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Kasz216 on 25 June 2009
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outlawauron said:
Kasz216 said:
outlawauron said:
Rath said:
1). The BBC at least has a very neutral tone in its news articles, it just reports news.

2). Comparing somebodies positive facetime to Bush is foolish as Bush is already considered to be a fairly poor president.

http://www.c-span.org/PresidentialSurvey/Overall-Ranking.aspx

Thats the latest poll of historians. He doesn't exactly have a great rating there.

3). Obama is more popular with Americans than G.W.Bush. Therefore perhaps he gets more positive stories because he is actually (in the eyes of the majority of Americans) a better president than G.W.Bush.

Well, that list is complete bull. What did George Washington do, since 2000, to go up a place?

And President Bush had great ratings at the start of his presidency as well.

Change in how his and other presidencies are seen historically... and slight change in historian/poltician.  In general it takes a good 10-15 years before you settle at about the same place.

The Sienna polls are the best ones though.

That said, then why did George Washington pass Franklin Roosevelt. Both presidents whom served their terms many decades ago and well outside your 10-15 window. I'm jus saying that I think the polls are little silly. Must polls are I believe.

FDR? plenty of reasons.

1)  It's lately been found that he suggested that the terms of surrender during WW2 should be the castration of all german males.

2) The press was complicit in a lot of negative things that would of destroyed his presidency.

3) The has been a book recently that's greatly detailed the many many basic rights that he committed.  Stuff that would make the patriot act look like the Bill of Rights in comparison.  This is stuff... even most historians would like to ignore since WW2 is supposed to be the only morally unambigious war in history... and FDR is supposed to be one of the greatest of all time... and also the sole "proof" for Kensiyan economics even if it dosen't seem to bear out.

So.. really the reasons FDR is inflated and may be dropping is because people are shining light on a lot of the unbelievably bad stuff he did.

Basically if you thought Bush was bad... FDR was worse.  It's just he helped win WW2. 

By secrelty going against the Congress, Public opinion etc.  (and much more, the list is dizzying.)