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Worst President Ever?
The Nation ^ | Feb. 11, 2007 | Nicholas von Hoffman.

Posted on 02/12/2007 6:33:02 AM PST by presidio9

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To: Chi-townChief

El BJ was Clinton as well


41 posted on 02/12/2007 6:50:50 AM PST by misterrob (Jack Bauer/Chuck Norris 2008)
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To: w1andsodidwe

Jimmy Carter was a "nucular engineer" don't you know?


42 posted on 02/12/2007 6:51:12 AM PST by Ingtar (Guliani, McCain, Clinton. A nut sandwich on fake conservative bread. Choice is an illusion.)
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To: philsfan24

Anybody who doesn't mention Carter simply has not lived during his administration.

And I was a freaking liberal when Carter had the helm!

Gawd, I recall 17% interest rates for a house, killer rabbits and worst of all, long gas lines.

Then there was the general malaise and how about the Christmas lights? Y'all remember that? Here we all were across the fruited plains, not putting up Christmas lights to conserve energy and there was ole Jimmah lighting up the fire at Camp David to warm up an area he made cold by RUNNING THE AIR CONDITIONER TO CHILL!!!

Yeah man, we had no colorful seasonal lights and there was Jimmah running the air conditioner so he could light up the fire in the middle of summer.

Damn, I got stories on Carter. If Americans today don't think a President can affect their own personal lives, man I could tell stories about how Carter damn near ruined MINE.

Turned me from a flaming liberal almost overnight.

And dadgum, I ain't even got to the hostages in Iran yet.

Man..and now the mean writes blatant lies about it all...I could spit.


43 posted on 02/12/2007 6:51:20 AM PST by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com)
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To: presidio9
" ... and he was also afflicted with Bill Clinton's zipper disease .... "

That's it? That's all the writer wants to mention about the traitor that sold us out to China? It's all about sex?

Before the jury comes back in on President Bush ... it had better fill a few warehouses with the documented and verifiable treason of x42.

44 posted on 02/12/2007 6:51:27 AM PST by knarf (Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
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To: Huck

Hell, if they burned it now that would be a good thing. You can take all of SE and NE and toss them in the trash.


45 posted on 02/12/2007 6:52:29 AM PST by misterrob (Jack Bauer/Chuck Norris 2008)
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To: presidio9

Apparently the author has forgotten Mr. Peanut. He needs a work-up for Alzheimer's, pronto.


46 posted on 02/12/2007 6:53:16 AM PST by sono (There are only two exit strategies - One is victory, the other defeat - Joe Lieberman)
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To: al_c

Is George Bush the worst President in American history?

No. He was dealt one of the ugliest hands in presedential history, though ... the attacks on 9/11, the ensuing war on terror (a very expensive one), an economy making the adjustment to wartime and the price of oil, etc. How he has managed to keep his sanity is beyond me.

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Don't forget how the Democrats blocked nearly every confirmation of every appointment that Bush tried to make when he got the Presidency. He spent as much time fighting them then as he does the terrorists now.


47 posted on 02/12/2007 6:53:40 AM PST by Loud Mime (“War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision." Gen Douglas Mac Arthur)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The name "Carter" does not appear in this article. And "Clinton" is mentioned tangentially.

How odd.

I truly think Clinton would have won the prize if not for a Republican congress keeping a more-or-less tight rein on him. As it is, though, Carter is head and shoulders above (below?) the pack.

48 posted on 02/12/2007 6:54:06 AM PST by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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To: RabidBartender
I believe that Carter really was sad to see the Soviet Union lose the Cold War.

I would not be a bit surprised if we were to learn in many decades that Carter was a mole of a foreign power or an elite multinational cabal that wanted America to be weak.

And Carter was a nuclear expert, and pronounced it "nucular." It seems to me that that should make it an acceptable pronunciation.

49 posted on 02/12/2007 6:54:56 AM PST by Montfort
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To: al_c

"No. He was dealt one of the ugliest hands in presedential history, though ... the attacks on 9/11, the ensuing war on terror (a very expensive one), an economy making the adjustment to wartime and the price of oil, etc. How he has managed to keep his sanity is beyond me."

AMEN!


50 posted on 02/12/2007 6:55:21 AM PST by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: presidio9
Hoover, Democratic propaganda to the contrary, did not cause the Great Depression nor was he indifferent to his people's sufferings.

But, FDR, not even mentioned here, used the Depression for political purposes and established policies that both prolonged and deepened the Depression. He also took several giant steps forward in establishing dependency on the government for almost everything.

The worse year for the depression was 1937, after four years of FDR's Presidency. My vote for worse Presidency ever is FDR 1933 to 1941.

51 posted on 02/12/2007 6:55:41 AM PST by Michael.SF. (It's time our lawmakers paid more attention to their responsibilities, and less to their privileges.)
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To: rhombus

Agreed! Carter again wins "Worst President Ever" by failing to take out Iran in 1979...


52 posted on 02/12/2007 6:56:07 AM PST by Frank_2001
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To: presidio9

Of course the Nation left off the obvious candidates, Jimmy Carter and Woodrow Wilson.

Carter: Stagflation and the 'misery index', gas lines, Iranian hostage crisis

Woodrow Wilson: He was a not so closeted racist, Creation of the League of Nations, the Treaty of Versailles, and an appeasement type culture which ultimately led to WW2 and the Cold War. Wilson created the federal income tax.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/books/20050702-110815-6831r.htm


53 posted on 02/12/2007 6:56:16 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: presidio9
I'm surprised Franklin Pierce wasn't on the list. He was so bad that his party didn't renominate him in 1856 (the only incumbent to suffer this fate). Worse, he was a drunk, the joke about him was, "Franklin Piece, Hero of a Well Fought Bottle".

Regards, Ivan

54 posted on 02/12/2007 6:56:20 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: presidio9
Aside from being a dull, unimaginative, dray horse of a politician, he was the President whose cowardice in handling the South and slavery ended the remotest possibility that the United States would be spared the horrors of the Civil War.

He can see this but he can't see that Clinton ended the remotest possibility that we could be spared a war with OBL, et al.

55 posted on 02/12/2007 6:57:05 AM PST by patj
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To: presidio9
Just like Buchanan's idiocy allowed the Civil War conflict to start, Carters ineptitude in backing the Shah allowed Iran to fall, which is the stronghold for the enemy in the war on Terror.

We seem to forget the Iranian revolution was in 1979, during Carter's watch. In classic Carter style, he abandoned the Shah for human rights violations, to be replaced by the humane Islamic republic. Now instead of back room beatings, we have public stonings in Iran.

Carter was far worse. His bungling started an international war.
56 posted on 02/12/2007 6:57:10 AM PST by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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To: presidio9
How about Jackson, who gave us the genocidal trail of tears, over the protests of the Supreme Court?

No. No one is worse than Carter. Carter has it sewn up.

57 posted on 02/12/2007 6:57:25 AM PST by Montfort
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To: presidio9

Jimmy Carter...we havent yet felt the full brunt of his incometence...also LBJ, if he had done in 1965, what Nixon did in 1972 with Linebacker, the Vietnam war might have ended in 1965-66.


58 posted on 02/12/2007 6:57:47 AM PST by Oct1967
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To: presidio9

Jimmy Carter gave us the MUSLIM problem we have today and Chavez would NOT be Dictator of Venezuela had Carter not put his stamp of approval on his "election".


59 posted on 02/12/2007 6:58:32 AM PST by Suzy Quzy
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To: al_c

He certainly was handed a pile of crap, not along by Carter and Klintoon, but his own father and yes, even St. Ronnie the Perfect, who all punted on Islamofacism.

I see Jon Carry saying we should "engage" the crazy mullahs in Iran, and I say, no matter how low Bush goes in the public eye, at least that clown isn't President.


60 posted on 02/12/2007 6:58:58 AM PST by JacksonCalhoun (CT native in exile in NC - we have moonbats here in Dixie, too)
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