{"id":547,"date":"2005-09-20T13:19:16","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T20:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=547"},"modified":"2005-09-20T13:19:16","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T20:19:16","slug":"rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/09\/20\/rank\/","title":{"rendered":"rank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003687\"><\/a>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know much about Americanism, but it&#8217;s a damned good word with which to carry an election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t make a damn thing out of this tax problem.  I listen to one side and they seem right, and then &#8230; I listen to the other side and they seem right &#8230; .  I know somewhere there is a book that will give me the truth, but I couldn&#8217;t read the book.  I know somewhere there is an economist who knows the truth, but I don&#8217;t know where to find him and haven&#8217;t the sense to know him and trust him when I find him &#8230; What a job!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Thus saideth Warren Harding, who has long been considered on respected and respectable historian&#8217;s parlor-game ranking lists of the presidents dead last.  Except recently, it would seem, he&#8217;s been lifted of this burden, to the point where he is now replaced by James Buchanan &#8212; the man who couldn&#8217;t get the way out of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Harding gets a bit of leeway due to the fact that he stated, while in office, that he made for a lousy president.<\/p>\n<p>Previous entrants amongst supposed &#8220;all-time worst&#8221;s include James Madison, for fleeing the capital.  The image was rehabilitated centuries ago&#8230; see: he wrote the damned Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Where do modern presidents rank?  Namely Our current occupant?  He ain&#8217;t no Harding &#8212; if he believes himself to be doing a bad job, he&#8217;s not saying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know much about Americanism, but it&#8217;s a damned good word with which to carry an election.&#8221; &#8220;I can&#8217;t make a damn thing out of this tax problem. I listen to one side and they seem right, and then &#8230; I listen to the other side and they seem right &#8230; . I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}