[Hoot Gibson]

It is very difficult to list 10 but here goes:

#1 George Washington
#2 Honest Abe Lincoln
#3 FDR
#4 Thomas Jefferson
#5 Ronald Reagan
#6 IKE
#7 Teddy Roosevelt
#8 James Monroe
#9 Harry Truman
#10 G. W. Bush

I know, I know, why G. W.? Because I will never forget 9-11 and neither should our nation...unfortunately, many already have. Unlike Johnson, who escalated Viet Nam and introduced us to operating under a deficit and robbing Social Security to fund the war and burden tax payers with the 'Great Society' (which opens a whole new social can of worms). G.W. had to respond with force to the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor - fighting terrorism is not cheap. He took the fight to them!

I totally agree with Hoot, #43 is Jimmy Carter and #44 is B. Hussein.

Bush did some great things and I supported him 100% on the war on terror, including the battle to free Iraq from its mass murdering dictator, but TARP and other domestic spending knocked him way down my list. Spending billions of taxpayer dollars fighting AIDS in Africa was inexcusable, IMO. The money should have been spent in the US fighting diseases that are not mostly avoidable through behavior modification.

Bush 41 would have made my list had he not reneged on his pledge to not raise taxes and paved the way for Bill Clinton's two terms. GHWB, with the help of Cheney, Powell and other administration officials, prosecuted the Gulf War as effectively as any US administration has ever led a war effort.