The Jumping in Pools List of the Ten Greatest Presidents

Sorry, Barack Obama isn't on the list.

10. Grover Cleveland- He's number ten on our list because of uniqueness: he is the only President elected twice on nonconsecutive occasions and appeared on the $1,000 bill.
9. Andrew Jackson- Reduced the National Debt and was the Chuck Norris of his day.
8. Woodrow Wilson- Led the nation through WWI and signed the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
7. John Fitzgerald Kennedy- Kept our country together during our closest brush with nuclear war, the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also declared "Ich bin ein Berliner."
6. Ronald Reagan- Led the United States through the troubled eighties with his ability to communicate and helped to win the Cold War.
5. Thomas Jefferson- Purchased the Louisiana Territory from France and led America to victory in the First Barbary War.
4. Theodore Roosevelt- Started the modern conservation movement and was a massive trust-buster. Also, he was really, really cool.
3. George Washington- Our first President who held our young nation together and set standards that future Presidents would follow.
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Led our country through the Great Depression and WWII. He was also elected to four terms.
1. Abraham Lincoln- Led our country through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in revolting states.

Quote of the Day-- January 9, 2009

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

-- John F. Kennedy

Quote of the Day-- January 8, 2009

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

-- John F. Kennedy

Quote of the Day-- January 7, 2009

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

-- John F. Kennedy

Quote of the Day-- January 6, 2009

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

-- John F. Kennedy

Barack Obama is not JFK, FDR, or Lincoln

All I here about now adays is how similar Barack Obama is to the great Presidents. He's young: JFK. He's meeting with his formal rival: Abraham Lincoln. He wants change: FDR.

First, and I want to say this clearly, I have no idea what kind of President Obama will be. He very well could be the next FDR (or Theodore Roosevelt), or he could be the next James K. Polk. There is no way of knowing that now.

Second, and most importantly, these comparisons with great Presidents are irrelevent. President-Elect Obama has plenty of comparisons with bad Presidents: James Buchanan was a Senator, just like Obama. Buchanan was also a Democrat. Warren G. Harding was a Senator, Herbert Hoover was President during economic hardships.

The point is that there is no way to know how he will govern our great land, and that connections draw are simply, in a way, a waste.