2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Dark Sage]

For once I agree with Blade. People who say that "Obama is the worst President of all time" don't know their history. Or flunked it completely.

The latest poll among scholars that lists all the Presidents by their competancy and popularity makes Obama number 14 among Presidents (a tie with Lyndon B. Johnson), which is rather good, actually. Of course, Obama has only been included in two of these polls so far. (The other poll, taken in 2010, listed him as 15th.) He's in the second quartile among Presidents, which means he's among the second-best. (There are four quartiles. Folks like Geaorge Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson are in the first.)

The worst ten Presidents are usually said to be Warren G. Harding, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, William Henry Harrison, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses Grant, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor and Richard Nixon. Harrison is sometimes ommitted, seeing as he died 32 days after taking office.

And I have studied all their careers. I defy you to say that they did better than Obama is doing.

So please, stop saying that he's the worst President ever, and look at the facts.

Edit: A lot of people ask me, "Why do you support Obama? What good has he done for this country?"

Well, let's see... His accomplishments haven't accounted to much, except...

1. Fair pay for women in the workplace

2. Stimulus that prevented a second Great Depression

3. Saved the U.S. auto industry

4. Biggest health care reform measure in U.S. history

5. Credit card reform

6. Financial industry reform

7. Student loan reform

8. Investments in clean energy

9. End of DADT

10. End of Iraq War

11. End of Osama bin Laden

12. End of Muammar Gaddafi

13. Improved services to veterans

14. 10 straight quarters of economic growth

15. $25 billion BP oil spill settlement without years of litigation

16. DJIA back up to pre-meltdown levels

17. Two terrific Supreme Court appointments

18. 123 additional federal judges appointed who are not right wing ideologues

19. Ended restrictions on stem cell research

20. He’s kept us safe (isn’t that what they used to say about his predecessor?)

This list, incidentally, is taken from the same Washington Post article that Roy linked to.