POTUSes

[Vrede too]

... Sorry. We should have been more careful after Warren G. Harding.

We appreciate that Vancouver started what Seattle and San Francisco finished. Left Coast rules!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G. ... nd_funeral

Warren G. Harding lives on, on Last Week Tonight.

"Last Week Tonight"? Is that what it's called in Canada?

[rstrong]

"Last Week Tonight"? Is that what it's called in Canada?

That clip is from Colbert's show, but it's a continuation from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

[Vrede too]

Ah.

[Vrede too]

CBC: Jimmy Carter gets medical attention after collapsing from dehydration in Winnipeg

Sorry. We should have been more careful after Warren G. Harding.

rstrong killed Jimmy. Bastard.

Carter returns to Habitat for Humanity worksite (the next day) after leaving hospital

Yet another thing that Americans are better at.

[rstrong]

Carter returns to Habitat for Humanity worksite (the next day) after leaving hospital

Yet another thing that Americans are better at.

Leaving hospitals quickly?

Yeah, that figures.

[Vrede too]

Leaving hospitals quickly?

Everyone should, they are dangerous places.

Yeah, that figures.

Killing POTUSes, though I will credit your socialist healthcare for quickly reviving the ones you fail at killing.

[rstrong]

Killing POTUSes, though I will credit your socialist healthcare for quickly reviving the ones you fail at killing.

All part of the plan. Palin. Cruz. Even Trump's Canadian origins are now public.

And now zombie Carter.

[Vrede too]

https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Jimmy-Car ... 1482566818

Zombie Carter would have been a good name for a 70s punk band, too.

[Vrede too]

Donald Trump ranked worst president in US history by nearly 200 political scientists

... Mr Trump ranks even lower than disgraced President Richard Nixon – even among conservatives. Abraham Lincoln, unsurprisingly, takes the top prize. Mr Nixon sits at 33....

Mr Trump averaged a score of 12.34, bumping James Buchanan – the president who saw the US descend into the Civil War – out of the bottom spot....

Mr Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, jumped 10 places since the survey was last conducted in 2014, to spot number eight. George W Bush also climbs in the rankings, making it five places up to number 30.

Bill Clinton did not fair was well as the other living presidents, dropping five places down to 14th. Only Andrew Jackson dropped more – down six places – possibly owing to increased attention on how he treated Native Americans.

The top seven presidents remained the exact same, with Abraham Lincoln on top, followed by George Washington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower.

Mr Trump was accompanied in the bottom five by Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, William Harrison, and Mr Buchanan.

Researchers Brandon Rottinghaus, of the University of Houston, and Justin Vaughn, of Boise State University, said they surveyed 170 political science experts for the study. Of those experts, 57.2 per cent identified as Democrats, 12.7 per cent as Republicans, and 27.1 per cent as independents.

While Republicans and Democrats differed on how they viewed figures like Mr Obama and Mr Bush, they were in fairly close agreement on My Trump: Conservatives voted him 40th out of 45.

The one area where Mr Trump did come out on top was in the “most polarising” section, in which the researchers asked the scientists to list the five presidents they found most divisive. Mr Trump was ranked most polarising by 90 of the 170 respondents, and second-most polarising by another 20.

[billy.pilgrim]

What did Obama do to rank #8?

[Vrede too]

What did Obama do to rank #8?

Idk, the article doesn't link the survey and I'm not finding it easily when I search the American Political Science Association website. The Presidential Historians Survey cited on page 1 placed Obama at #12. Do you think that's more reasonable?

[O Really]

I think they ought to have two categories, separating the really long time ago people (Washington, Jefferson, etc.) from the more recent. I don't know when the time cut-off should be, but I think there should be one.

[rstrong]

Meanwhile, somewhere in America:

Ted Cruz is plotting his 2020 Presidential run and telling his family and fellow Republicans, "I am an Amazon Prime member so it's about time you guys started treating me with a little respect!!!"

[Vrede too]

Tonight:

Running Wild With Bear Grylls
new episode
tonight, 10:00 PM on NatGeo, 1 hr 2018 TV-PG
Barack Obama

Bear takes Barack Obama on an adventure in the Alaskan wilderness.

[rstrong]

Running Wild With Bear Grylls
Bear takes Barack Obama on an adventure in the Alaskan wilderness.

Next: Running Investigations with Robert Mueller
Mueller takes Donald Trump on an adventure in the American court system.

[O Really]

Tonight:

Running Wild With Bear Grylls
new episode
tonight, 10:00 PM on NatGeo, 1 hr 2018 TV-PG
Barack Obama

Bear takes Barack Obama on an adventure in the Alaskan wilderness.

I saw that episode when it was first on. Pretty good. Maybe we can get Bear to take Trump out to the wild and just leave him.

[Vrede too]

It was okay, I was hoping for a little more Bearish fear and disgust.

Next: Running Investigations with Robert Mueller
Mueller takes Donald Trump on an adventure in the American court system.

[Vrede too]

Trump so far, worst president in US history

When it comes to which president should join Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt on Mt. Rushmore, Franklin Delano Roosevelt again comes in first, by a wide margin.

164 respondents provided answers to this question, with nearly two-thirds (65.9%) of them selecting Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He is followed by Barack Obama (7.3%), Ronald Reagan (4.9%), Dwight Eisenhower and James Madison (tied with 3.7% each), Lyndon Johnson (2.4%), and William McKinley (1.8%).

Comment:

The poll overrates him — was it conducted by Rasmussen?

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Obama ‘best’ president of recent years, Pew survey finds

President Barack Obama may no longer be in the Oval Office, but many Americans believe he did “the best job” of any president in their lifetime, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

Forty-four percent of Americans said Obama, who served two terms, is the best or second-best president of their lifetime. Bill Clinton came in next in Pew’s survey with 33 percent, followed by Ronald Reagan with 32 percent.

Only 19 percent of those surveyed said President Donald Trump has done the best or second-best job....

[Vrede too]

A little brain fart on my part - I've know for a couple of days that Obama and Bush 2 would deliver McCain's eulogies. Made sense to me that he would personally ask POTUSes, and that he wouldn't include Dolt .45. What didn't occur to me until hearing it on TV is that Obama and Bush 2 are the men that handed him his only electoral defeats ever. Wow, that's class all around.