Who was the greatest President in your lifetime?

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14. I think all three recent Dem presidents have been excellent.

President Obama got us the ACA (a big f***ing deal, as someone noted), pulled us out of the Great Recession, and was a tremendous role model as well. The only complaint I have is that he was not a great partisan leader, perhaps believing (nobly) that the president should be above that.

President Clinton presided over a time of great prosperity and peace. His efforts to bring peace to the world were impressive-- Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and Kosovo come to mind. He was agonizingly close in the eternal Arab-Israeli conflict too. Unfortunately, his personal weaknesses detract a fair bit from his later effectiveness.

President Biden has only been president for two years, but he has done more with less than any president of memory. He's gotten a tremendous amount of consequential legislation through a 50-50 Senate and a very slim majority in the House. We'll see what happens next.

In the end, I voted for President Obama in the poll.