Posted on 02/23/2017 11:43:20 AM PST by Kaslin
Guess what? Barack Obama has been rated the 12th best president of all times by 91 professional historians who were queried by CSPAN. The historians rated presidents from George Washington to Obama on several criteria: economic management, pursuing justice for all, relationship with Congress, international relations, and setting an agenda. Obama ranked high on some, especially pursuing justice for all and setting an agenda, lower on others, such as international relations and especially relationship with Congress.
George W. Bush was ranked 33rd, while Bill Clinton came in 15th. Abraham Lincoln was rated first, followed by George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
As someone who taught college-level classes on the American presidency, I have some insights into playing the presidential rating game that these esteemed historians would rather not be understood by hoi polloi.
Americans have always implicitly played the game. We have practically canonized Washington, placed Lincoln high on a pedestal – well, large slices of us north of the Mason-Dixon line – and most of the greatest generation and those born a bit earlier thought FDR hung the moon. (As the son of two unreconstructed New Dealers, I can attest to the last observation.)
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What is my prize, for guessing the Donald is last.
Yesterday was George Washington’s Birthday. He deserves a holiday of his own where every school student learns about the first and greatest President. He was heads and shoulders above his peers and a comparison to some recent Presidents is laughable.
I recommend the classic work of James Thomas Flexner: Washington, the Indispensable Man.
That’s Aggies for you. Although the current T-Sips would probably rate Obama above Reagan and even Washington, if they have even heard about these two old white men.
Hook ‘em
These people are political hacks, not honest historians. They write revisionist history.
Historians? I guess Doris Kearns Goodwin got 57 votes, one for each state Obama visited...
A lib co-worker sent this to me last week. I told him I found it interesting that adherence to the constitution was not one of the criterion used for judging. I don’t think he liked it much.
I bet ol’ DKG not only had 57 votes for Obloviator’s 57 states; she prolly plagiarized 90 votes from the other faux hystericans.
No bias here...
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