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Gallup: “Americans Say Reagan Is the Greatest U.S. President”
http://www.gallup.com/poll/146183/Americans-Say-Reagan-Greatest-President.aspx ^
Posted on 02/19/2011 12:28:21 PM PST by macquire
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To: Christian Engineer Mass
Reagan was my Commander in Chief in the eighties when I served on the USS Tullibee SSN 597 (submarine). We affectionately called him “Dad”. Today I have a simple bumper sticker on my car: “I Miss Reagan (with his picture)”. May God Bless him.
To: frogjerk
True. This list is a thing of our times, though. Myopic and perverted. No way a man like Bill Clinton would be in any honest list but in the bottom five.
General Washington established an almost an impossibly high standard. Leaders like Washington are only a handful in a millennium.
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02/19/2011 1:43:01 PM PST
by
bvw
To: macquire
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posted on
02/19/2011 1:46:50 PM PST
by
lbryce
(BHO:Satan's Evil Twin)
To: macquire
Sorry to Dana Perino, and ROVE that their boy Juan Bush is not even mentioned. Neither is Juan’s father, Papa Bush.
I wonder why?
To: macquire
Reagan is clearly the top president of the 20th century. Washington and Jefferson outrank him overall. I can’t put Lincoln in this category since he was unable to avert the worst war the country ever waged, pitting brother against brother, killing well over 600,000 Americans; many of them no more than young teenagers.
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02/19/2011 2:56:12 PM PST
by
Neoliberalnot
((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
To: Kath
well actually if you scroll down in the Gallop poll link you will find that the poll was a USA Today/Gallup poll. Do I need to say more?
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02/19/2011 3:23:34 PM PST
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Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: tennmountainman
I didn’t know there was a President John Bush
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posted on
02/19/2011 3:32:23 PM PST
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Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: macquire
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posted on
02/19/2011 3:43:57 PM PST
by
MichaelP
("Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.)
To: macquire
The Reagan years were the happiest of my life.
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posted on
02/19/2011 3:57:04 PM PST
by
y6162
To: macquire
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posted on
02/19/2011 4:00:37 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(We need more Democrats in the Senate --Like Custer needed more arrows.)
To: macquire
When you look at Reagan at his best beside Obama at his least harmful, there is no comparison at all.
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posted on
02/19/2011 5:15:07 PM PST
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: macquire
He was the greatest President of my lifetime, hands down.
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02/19/2011 6:33:53 PM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: macquire
Ike was my hero, but he wasn’t the very best, he was just a Hero that became a President. Wish Reagan was around in the 30’s. He could have set a standard for the rest to follow.
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02/19/2011 7:42:10 PM PST
by
Bringbackthedraft
(I see a dark cloud coming over the horizon, and its reminiscent of 1939.)
To: Thane_Banquo
This poll is ludicrous and you are right Reagan would declare the same. Reagan faced no challenge anywhere close to those Washington, Lincoln or FDR faced not even close. He never had to create a new nation (while his Secretary of State was stabbing him in the back at every opportunity) or preserve the Union under attack by the Slave Power or fight wars on two oceans.
To: Zhang Fei
" 2nd greatest, IMO. The greatest will forever be George Washington. "
Amen, even Reagan would have said George Washington was the greatest.
To: SeekAndFind
" And note how Barack Obama is ranked higher than Thomas Jefferson !! "
Liberalism and Main Stream Media is a mental disorder and clouds their thinking.
To: Thane_Banquo
To: Neoliberalnot
" Lincoln in this category since he was unable to avert the worst war the country ever waged "
More like allowed it to happen.
As time goes on my once high regard of Lincoln is fading away as I learn more about him.
To: frogjerk
George Washington, Simply the Best.
He stood head and shoulders above the rest in his person and character.
To: macquire
Not sure if we can even trust the opinion of the people Gallup surveyed. Look to see which modern President is ahead of George Washington and look who are ahead of Thomas Jefferson...
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