Washington? I doubt it. Jefferson? Certainly not. Adams? Doubtful Lincoln? Certainly not. Teddy Roosevelt? Unlikely. FDR? Nope. Eisenhower? Not a chance. LBJ? You're joking of course.
Whereas duff Presidents - Woodrow Wilson for example- are quite another matter.
You really rate Woodrow Wilson as a duff president? He would make most people's top ten. Here's one survey among many of presidential greatness which agrees.
Leaving that aside, while I don't like Bush, you seem to me to be confusing two quite different things here. On the one hand when Bush speaks of a "relationship with the Lord" he means no more than the other two Presidents of my lifetime from his religious tradition, Carter and Clinton, did when they made similar pronouncements (as both did, Carter more often than Clinton).
On the other hand, he is clearly also an arrogant git, a character flaw that has little to do with his religious beliefs but that I suspect was shared by more than one of those on your list of great presidents!
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Whereas duff Presidents - Woodrow Wilson for example- are quite another matter.
You really rate Woodrow Wilson as a duff president? He would make most people's top ten. Here's one survey among many of presidential greatness which agrees.
Leaving that aside, while I don't like Bush, you seem to me to be confusing two quite different things here. On the one hand when Bush speaks of a "relationship with the Lord" he means no more than the other two Presidents of my lifetime from his religious tradition, Carter and Clinton, did when they made similar pronouncements (as both did, Carter more often than Clinton).
On the other hand, he is clearly also an arrogant git, a character flaw that has little to do with his religious beliefs but that I suspect was shared by more than one of those on your list of great presidents!