I love ranking stuff like this. I especially like Presidential rankings, because I'm into it and I have very definite opinions on these guys. So, I'm at #33 this week. aren't my rankings, they are C-SPAN'S. I'm just helping them.
33. George W. Bush - Fine, but he'll come up. In fact, he's already up 3 since their last ranking in 2009. Harry Truman was way low and now he's up there. Reagan has come up, Eisenhower. These recent guys tend to come up. In 20 years or so, he'll be around #25.
32. Rutheford B. Hayes - Nope, way low. He was a very underrated President. He deserves his own blog post. So I'll leave him for another time.
31. Zachary Taylor - Seems a tad high. He was a good general. I think he had never even voted until he voted for himself for President. Or I assume he voted for himself. Since he had no qualifications, maybe him voting for himself shows he didn't have good judgement. He did die in office which was probably a good move.
30. Benjamin Harrison - I was in his house in Indianapolis. There was a tour. I think I knew a little more than the tour guide, but it was a cool house. He does have the worst gift shop of any of the Presidential places. There was some candy, a few odd nicknacks, and that's about it. James Monroe's wasn't so hot either, but Ben's was really bad. #30 is probably a pretty good placement for him. He was kind of a sourpuss and I think our second shortest President. There was a recent streak, and maybe it's still in place, where the tallest candidate was the one elected president. John Kerry looks tall, so he probably ended the streak.
29. James Garfield - Nope. Too low. He was maybe our smartest President. He was a college professor. They say he could copy a sentence with the left had in Greek and the right hand in Latin. He's got my vote right there. I think he also was a minister. He had the second shortest term - only a few months. He was cleaning up the Civil Service, which was a mess. In fact, that is why somebody shot him. They say he would have recovered if he had doctors that did stuff like not wash their hands before probing for the bullet. Alexander G. Bell had a device to try detect where the bullet was, but the bed was made of metal which threw it off. He would have been better off operating on himself.
28. Richard Nixon - He ended massive race riots, a war in Vietnam, first to visit USSR, opened up China, clean air act, nuclear arms treaties, the EPA. What would his ranking be if he didn't press play on his tape machine?
27. Calvin Coolidge - He's most noted for not saying much, but certain politicians would do much better if they followed his pattern. He actually was a fine speaker. The economy heated up too much when he was President, which led to the depression, but he thought that too. He just couldn't put the brakes to it.
26. Jimmy Carter - I told you these recent guys were coming up. I think that's what will happen with George W. Most still think he had a failed presidency, but I think he did alright.
25. Gerald Ford - Bam. There is another one that has come up in recent years. He was mostly hurt because people assumed he made a deal in the pardon of Nixon. It has been pretty well established that he didn't and that it was the best thing to do. He has a nice museum in Grand Rapids by the way. He also got hurt by stumbling a lot in public and getting made fun of. He was probably our most athletic president. He played for the University of Michigan and almost certainly could have played in the NFL if he chose to.
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