What happened to a choice 3: Too early to tell if Obama will go down in history as a good or bad president?
There are many president ranking polls, academic and public. Academia is considerably more liberal than it is conservative. It is natural that there is a liberal bias.
What amazes me is that a 2007 Rasmussen Reports Poll ranked Jimmy Carter 17th out of 42 presidents. Ronald Reagan, 20th.
Out of 238 of Siena's academics polled, George W. Bush ranks 39th out of 43. Pierce, Harding, Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson were judged to be worse than GWB. I think it's too early to say that GWB ranks that low.
I was a 5th generation Democrat. FDR was regarded as a saint in my household. Then I bothered to seek the truth about FDR. It wasn't an easy thing to do. Teddy Roosevelt was a personal favorite so I studied him for balance between the two.
FDR is the top favorite. But why? Yes, he is well liked. Yet he prolonged the Great Depression with his economic programs. Some of which were deemed unconstitutional and struck down by the Supreme Court after his death. FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court from 7 to 9 judges. Blantantly unconstitutional. FDR did not push for civil rights because he feared losing blocs of voters. FDR and Stalin held secret meetings to instill a new worl...
There are many president ranking polls, academic and public. Academia is considerably more liberal than it is conservative. It is natural that there is a liberal bias.
What amazes me is that a 2007 Rasmussen Reports Poll ranked Jimmy Carter 17th out of 42 presidents. Ronald Reagan, 20th.
Out of 238 of Siena's academics polled, George W. Bush ranks 39th out of 43. Pierce, Harding, Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson were judged to be worse than GWB. I think it's too early to say that GWB ranks that low.
I was a 5th generation Democrat. FDR was regarded as a saint in my household. Then I bothered to seek the truth about FDR. It wasn't an easy thing to do. Teddy Roosevelt was a personal favorite so I studied him for balance between the two.
FDR is the top favorite. But why? Yes, he is well liked. Yet he prolonged the Great Depression with his economic programs. Some of which were deemed unconstitutional and struck down by the Supreme Court after his death. FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court from 7 to 9 judges. Blantantly unconstitutional. FDR did not push for civil rights because he feared losing blocs of voters. FDR and Stalin held secret meetings to instill a new worl...
What happened to a choice 3: Too early to tell if Obama will go down in history as a good or bad president?
There are many president ranking polls, academic and public. Academia is considerably more liberal than it is conservative. It is natural that there is a liberal bias.
What amazes me is that a 2007 Rasmussen Reports Poll ranked Jimmy Carter 17th out of 42 presidents. Ronald Reagan, 20th.
Out of 238 of Siena's academics polled, George W. Bush ranks 39th out of 43. Pierce, Harding, Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson were judged to be worse than GWB. I think it's too early to say that GWB ranks that low.
I was a 5th generation Democrat. FDR was regarded as a saint in my household. Then I bothered to seek the truth about FDR. It wasn't an easy thing to do. Teddy Roosevelt was a personal favorite so I studied him for balance between the two.
FDR is the top favorite. But why? Yes, he is well liked. Yet he prolonged the Great Depression with his economic programs. Some of which were deemed unconstitutional and struck down by the Supreme Court after his death. FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court from 7 to 9 judges. Blantantly unconstitutional. FDR did not push for civil rights because he feared losing blocs of voters. FDR and Stalin held secret meetings to instill a new world order government after the war was won. In FDR's favor, he was a brilliant wartime president. If he didn't declare war after wartime Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, academics speculate that he would be subject to impeachable charges.
Teddy Roosevelt. Trust-buster. Curbed corporate monopoly. Worked with the striking United Mine Workers for better pay for fewer hours. Passed the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food and Drug Act for public consumption safety. Invited the first black, Booker T. Washington, to the White House against strong political and public opinion. First president to appoint a representative of the Jewish minority to a cabinet position, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Oscar S. Straus. On immigration, Roosevelt strongly advocated total Americanization. Roosevelt was instrumental in the conservation of approximately 230 million acres of American soil among various parks and other federal projects.
Roosevelt's faults: Author James Bradley in his book, The Imperial Cruise (2009) reveals that in 1905 Roosevelt encouraged the Japanese to begin their military expansion onto the Asian continent when the president agreed a secret treaty that allowed Japan to take Korea. Bradley asserts that with this secret and unconstitutional maneuver, Roosevelt inadvertently ignited the problem of Japanese expansionism that FDR would later confront as WWII in Asia. Roosevelt advocated eugenics, "Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce."
(more)There are many president ranking polls, academic and public. Academia is considerably more liberal than it is conservative. It is natural that there is a liberal bias.
What amazes me is that a 2007 Rasmussen Reports Poll ranked Jimmy Carter 17th out of 42 presidents. Ronald Reagan, 20th.
Out of 238 of Siena's academics polled, George W. Bush ranks 39th out of 43. Pierce, Harding, Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson were judged to be worse than GWB. I think it's too early to say that GWB ranks that low.
I was a 5th generation Democrat. FDR was regarded as a saint in my household. Then I bothered to seek the truth about FDR. It wasn't an easy thing to do. Teddy Roosevelt was a personal favorite so I studied him for balance between the two.
FDR is the top favorite. But why? Yes, he is well liked. Yet he prolonged the Great Depression with his economic programs. Some of which were deemed unconstitutional and struck down by the Supreme Court after his death. FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court from 7 to 9 judges. Blantantly unconstitutional. FDR did not push for civil rights because he feared losing blocs of voters. FDR and Stalin held secret meetings to instill a new world order government after the war was won. In FDR's favor, he was a brilliant wartime president. If he didn't declare war after wartime Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, academics speculate that he would be subject to impeachable charges.
Teddy Roosevelt. Trust-buster. Curbed corporate monopoly. Worked with the striking United Mine Workers for better pay for fewer hours. Passed the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food and Drug Act for public consumption safety. Invited the first black, Booker T. Washington, to the White House against strong political and public opinion. First president to appoint a representative of the Jewish minority to a cabinet position, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Oscar S. Straus. On immigration, Roosevelt strongly advocated total Americanization. Roosevelt was instrumental in the conservation of approximately 230 million acres of American soil among various parks and other federal projects.
Roosevelt's faults: Author James Bradley in his book, The Imperial Cruise (2009) reveals that in 1905 Roosevelt encouraged the Japanese to begin their military expansion onto the Asian continent when the president agreed a secret treaty that allowed Japan to take Korea. Bradley asserts that with this secret and unconstitutional maneuver, Roosevelt inadvertently ignited the problem of Japanese expansionism that FDR would later confront as WWII in Asia. Roosevelt advocated eugenics, "Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce."
66 voters making less than $25k/year all of them voted yes
Interesting
This is scary
Not only that, I think -- in contrast with his predecessor -- he reached out to his opponents to try to find a middle ground. It is his opponents who are intransigent and uncompromising. To his progressive base, he is too willing to compromise.
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Recovery summer? Obama can't spin this one
Cribbing terminology from the 1960s the same way he cribs policies from the 1930s, President Obama has dubbed the summer of 2010 the "Summer of Recovery." It doesn't have the same ring as "Freedom Summer," but, then, cheap knockoffs are never as good as the originals.
Here is how The Hill, an influential Washington, D.C., newspaper that covers the federal government, described the administration's effort to convince Americans that its New Deal policies are working: "President Barack Obama and his team are trying to sell Americans on an economic recovery this summer, but the economy is stubbornly refusing to cooperate."
In May, total non-farm employment grew by 431,000 jobs -- and 411,000 of them were temporary Census worker positions. In June, 225,000 Census jobs ended, and the private sector created only 83,000 new jobs in their place.
Last week, Obama traveled to Missouri and Nevada to sell his "Summer of Recovery" propaganda. But the people aren't buying it. Obama could sell his health care plan and the stimulus bills because there was no way to judge their immediate impact. The costs would come now, the benefits later.
For the stimulus bill, later has arriv...
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Recovery summer? Obama can't spin this one
Cribbing terminology from the 1960s the same way he cribs policies from the 1930s, President Obama has dubbed the summer of 2010 the "Summer of Recovery." It doesn't have the same ring as "Freedom Summer," but, then, cheap knockoffs are never as good as the originals.
Here is how The Hill, an influential Washington, D.C., newspaper that covers the federal government, described the administration's effort to convince Americans that its New Deal policies are working: "President Barack Obama and his team are trying to sell Americans on an economic recovery this summer, but the economy is stubbornly refusing to cooperate."
In May, total non-farm employment grew by 431,000 jobs -- and 411,000 of them were temporary Census worker positions. In June, 225,000 Census jobs ended, and the private sector created only 83,000 new jobs in their place.
Last week, Obama traveled to Missouri and Nevada to sell his "Summer of Recovery" propaganda. But the people aren't buying it. Obama could sell his health care plan and the stimulus bills because there was no way to judge their immediate impact. The costs would come now, the benefits later.
For the stimulus bill, later has arrived. But the benefits Obama promised haven't. "It's very hard to discern any impact," one economist told CNN last week. So the President, to convince people that they should believe him and not their own eyes, resorts to his old standby, flying around the country giving speeches.
It is not hard to figure out why the President's support among independent voters has hit a new low -- 38 percent -- according to a Gallup poll released last week. Every week that goes by, the gap between the real world and the world Obama inhabits grows wider.
Obama lives in a world in which issuing commands and dispensing checks from Washington is the way to solve problems.
The rest of us live in the real world, which is a little more complicated than that. While Obama continues making speeches, issuing regulations, signing laws and sending out money to his political backers, the rest of us wait (and wait, and wait) for businesses to start hiring again.
Yet in the real world, where the majority of Americans live, 0Bama is really causing big problems.