Sorry, no one else was gonna vote for him.

since 1900 to get fewer votes in a presidential election than a 3rd party candidate.

Best three: Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Kennedy.

Bottom three: Ronald Reagan, Herbert Hoover, Shrub Bush.

Least favorite Democrats: Wilson and LBJ

Worst: Reagan, GHWB, GWB

FDR, Kennedy

Ronald Reagan
George W Bush
Herbert Hoover

He definitely didn't respond to the Great Depression well - but the Great Depression was not his fault. It was Coolidge's, who, believe it or not, was kind of a hero to Ronald Reagan. Coolidge let the economy run unchecked during the Roaring 20s and it all culminated in the epic crash months into Hoover's presidency.

No question.

Worst: Wilson & Reagan (again one of each party)

Did you mean FDR?

The honey badger of Presidents.

What the world needs is a photoshopped picture of TR riding a giant honey badger..

... and start the EPA... and the Department of Natural Resources.
... and pass the Clean Air Act...
... and sign Title IX for women in scholastic athletics...
... and pushed desegregation in schools...
... and had more women appointees than Johnson...
... and ended the draft...
... and implement the first affirmative action program...
... and formed OSHA...

not because of what he did (or didn't) do, but because he was a lying SOB. I met Nixon once (at Mark Clark's retirement from the Citadel) and watched in amazement as Watergate unfolded. He was certainly a skilled politician, but he was immoral and a criminal.

I also would include both Bushes (and Jeb) as scofflaws who should have never been anywhere close to the White House.

Nixon opened up China to US companies and the cheap labor the government offers there.
poof
30 years later that's where all America's manufacturing jobs were.

Worst Democrats: Carter, Clinton, Obama.

Worst Republicans: Harding, Saint Ronnie, and GWB.

Top 3: FDR, JFK...I'm scraping here...I guess Carter. He may not have been effective, but at least he was a decent human being, and his post-presidential legacy will be large.

Bottom 3: Reagan, GWB, Hoover

Bottom 3 Democrats: Obama, Clinton, Truman

President Carter was a man of incredible personal courage and integrity. During the energy crisis, he not only suggested turning the thermostat down, but wore sweaters because he had turned the thermostat down. He got rid of the gold plated perks of the Air Force One set.

His failures? Economic crisis, not much he could have done. Desert One rescue mission. That was a debacle when it was planned. Even I know that you don't send disparate units from different services that have never even seen one another before to meet up in enemy held territory. But this was the plan given him by the Pentagon with all the assurances that the units could do exactly what was promised. If we are to blame President Carter for that, for accepting the plan drawn up by the Pentagon, the ones responsible for plans, and chastise him for not being a military planning genius what does that mean for us?

I personally think that President Carter did everything humanly possible given the time, the circumstances, and the challenges he faced. I will always admire his astonishing courage in going to Three Mile Island when everyone with a lick of sense was running as far away as possible. No other President would have done so. No other leader did so. Only President Carter had the requisite knowledge of the dangers and the risk, and only President Carter could take a first hand look and understand exactly what the Engineers were saying.

I can't think of any policies of his that I disagreed with, but admittedly my knowledge is hardly complete. But as a man, in his job, at that time, I can not imagine that I would have done half as well given the challenges. I doubt that anyone on your list of greats would have done as well given the problems that President Carter faced.

So as for me, I absolutely approve and respect the former President, because I would have had to change my underwear before I got halfway down the driveway to Three Mile Island.

That certainly didn't help matters.

The times were difficult, the intention was to reform the policies of the Shah. That is more easily done as a friend than as an enemy, or as some sort of rabid screaming lunatic. Take a homeless person. A moron who shouts at the homeless to get a fucking job is ignored by the homeless, or similarly attacked. But someone who comes forward in compassion and respect is often received the same way.

President Carter hoped and to some extent started to succeed in the effort to reign in the Iranian Secret Police. When things went bad, Carter asked the Embassy in Paris to meet with the Ayatollah Khomanie. (I suspect that I am mis-spelling a number of words. I am mobile at the moment, and have limited resources for such long responses) the Embassy personnel reported that this was a great guy. Carter went with the opinions of his subordinates, again what other choice did he have.

President Carter had the best of intentions and desires, and some very bad luck, and bad advice. But his defining personality traits remain. Absolute integrity, and courage. I wish he had some better luck, but I give him credit for trying to make the world a better place.

And started arming the mujahideen in Afghanistan.

Two paths we really shouldn't have chosen.

Was intended to eliminate monopolies. Before that, even short flights were insanely expensive. International was the pursue of Pan-Am and if you wanted to fly overseas,mthey were nearly your only choice. There have been some problems, value jet for example. But it was intended to and largely has made air travel available to the masses taking it from the upper classes where it was kept by price and monopoly policies.

And as for making air travel available to the masses, I submit that it worked only if the masses live in large markets. For the smaller ones, prices went up and services were cut.

Sometimes new ideas are not better.

He was a game changer.

Worst: Reagan, Dimson Bush, Clinton.

Obama isn't done yet so I can't rate him.

Parks, Canals, Conservation.

New Deal, Victory.

Civil Rights, Medicare.

Obama without a shadow of a doubt.

Top would be FDR, TR and JFK

Bottom would be Raygun, Bush the Second and Harding

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Least favourite presidents: Coolidge, Hoover, Reagan, Bush Jr. (that's already 4, and I haven't mentioned Harding, Nixon or Bush Sr).

LBJ is in a special category as one of the best presidents ever for domestic policy, and one of the worst ever for foreign policy.

In the UK: favourites: Attlee as my all-time fave; Churchill for his great role in defeating the Nazis (though he was a pretty useless peacetime PM); Lloyd George for his great early reforms, though he was almost as bad a betrayer as Clegg by the end; perhaps one of the earliest 20th century PMs, Campbell-Bannerman; within my lifetime the only PM I'd consider as definitely good was Harold Wilson.

Least favourites: guess who comes out at the bottom, yes, the one-and-only THATCHER; most people between the wars - esp. Baldwin and Chamberlain; of Labourites, Blair. I put Thatcher below the bad PMs of the 1920s and 30s, not because her policies were objectively worse, but because they maintained what was already a bad status quo, and she actively made out country worse from a much better starting point.

I'll make an exception for one of them

best: Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman

worst: GWBush, Harding, Reagan

Ford was just a place-holder. I can (finally) acknowledge Nixon's accomplishments even though the thought of the man still makes my flesh crawl. Hoover was a great humanitarian when he was in charge of relief efforts for Europe, but he couldn't get a handle on the Great Depression. Johnson was good on domestic issues, poor on foreign ones. I don't know enough about Wilson (but I'm currently reading the new bio). I think Kennedy's death has colored how we look at his administration.

And McKinley's so 19th century (ducks).

All of the worst democratic presidents did some great stuff.

His role in the Philippine war should rank him near the bottom of the list IMO. He didn't even have the decency to claim that the Philippines were a threat to us.

He's just as immoral (if not more so) than George W. Bush.