Is Barack Obama the best President ever?

I believe that he did okay for a president. He definitely did better that quite a few other presidents. There are those who like to complain and say he is a terrible president but try to compare him to the last one.

Historians have voted Barack Obama the 12th best President in US history.

C-Span surveyed nearly 100 presidential historians who ranked the former leader highly in several categories.

They said Mr Obama performed well on areas including economic management, and also in "pursuing justice for all", in which he ranked third among all presidents.

But he placed only 39th for his relationship with Congress and 24th for international relations.

His predecessor George W Bush ranked 33rd overall, up three places since 2009, while Bill Clinton came in at 15th. Abraham Lincoln took the top spot, followed by George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower rounded out the top five in the third survey of its kind.

Mr Obama ranked 12th in the "setting an agenda category", 15th for crisis leadership and seventh for moral authority.

Historian Richard Norton Smith, one of the academic advisers for the survey, said: "The golden age of the American presidency, according to this survey, is 1933 to 1969.

"Five presidents from this era each rank in the top 10 which tells you something about the criteria that historians tend to use.

"It reinforces Franklin Roosevelt's claim to be not only the first modern president but the man who, in reinventing the office, also established the criteria by which we judge our leaders."

He is for education. Obama has always been an advocate for education, making it a top priority during his administration. Believing education is what brings about the strength of a nation, Obama has set a goal for the U.S. to have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020. He has increased federal funding and doubled the amount of grant money allocated to students seeking a higher education to cover rising tuition costs. During his presidency, Obama also passed the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans and the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics to ensure equal education for people of color.

He is for entertaining the masses. If we have to listen to a president yakitty-yak about this or that for another four years, we might as well pick one with charisma and charm. If you can’t find anything else appealing about Obama, you can’t deny the fact that the guy is an amazing speaker with wit, fantastic comedic timing and an incredible intellect. In fact, I will go so far as to say that when the man does finally retire from politics, he has a rewarding and lucrative job as a stand up comic awaiting him if he so chooses. When’s the last time you heard a president joke about drinking beer, belt out Al Green with poise and precision at a moment’s notice and admit to watching the Kardashians?