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WORST PRESIDENT EVER (vote)
8/12/2005

Posted on 08/12/2005 3:25:54 PM PDT by hang 'em

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


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To: hang 'em

JIMMAH!!!!!


321 posted on 08/13/2005 6:18:34 AM PDT by T Minus Four (Some assembly required.)
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To: hang 'em

Jimmy Carter, then and now!


322 posted on 08/13/2005 6:19:30 AM PDT by usslsm51
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To: hang 'em

Clinton: corruption.

Carter: ineptitude.


323 posted on 08/13/2005 6:21:05 AM PDT by Reader of news
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To: hang 'em

Jimmy Carter, the man who broke Keynesianism.

Before the illustrious Mr. Carter, economists took it as orthodoxy that it was impossible to so wreck the economy as to maintain simultaneously high unemployment, high inflation, and high interest rates.

With unemployment getting into upper single digits (and the excesses of his misrule resulting in double-digit unemployment in the first part of Mr. Reagan's term), inflation nosing ever higher, and interest rates in Third World territory, Mr. Carter single-handedly undid the entire post-war economic consensus.

Added up on top of his various foreign policy failures, his failed battles with rabbits, and his trailer-park-class family, ranging from the pompously plainspoken "Ms. Lillian" to the beer-sotted Billy, Mr. Carter certainly deserves his reputation as the worst president in the history of the United States.


324 posted on 08/13/2005 6:24:44 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: lunarbicep

Carter


325 posted on 08/13/2005 6:24:51 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: AReaganGirl

You are absolutely correct. Many of the remedies for the depression which were enacted by FDR were originally proposed by Hoover, but he was blocked by Dumocrats for purely political reasons (sound familiar?). They wanted a Dumocrat President, which of course they got.


326 posted on 08/13/2005 6:26:23 AM PDT by WillMalven (It don't matter where you are when "the bomb" goes off, as long as you can say "What was that?")
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To: AzaleaCity5691

Yes, we were saved from a disaster by a bullet in Baton Rouge. Huey was a socialist nightmare..


327 posted on 08/13/2005 6:30:23 AM PDT by WillMalven (It don't matter where you are when "the bomb" goes off, as long as you can say "What was that?")
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To: spinestein
Nixon for all his flaws loved America.

Clinton was the first president to show open contempt for the 'Mercian Peepul while in office. Jimmah at least waited until they comprehensively rejected him.

BTW, it is evidence of Clinton's political genius (or at least telegenic stage presence) that he probably would have been reelected in 2000, if he could have run.
Paul Krugman would have voted for him.
328 posted on 08/13/2005 6:34:43 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Lonesome's First Law: Whenever anyone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.)
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To: WillMalven; AReaganGirl
You are absolutely correct. Many of the remedies for the depression which were enacted by FDR were originally proposed by Hoover, but he was blocked by Dumocrats for purely political reasons (sound familiar?). They wanted a Dumocrat President, which of course they got.

In the 71st Congress(1929-1931) there were 56 Republican Senators, 39 Democrat Senators, 1 DFL. In the House there were 270 Republican Congressmen to 164 Democrats. In the 72nd Congress (1921-1933) there were still 48 Republican Senators to 47 Democrats and 1 DFL. And in the House there were 218 Republicans to 216 Democrats. So Hoover had Republican majorities throughout his term. What exactly did the Democrats block and how did they block it?

329 posted on 08/13/2005 6:35:30 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: hang 'em

Lyndon B. Johnson was absolutely the worst President - he would have done better to drop bombs on the inner city rather than Great Society programmes. He expanded on Communist FDR's legacies. Compared to those two, Carter and Clinton are pikers.

Regards, Ivan


330 posted on 08/13/2005 6:36:33 AM PDT by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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To: hang 'em

Here are my worst five:

Andrew Jackson
James Buchanan
Jimmy Carter
Woodrow Wilson
Lyndon Johnson


331 posted on 08/13/2005 6:37:54 AM PDT by Hoodat ( Silly Dems)
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To: hang 'em

I'll toss a bone to my southron comrades and submit that in terms of trashing the constitution, trampling on states rights, implementing big government and socialistic policies, and all around inept leadership in the executive office, you can't do worse than Jefferson Finis Davis.


332 posted on 08/13/2005 6:41:10 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Argh

It's a four way tie!

FDR introduced intrenched us in socialism!

Carter gave us the worst economy, gave away the panama canal and helped overthrow the Shah of Iran (who was our friend). Look at the problems that we have with Iran today!

Johnson entrenched us in Viet-Nam and refused to allow the military to win the war. Gave us the Great (sic) Society and declared a war on poverty, which we have paid for 50 times over without any positive results.

Clinton was not so much a political beast but an outright criminal.

I guess in the long run, It is the Great Clintoon that will wear the clown. The others were misguided. Billery was caluculating and precise when giving away technology to the Chi-Coms, covering up terrorist activities, and we are paying for it today in a world situation that is bringing us to the "eave of destruction".

Yep, Clintoon's the worse.

Blessings, Bobo


333 posted on 08/13/2005 6:56:31 AM PDT by bobo1
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To: Non-Sequitur; AReaganGirl

Excuse me, I mispoke, I said Dumocrats (habit I'm afraid) and actually meant Congress in general.

His policies were unpopular. He attempted to stop or slow down speculation and the financing thereof by banks. His appeals to the Federal Reserve, Congress and Governor Roosevelt (to propose stiffer regulation of the New York stock exchange) went unheeded.

He also opposed farm support measures and felt that no government agency should be involved in the buying and selling and price-fixing of any products as this would lead to greater overproductionand apply downward pressure on prices. He preferred private means of control.

As to the good guy thing, AReaganGirl, your right, he never took any government money for his service, giving all of it to charity.


334 posted on 08/13/2005 6:56:40 AM PDT by WillMalven (It don't matter where you are when "the bomb" goes off, as long as you can say "What was that?")
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To: AzaleaCity5691
It was written between the lines and only those furnished with the special coated lenses glasses were aware of it. :o)
335 posted on 08/13/2005 6:56:54 AM PDT by seemoAR
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To: WillMalven
His appeals to the Federal Reserve, Congress and Governor Roosevelt (to propose stiffer regulation of the New York stock exchange) went unheeded.

The state didn't regulate the stock exchange, the federal government did.

336 posted on 08/13/2005 7:02:35 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: rcocean

I think I understand your point, but would you get rid of social security, the SEC, the minimum wage, the national park service, and Federal Aid for bridges/roads/Highways, etc?



I would definitely get rid of the SS Ponzi scheme. One of the top factors in why FDR was the worst of all time.

Limited securities laws are fine, and didn't require FDR. And they didn't do a darn thing to end the depression, which lingered for years more.

The minimum wage is a terrible idea best left to misguided states that like unemployment.

TR gets credit for national parks.

We'd have highways and bridges without federal aid. In fact, we'd have more, and better, if the money wasted in and by Washington were spent on concrete by the states.


337 posted on 08/13/2005 7:28:12 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: AzaleaCity5691
All of the Dem presidents of the antebellum period refused to acknowledge, let alone deal with, the issue of slavery, except for Martin Van Buren, who, ironically, created the mass party system and its patronage, laying the basis for huge central government. Van Buren's objective was good---eliminate slavery---but his means was terrible: buy people off.

And it's the Civil War. No slavery, no "southern independence."

338 posted on 08/13/2005 7:35:14 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Yeah, those horrible "northerners intent on forcing a war," like Lincoln, who agreed to a CONSTITUTIONAL protection of savery, were sure terrible, huh?

The bad news is, this generation of "Bury-My-Heart-at-Wounded-Knee" Dixie pro-slave neoconfederates had almost died out by the 1980s, but a bunch of anti-American libertarian think tanks got them whipped up again. (And if you don't think a lot of these Libertarians are anti-American, check their positions on the War on Terror, the War in Iraq, and, above all, illegal immigrants!

339 posted on 08/13/2005 7:38:00 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: hang 'em

Hillary. She was the real president wasn't she.


340 posted on 08/13/2005 7:45:29 AM PDT by jetson (throne)
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