Greatest 5 US Presidents

Taken from Genghis' post, I would like to know who you feel are the top five greatest Presidents in the history of the United States.

-My personal selection is 1. Ronald Reagan, 2. Thomas Jefferson,    3.George Washington, 4. Theodore Roosevelt and 5. Abraham Lincoln (solely for his effort in bringing a war-torn United States back together)

Damn Laelius, your good.  I was just about to mention how Reagan is super overrated and Jefferson is a looser but youve done the job for me.  I think when people think of Jefferson they think of the ideal, not the real man.  Jefferson destroyed our economy, said he would curtail governemtn power and then crippled us with his imposed embargo, failed to effectively deal with barbary pirates, cut the navies funding in a time of need, removed the bank of america which was not a good thing, and generally was a giant hypocrite loser.  he would actually go in my bottom 10 worst presidents.

And Reagan destroyed the Republican parties principles.  The party that historically so great (and still has a massive functional and administrative superiority) was corrupted by Reagans big government deficeit spending and kowtowing to the wretched evangelicals.  The evangelicals would in turn change the republican party for a practical industrialist-privacy party to a house of religious loonies who run the US like it was the USSR.

anyway my top 5 are:

1.  Theodore Roosevelt

2.  Richard Nixon

3.  George Washington

4.  Harry Truman

5.  James K Polk  Sorry Jalisco, but evil or not, he was a genius.

If anyone says Woodrow Wilson was a great president I will tear their neck out with my teeth!

Mine are.. :

1. JFK

2. George Washington

3. Abraham Lincoln

4. Harry Truman

5. Ronald Reagan

None of the modern U.S. presidents are something special. *coughs* GWB *coughs*

No, but only because either (a) they don't know what it means or (b) they think it's something French, or (c) if they don't fall under (a) and (b) they think it would be an infringement of the Constitutional ban on titles.

Mind you, you have Wilt the Stilt and Walter the Train, Stan the Man and Joe the Shoeless, so I suppose it's not inconceivable.

On thinking about it, it's actually quite an interesting question. Dick the Tricky?

No offence but these choices are the worst choices except for number 3  I have ever seen for the list of top American presidents!

Originally posted by Tobodai If anyone says Woodrow Wilson was a great president I will tear their neck out with my teeth!

Look.I agree with you here

And I thought the reason he pulled out was because his wife told Mr christian, Venus was in the Uranus of the Great Bear.

Truman a strange bunny. He joined a civil war in Korea, Funded several in the middle east without joining and sent McCarthy and his bloodhounds out to start one at home.

Because pure genious transcends all barriers.  Id take a million smart evil people over one idealistic and well intentioned moron.

Why do so many people like Kennedy, he was horrible!  He talked about doing something for civil rights and never did, he almost blew up the world, he told the Germans that he was a jelly donut and he really started involvement in Vietnam. 

The best "idea' that ever went through Kennedy's head was a bullet.  Hell no one would even know who he was if he hadnt been shot, and now we all have to hear how great he is because his brains got splattered on film.

My like for FDR had somewhat decreased after I heard that he knew almost nothing about the needs of European states after WW II...He was noted saying about Austria: "A friend of mine, who is colonel, told me that if we build a dam over Danube, all problems of Austria will be dealed"...Which is a weak comment for a US president.,

And Tobodai, I didn't understand why you had put Nixon among those "great president"s..

I would personally put Washington in the first place, after all, he was like the "saviour".

Second would be Reagan, he was the victor of the Cold War, and probably took the most important steps for that victory.

Even though he is not liked all among the world, being a true and greedy president who worked solely for American benefits, he did a lot for America's move towards being a great power, Theodore Roosevelt, got the third number.

As the fourth, I would choose Eisenhower,major steps had been taken by him,such as creating bases for US in Europe and Asia and getting allies in his side and using them well...

Fifth in my list is Woodrow Wilson, a man who really worked for world peace,but failed.And of course, it was his time the American influence began to spread towards Europe. "Armed neutralism is enough at best"