Posted on 07/01/2010 11:44:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Profs rank Obama 15th best president By: Emily Schultheis July 1, 2010 01:29 PM EDT
A new poll of leading presidential scholars ranks Barack Obama as the 15th best president of the United States, just below Bill Clinton but ahead of Ronald Reagan.
The Siena College poll, which surveyed 238 presidential scholars at U.S. colleges and universities, asked scholars to rate the nation’s 43 chief executives on 20 attributes ranging from legislative accomplishments to integrity and imagination.
In the overall ranking, Obama rated two places below Clinton, who was 13th best, and three better than Reagan, who is ranked as the 18th best.
Franklin D. Roosevelt again earned the top spot, as he has every time since the poll was first conducted in 1982. He and the Mount Rushmore presidents — Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — have consistently been the top five presidents in the poll’s findings.
Obama’s 15th ranking is slightly higher than other presidents who have taken office since the poll started nearly 30 years ago. Most start out at about number 20, said Siena statistics professor and poll director Douglas Lonnstrom.
“[Obama’s] doing a little better, but he’s generally in the same ballpark,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dyn.politico.com ...
I literally laughed out loud!
How can he be judged? the game aint over yet stupid story
He hasn’t even been president two years. On what basis can he be ranked?
Big reason not to major in Political Science.
Maybe there should be “drug testing” as a requirement before being allowed to respond to the “poll”?
What DON'T they know?
How is it even possible to rank FDR ahead of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln? It defies any logic.
There was - you had to test positive to be counted.
hilarious stupidity
That says a lot more about the 238 presidential scholars than it does the country’s presidents. In what tower are they confined?
I cannot imagine the poor quality of knowledge these “presidential scholars” are passing along
Ever more work for us homeschoolers
So how does one become a “leading presidential scholar”?
Probably by buying into the same crapola displayed by this poll.
LOL!!!The lefties will stop at nothing to change the narrative. This is utterly hilarious!!!
Communists rank President Obama 15th best president [better than Reagan, who is ranked as......]
Leftists are in their own world.
Just below Bill Clinton and ahead of Ronald Reagan.
That should tell you what kind of manure for brains turd they asked in this poll.
Anyone who voted that in the poll is a friggin Moron.
This is what we have teaching in college?????No wonder this country is so fugged up.
Which professors?
Professors who live on planet Zorg?
Professors who are dumbsh*ts?
Professors who don’t read a newspaper or watch TV or use the internet or know what the frick is going on?
Professors who enjoy practical jokes?
Professors who ARE practical jokes?
I’ve long thought that the average person is a lot smarter than the average professor ... well, know I know.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.