Posted on 02/18/2005 2:23:36 PM PST by NYGOPRULEZ
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ -- Depending on where Americans live, on Monday they'll be celebrating the birthday of the nation's first president, George Washington, or Washington's birthday and President Abraham Lincoln's birthday. A recent Gallup Poll asking Americans to name, without prompting, the "greatest United States president," finds Americans most often mentioning Ronald Reagan. Republicans and Democrats differ sharply in their views of the greatest president, with Republicans most often mentioning Reagan and Democrats most often mentioning Bill Clinton. When asked to choose the greater president between Lincoln and Washington, Americans pick Lincoln by a wide margin.
Reagan Tops List
The poll, conducted Feb. 7-10, finds that Reagan is mentioned more often than any other president in history as the greatest, at 20%. Four other presidents trail closely behind: Clinton (with 15% of the mentions), Lincoln (14%), Franklin D. Roosevelt (12%), and John F. Kennedy (also 12%). The current president, George W. Bush, and the first president, Washington, are each mentioned by 5% of Americans.
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Well said, and spot on.
Actually, it's an indictment of Clinton, IMHO..look 50% or so of the country is BLUE, right?..and for probably 90% of Democrats alive today the only Dem president they can relate to, besides Clinton, is Carter..I actually expected he would win the thing..which would have been even funnier..
Clinton?
Seriously now- what do his supporters list as his "great" accomplishments? Anyone? What are they saying? If I asked the DUnces to name the best things Clinturd did, what would they say?
Well, I guess it only proves most Americans are not as partisan as we are here.
Clinton's still trying to have some kind of legacy. Problem is that none of his accomplishments are listed. By the way...What were his accomplishments, BL?
:)
Open your narrow mind, CG. :)
Sadly, what this poll really reveals is that a good many American's "historical perspective" only goes back about ten years. I'd be willing to bet that in less than 50 years, Bill Clinton will be ranked right along side Millard Fillmore and James Buchanan.
Midnight basketball.
THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!!!! Thank you.
Plus Thomas Jefferson, too. Too bad so few of my FReeper friends have read "The Real Lincoln" by Thomas DiLorenzo.
CLINTON!!!???? *grabs barf bag*
We salute him!
Who's Washington? I've never heard of this guy.
:)
Clinton is decent choice, but FDR did nothing but buy votes with borrowed money and JFK is the most over rated person in human history.
Agreed. I have yet to hear a reputable historian with the take on Lincoln that DiLosero has.
Opps, missed your point. But I stand by my comment. DiLorenzo is packing an agenda-tinted perspective on Lincoln. His book is less a critique on Lincoln, and more a critique on DiLorenzo's own warped view of history.
It's an indictment of public stupity. ; )
this just shows the ignorance of the American public in general.......how pathetic that many citizens have no concept of history and it's importance......all they care about is their new MP3 player........disgusting....
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