Presidential Rankings

I disagree with a lot of this most recent ranking of the presidents by historians.

Bush II, Reagan, Kennedy, Grant, and Nixon should be lower on the list, while FDR should be above Washington and maybe even Lincoln, but historians are loath to rank anybody above the top two. Carter should be higher than Grant, who went down in scandal regardless of whatever civil rights he supported.

JFK died, of course, before he could really get much accomplished. However, he was the one who started the ball rolling on civil rights legislation, and only after he was assassinated could the proposals actually get enacted. And when they did, the Democrats lost the deep South forever. A more important accomplishment of JFK was instituting the space program, specifically explorations to the moon, which are not appreciated now but will in the very long term when more and more explorations, including manned explorations become more common. I liken JFK's "vision" regarding landing on the moon to Queen Isabella having Christopher Columbus travel to the "Indies," which lead to the "discovery" of the New World. Hundreds of years from now, JFK's call for space exploration could be as important to the human race as the discovery of America.

And Reagan? The only good thing about him is his rise helped set the stage for the ultimate downfall of the GOP.

I can't stand revisionists.
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