Posted on 07/01/2010 11:44:22 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Profs rank Obama 15th best president By: Emily Schultheis July 1, 2010 01:29 PM EDT
A new poll of leading presidential scholars ranks Barack Obama as the 15th best president of the United States, just below Bill Clinton but ahead of Ronald Reagan.
The Siena College poll, which surveyed 238 presidential scholars at U.S. colleges and universities, asked scholars to rate the nation’s 43 chief executives on 20 attributes ranging from legislative accomplishments to integrity and imagination.
In the overall ranking, Obama rated two places below Clinton, who was 13th best, and three better than Reagan, who is ranked as the 18th best.
Franklin D. Roosevelt again earned the top spot, as he has every time since the poll was first conducted in 1982. He and the Mount Rushmore presidents — Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — have consistently been the top five presidents in the poll’s findings.
Obama’s 15th ranking is slightly higher than other presidents who have taken office since the poll started nearly 30 years ago. Most start out at about number 20, said Siena statistics professor and poll director Douglas Lonnstrom.
“[Obama’s] doing a little better, but he’s generally in the same ballpark,” he said.
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Seems obvious to me.
Just remember who did the rating. Complete idiots. And idiots love other idiots.
FDR - the greatest - please!
And, they think THEY will run things in a Marxist society.
lol
The best presidents are often those who did the least.
The best presidents are often those who did the least.
They meant to say they polled 238 self-avowed communists!!!
Consider the source: a bunch of cheesy college professors.
This explains why so many of the basement-dwelling kiddies graduating from “college” these days are braindead idiots who can’t read, write or think for themselves.
No way that any president who hasn’t served more than two years should be counted, so out go Garfield, Obama, and William Henry Harrison. Also, Garfield’s two terms were non-consecutive so he should be counted twice. And has anyone checked who is funding this study?
Obama scored high because they included imagination as a criteria
University employees vote..
Obama 15th Best President
1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus rabble honor one of their ideological children
“CLUNK!”
(The sound of my jaw hitting the ground in utter astonishment)
It was Cleveland with the nonsequential terms.
Gee, you don’t think a bunch of libs might be biased or anything.
Ranking the empty suit ahead of Reagan is almost as stupid as giving him a peace prize. He must be on some sort of affirmative action curve, a concept academics are most familiar with.
Telling.
Pass a barf bag!!!! These commie/lib/socialist professors would of course choose BAM. The truth is BAM IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY!!
Worse, those “intellectuals” not only are required, but encouraged! - to indoctrinate our youth and future teachers in their lies and exaggerations. And, as theu reach the holy grail of academic tenure, these intellectuals get even further insulated from the real world.
And from the consequences of their stupidity.
FDR... yea, Mr. Entitlement himself.
This list is worthless. Someone post up pic’s of Megan Fox or something. Give this thread some legitimacy...
These professors are prime candidates for sterilization.
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