WBEN Radio reports a ranking of Presidents by the Siena Research Institute:
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Siena Research Institute's newest survey on US presidents finds Franklin D. Roosevelt is the Greatest American President ever. Among the worst presidents, the survey finds the most recent former president in the bottom five.
View the rankings HERE.
The survey asked 238 presidential scholars to rank America's 44 presidents. At the top of the list, the only man to serve more than two terms, Franklin D. Roosevelt. "He got America out of a depression and a war," says Dr. Douglass Lonnstrom, who conducts these surveys one year after a new administration starts. The presidents you see on Mount Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson round out the top five. "They stand high above number six," says Lonnstrom.
The bottom five has not changed much from the last survey in 2002. Andrew Johnson was ranked the worst president ever, followed by James Buchanan, Warren Harding and Franklin Pierce. Lonnstrom says Buchanan and Pierce had a chance to get the nation out of the Civil War and did not do so. Also on the list's bottom five is George W. Bush, who experts ranked 39th. Bush ranked poorly in handling the economy, foreign policy accomplishments and intelligence according to the poll....
(Note: President Obama was ranked #15.)
Let me repeat that last part of the Siena report---
"......on the list's bottom five is George W. Bush, who experts ranked 39th. Bush ranked poorly in handling the economy, foreign policy accomplishments and intelligence according to the poll....."
So, what else in new? We lived through the administration of George W. Bush, and we are aware of the mess he made. I wonder how that phrase "...Bush ranked poorly in handling the economy..." will help Rob Portman, former Bush budget director and current Republican candidate for U.S. Senate for Ohio.
