Which candidate is right?

[W. Gray]

Only history can judge a president's performance.

Results of a Wall Street Journal Poll of 78 scholars in 2000 asked to rank the presidents performances.
Five is the highest possible score.

1 George Washington 4.92
2 Abraham Lincoln 4.87
3 Franklin Roosevelt 4.67
4 Thomas Jefferson 4.25
5 Theodore Roosevelt 4.22
6 Andrew Jackson 3.99
7 Harry Truman 3.95
8 Ronald Reagan 3.81
9 Dwight Eisenhower 3.71
10 James Polk 3.70
11 Woodrow Wilson 3.68
12 Grover Cleveland 3.36
13 John Adams 3.36
14 William McKinley 3.33
15 James Madison 3.29
16 James Monroe 3.27
17 Lyndon Johnson 3.21
18 John Kennedy 3.17 A
19 William Taft 3.00
20 John Quincy Adams 2.93
21 George Bush 2.92
22 Rutherford Hayes 2.79
23 Martin Van Buren 2.77
24 William Clinton 2.77
25 Calvin Coolidge 2.71
26 Chester Arthur 2.71
27 Benjamin Harrison 2.62
28 Gerald Ford 2.59
29 Herbert Hoover 2.53
30 Jimmy Carter 2.47
31 Zachary Taylor 2.40
32 Ulysses Grant 2.28
33 Richard Nixon 2.22
34 John Tyler 2.03
35 Millard Fillmore 1.91
36 Andrew Johnson 1.65
37 Franklin Pierce 1.58
38 Warren Harding 1.58
39 James Buchanan 1.33

A few of those presidents did not receive the most popular votes but all were duly elected President of the United States by electors properly appointed by the sovereign states.

William Henry Harrison was president for only thirty days and is not included. James Garfield was president for only six months and is not included. Grover Cleveland is counted only once.

Popular performance ratings bestowed by the public when a president is in office began with Roosevelt.

One might note that George W. Bush ranks in the vicinity of Harry Truman when it comes to the highest and lowest ratings from the public.

George W had a high of 92%, the highest of any rated president, and a low of 19%, the lowest of any rated president.

Harry had a high of 87% and a low of 22%.

[Catwoman]

The worst president ever----Sorry, Cw but that title has already been won by G W Bush. 

If you think so, then you must be too young to remember Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton...both were supposedly the best that the Democratic party had...and if their judgement is anything to go by, then Obama must be cut out of the same cloth.

[Catwoman]

Uh...that DEregulation thing ain't workin too good either......here's an idea... COMPROMISE, meet in the MIDDLE, but that would be too easy and neither side will go for it, which is why we just keep rollin down the hill like a snowball headed for hell like the song says

As for the worst president ever, the world ain't ended yet so that title will still be up for grabs lol

You are so right, Pam!

[srkruzich]

The worst president ever----Sorry, Cw but that title has already been won by G W Bush. 

If you think so, then you must be too young to remember Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton...both were supposedly the best that the Democratic party had...and if their judgement is anything to go by, then Obama must be cut out of the same cloth.

UHmm
Clintons could rip obama and carter to shreds and come out smelling like a rose.

[Catwoman]

Steve, you just hit the nail on the head...it's surprising that no one has compared the Clintons to the Mafia yet...maybe call them the Hillbilly Mafia??

[sixdogsmom]

Yup, Jerry was right about the name calling alright! 

[Catwoman]

Aw, come on...just little, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease??

[srkruzich]

Aw, come on...just little, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease??

LOL well you know, go for it.  both republicans and democrats earn the names.
I'm neither as i believe we should go back to the original government set by our forefathers. 

And in all reality, todays campaigns are quite tame compared to those they ran back then.

[Catwoman]

You are so correct...I went online to find out what happened to the original founding fathers AFTER they signed the Dec. of Ind., and found out that they were basically the victims of a witch hunt.  You wouldn't believe what they put those guys through.  They literally, in some cases, laid down their lives on the altar of Freedom.

[srkruzich]

You are so correct...I went online to find out what happened to the original founding fathers AFTER they signed the Dec. of Ind., and found out that they were basically the victims of a witch hunt.  You wouldn't believe what they put those guys through.  They literally, in some cases, laid down their lives on the altar of Freedom.

You need to rent the movie Adams.  It is about the founding fathers.

Yes they laid their very lives down for freedom.  Freedom comes with a terrible cost.  And that cost is also represented by
the flag that drapes those that pay that terrible cost.  That is why i hold the flag to be sacred, not above God or anything but it
is sacred in that it represents a whole lot of blood shed for our freedom.