WORST PRESIDENT EVER (vote)

8/12/2005

[hang 'em]

Who is/was the WORST U.S. PRESIDENT EVER? Carter? Clinton? Make your choice and state your reasons.

[iconoclast]

In my life easily Carter,for those too young to remember him(never thought I would hear myself say something like that),one can hardly imagine a more hopeless,frustrating four years.

I don't think we're talkin about "your life". Carter, hapless as he was, was a blip on the history radar screen.

As old as I am I will live to see that the massive damage that GWB has done to the country and to the Republican Party will be recognized by all. He will be known as the latter day Hoover with respect to the damage done to the party.

[william clark]

Emboldened, yes; but he didn't do as much to tangibly increase their ability to attack us, the way Clinton did.

[fat city]

Anyone old enough to remember Jimmy is old enough to remember gas lines, stagflation and the shame of being American. And then America woke up and promised to never eat pepperoni pizza before bedtime again.

[LS]

Yah, I agree with you, a tie between Pierce, Buchanan, Hoover, and Carter.

AJ #5.

[AzaleaCity5691]

"and the shame of being American"

I have never, ever, been ashamed of being American, not even during the Carter administration.

[swampfox98]

Lyndon Johnson will go down in history as the worst president America ever had or ever will have. It was he who forced terrible legislation through Congress that has ruined this country. If anyone dared to even read the legislation or try to vote against it, he'd say "You have to do this for John Kennedy!" He was the most evil, lying, adulterous monster who ever lived. Most of our problems in America today came through Lyndon Johnson's presidency.

Carter was stupid but Johnson was pure evil.

[Da Mav]

Carter, hands down

[x]

Another tough calls there. A man that chose to kill of 5% of the US population over a legal and just separation of States, with very serious ramifications that still carries on today.

For most Americans at the time secession wasn't legal or constitutional. For many who did believe secession constitutional it didn't justify the actions of the Confederacy that began the war. We could just as well talk of Davis and his co-conspirators as men who "chose to kill 5% of the US population" to get their own way.

[AzaleaCity5691]

If I may be so bold, exactly what did Buchanan do that was so bad. The same goes for Pierce, and I know what will be alluded to, something about the failed War for Southern Independence. My question though is, what could Buchanan and Pierce have done to forestall it?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

In order of who did the most damage to the Republic.

FDR~ Paid in blood for fifty years. Still paying in treasure.

LBJ~ Paid in blood thirty years. Still paying in treasure.

Carter~ Paying in blood 27 years and counting. And you can thank him for the Illegal mess.

Clinton~ paid in blood 8 years and counting. Heaven alone knows when we stop paying in treasure.

[samantha]

I agree with most of the posters. 1-carter 2-LBJ 3- clinton

[Paleo Conservative]

If I may be so bold, exactly what did Buchanan do that was so bad.

Have you ever heard about the Civil War? His policies exacerbated regional tensions and pretty much made the Civil War inevitable.

[hang 'em]

It is amazing this country is still around with such bad presidents.

Every day I ponder the same thing. What did we do to deserve such scoundrels in the highest leadership? And how could we have survived such monumental incompetence and in the case of Clinton, just plain EVIL?

[stacytec]

I'd consider putting Nixon in my to list too, just because his tight money policy did so much destruction to the economy in later years. But I tend to think Nixon was more a victim of his advisors. Carter was going down the same path (bad monetary policy ) and when the stagflation kicked in, he did one of the few good things during his term: budget cuts. And they eventually worked, unfortunately for him the full results weren't really felt until after he left office. Reagan rightfully deserves credit for continuing down that path, but Carter , was the one who exercised supply-side tactics ( albeit in desperation and not on principal ) and deregulated industries to get the economy moving again.

My worst president top 5 goes something like this:

1) Andrew Jackson - (Trail of Tears - not a shining moment in American History)

2) Jimmy Carter - How may foreign policy screw-ups was that?

3) Lyndon B. Johnson - Great Society. Enough said.

4) Woodrow Wilson - a. His name b. His open support of the KKK c. His "new world order"

5) James Buchanan - Yeah, maybe the war was inevitable, but this guy didn't do a whole lot to prevent it.

[AzaleaCity5691]

"it didn't justify the actions of the Confederacy that began the war"

It was not actions of the Confederacy that began the war, but rather, inaction of the Union, specifically, Fort Sumter was sovreign Confederate territory, The C.S.A kindly asked the Union to remove their garrison from our territory. They refused, and after hearing that the fort was running out of supplies, they decided they were going to resupply the fort, and in doing so, they decided to violate sovreign Confederate maritime territory. The Republic of South Carolina, and more inclusively, the Confederate States of America, had every right to defend itself against what amounted to actions by a foreign power hostile to the nations existance.

[longtermmemmory]

Jimmy Carter because he actually did what he did on purpose.

Bill Clinton let his husband, Hitlary, run the show while he was interviewed interns for plus size models.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Hoover didn't meddle in anything? What about authorizing Davis-Bacon, the RFC, the Federal Home Loan Board, Smoot-Hawley, the building of Boulder Dam, and the Federal Farm Board?

Perhaps you weren't paying attention to your professor in History 101.

[iconoclast]

Clinton's failure to block Osama when he could,

This pops up every now and again, even though Willie took an ineffective shot or two at him.

How's come no one gives a rat's ass that George has totally ignored OBL for four years AFTER he did his best to annihilate the southern end of Manhattan island?

[investigateworld]

I totally agree. LBJ set the stage for today's home grown commies.
Just for a joke, drop a line to the LBJ Library and ask them how much he was worth when he went to his eternal reward.
The standard reply is "We don't know, he was very generous to Lady Bird". If one reads between the lines, it's called *money laundering*.

[Steve Van Doorn]

”For most Americans at the time secession wasn't legal or constitutional.”

The constitution was the contract. They broke that contract which is perfectly legal. The constitution doesn’t give the right to leave the Union because that is the contract, but the contract it self can be broken and that is what the south did.