Gallup: “Americans Say Reagan Is the Greatest U.S. President”

http://www.gallup.com/poll/146183/Americans-Say-Reagan-Greatest-President.aspx ^

[macquire]

(PRINCETON, NJ) — Ahead of Presidents Day 2011, Americans are most likely to say Ronald Reagan was the nation’s greatest president — slightly ahead of Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton. Reagan, Lincoln, or John F. Kennedy has been at the top of this “greatest president” list each time this question has been asked in eight surveys over the last 12 years.

[bertmerc1]

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.

[bvw]

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.

[lbryce]

[tennmountainman]

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?

[Neoliberalnot]

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.

[Kaslin]

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?

[Kaslin]

I didn’t know there was a President John Bush

[MichaelP]

Clinton?

Mike

[y6162]

The Reagan years were the happiest of my life.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Pollster1]

When you look at Reagan at his best beside Obama at his least harmful, there is no comparison at all.

[Tennessean4Bush]

He was the greatest President of my lifetime, hands down.

[Bringbackthedraft]

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.

[arrogantsob]

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.

[American Constitutionalist]

" 2nd greatest, IMO. The greatest will forever be George Washington. "

Amen, even Reagan would have said George Washington was the greatest.

[American Constitutionalist]

" And note how Barack Obama is ranked higher than Thomas Jefferson !! "

Liberalism and Main Stream Media is a mental disorder and clouds their thinking.

[American Constitutionalist]

FDR was a commie.

[American Constitutionalist]

" 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.

[American Constitutionalist]

George Washington, Simply the Best.
He stood head and shoulders above the rest in his person and character.

[SeekAndFind]

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...