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From: ayers@ecn-pc.UUCP (Gregory M Ayers)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc,net.rumor
Subject: Re: The Presidents   how I feel they rate in history
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 22:25:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 20 22:25:25 1986
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In article <1531@udenva.UUCP> showard@udenva.UUCP (Steve "Blore" Howard) writes:
>In article <133@petrus.UUCP> jfs@petrus.UUCP (Jack Stanley) writes:
>>
>>I will rate each president with a 1 to 10.      
>>
>>George Washington    10
>[many many years are deleted here, for the sake of brevity]
>>J F Kennedy          5
>>L B Johnson          5
>>Richard M Nixon      6
>>Gerald Ford          5
>>James E Carter       5
>>Ronald Regan         6
>>       Please share your views on this subject.
>>
>  Well, you asked for it.  How anyone in his right mind can contend that
>Reagan and Nixon were better presidents than Kennedy is beyond me.  I would
>rate these more as:
>
>JFK 7
>LBJ 6
>RMN 3
>Ford 5
>Carter 5
>Reagan 2
>
>-- 
>
>"If you write it down, people will believe it"
>
>Steve "Blore" Howard, Exorcist to the Stars
>                      {hplabs, seismo}!hao!udenva!showard
>or {boulder, cires, ucbvax!nbires, cisden}!udenva!showard


It is impossible for me to consider Nixon a better president than
Reagan, let alone consider Carter even rating more than 0.  Here is
the way I see it :

JFK  7
LBJ  2 
RMN  3 the last two recieve low ratings due to shady dealings.
Ford 7 didn't do much, but was honest and restored some trust in
the white house.
Carter 0 to -1  the man was and still is incompetent
Reagan 8  the man has restored the USA to respectibility but is
slightly too heavy handed when it comes to defense.

I can make no statements beyond these few presidents, since I was
not living previous to JFK and Bush has yet to be elected, although
that day is comming SOON.

Greg Ayers
Independent and Slightly Conservative Minded Political Supporter
Purdue University