Hey, everybody.
So we run a webcomic called Surviving the World where we try to offer up a daily lesson about anything in science, literature, love, life, politics, religion, or just whatnot. Yesterday we had a new politics related post we felt everyone would enjoy, so we're posting it again here.
Lesson # 185 - Presidential Nicknames
Only one nickname on this entire chart is fake and was made up by us. Can you find it?
You can disagree on the placement of some of the nicknames vertically (and feel free to do it below or in our forums), but the way we reasoned it out (with help from others) was that if no thought was put into it (like Jimmy) then it really wasn't a good nickname. On the other hand, if the name was ridiculous, then you got high marks. Reagan was low because 'The Gipper' isn't even his nickname; it's something he stole from someone else.
If you disagree with the placement of the presidents horizontally, go and have it out with the Wall Street Journal and other recent sets of historical scholar rankings. (Horizontal placement is based on an average of the last five sets of rankings, and ignores the current president as his term is not yet over. Even though we all know where he'd fall horizontally. Somewhere behind our head.)
Take just a second, though, and note how many of our greatest president represented the ideals that we, the 'crazies' on the left, are in favor of - equality for all, government for the poor and elderly and everyone else in between, no entangling alliances, environmentalism, the promotion of democracy . . . those presidents knew what they were doing, and WE know what we are doing now.
The conservative talking heads can blather on all they want about how this is a center-right nation, but our ideals are the ones that they oh so cleverly ignore as having been already in place and touted by past greats.
That being said, have fun and enjoy the graph, and enjoy any other perusing of our site you may do. Thanks.