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Jedi Master Carr
Feb 16th, 2009, 10:31:30 AM
In honor of President's Day C-Span Ranked the presidents.
http://www.c-span.org/PresidentialSurvey/presidential-leadership-survey.aspx

Some of the list is okay, but I think they rank some presidents too high like Kennedy, Reagan, and Truman none of them belong that high.

If I had to rank the top 10 and bottom 10 I would do it this way (I think you have to exclude William Henry Harrison and Garfield neither was president for more than 3 months.)
1 Lincoln
2 Jefferson
3 FDR
4 Theodore Roosevelt
5 Washington
6 James Madison
7 Harry Truman
8 James Polk
9 Woodrow Wilson
10 John Adams
Bottom 5
40 Harding
39 Buchanan
38 Grant
37 Pierce
36 Filmore

I just changed my mind with Jackson, Wilson was just below Adams for me so he is a good replacement.

Morgan Evanar
Feb 16th, 2009, 11:14:47 AM
Jackson was a terrible president. Why is he that high? Nixon did some good things for this country but he also set some of the worst precedents. Are these people high?

Jedi Master Carr
Feb 16th, 2009, 12:00:05 PM
Heh this is my list. With Jackson, honestly I really dislike him because of the Trail of Tears, but if you look back at his administration you can see he accomplished a lot under his presidency. I could easily change him or Polk on that list for Wilson or Eisenhower, I am actually tempted to change Jackson because I hate him.