Rank the Presidents from first to last

[TJ in Oregon]

I'm not a huge fan of the modern Democrats, and James Buchanan was a terrible president.

1. Lincoln
2. Washington
3. Reagan
4. Adams
5. Eisenhower
6. Truman
7. T. Roosevelt
8. H.W. Bush
9. Nixon
10. Madison
11. Grant
12. W. Bush
13. McKinley
14. Monroe
15. Jefferson
16. Polk
17. W.H. Harrison
18. Garfield
19. LBJ
20. Taylor
21. Pierce
22. B. Harrison
23. Arthur
24. Taft
25. Cleveland
26. J.Q. Adams
27. Tyler
28. Van Buren
29. Wilson
30. Coolidge
31. Hayes
32. Kennedy
33. FDR
34. Hoover
35. Fillmore
36. Ford
37. A. Johnson
38. Harding
39. Clinton
40. Obama
41. Jackson
42. Carter
43. Buchanan

[TJ in Oregon]

Wow, what a balanced and non-hackish list.

I won't argue that my list is clearly written from a Republican perspective. After all, this is the "Individual Politics" part of the forum. Personally, I don't really have a ton of respect for any president who supported abortion after 1973 and that is represented quite well on my list. I don't want to sidetrack this thread but if you want an explanation, there it is. I think mine is at least somewhat fair if you ignore every president chronologically after LBJ.

Perhaps it would be interesting to "average" everyone's lists once a few more people post and get a more non-ideological one.