Ah. This must be it. I suspect if Democrats knew this, FDR would get 0% from them.
Letter from FDR Regarding Collective Bargaining of Public Unions written August 16, 1937:
“All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.
The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.
Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees.
A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.”
Praise Be! The Last Lady is in town this weekend!!! We are all Blessed!!!!
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What does that mean? Seat of power? Is she the driving force?
Nope. Makes perfect sense. Polling the general population, products of public mis-education gets you cultural and historical illiteracy at is finest.
Like polling 4 year olds about the national debt.
“Should your daddy buy you toys and candy or pay his bills?”
Toys/Candy: 95%
Bills: 2%
Unsure or on potty break 3%
Praise the Lord and welcome to America
Democrats think Obama is a greater president than Lincoln, the president that freed the slaves? Even though Obama continues to institutionalize social programs, and adds more “entitlements” that have the intended result of re-enslaving generations of poor black citizens.
It seems Democrat control of the public school system is working just like they planned. Students wind up exactly where the party wants them…poor, stupid, uninformed, and unable to fend for themselves without government assistance.
Off topic alert!
Joe the Plummmer, Tim Kain, Andrew Breitbart, Brad Thor…showing up with the Tea Party today at the WI capital for a rally in support of Gov. Walker!! They are expecting a large crowd. Wow! This gives me goose bumps! Patriotism in action. Yes!!
babiesgrandma#21,
Please don’t tell me you plan to go see mo? She will be giving lots of good hints on how to lie to the kids, breast feed the new born, and what you can or can not give your family to eat. And to top it all off, she is bound to have some adorable outfit on!
L
happyscrapper#27,
Wow indeed! Where did you get that information? I haven’t seen it anyplace before you mentioned it. Sarah gave her support for Gov. Walker also. I saw Gov. Walker give a press briefing last night and he was wonderful, not a teleprompter to be seen! Hang in there Gov. Walker, lots of American’s are with you.
L
On February 19th, 2011 at 12:36 pm, letget said:
I would go see her if I lived there. I would bring my lunch and eat it while she speaks. A big gooey pizza and a can of Coke. Oh, and Twinkies for dessert. Good times.
Just saw it on Fox. The spokesperson for the event said buses are coming in. They expect a crowd. Lots of signs, etc. I’m so proud of them!
Oh, and chances are, you won’t see it anywhere but Fox. The MSM certainly won’t mention it. Scum…all of them. They are a big reason we are losing our country. And by the way, when is the Tea Party going to protest at the NBC headquarters? We need to do that!! How can they ignore 100′s of thousands of Tea Party protesters right at their doorstep? NBC won’t cover conservative events. NBC distorts the truth. NBC lies!!
DOUG…ANY CHANCE OF GETTING US A LIVE BLOG FROM WI FOR THE TEA PARTY RALLY?
Governor Walker is amazing. I too saw him last night. He is a great speaker, no notes or teleprompter. No “uh, uh, uh”! Just straight talk and to the point. He is a strong patriot. POTUS potential?? Remains to be seen. But he is the real deal. If you haven’t written to him in support, do it today.
He had a Republican congress to keep him in a positive financial lite with the people even after his broken zipper.
Also that is when the hateful, disrespectful college demonstrators of the ’60′s came of age and showed just how ignorant they are.
Wisconsin Readies for Showdown
Push back/in their face/at least a little (very little) more civil than they. Governor Walker in yet another in a rising tide of young conservative leaders-Praise be and let us not be too hard on past mistakes some may have made. And no I am not talking about weenie RINOs such as McCain and Graham.
I think that having some “big names” there will boost our cause. Looking forward to watching this unfold.
Thank God for Ronald Reagan, the Greatest US President of
Allmy lifeTime. (Washington and Lincoln rank higher on my All time list).Had Reagan not run in 1980, and had Jimmy Carter won a second term, then four more years of Carter likely would have led to George Orwell’s “1984″ becomming our reality in 1984.
Reagan was able to turn back the tide of Marxist/Leninist big government enough to buy us another 30 years. But the 110th and 111th Congresses, of which Obama was directly involved (first as a Senator, and then as pResident), have been worse than a second term of Carter.
We’re right back on the precipice again, but now, 30 years later, we have another generation of citizens who were raised in union-dominated secular progressive public schools. Witness that George Washington doesn’t even register in the top 5 for Democrats.
We have a bigger task ahead of us now than we did 30 years ago. Annual deficits now exceed what the TOTAL DEBT was under Reagan!
The population has even less understanding now than they did then about the true Judeo-Christian foundations of this country and our laws.
Harry S. Truman (who made the top 10 in this list) understood that:
I WOULD go, but I have lint to pick out of the dryer, and some gum to get out of the carpet. Ratz.
LOL. Last year VP HomeDepot Joe showed up here and it was almost a non-event.
President Ford – he lived up here, and was always out and about. Very nice to be around. Met him a couple of times – he gave my daughter a Scholarship for college (local kid did good!!).
Mostly, Moo-chelle will be taking up lots of room, I would imagine. They’ll probably clear the entire ski lift for her (maybe it would be overweight otherwise?!).
We MUST get our children back!! The generation that is currently in college is a lost cause. There are some conservatives in that group, but most of the regressives are products of our bad schools. We need to teach the children starting in kindergargten and every age thereafter. How? By monitoring what they are being taught in public school, reading their text books along with them and teaching them the correct history of our country! We can do this!
Great post RedPill.
Reagan was definitely the best of my lifetime. Eisenhower 2nd, followed by Nixon, GWB, Ford, GHWB, Clinton, Carter, LBJ, BHO. The last three caused lasting damage. Not making it worse is the best we can hope for, I guess.
I missed Harry S., but believe him to be generally underrated.
Really? Actor turned president? He wasn’t that great.
Clinton was the benefactor of the internet boom which added billions to the stock market and the economy. After he left office, Bush had to deal with the accounting scandals at places like Enron and Worldcom, the tech-bubble bursting, 9-11 etc. I can’t stand hearing Body Odor complain about how he inherited a mess and how it is the most difficult time for America – complete garbage.
happyscrapper#41,
I was watching Fox news one day this week and they had guads that all are admitted into Mensa. Guess what, they were home schooled and didn’t have a tv. They were encouraged by their parents to READ of all things! If parents can afford to home school, they should do so because the teachers are not teaching those kids.
L
By the way, did Clinton properly claim the taxable benefit provided to him by Monica during his time in the oval office? Just asking because I know there is debate going on at Capital Hill regarding members sleeping in their offices and not properly accounting for such a benefit at year’s end.
Should of used beneficiary. Always think it is benefactor. Must be my lack of post secondary education. Wait a minute, I did attend post secondary studies….now I am confused…Oh, well, c’est la vie.
Now I think I understand.
Monica is benefactor
Bill is beneficiary
Why didn’t the teachers use said example when explaining the difference between these two similar sounding words. I would of understood and retained the information so much better. I remember watching the drama play out in the news and thinking to myself ‘How in the world did Bill think he wasn’t going to get caught considering he pulled out early and stained her dress?’.
I saw them too. They were well spoken, polite, CIVIL, intelligent and mature! See, “kids” can be all those things with the proper upbringing. If only we had more of them. Instead, we are stuck with valley girl Meghan McCain, and um, um, um, um, Obuma. Just listen to this generation talk, like, they are so, like, um, annoying!!
On February 19th, 2011 at 10:16 am, Virginia Patriot said:
40 years of marxist indoctrination has
My thoughts exactly, except some others, like Grant and Wilson, may have been worse than Clinton.
But Washington 5th? Without him, we would probably still have a monarchy. He set the stage for how a president should be, in manner and deed. He should always be the #1 president.
I have, my son tells me he’s already been taught everything in his senior government class.
If the pollsters had of tweaked the question just a little bit and asked Democrats who has been the greatest leader of all-time, world-wide, I believe most on the left would have chosen Mao Ze Dong. Second place would of gone to Che Guevara, third to Stalin. You often only hear the left pay lip-service to the notion that dictators like these were bad. But you often get the sense that they believe signifigantly in the concept of dictatorial central governments and hence have a special warmth in their hearts for such devils.
Even Obama himself seems to think Reagan is number 1 – thus the attempts to compare himself favorably to him.
Best 3:
1. George Washington
2. Ronald Reagan
3. Thomas Jefferson
Worst 3:
3. Abraham Lincoln
2. Jimmy Carter
1. Barry Soetoro (a.k.a. Barak Hussein Obama Jr)
Unlike most, I do NOT revere Lincoln. He did most of the damage to the Constitution that LED to what happened in the 20th Century. He fought a long and bloody war rather than allow the South leave the union which WAS THEIR RIGHT TO! And it wasn’t fought over slavery, Lincoln never set out to free the slaves, he only grabbed onto the idea when it was clear HE WAS LOSING THE WAR.
Personally, I liked IKE.
Lincoln is #2. Anybody ever look up the media articles written about Lincoln? The liberals of the time hated him if not the same, probably worst than Bush.
Liberals are unorganized, ignorant, moron dreamers. Their policies bankrupted the country, yet they continue to lie like the snakes they are to advance the very agendas that do not work. Like most Americans, I want an end to this public sector union nonsense. It is over. You don’t like it teachers? QUIT!!! You are all overpaid, spoiled, idiots who should not be allowed near children. The people of Wisconsin spoke, and they said enough of failed democrats. Now you have to answer for it. Spoiled brats.
The liberal agenda is almost always based on outright lies or misunderstandings followed by outright lies.
I’m sorry, but anyone voting for Carter deserves Obama.
Reagan was a success in six different careers. None of which involved “Community Organizing”. Yeah. You’re right. Not much talent there.
Spot on, swede!
What? No Calvin Coolidge? The best conservative presidential one-liners come from this guy.
“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a diety to be worshipped.”
“Collecting more taxes than absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”
wildcat84 i agree totally. No president has damaged the Constitution more than lincoln. Just read his 1st inaugural address, look at his power grab over the supreme court, closing hundreds of northern newspapers for dissent of his policies and the thousands he imprisoned (northern mind you) as he suspended habeas corpus (just to name a few). just a little research will reveal that he was nothing more than a tyrant who wanted to be king.
Lincoln #2, should be dead last. Destroyed States Rights, ignored the Constitution. Jefferson should be #1.
I highly recommend The Real Lincoln by Charles L.C. Minor, and the Real Lincoln by Thonmas DiLorenzo… Walter E. Williams recommends Dilorenzo’s!
Reagan is number 1 because people remember what came before him (Carter) and how we as a nation were treated on the world stage. Inflation, national malaise, perceived as weak by the thugs of the world. Reagan came in and the hostages in Iran came home after more than 400 days in captivity, he spoke the real truth to power(evil) “…tear down this wall.” Communism collapsed from the inside when confronted by American fortitude.
Reagan made Americans feel great to be Americans, unlike Carter and the current president.
Voting “present” is great when you are in the state legislature or the senate but is not an option when you are the president of this country. It is not a mark of leadership or greatness. No surprises there. The people have not forgotten what we had then and are eager to return to those days of greatness.