who was the best president over the course of your lifetime.

[Devra]

I'd have to say Clinton but it wasn't much of a horse race considering I was born during the Regan administration

[Burma Jones]

1. Clinton...n/t

[MissMillie]

2. Clinton

no doubt about it.

[RebelOne]

3. Over the course of my lifetime, it was Kennedy. n/t

[rug]

4. Salvador Allende.

[ComerPerro]

5. Same here

[Clintmax]

6. THE BIG DOG!!! BILL CLINTON!

Gods do we need him in the White House again. :cry:

[DS1]

7. Over the coarse part of my lifetime? Bush II, obviously

[Devra]

8. okay I clicked the wrong word when I spell checked. It's fixed now

[El Fuego]

9. Clinton!!!

[leftofthedial]

10. Clinton

JFK was close second

[1gobluedem]

11. Tie

Kennedy and Clinton.

[dr.strangelove]

12. JFK - Not even close

[tallahasseedem]

13. Clinton!

Boy I miss him.

[MN ChimpH8R]

14. JFK, then Clinton eom

[Chan790]

15. Clinton

I was born before Reagan took office, but after the election, so I'm practically in the same boat. I dodged a bullet in that my very republican parents discussed Reagan as a baby name.

They chose something else thankfully, but it really didn't matter as I have 4 birth names and use none of them, nor any derivative.

[ThatsMyBarack]

16. Clinton!

I was a little kid during the Carter admin., so I don't remember a whole lot about him....

[Divameow77]

17. Clinton

I was born during Carter so too young to really judge him.

[Deep13]

18. a real Texan

b. 1967

Clinton did well, of course, but Johnson was a towering figure. He fought for the poor, for civil rights and contained aggression without starting WW3. I know people fault him for Vietnam and he did mismanage the whole thing. Still his accomplishments were substantial.

[thinkingwoman]

19. Clinton

I was born in 1965.

[graywarrior]

20. John Kennedy

[Devra]

21. It appears that Clinton is in the lead

[Oceansaway]

22. Clinton.......

[Arkana]

23. Clinton, the *ONLY* Democrat to hold the office during my lifetime.

[Devra]

24. same here

[Aristus]

25. Clinton, with Carter a close second. And LBJ as an honorable mention.

Like a lot of people, I can see LBJ's accomplishments without the tragic black penumbra of Vietnam hanging over them. It's so sad that a man as gifted as he had no more power or ability than B*sh to extricate himself from such a ruinous exercise in global power politics. And, unlike B*sh, he had an actual domestic policy legacy to protect.

[noonwitch]

26. Clinton-I was born a year after Kennedy died.

I liked Jimmy Carter as a person, but he was too nice of a guy to be an effective president.
I liked Gerald Ford, but being from Grand Rapids, MI, it's sort of mandated.
LBJ did some good things-signed civil rights legislation, mostly, but he did make a mess of Vietnam.
Nixon did some good things, too. Watergate as a scandal doesn't even touch the seriousness of Iran/Contra or the current leak investigation, although the assassination of Allende comes close.