For only the second time in these soon-to-be-over aughts, America had two different presidents in one week, giving the Interweb twice the fodder for more-or-less political list-making. Parsing through our online colleagues’ output for our weekly catch-up listicle Weekly Wednesdays, we came across a sampling of the most obscure policy points, tangential pop cultural tie-ins, summarizing catch-alls, prescriptive wish-lists and predictive extrapolations. From those findings we’ve reduced the best to a concentrate of our Best Presidential Listicles (divided into two sections for the week’s two presidents to avoid confusion).

Obama Listicles

• Top 10 Moments of Obama’s Inauguration: The good folks at Gawker make the tough calls when nobody else will. For our part, we’d never feel comfortable saying for sure that the jumbled Oath of Office was a better moment than Joseph Lowery’s speech. Also, is Cheney’s wheel-chair bound state really better than the super-cute Obama girls? We think that’s ableist.

• Top 20 Moments from the Inaugural Balls: Gawker continues its micro-coverage of Obamaguration this morning with these snapshots of highlights from last night’s inaugural balls (that sounds dirty). We must confess that when we first saw the shot of Mariah Carey we thought it was Beyoncé, then we realized we now live in post-race America.

• 5 Things Obama Must Say About Detroit: A terrific exercise in policy projection and fantasy speech writing, we’re especially impressed that The Huffington Post’s Steve Parker manages to balance calls for federal protection of Detroit’s auto industry with calls for complete dedication to sustainable development.

• 8 Policy Objectives for Asian Relations on Obama’s Checklist: A more appropriate title might have been “8 Ways Obama Should Change U.S. Policy Towards Taiwan.” Still, this helpful listicle from Asia Times adds nuance to China-centric East-Asian policy debates, and also helps to undermine the conventional image of China as a monolithic capitalist monster disguised in communist garb. (via Huffington Post)

• 8 Unexpected Obama Products: Proving the unbelievable wealth of Obamarabelia, we’re especially grateful to Complex for bringing the Obama ice cream (Ben & Jerry’s “Yes PeCan”) to our attention.

• Obama’s Internet in 10 Websites: This fun listicle from Urlesque extrapolates 10 sites our new president would probably enjoy based on campaign trail revelations. The suggestion he check out The Daily Puppy is, we think, kinda silly, but they were dead on in recommending Wikipedia’s guide to hand gestures.

• 10 First Ladies Who Never Wanted The Title: Tangentially Obama-related for taking Michelle Obama’s political ambitions as its starting point, mental_floss’s look at less engaged first ladies from U.S. history is fascinating. We especially enjoyed reading about Eliza Johnson (pictured below), who taught her husband Andrew to read and write and deferred all her first lady duties to their daughter so she could tend more attentively to the president’s needs.

• 5 Ways the GOP Can Attack Obama: Not that there were any substantial criticisms Republicans might have levelled at Obama before yesterday’s inauguration, but this satiric listicle from 23/6 mostly revels in the complete powerlessness of the current GOP, something we always enjoy.

George W. Bush

• 10 Bush Pardons to Watch For: Attempting to predict the outgoing president’s final pardons (always a touchy subject), Politico covers GOP buddies big and small, public and private. Our favorite suggestion is the prospective pardon of Scooter Libby. (via Huffington Post)

• 8 Dumb Things George W. Bush Said About the Environment: We can never get enough Bushisms, so we’ll be missing the outgoing president’s wonderful quotables for years to come. TreeHugger provides this parting dose especially dedicated to environmental misspeaks. Our favorite: “Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.” (New Delhi, India, Mar. 2, 2006)

Happy Obama era!