Who Makes the Cut for the Worst Presidents Ever? (What a Question)

Townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2013 | Michael Medved

[sitetest]

Worst to less worse:

1. Kenyan anti-Christ.
2. Carter.
3. Wilson.
4. FDR.
5. Jackson.
6. Clinton.
7. Buchanan.

[Jack Hammer]

Already, no one can touch Obama in this category, and he’s only half finished.

America, meanwhile, is completely finished - thanks to him.

[big'ol_freeper]

Google your screan name. Might find them.

[Iron Munro]

Washington, Lincoln and Reagan stand at the top.

Washington towers far, far above all others.

Don't think much of Lincoln as he lead us into civil war with 600,000 dead and 500,000 wounded. That equaled about 2% of the entire population at the time.

Helluva job, Abe.

[KevinDavis]

Even though the Confederacy fired the first shot.. Jefferson Davis (No relation) was a crossdressing coward..

[Iron Munro]

Worst to less worse:

1. Kenyan anti-Christ.
2. Carter.
3. Wilson.
4. FDR.
5. Jackson.
6. Clinton.
7. Buchanan.

In terms of worse presidents rated by damage done to the country I think LBJ belongs in there around #2.

He was certainly more damaging than Carter.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

There is at least one notable exception:

“Under Coolidge, the economy grew strongly, even as the federal government shrank.”

http://www.american.com/archive/2013/february/the-scrooge-who-begat-plenty

[Gay State Conservative]

In my lifetime....Osama Obama worst *by far*....that peanut farmer is currently the next worst.I’m too young to judge Truman and Eisenhower but sincerely doubt they were *nearly* as bad as the two mentioned above.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It is hard for modern students of economics to know what to make of a government that treated economic weakness by raising interest rates 300 basis points, cutting tax rates, and halving the federal government — so much at odds is that prescription with the antidotes to recession our own experts tend to recommend. It is harder still for modern economists to concede that that recipe, the policy recipe for the early 1920s advocated by Coolidge and Harding, yielded growth on a scale to which we can aspire today. As early as the 1930s, Coolidge’s reputation and way of thinking began their decline. Collectives and not individuals became fashionable. Sensing such shifts, Coolidge at the end of his life spoke anxiously about the “importance of the obvious.” Perseverance, property rights, contracts, civility to one’s opponents, silence, smaller government, trust, certainty, restraint, respect for faith, federalism, economy, and thrift: these Coolidge ideals intrigue us today as well. After all, many citizens today do feel cursed by debt, their own or their government’s. Knowing the details of his life may well help Americans now turn a curse to a blessing or, at the very least, find the heart to continue their own persevering.

[rockrr]

Helluva job, Abe Jeff.

. FIFY

[sitetest]

Dear Iron Munro,

Remember that as conservatives, we are ants looking up at monumental skyscrapers of evil. It is difficult for us ants to determine which skyscraper is, indeed, the tallest, most evil.

That being said, I'd probably add LBJ as 8th to the list, but frankly, the top 8 or 10 worst (all Dems) are almost interchangeable. Atrocity after atrocity, abomination atop abomination, enormity heaped over enormity.

sitetest

[AtlasStalled]

Thanks for the clarification about government size shrinking under Coolidge

[<1/1,000,000th%]

FDR
James Buchanan
Jimmy Carter

[MeOnTheBeach]

Worst to less worse:

1. Kenyan anti-Christ.
2. Carter.
3. Wilson.
4. FDR.
5. Jackson.
6. Clinton.
7. Buchanan.

Yup...can't touch that list.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I have to lay some flowers at the Plymouth Notch town cemetery, next time I’m in the neighborhood.

[HIDEK6]

Instead of worst, I rank them as most evil:

Lincoln
FDR
Johnson
obama

[BroJoeK]

the OlLine Rebel: "Lincoln is overrated and possibly the worst in terms of carnage and tossing out principles of our government."

Kaslin: "judge them based on the amount of damage they did... Lincoln..."

Pontiac: "I would have to agree with the OlLine Rebel in post 13 that Lincoln would be the worst by far.
On his watch over 600,000 US citizens died...
...I would put Lincoln at the top. "

US Navy Vet: "My own personal list for WORST US Presidents... 9. Abraham Lincoln"

februus: "Glad you dropped Lincoln on there somewhere."

Neoliberalnot: "No one, not even Davis, expected Lincoln to turn out to be such a savage killer of fellow Americans."

Iron Munro: "Don't think much of Lincoln as he lead us into civil war with 600,000 dead and 500,000 wounded."

To all our Lincoln-haters, you are badly misinformed by blatant pro-Confederate propaganda.

The truth of the matter is that not one single Confederate soldier was killed directly by any Union force, and no Confederate state was "invaded" by any Union army until after the Confederacy first started war, then formally declared war on the United States, on May 6, 1861.

Blaming Lincoln, and saying he should have ignored Confederate war against the Union is like blaming President Roosevelt for Pearl Harbor and saying he should have ignored Hitler's declaration of war against the United States.

Lincoln simply did what he had to do, as a wartime commander in chief.

[Kaslin]

What about that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? Are you so blind that you do not see his desire to destroy this great country?

[rashley]

You are right; Lincoln should be the worst.

[rashley]

You are right; Lincoln was the worst.