>>>>>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.
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>Someone mentioned Carter as one of the worst - I rather think he was grossly ineffective.
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>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.
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>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.

IMO LBJ was a very good domestic President. As just two examples, he went way further with civil rights and the war on poverty than JFK ever would have. A combination of LBJ's domestic policy and Nixon's foreign policy would have been a terrific President. (I don't even want to think about the other way around ;-) )