I’d like to set a different precedence on President’s Day

Lots of people are doing lists of the best and worst Presidents, generic viagra viagra today.

But I’m more interested in the most overrated and the most underated.

Most overrated: JFK.

The cult around this man is just silly. At best, there his presidency is a mixed bag. It certainly wasn’t “Camelot.”

Most underrated: This one is a lot tougher, but the fact that I haven’t heard much about Thomas Jefferson lately makes me want to pick him. I’m concerned that a man who has his own monument in D.C. and is on Mount Rushmore didn’t make the top-five Presidents in CSPANS’ Presidential Leadership Survey.

Not only was Jefferson a great President (think Louisiana Purchase, Lewis & Clark, and the separation of Church and State), but I think an argument can be made that Jefferson was the greatest man who ever held the Presidency.

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