bigjon said:
Ok, in our lifetimes (as in fairly recent).... lets see Reagan > Nixon Reagan > Ford Reagan > Carter Reagan > Bush 1 Reagan > Clinton Reagan > Bush 2 The only one even close there is Clinton, but most people would agree Reagan was a better pres than Clinton.. namely he wasn't impeached. You have to go back to Eisenhower to find a president that compares to Reagan (please no JFK bs.) I put lincoln #1 because, well, he pretty much saved the country, freed the slaves, um ya and was assasinated (JFK's claim to fame). It was reagan's policies that set up the boom in the 90's. When the market collapsed in 87 if he had overreacted it could have caused ramifications that could have stunted the growth we saw in the 90's.
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Out of that crew, Reagan and Clinton are definitely above the others. They are both overrated, probably due to what you compare them against. I would say Reagan is much more overrated than Clinton. I think its because he's further in the past, so people tend to remember that the economy was good overall and forget the bad stuff.
As for the impeachment, that was a joke. Let's see, Reagan secretly traded weapons to Iran so they would free our hostages, and then funded terrorists in Nicaragua, and he was not impeached. Clinton got a BJ and lied about it, so he gets impeached.