Ranking the Presidents from top to buttom

[JohnFKennedy]

Best presidents ever?

1. Kennedy
2. Washington
3. Lincoln
4. FDR
5. CLINTON!!!  : D (seriously, I can get over the woman problems, he's the best president we've had in years)    

Kennedy top? I am gonna like you!!!

[JohnFKennedy]

i know he isn't the greatest president, but he is my favourite and the one I most admire (although I don't know much about most of them)

[JohnFKennedy]

Top 10:

#1 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
#2 John F. Kennedy (D)
#3 Abraham Lincoln (R)
#4 George Washington (D-R)
#5 Ronald Reagan* (R)
#5 Harry S Truman (D)
#6 Theodore Roosevelt (R)
#7 Grover Cleveland (D)
#8 Bill Clinton (D)
#9 Richard Nixon (R)
#10 James Monroe (D-R)

* I may not agreed with Reagan's tactics in dealing with the Eastern Bloc, but he was a major cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

5 Democrats there, 3 Republicans and 2 Democratic-Republicans, reasonable spread I would say.....

[JohnFKennedy]

OK, those who would be in my top 10 list, in no particular order yet, would be the follwoing:

Reagan

Washington

FDR

Truman

Lincoln

Jefferson

Eisenhower

Well, those are all that qualify right now...to be continued, I guess...

That's 2 Dems and 2 Reps from te time when those labels are applicable.

are you not counting lincoln as a republican?

[JohnFKennedy]

OK, those who would be in my top 10 list, in no particular order yet, would be the follwoing:

Reagan

Washington

FDR

Truman

Lincoln

Jefferson

Eisenhower

Well, those are all that qualify right now...to be continued, I guess...

That's 2 Dems and 2 Reps from te time when those labels are applicable.

are you not counting lincoln as a republican?

Too far back imo. The parties were so different back then that it makes little sense I think, but if you want me to, I can write him down as a Rep...

was just wondering why you didn't......

[JohnFKennedy]

darn soulty, ya beat me, 137/8 but then again, I took the test at 15 and your iq doesn't settle down till you hit 16 lol, I thought Bush had never taken an iq test but they thought his iq was between 115 and 120. When did he take the test?

I regard some of the things Bush has done in his life as pretty stupid though, e.g. drunk driving.

[JohnFKennedy]

I will also add that 1) I don't have a lot of confidence in IQ tests, I've taken a few who all turned up pretty different results, 2) intelligence does not ensure good judgement, the number one quality ofa good leader and 3) I think the stuff about Einstein doing badly in school is a myth, even though I agree that good results in school are not necessarily correlated with intelligence.

1) Different tests measure different things.  I have also had this problem, but I'm going at least by MY MENSA scores and that is generally considered accurate.  Many IQ test have a problem in that they are created to measure the IQ of an average person.  So they can become inaccurate past the 120 range.  If the first test you took was geared toward an average test taker and the second was for a higher level test tkaer, you could end-up with very different result.

2) No argueement there.  That wasn't my point.

3) It's not a myth.  I did a bio on Einstien for a class once.  It's true.

the ones I have taken are geared towards the average people.....

[JohnFKennedy]

The Rosenbergs deserved to be executed, and their guilt became even more clear when the Soviet files were opened after the end of the Cold War.

The Rosenberg execution raises my opinion of Eisenhower, that he stood up to those who wanted to spare the Rosenbergs.  They deserved what they got.

dazzleman, it is alleged that it was more Ethel Rosenberg's brother who was involved rather than her and her husband, that they were only minorly involved.