It's About Time: Obama Voted One of Best Presidents Ever

Hard to believe it took these "leading presidential scholars" so long to realize we were living among such greatness.

George W. Bush was no FDR, but Barack Obama could be.

That's the verdict of 238 of the nation's leading presidential scholars, who - for a fifth time - rated Franklin Delano Roosevelt the best president ever in the latest Siena College Research Institute poll.

In office for barely two years, Obama entered the survey in the 15th position - two spots behind Bill Clinton and three spots ahead of Ronald Reagan.

Obama got high marks for intelligence, ability to communicate and imagination, but his score was dragged down by his relative lack of experience and family background.

Ability to communicate? Huh? The guy can't string together a coherent sentence without the aid of a TelePrompter and we're supposed to be dazzled by his intelligence?

What alternate reality do these people occupy?

"Most of the presidents came from elite backgrounds, and he certainly did not," said professor Douglas Lonnstrom, who crunched the numbers. "He grew up without a father."

So Reagan came from an elite background? Clinton? Carter? Nixon?

Naturally, George W. Bush is portrayed as a complete dunce.

Bush got docked for saddling Obama with two bloody wars and a recession, and he got low marks for "ability to compromise, foreign policy
accomplishments and intelligence," according to the survey.