Academic surveys conducted over the last 65 years have consistently ranked Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and George Washington as our top three presidents, in various orders. John F. Kennedy has ranked as high as 6th and as low as 15th but, in the aggregate, he has consistently outranked ALL of his predecessors, including Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. And in surveys ranking First Ladies, while Eleanor Roosevelt is always indisputably ranked 1st, Jacqueline Kennedy is usually named as 3rd or 4th, always ahead of Lady Bird Johnson and Martha Washington and, always ahead of Hillary Clinton in the three surveys conducted since Bill Clinton left office. (Hillary ranked ahead of Jacqueline in the 1993 survey when Bill had only been in office a few months.) Yet, the total time in office for John F. Kennedy was only 2 years and 10 months (1,036 days). William Henry Harrison, our 9th president, only served 31 days before dying in office. Our 20th president, James Garfield, served only 199 days before being shot. Number 12, Zachery Taylor, served only 492 days before dying. Our 29th president, Warren G. Harding, served 881 days before dying. More recently, Gerald R. Ford, number 38, served the remaining 2 years and 5 months of Nixon’s 2nd term, a total of 895 days in office. And Millard Fillmore, our 13th president, served 969 days, the remaining 2 years and 7 months of Zachery Taylor’s term. As of today, President Obama has 980 days REMAINING in his time in office. That’s TWO YEARS and eight months. That’s only 2 months shy of John F. Kennedy’s ENTIRE TIME in office. That’s LONGER than the entire terms of SIX of our previous presidents. I’ll BE ready for Hillary when President Obama is into the lame-duck days of his administration, TWO YEARS FROM NOW, when he has only 8 months remaining in office. But I’m not ready now. I’m not ready to blow by the next two years as if nothing else can be done. I’m not ready for a co-presidency where the media complex solicits a position from Hillary on every issue to paste alongside President Obama’s position. I’m not ready to concede the marginalization of President Obama by EITHER the malevolent-intented conservatives OR, short-sighted liberals with attention-deficits and lack of focus. And the latter group might want to think about the fact that the full one-third of the US Senate which will be elected in 2014, will still be serving through the end of Hillary’s first term in office. So liberals who are tired of the gridlock and think it will change with the election of Hillary, are in for a big surprise. If they don’t help President Obama now by giving him a Senate that will work with him to accomplish his remaining agenda, they are going to find her first four years to be just like his last two that they so willingly sacrificed.
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 19:13:08 +0000
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