[Hoot Gibson]

Richard Nixon in the top ten? What's the rubric? Opening China for Nike? Which compensated for masterminding a plan that thwarted the democratic process. Nice.

I agree with you on Nixon 100%. He was a crook and a liar who was the least conservative Republican president of my lifetime. His WIN campaign of wage and price controls would have made the current White House occupant proud.

However, Nixon's part in the Watergate break in cover-up pales in comparison to what Obama and the Democrats are doing to corral the votes to pass the horrible Health Care reform bill for which virtually no House Democrat wants to cast a vote.

Nixon also does not get enough blame for the horrible way that he ended the Vietnam War. Millions of people died in SE Asia as the result of Nixon and Kissinger negotiating a bad deal for our former allies in South Vietnam.

As much as I personally dislike Bill Clinton, I would rate him well above Nixon and Obama. He did not make my top ten, but I would place him solidly in the top 50 percent despite his impeachment (and I do believe that he deserved impeachment for committing perjury).

The Republicans who came into office deserve much of the credit for balancing the budget and passing welfare reform but those ideas could not have become law without a pragmatic Bill Clinton and he deserves a big share of the credit.