Dean has some issues.

This week alone, he’s lost it in the debate over his racial record, lied about Crater inviting him to church, and now lost it again over his defeat.

Bush’s political advisers were right, Dean doesn’t need political opposition, he is self destructing all on his own.

Posted by: jeffers at January 20, 2004 06:41 AM

Carter, as in Jimmy, not Crater.

Innocent typo.

Posted by: jeffers at January 20, 2004 06:42 AM

Posted by jeffers at January 20, 2004 06:42 AM
Innocent typo.

More like Freudian slip. :)

Posted by: American_Defender at January 20, 2004 08:07 AM

Good slip! Jimmy Carter is a good, but
very delusional human being.! Look at
his recent trip to hobnob with the coca
growers/drug dealers in Bolivia and
his blessing on North Korea in 1994.
He is a TOTAL fool today. Thank the
Good Lord he is NOT President!

As a President, he is the worst in my
lifetime and history will show him on
the bottom of all Presidents in my
humble but accurate opinion.

The Best:

Abraham Lincoln, George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson

Second Level

James Madison, Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman

Probable 2nd Level Someday

Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan

The Rest:

Not Many are historically remarkable or
at the crux of History with the exception
of Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower
who were War Generals rewarded with the
White House.

Posted by: leaddog2 at January 20, 2004 09:40 AM

I have to disagree with some of the observations about Presidents.

Top tier: Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt (both)

Next tier: Jefferson, Monroe, Truman, Reagan

Most ruthless: LBJ

Most overhyped: JFK (movie star looks and martyred)

Did the least with his gifts: William Jefferson Clinton

Posted by: Jim at January 20, 2004 12:08 PM

A few years ago I would have been surprised not to see Bush Sr. on those lists, but in retrospect, I suppose his failure to close on Iraq the first time around will lose him big points in posterity’s eyes.

No two ways about it though, JFK was way over-hyped. Not only does he not belong anywhere near the top of the list, he belongs pretty close to the bottom in my opinion.

Carter probably belongs just a few rungs away from JFK, but to be honest, I have found him so unremarkable, aside from being unforgiveably naive, that I really can’t say where he would place.

But that’s all history. I’m just happy to see Dean falling out of contention for the bottom rung.

Posted by: Warmonger at January 20, 2004 12:24 PM

History does repeat itself in many ways,
unfortunately. That is helpful in looking
at today’s challenges.

James Monroe and his Monroe Doctrine
were important for a young U.S. but
Andrew Jackson’s “Jacksonian principles”
were still being followed by Truman and
Scoop Jackson Democrats a century after
his Presidency. (The Democratic party stopped
that with McGovern to their detriment).

Sorry, Jim, but there are NO HISTORIANS who
rank Franklin Roosevelt or Teddy Roosevelt
with Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson! (You
forgot that Jefferson was the leader who had
the vision for the Louisiana Purchase and the
doubling of the U.S)!!!

I am talking about lasting legacies here—-

Washington - The Father of our Country; Madison
(The primary author of the Constitution);
Jefferson - (The Lousiana Purchase and the author
of the Declaration of Independence) —— See what
I mean?

Lincoln —- He Kept the US together in our worst
time of all!

They all had Big Deeds and were Big Vision People!

I agree with you on LBJ and JFK.

Posted by: leaddog2 at January 20, 2004 12:50 PM

Forgot!

You are too probably too easy on “Slick Willie”.

Posted by: leaddog2 at January 20, 2004 12:55 PM

leaddog2,

I see you put in accomplishments from their pre presidency. Does that really alter their presidency?

I don’t knock the men, of course. Your top three are all great.

Posted by: jones at January 20, 2004 06:15 PM