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President Obama 15th best president

Professors rank President Obama 15th best president

President Barack Obama's ranking is higher than those of other presidents who have taken office since the poll started nearly 30 years ago.

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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.

While he ranked high on traits like imagination (6th), communication ability (7th) and intelligence (8th).

Lonnstrom said the main factor that gives a president a top-five or top-10 ranking is his accomplishments — and an all-around high ranking in most categories.

FDR, for example, ranks in the top 10 for every category except integrity, he said.

“The experts really are looking for consistency, a president who is looking good across most of these categories,” he said.

Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, was ranked at number 23 in 2002 — the last time Siena’s presidential expert poll was conducted — but has since dropped to number 39, qualifying him as one of the five worst presidents. Bush came in at number 42 — second to last — on issues such as handling the U.S. economy, foreign policy accomplishments and intelligence. (Warren G. Harding was rated the least intelligent president).

Bush joins Harding, Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce, all of whom have consistently ranked as the worst presidents since the poll started, in the bottom five.

Several other presidents also saw movement in their ratings this year. Bill Clinton moved up five places, from No. 18 in 2002 to No. 13 today; John F. Kennedy also moved up, from No. 14 to No. 11.

Carter, Reagan and Nixon all dropped in the rankings this year — Carter dropped seven spots, from No. 25 in 2002 to No. 32 now; Reagan dropped two spots, from No. 16 to No. 18; and Nixon fell four spots, from No. 26 to No. 30.

[bluemouse]

Now thats funny!!!! Fooled again by some lefty idiot obabbler lovin fool.

[Rabbithoundjb]

LMAO!!!! YOU POSTED THIS IN 2010 ALSO AND ITS JUST AS FUNNY TODAY.

[heus]

PMB do you post anything pertaining to beagles anymore? Just wondering.

[Newt]

Think Obama will get another Peace Prize this year or will Al Gore get a prize for climate change?

[Pine Mt Beagles]

by heus » Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:29 am

PMB do you post anything pertaining to beagles anymore? Just wondering.


Heus

Not on here,,look on just talking dogs,,inbreeding vs line breeding.


No I ,did not post the same thing in 2010- the ratings change from year to year,,

But,no matter,,you guys ,opinion don't hold any value anyway.

[Rabbithoundjb]

Our opinions hold way more value than the opinions of a bunch of liberal scholars. Obama is sooooooooooooooo bad I hear there thinking about putting a bust of W. on mount rushmore. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!