Posted on 07/13/2010 1:50:45 PM PDT by big black dog
LOL.
I almost took this seriously and did not realize that it was intended as sarcasm, until I saw that comment.
It's all Grant's fault!
Screw the dissenters.
LBJ and Clinton are 2 more for the worst. Hard to place them since there are so many dems. There’s easily eough room for the “Top 15 Worst”!
Lyndon B. Johnson should be on that list right under Jimmy Carter.
James Buchanan was the worst President, ever. He left the nation when it was building to an extraordinarily bloody civil war. Obama hasn’t led to that (yet).
Polk was one of the best. In 4 yars he achieved all his main objectives, and the country had achieved “manifest destiny” with a coast-to-coast reach as a result of his decisions in his term. About 100 million Americans now live on land secured by Polk - a record only matched by Washington (and approached by Jefferson).
Blaming Thomas Jefferson for the French Revolution moves this list completely into the ozone.
After Obama, FDR and Carter, you just tie the rest of the fifteen or so for third or fourth worst.
BTW, Theodore Roosevelt should be included in one of our WORST POTUS, a turncoat RINO who gave us the cursed income tax.
might just catchon!
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That was dumb. I want my time back.
Professorial “historians” are typically blinded by their extreme leftist politics.
But anybody who puts Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration, as one of the “worst” is simply blind - or woefully ignorant. Or a Clymer.
Tell the author of this drivel to put it where the sun don’t shine. It came from there, and belongs there.
There’s no Coolidge.
FDR did not die of cancer.
Of course, the gay lobby should love him because he was the first Nancy boy to hold the office.
Polk was one of the most unappreciated presidents. I'm not sure I would put him in the top ten, but definitely in the top third.
While I agree with some of the author’s postulations, it sounds as if he knows just enough history to be dangerous.
The author is judging Jefferson as a President, not on his entire career. Jeff and his party did sympathize with the French Revolution, did oppose construction of a navy, and did slander John Adams. It’s nice to see Adams get some credit for a change.
It is the opinion of many historians that it is not fair to judge a Presidency until the President is out of office for 20 years. I share this opinion as its diificult to judge a President and the long term effect of his policies.
IMO, Obama is and will be a disaster of epic proportions, but you can’t yet accurately judge him. (It might be worse) You can’t judge Presidents Bush or Clinton, either.
I agree with you on TR. A rich kid’s son who didn’t need to produce anything economically, he felt he needed to prove his manhood at the nation’s expense. He was a warmonger who dreamed of a war which would demonstrate American power; he wanted to fight Germany but settled for Spain. Our inheritance of Spanish possessions like the Philippines involved us needlessly in the imperial conflicts of east Asia, leading ultimately to WW2, which his cousin Franklin saw as a source of personal glory and an excuse for fascism at home. (I’m not excusing Japan and Germany, but one must look back to find the source of wars. E.g. the Liberal fascist Wilson, by involving us needlessly in WWI, instead of working for a negotiated peace but helping to crush Germany, led inevitably to WW2.)
FDR may have had “cancer” but he died of a stroke. His last words were “I have a terrible pain the back of my head”+/-
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