We, the People make fools of ourselves in a Presidents' Day poll

Any way you look at it, this poll is bad news. That anybody- much less the percentages of the American people indicated- prefer Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, or even Ronald Reagan to our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, is a joke.

Clinton was no more than a reasonably competent jerk. Jack Kennedy was a flashy mediocrity who accomplished nothing- and as big a jerk as Clinton. Obama shows every indication of being a failure as president. Of the alternatives mentioned in the poll, only Washington and Reagan and FDR and maybe Truman and Jefferson are fit to be even mentioned in the same breath as Lincoln. And even they don't really come close.

Apparently we are a people remarkable either for our historical ignorance, or for our bad taste in presidents.