sisyphusshrugged | I will admit to a strong nostalgic tendresse for Clinton, but there's just nothing about this that i

Who would have thought it? Some two years after he left office hounded by right-wing detractors and stained by his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton now ranks as this nation's third best chief executive, according to a recent CNN/USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.

Only Abraham Lincoln (chosen by 15%) and John F. Kennedy (13%) finished ahead of Clinton (11%) in the April poll, which asked Americans who was "the greatest" president. George W. Bush managed to tie Clinton for third place.

Ronald Reagan, a conservative icon, garnered 10% of the vote, followed by Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter. Bush's father, the 41st president, was chosen by just 2% of the respondents, tying with Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson...

gaaaah.

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Thank you for making my day. This is going to drive a number of folks around the bend. Watch out for out-of-control conservatives....

Emma (http://skyedreams.blogspot.com)

oh, I suppose - it's just the thought that Bush 1 is down at the bottom of the list with Jefferson and TR.

I mean, who on earth thinks JFK is better than Jefferson? He sure didn't.

Every time they do one of those surveys the results are just as disheartening, so I get as much perverse pleasure from them as I can...Oh heck, I feel a blog coming on...

The real test of history is not years, but decades - at the very least.

I will admit to a strong nostalgic tendresse for Clinton, but there's just nothing about this that i

YES!

Re: YES!

Re: YES!

'tis only two years out.