Posted on 02/19/2018 6:50:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Political polarization may be blotting out Americans' understanding of their own history, a new poll suggests. More Americans identified former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama as the best president in U.S. history rather than Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
When asked who was the best president in U.S. history, 16 percent of Americans selected Reagan and another 16 percent selected Obama, according to a recent YouGov survey. Lincoln took third place with 15 percent, and Washington followed with 10 percent.
The grand totals miss the larger story, however. Among Republicans, 36 percent chose Reagan, while only two percent of Democrats agreed. Obama enjoyed a similar disparity 33 percent of Democrats said he was the best president, while only two percent of Republicans agreed.
Lincoln received even support from both parties, at 15 percent. Tragically, only 14 percent of Republicans chose Washington, and only six percent of Democrats did likewise.
While a strong case could be made for Reagan, Lincoln and Washington should beat him and Obama easily on the merits. Ronald Reagan led the final drive to defeat the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and Obama did represent a symbolic victory as the first black president (even though he followed the same destructive Progressivism of some of America's worst presidents).
Even so, Abraham Lincoln held the Union together, defeating the Confederacy and fighting in order to save the Constitution, which included no secession clause. Lincoln's stance against slavery mattered less to him than preserving the Union, but he eventually led the effort to pass the 13th Amendment, eradicating the scourge of slavery once and for all.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has gone down in the hearts and minds of Americans for generations, but his second inaugural address is arguably the best speech he ever gave. This speech gave a religious interpretation of the Civil War unmatched in its humility and interpretation of American history.
"Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes," Lincoln declared.
He rooted the need for the war in Matthew 18:7:
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!' If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?
compare Obama to a boil on your butt
Washington beats them all. We owe so much to him.
1. Washington
2. Lincoln
3. Reagan
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45. Obama
Obama, the malignant pustule on the choad of humanity.
I would put Wilson and LBJ below Obama.
Obama would come in dead last. If there were a minus number, or better yet, a ZERO number, he’d have the corner on the market for it. He is LESS than zero, a total piece of excrement whose only desire is to destroy the U.S. for his Soros and Commie masters, and to get his next gay hookup. His greatest use would be as hog feed or compost.
So...
1. Washington
2. Lincoln
3. Reagan
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43. Obama
44. Wilson
45. Johnson
No problem...we are down in the noise level when it comes to the bottom few.
0bama is nothing more than a nasty stain on America’s underwear.
5.56mm
Where would Americans learn American history?
If you limit the choice to the last 100 years then I say...
Kennedy
Reagan
Trump
The deep-state hated them all, killed one,tried to kill another, and will probably attempt the same with the last.
Washington was the best President.
There wouldn’t be a Reagan or Obama without Washington and Lincoln.
Obama is not a natural born citizen.
He was never eligible to be President.
1. Washington
2. Reagan
3. Lincoln
4. Polk
5. Coolidge
6. Cleveland
7. Harding
8. McKinley
9. Eisenhower
10. John Adams
43. Obama
44. Carter
45. Buchanan
Harding in the top ten? The best thing about Harding is that he died and Coolidge was sworn in.
Based on their character and performance under the circumstance of their times it should be
Washington
Lincoln
Reagan
as the top three and
Carter
Clinton
Obama
as the bottom three; or the top three of the most criminal of presidents.
Harding significantly downsized the federal government, something even Reagan was unable to do. He was also an effective depression-fighter, leading the country out of the 1920 depression.
Where is Thomas Jefferson? The President who made the Louisiana Purchase? Who said “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Surely he should be ahead of many on your list.
You must not be giving much weight to character...
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