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One of the 200 historians asked to participate, Craig Shirley, speaks out on  Siena College's left-leaning biases and predispositions. As for Barack Obama ranking above Ronald Reagan? "Ridiculous."...

Barack Obama A Better President than Reagan? No Chance

Siena College has just released its annual ranking of America’s 44 presidents, and I was delighted to be among the 200 historians to be asked to participate in evaluating the chief executives.

The responses are confidential but I will reveal that I ranked George Washington as our greatest president and not Franklin Roosevelt.

The fact that FDR and other “progressive” presidents score so high surely indicates a certain level of bias in the historians chosen and surveyed. Empirical data demonstrates that FDR never solved the Great Depression and indeed, probably exacerbated it with his New Deal policies; however he does deserve all the credit for winning WW II. On the other hand, after America was attacked on December 7th, any president who had not responded just as forcefully would have been impeached.

Surely the bias of those surveyed was underscored with the nonsensical ranking of Barack Obama ahead of Ronald Reagan.

First, Obama should not have even been included. He’s only been in office for a year and a half.

Further, many have argued that sufficient time should pass before these evaluations begin and that even Bill Clinton and George W. Bush ought to be left off the list until passions have cooled and they can be judged more dispassionately.

But objectively, how does one really put Obama ahead of Reagan, who unlike FDR, solved his economic calamity in two years (and in the process, tamed the high inflation, high interest rates and created 19 million jobs in the private sector) and, oh by way, won the Cold War. Reagan critics in academia argue that Mikhail Gorbachev and Reagan concluded the Cold War.

Ridiculous.

You can listen to the bastards at Siena College here, speaking of...what else? Democrats, their chosen party.

Liberal professors outnumber conservative professors 10:1. These people may be book-smart but they lack any pretense of common sense. Liberal professors have little real-world experience. Once they get 'tenure' they can coast, without having to produce anything acceptable to a paying, critical employer. They can't be held accountable for their production, however sloppy it is. Instead, they conduct 'peer reviews', where their peers are of the same mindset; mostly socialist, leftist idiots who could not survive in a world where they didn't have 'tenure' and soft, easy paychecks. I can tell you of one in particular, childlike and immature, who...but never mind. His sorts are a dime a dozen, and easily dismissed.

As for this particular 'poll of leftist historians', just bear in mind: there's nothing coming out of Siena College except biased leftist ideology(s).

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