Posted on 07/03/2010 9:08:31 AM PDT by Brices Crossroads
http://www.siena.edu/uploadedfiles/home/parents_and_community/community_page/sri/independent_research/Presidents%202010%20Rank%20by%20Category.pdf
Ping!
Link to Siena fairy tale is below.
The two men who more than any others shaped the last 50 years of the 20th Century and probably a significant portion of the Third Millennium as well.
I love that pic.
Thanks for this terrific piece. The author nails the components of Reagan’s greatness as a leader and none of them include an elite Ivy League education. Ivy Leaguers have virtually wrecked this nation.
At least they have the bottom two roughly right. I’m surprised they aren’t trying to idealize A. Johnson too though.
The placement of Harding and Coolidge are also wrong. Both were far better than Carter and better than Obama could ever hope to be. And way too much weight is given to Hoover.
I think we should make a conservative list of Presidential rankings because obviously this is merely a list of contenders for the most statist with some of the founders thrown into the mix at the top in an attempt to make it appear legit.
The full article at the link is even better.
Didn’t hurt that he followed on the heels of Jimmuh Cahta.
If you don’t know why, you’re part of the problem.....
“If you don’t know why, you’re part of the problem.....”
Unfortunately, the 238 presidential “scholars” (and I use that term loosely) are in the process of EDUCATING (that is, brainwashing) the youth of this country. The same so-called “scholars” show up on MSLSD and other agitprop outlets to try to brainwash the culturally and historically illiterate adults in this country.
These Ministers of Propaganda are being financed by taxpayer dollars and tuition payments, and they are far more effective than Pravda or the Communist Daily Worker ever were. This nation is rapidly becoming a nation of illiterates. The internet and talk radio are the only hope and Dr. O and Congress are aiming at that next
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
Man is not free unless government is limited.
Ronald Reagan
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan
ahhhhh, now there are a few words of wisdom to relish. I’d forgotten how real men think. Thank you for posting.
Oh yeah? Bringing about the collapse of a totalitarian state without firing a shot, based on faith that we were right and they were wrong. "The highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans" - Sun Tzu
“Other presidents, from Wilson to FDR, exceeded Reagan in their impact”
I think he means in their negative impact as well Roosevelt turned a recession into a depression, turned Eastern Europe over the the Soviets at Yalta and Wilson was a socialist dreamer and one worlder, who got us into WW I in helped create the conditions for WW II. Their impacts were great and severe.
Reagan undid a lot of their mistakes.
Bump :)
Ronald Reagan:Didn’t hurt that he followed on the heels of Jimmuh Cahta.
- Got the country going again,
- Whipped Inflation,
- Checked the energy crisis, and
- Transcended Communism.
IOW, he came into office with four big things on his plate, and he equaled or exceeded our expectations of what was possible in his handling each of them.
Right. That assured that there was a lot on the table for him to tackle.
In contrast, FDR in his first two terms - the historical standard which should be applied to any president -
- recognized the Soviet Union
- prevented economic recovery from the mismanagement of Hoover,
- failed to prevent WWII (which is what Winston Churchill would have done in his shoes, at all hazard up to and including getting himself impeached)
- broke the precedent set by George Washington against running for a third term, leading to the passage of a constitutional amendment forbidding any successor to emulate his behavior.
Granted that he subsequently won WWII - if you call leaving the USSR in the catbird seat in Eastern Europe "winning."
“This nation is rapidly becoming a nation of illiterates.”
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Their are to much truth in that they’re sentence four me two let it past without a comment. Your sew rite in what you say. You’re words wring with a message to special too ignore. Butt remember, where their is life they’re is hope and change two, sow keep you’re shin up an ever let nobody tale you that it ain’t dawn’s crack in America.
A keeper
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