>>>>Tomorrow I'll ask her about auto-spanning :)
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>>LOL
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>>BTW, did you see that a Quinnipiac University poll released last week rated Reagan as the best President since WWII and Obama as the worst- worse even than GWB.
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>The press and pundits tend to focus more on the last headline catchers, but there have been almost 70 years and a lot of presidents since the end of WWII.
>In my judgment Ike was the best and LBJ and W are tossups for worst.
>It's much too soon to rate Obama or even W for that matter, but the Iraq war was a monumental blunder that ranks with Vietnam in magnitude and consequence.
Someone mentioned Carter as one of the worst - I rather think he was grossly ineffective.
I agree that LBJ and W were very bad. But W wasn't just bad because of Iraq. He bears some of the responsibility for the current mess of the welfare state, but liberals don't like to talk about that. I also don't think Reagan was nearly as great as people want to believe - he benefited from the sequence of events in the world in the early 1980's.
I think it's important to rate the administration as a whole. For as much corruption that occurred in the 8 years under George Bush, I would say the current administration is the most incompetent and the most dishonest (least transparent) that we have seen. At a time where they are trying to expand the role of the federal government, that's bad. Even the Washington Post is now focusing on the current administration regarding the border crisis.