Barack Obama Ranked 12th Best U.S. President Ever in Major Survey of Historians

Time ^ | February 17, 2017 | David Von Drehle

[ConservativeStatement]

Barack Obama has been whisked to a very good table at the club of former presidents, according to a C-SPAN survey of 91 presidential historians published on Friday. Obama’s 12th-place ranking only a month after leaving office is the best for any president since Ronald Reagan, who ranks ninth in the new survey. The list updates previous C-SPAN surveys compiled in 2009 and 2000.

[ConservativeStatement]

"Public persuasion." Friend of the media and the easily brainwashed.

The list:

https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2017/

[laplata]

B S

[A_Former_Democrat]

#FakeNews

If there ever was it

[Gene Eric]

This “historical” assessment made the 2nd day of Obama’s 1st term.

Fawning historians.

[Jyotishi]

#VeryFakeNews

[sam_whiskey]

I read another article that broke down the political views of the historians surveyed. 50 percent described themselves as liberal, 25 percent as “moderate”, and 25 percent as conservative. Tells you all you need to know.

[2ndDivisionVet]

12th best black president?

[luvbach1]

I’d have to give Bathhouse Barry a negative value because of the lasting damage he caused. So a -45 for him.

[JohnLongIsland]

These are the historians teaching your children...

[blackdog]

So good he deserves a Nobel prize and his own alternate Whitehouse station in perpetuity.

[Maudeen]

So did C-Span make them “major” historians. If so, then IMHO C-Span’s credibility is in question.

[skr]

12 isn’t anything to write home about, but he actually ranks no higher than somewhere in the bottom 5.

[j_guru]

I heard that he ranked 5th.

Reagan and Lincoln tied for 1st
Seventeen presidents tied for second
Twenty three presidents tied for third
Jimmy Carter came in fourth
and Obambo was fifth.

[LibWhacker]

Just proves how biased they are. They should all be dragged out of their ivory towers and flogged.

[Bullish]

It’s crap like this that make surveys as worthless as goldfish vomit.

[aquila48]

...of the last decade.

[BenLurkin]

ooooo.... a “major” survey.

[Pontiac]

I see they did not rank the presidents on their faithfulness to the Constitution.

If they had I wonder where Obama would rank.

[publius911]

12th best black president?

The easiest questions I've had to answer in the 21at Century...

Best Black President...

AND

WORST BLACK PRESIDENT.

Without fear of contradiction.

[hal ogen]

These historians are retrograde lunatics. Fake poll.