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how is a president supposed to control race relations? i never really understood that idea (if we are talking the simple black v white which everyone talks about, like somehow the other ethnicities and racial groups around the world don't matter). I would also think you consider what Obama walked into when he started that he improved things more then he likely gets credit for. Of course this stuff is b.s. for majority of people who look at it. Not sure the exact criteria to measure this but seems awfully bias and subjective a lot of the time.
I always thought of Clinton as being in the right place at the right time....the .com boom era.
Polk rules. Real workhorse.
That was pre-9/11. A lot of people have completely lost their #### since 9/11 and live day to day with wildly irrational fears and entitlement. (see: support for Muslim ban).
I do. I credit him for 4 huge achievements: opening up China, establishment of the EPA, ending the Vietnam War, and detante with the Soviet Union. All of these had lasting, positive impact on our history, and IMO they do more than enough to make up for his corruption and other faults.
And that's ok. It's a question of value judgements and we're all different on that, the list in the OP is no different.
How many presidents served a term filled with peace and prosperity and were never re-elected?
Extremely overrated. Gets too much credit for fall of Soviet Union. Trickle down economics, start of runaway debt, turned a blind eye to the aids epidemic, Iran contra fiasco, armed the Iraqis who gassed the Kurds, etc etc. But hey, he spoke well and made us feel good about ourselves.Ghost Rider said:
I think you may underrate this. This is a very big deal. Only a handful of Presidents have made the American public feel good about themselves.
Reagan is the reason why Clinton felt the need to say that the era of big government was over. And Obama hoped to be the "liberal Reagan." When multiple presidents from the other party are still modeling themselves after you a quarter century after leaving office, I'd say you did well.
Eh, Reagan pulled America out of a crisis. So he gets big points for that. But most of its history America has been a very positive country, in fact for most of its history the people have generally been very proud. We've had some moments of doubt - Carter, LBJ, GW Bush - but Trump is the only president to ever, ever bad mouth the US. It's still early so he's not on the list, but he's already unique in the very negative regard.
