tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316486182743991911.post1611242279661894858..comments2023-09-21T09:05:02.605-04:00Comments on Viral History: Rating the PresidentsKen Ackermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348967274722508119noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316486182743991911.post-43382749023017920632010-02-08T02:03:07.068-05:002010-02-08T02:03:07.068-05:00Well I acquiesce in but I contemplate the list inf...Well I acquiesce in but I contemplate the list inform should secure more info then it has.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316486182743991911.post-48225527565115261212010-02-02T09:35:58.058-05:002010-02-02T09:35:58.058-05:00Amiable post and this fill someone in on helped me...Amiable post and this fill someone in on helped me alot in my college assignement. Say thank you you on your information.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316486182743991911.post-66730268422935281472010-01-03T03:17:11.908-05:002010-01-03T03:17:11.908-05:00Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your ol...Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316486182743991911.post-46628113001597649712009-02-23T00:00:00.000-05:002009-02-23T00:00:00.000-05:00Except for the Alien and Sedition acts, John Adams...Except for the Alien and Sedition acts, John Adams was a great president, certainly not in the bottom half of your list. If it weren't for the underhanded methods of Jefferson and Madison and bad-timing, he would have been re-elected. He kept us out of a war we never would have won(with France and perhaps England). <BR/>Thomas Jefferson just got lucky, by obtaining the Louisiana Purchase, he was a cad and a hypocrite (he held slaves to the day he died). So what if he wrote the Declaration of Independence, that would not happened if it wasn't for Adams. We would have no country if not for Adams. Adams never did for Adams, unlike Jefferson. Jefferson is rated WAY too highly as is Adams being WAY to lowly. <BR/>There are numerous other strange choices, but these two put your whole rating opinion in question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316486182743991911.post-68542766583017457542009-01-23T11:36:00.000-05:002009-01-23T11:36:00.000-05:00How did Gerald Ford break into the top 10? You're...How did Gerald Ford break into the top 10? You're not a "great President" simply for not repeating the abuse of power that led to your immediate predecessor's eventual ouster.David L. Durkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02875903026643159154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316486182743991911.post-17098970209676806032009-01-23T09:34:00.000-05:002009-01-23T09:34:00.000-05:00Ken, great stuff here. I don't see much I disagree...Ken, great stuff here. I don't see much I disagree with at all. Question: Dubya seems to be counting on a Truman-like ascent years after he leaves office. Do you think it likely that this kind of assessment ten or twenty years from now would put GWB much higher? I say this with the mindset (today, at least) that he was one of the worst prez's we've ever had. Again, great ratings!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316486182743991911.post-48994752057578562122009-01-22T23:10:00.000-05:002009-01-22T23:10:00.000-05:00James Garfield vs. Lyndon Johnson and the Adamses?...James Garfield vs. Lyndon Johnson and the Adamses? You must be joking.<BR/><BR/>Let's start with LBJ. We can start and end the conversation with Vietnam? I don't exactly recall James Garfield starting a full-scale land war half-way around the world based on bad intelligence and bad advice, then misleading the country as tens of thousands of Americans died, then allowing the war to spin out of control and destroy his domestic agenda, causing the country then to react by electing an even worse leader in Richard Nixon. <BR/><BR/>Had it not been for his landmark civil rights Acts, Vietnam easily would have sunk LBJ to the lower half of the list. <BR/><BR/>The Adamses? Let's start with John. And no, I cannot get past the Alien and Seditions Acts. I do not recall James Garfield ever pushing Congress to pass a law allowing him to throw dozens of newspaper editors in jail for opposing his foreign policy, as well as locking up immigrants on trumped up claims of disloyalty -- as did Adams. Then, after losing reelection, Adams showed his poor temperament again by refusing to act civilly toward Thomas Jefferson, the person who beat him, at his inauguration. He may have been a sterling patriot and fine man during other times in his life, but his presidency was not a pretty picture. <BR/><BR/>John Quincy Adams? Aa president, he accomplished what exactly? From the moment he entered office, his opponents branded his Administyration the product of a "corrupt bargin," and for four years he wore the albatross, fair or not. <BR/><BR/>What did James Garfield do? He served with intelligence and integrity and w/o scandal when this was rare. He faced down the most demogagic political Boss of his day, NY's Roscoe Conkling, to halt (at least temporarily) the abusive system of patronage peddling that had paralyzed national government. His lasting legacy was a Civil Service system that became a global model of good government. <BR/><BR/>I rank Garfield slightly above middle at number 18. Had he lived longer, I think he would have build a record deserving more. I'm very comfortable with where I've placed Garfield, notwithstanding LBJ and the Adamses.Ken Ackermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16348967274722508119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316486182743991911.post-7253926755094877332009-01-22T17:28:00.000-05:002009-01-22T17:28:00.000-05:00Whoa, big fella! James Garfield ahead of Lyndon J...Whoa, big fella! James Garfield ahead of Lyndon Johnson and both Adamses? We're dishing out some home-cooking here.<BR/><BR/>Remind us again, what did Garfield do as president?Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802998911217993181noreply@blogger.com