Siena College poll of presidential scholars ranks President Barack Obama 15th best U.S. president, is that fair since he is only 18 months into his first term?
According to a new Siena College poll, President Barack Obama ranks as the 15th best U.S. president, two places below Bill Clinton and three places ahead of Ronald Reagan. How can that be, especially when he isn't even a half-way through his first term in office? Doesn't this seem a little suspicious, as the Nobel Peace Prize he won?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt earned top honors, while Andrew Johnson was last. Pollsters say Obama is high on imagination, communication and intelligence, but weak on background. On your list of best presidents, where would President Obama land? Who was the best president, and who was the worst? Source: Political Arena
Personally, Obama should have been given an incomplete, because as he stated when he was denied a honorary degree by Arizona State University, his body of work was yet to come. It is far too early in the game to rank him as the 15th best U.S. President. He got the Nobel Peace Prize purely on speculation and 18 months into the presidency doesn't give us enough information to rank him on scale among the his presidential counterparts.
The Siena College poll, which surveyed 238 presidential scholars at U.S. colleges and universities, asked scholars to rate the nation’s 43 chief executives on 20 attributes ranging from legislative accomplishments to integrity and imagination. In the overall ranking, Obama rated two places below Clinton, who was 13th best, and three better than Reagan, who is ranked as the 18th best. Source: Politico
I would be most happy to rank President Obama on his accomplishments and his presidency as he nears the end of his first term, not 18 months into his presidency. Seems these presidential scholars loved FDR because he fits right into their expectations of the government -- more power, bigger scope & just plain big government.
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