[AAABEST]

I'm becoming convinced that I live in a country full of morons. I can't believe what a see in polls at times.

[A CA Guy]

The top two were shot and the third should have been...LOL

Just joking, I don't want anybody shout that are not terrorist anti-American types.

[dts32041]

The top three one was a manic depressive, on was a druggie and the other was a sociopath.

WE have in this country about the dumbest bunch of people, thank god more people don't vote.

Two of the top three almost got us into wars and didn't because they didn't have the guts to drop the hammer, and instead left their people stranded and hung out to dry.

BTW does this mean we are going to have to suffer thru the 40th anniversary of the magic bullet?

Old Walter cronkite will be in his glory with teddy k bringing out the good stuff.

[ladyinred]

Reagan, with 18%, actually had the most mentions in 2001, probably due in part to the fact that the poll was conducted around celebrations of his 90th birthday.

No disclaimers are mentioned about the polling results of anyone else, interesting, and also telling. How can I trust a poll that is taken by someone with an obvious bias? They seem quite surprised Reagan topped the list in 2001!

[zarf]

Of course 60pcent of the Amurikin pimples don't know who the hell the Vice President is.

The only thing to make of these polls is that Bill Clinton's blow job was a greater accomplishment than George Washington leading the nation to independence.

OK , I'm convinced!!

[america-rules]

Look at the numbers. Bill Blowjob Clinton is always shown above GW Bush but the numbers show him below each time except for the tiny bopers.

[Savage Beast]

BUSH

LINCOLN

JEFFERSON

WASHINGTON

grant harding
johnson
carter
clinton

[Tall_Texan]

A number of observations:

1) Wonder how the results would skew if you told them JFK f*cked a TEENAGED intern while president. Note: this poll was taken before that revelation.

2) Every president since WWII is mentioned *except* LBJ. Why?

3) Lincoln's popularity can be condensed into the four-word phrase every grade shcool kid has learned "Lincoln freed the slaves". No president, not even Washington, has their identitiy sewn into such a tidy and magnanimous phrase. It would be rare to find someone who credits Lincoln with his role in conducting the Civil War or the torturous demands on his personal life while in Washington, etc. This four-word cliche is all most remember about him.

4) Somebody find the 2% of Republicans that believe Clinton was the greatest president and quickly remove them from the gene pool PLEASE! How could they possibly be Republicans and make such a claim? Conversely, you know the Democrats are already stealing raw data to locate the 3% of their affiliated members that feel that way about Reagan. I'm sure if they find them, they'll be shuttled off to concentration camps or, at the very least, have their AM radios taken away.

5) I wouldn't equate the slide of various presidents (particularly Republicans) without first factoring in the impact of George W. Bush. That 11% percent came from somewhere and it is mostly from Reagan, Bush's father and Nixon.

6) Excusing the timing of Reagan's popularity in 2001 seems specious since he would have his birthday at the same time every year - and its not like he's brought out in public to celebrate them. No, I think it has to do with the Clinton Fatigue our country felt at the time, as well as uncertainty on what sort of president Bush43 would become. America wanted a president to make them proud again and Reagan was the best recent example.

7) If I had been polled I would have answered Reagan each time, even today, while admitting to some areas where he fell short, he did so much to revive his party, his country, and that country's place in the world that I shudder to think what we'd be like today had he lost in 1980 and 1984.

[MarkDel]

JeanS and Eveyone Else,

This poll is ridiculous. If you want to see a more scientifi poll conducted recently by C-Span, check out the link below. This is a poll of C-Span viewers, but also on that site are other polls of historians broken down on a number of issues.

http://www.americanpresidents.org/survey/viewer/overall.asp

[William McKinley]

This poll was rigged.

[mass55th]

I'd like to know just what JFK did to warrant being rated one of the greatest Presidents by the Demoncrats. I wonder if they know that Abe was a Republican. Probably not, since 66% of them can't identify any of the present Demoncratic Presidential contenders.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Just goes to show how out of step I am with the rest of country. My favorite presidents? First, George Washington. Second, James K. Polk. Third? Grover Cleveland. Yes, Grover Cleveland.

[baseballfanjm]

K0 how smart the American public is. I bet a lot of people don't even know who Washington and Jefferson are. They'd be my choices. This is a pointless poll, but they do it every year. People go with who they know. I mean, it seems that people choose Lincoln and Kennedy as kneejerk choices, since they don't know anyone else and those two are popular and were assassinated.

[foreverfree]

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