My ranking would go something like this:
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FDR.
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Ronald Reagan
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Teddy Roosevelt
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Ike
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G. W. Bush
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J.F.K.
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Woodrow Wilson
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Harry Truman
He’ll certainly go down in history, though I fear it’ll be for being the President Who Bankrupt The Nation.
Well, so far he has a lock on “Worst President serving a full term this Century.”
I think he’d be at the top of the list of “Presidents of whom the public’s opinions are the most polarized”.
I don’t have respect for any list of modern presidents that doesn’t have Warren G Harding in the top five.
Oh, Bush will go down, all right.
I just hope Larry Flynt has someone around around to take pictures.
If you sort all the presidents by first name in descending order, Harding is number 5.
Will there be a ‘Top five Best Interns that will go down in history’ thread soon?
I got my money on the dark filly.
What’s the best way to clean vomit off a keyboard?
Heh. At least he didn’t have Nixon on there.
There hasn’t been a decent American president since Herbert Hoover.
As he does in “Best President serving a full term this Century.”
Holy flurking schnitt, I hope not!
I guess it depends if you consider destroying a country’s reputation, wreaking havoc across the world, and being an inarticulate boob as being ‘great’.
There’s a list people agree on somewhere?
“Didn’t need no welfare state.”
::Gag::
My list would kick your list’s ass. I mean, if I was lonely and boring enough to actually make a list of last century’s greatest presidents, that is. And if I did, I doubt I’d be able to make it up to five spots unless I was really fucked up on E or something.
Ain’t no way Bush is making any top 100 presidents list unless he can figure out a way to have a viable exit strategy from Iraq that doesn’t result in that country self-destructing; that No Child Left Behind leads to substantive improvement in public school education; and that his pie-in-the-sky Social Security “private investment” plan works without a) costing us a zillion dollars and b) forcing old people whose “private investments” go belly-up to live on dog food.
Simply stated, Bush has made a royal mess of things. He’s got four years to clean it up.
Robin
Hey, I think he’s as much a miserable failure as you do, but surely he at least has to rank 43rd? 
For the time being, I suppose.