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Presidential Rankings
An unsurpassed ability to take risks, communicate, lead his party and handle the nation’s economy helped keep President Franklin D. Roosevelt in first place in a ranking of the country’s 43 presidents.
The Siena Research Institute’s 2010 Presidential Expert Poll ranked FDR number one. His cousin and fellow New Yorker, Theodore Roosevelt, came in second, ahead of Abraham Lincoln for the first time.
President Barack Obama came in 15th, within the range of where the country’s sitting chief executives show up in the poll.
“The respondents have been very cautious so new presidents are between 15th and 20th. They don’t want to anoint someone who’s been in office less than a year,” said Tom Kelly, Siena College emeritus professor of history and American studies, and co-director of the study.
Rounding out the top five are Lincoln in third, George Washington in fourth and Thomas Jefferson in fifth. The same five presidents have held the top positions with FDR always in first and Washington always in fourth. The others have moved up and down.
If you are interested, all the details are in this pdf. George W. Bush even makes one of the lists, I would tell you, but that takes all the suspense out of it.
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Bag of Randomness
- It has rained a crazy amount this past week, and oddly enough, the rain pattern isn’t coming west to east this time, but from south to north.
- One of the best things I love about GeedingManor is that we have a decent size covered back porch, and when there’s a major storm, there’s something about sitting outside, but covered, during a major storm. I love it. I’m not sure if it reminds me of my parts of my childhood, or that I get to appreciate nature, or that the solitude is peaceful, but I love it.
- While watching the news on WFAA Sunday evening they mentioned the Rangers that made the starting lineup only to show a blooper real of the team. If it was a mistake, they ended up doing it again at a later broadcast.
- A new burger place opened in the area and WifeGeeding and I thought we would try it out. Being a burger place, I thought I would get a burger. Being that it was the 4th of July, WifeGeeding thought she would get a hotdog. The burger was OK, but WifeGeeding’s hotdog had a cold center, so I took it back. The apologized and cooked her up another one. I noticed the hotdogs look like they were frozen as they were being placed on the grill, so when the brought up the second one (along with an apology) I told her to tear it in half and feel the center . . . yup, it was cold. To be honest, neither of us were mad, maybe a little frustrated (how hard is it to cook a hotdog?) but just felt kind of sorry for the folks behind the counter and the owner of the place as it was a grand opening and they looked like they were just trying to get on their feet. But thankfully, the third time was a charm as I saw them cook two hotdogs and test the ‘experimental’ one before bringing a very hungry WifeGeeding the other one.
- There was a marathon of The Greatest American Hero that I caught a little bit of over the weekend. I never watched the show because as a kid it just looked silly and the character just didn’t look the part of what I thought a super hero should look like, but as an adult I got a kick out of the concept. Verdict . . . not bad. But man oh man, do I love that theme song.
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