Ouch!   I'm a damn Republican, excuse my French...  I might agree to exchange
Harding with Harrison, but that is about all.
SIGNATURE File: Ranking the 20th Century Presidents: 1.Reagan 2.Eisenhower
3.Kennedy 4.Nixon  5.Bush 6.Hoover 7.Truman  8.T.Roosevelt 9.Coolidge 10.Ford
11.Carter 12.McKinley 13.Taft 14.Harding 15.Harrison 16.Clinton 17.Wilson
18.F.Roosevelt 19.Johnson

            RANK NAME MEAN
      GREAT
      1 George Washington 4.92
      2 Abraham Lincoln 4.87
      3 Franklin Roosevelt 4.67
      NEAR GREAT
      4 Thomas Jefferson 4.25
      5 Theodore Roosevelt 4.22
      6 Andrew Jackson 3.99
      7 Harry Truman 3.95
      8 Ronald Reagan 3.81
      9 Dwight Eisenhower 3.71
      10 James Polk 3.70
      11 Woodrow Wilson 3.68
      ABOVE AVERAGE
      12 Grover Cleveland 3.36
      13 John Adams 3.36
      14 William McKinley 3.33
      15 James Madison 3.29
      16 James Monroe 3.27
      17 Lyndon Johnson 3.21
      18 John Kennedy 3.17
      AVERAGE
      19 William Taft 3.00
      20 John Quincy Adams 2.93
      21 George Bush 2.92
      22 Rutherford Hayes 2.79
      23 Martin Van Buren 2.77
      24 William Clinton 2.77
      25 Calvin Coolidge 2.71
      26 Chester Arthur 2.71
      BELOW AVERAGE
      27 Benjamin Harrison 2.62
      28 Gerald Ford 2.59
      29 Herbert Hoover 2.53
      30 Jimmy Carter 2.47
      31 Zachary Taylor 2.40
      32 Ulysses Grant 2.28
      33 Richard Nixon 2.22
      34 John Tyler 2.03
      35 Millard Fillmore 1.91
      FAILURE
      36 Andrew Johnson 1.65
      37 Franklin Pierce 1.58
      38 Warren Harding 1.58
      39 James Buchanan 1.33
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i'm an independent because i don't believe that any party holds to what
they say.  i vote for the person after i research who and what they are.

here are some points to ponder.

1. washington - he was the father of our country in more ways than one.

2.  lincoln was not a popular president in office.  a lot of people did
not go for what he believed in and that was reflected by the action
taken against him

3.  jefferson has how many children???  they are finding out through DNA
that he was not the true blue person everyone thought.

4. george bush is rated as average by that pole, yet in 1991, the polls
showed he had an acceptable rating at 91%.  the polls said it was the
highest ever for a president, yet, one year later, couldn't get enough
votes to even get re-elected.

5. ross perot and his running mate.  there is a story behind that.  it
was in the 60's, and there was an american who tried to get help to our
pow's using the american red cross.  he got the financing and the
supplies to make a big red cross delivery, but the shortest route to
vietnam was across russia.  he ask for permission to go across russian
air space in the name of humanity, and the request was refused.  at the
same this was going on, there was a person name bill clinton over there
burning the american flag in protest.  well, they finally got the relief
supplies to the pow's and here's the rest of the story.  the person that
put this adventure together was ross perot and one of the pow's he gave
supplies to was james stockdale. - his running for vice president.  why
wasn't that brought out at the election time?  it would have been an
interesting race.  a person who had the highest acceptable rating, an
american who tried to help our fighting men, and a draft dodger. well,
we know who won that one.

6. bill clinton was caught RED HANDED lying to a grand jury.  what would
have happened if an everyday person done that?   and there was enough
evidence to try him for impeachment.  yet the poll rated him as
"average"

7. if one was applying for a job as the president of a large corporation
or a university,  they would make sure this person has the
qualifications needed in order to operate and do their job as defined by
the job description.  sure don't want a person to run the corporation
into the ground by making bad decisions.  

yet, we, the people, will vote for a person who is going to be placed in
the highest, most powerful position in terms of world power and
represent the united states as a whole, and never once look as to see if
they can balance their own checkbook.  yet, this person will have the
power to approval or veto, BILLIONS of dollars at the drop of a
signature.  and if that person makes a mistake, who pays,  yet what does
the voter expect for putting a person in office that was not researched,
but voted in because they believed in animal rights, pro rights, or some
form of being for or against gun control, just to name a few.

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional    
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."

I would agree on the first two.  F. Roosevelt was lucky, he had WWII.
Otherwise he was not acceptable.  Hoover did more for the people, actually, he
just wasn't so lucky.

That survey should have been taken among the Core of Cadets at Texas A&M. ;-}

SIGNATURE File: Ranking the 20th Century Presidents: 1.Reagan 2.Eisenhower
3.Kennedy 4.Nixon  5.Bush 6.Hoover 7.Truman  8.T.Roosevelt 9.Coolidge 10.Ford
11.Carter 12.McKinley 13.Taft 14.Harding 15.Harrison 16.Clinton 17.Wilson
18.F.Roosevelt 19.Johnson

I don't know about Lincoln.  He did what he had to do, but the war started
upon his election, more out of fear what he'd do than anything he actually
did.  Great speech at Gettysburg though.

FDR?  Damn, he was there a long time.  Had some real good ideas, too.  Shame
none of them worked.  Did well to win WWII.  I wish he'd been around to be
on Big Mo.  But, he left us with the Red menace.  But not "great".

TJ?  Now he was great.  During his presidency we grew, what?  5 times the
size whe had been?  Pennsylvania was our west-most state when he went in.
We had been to the Pacific and back by the time he left office.  Northwest
territory.  Louisiana Purchase.  Some fairly touch international incidents.

And, of course, George Washington.  almost certinaly #1.

Agree with the failures.  Would add Carter.  You gotta like the guy, but
total flop as president.  Destabilized the world and our economy in 4 years
flat.