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.
Thanks for correcting me as to my first reply post - I feel more comfortable replying more often. I love FreeRepublic and won't be so quiet in the future. Shirley
1. Kennedy
2. Clinton
3. Johnson
4. Carter
JFK was a murdering illegitimate scumbag just like Clinton, he will never be worth anything in a lot of minds that was around at that time. The mob stole the election from Nixon and the media has been silent about it.
I'll second your second.
LBJ was pure, unadulterated evil. A brilliant conniver and politician, (is there a difference?) but a very evil man who would do ANYTHING at all to get what he wanted, and what he wanted was total, absolute power.
sorry poor wording on my part. They dissolved the contract, they are the ones that created the contract.
This was done a few years ago again with approximately 13 States that signed onto dissolving the US constitution if the Federal government didn't stop it’s mad spending, today they needed a majority to do so because of the 14th amendment making the citizen both a State citizen and a federal citizen.
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left no other bond between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom--Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
Marx isn't saying protection is good and free trade between nations is bad. He's attacking what he took to be the whole "bourgeois" attitude that puts economic life and economic freedom first. It's freedom to buy and sell that he's attacking -- and the attitude that values it -- not international trade with low or no tariffs.
Here's Marx's pal Engels explaining where Marx stood on free trade in the sense of lowering international restraints on trade:
“To him, Free Trade is the normal condition of modern capitalist production. Only under Free Trade can the immense productive powers of steam, of electricity, of machinery, be fully developed; and the quicker the pace of this development, the sooner and the more fully will be realized its inevitable results; society splits up into two classes, capitalists here, wage-laborers there; hereditary wealth on one side, hereditary poverty on the other; supply outstripping demand, the markets being unable to absorb the ever growing mass of the production of industry; an ever recurring cycle of prosperity, glut, crisis, panic, chronic depression, and gradual revival of trade, the harbinger not of permanent improvement but of renewed overproduction and crisis; in short, productive forces expanding to such a degree that they rebel, as against unbearable fetters, against the social institutions under which they are put in motion; the only possible solution: a social revolution, freeing the social productive forces from the fetters of an antiquated social order, and the actual producers, the great mass of the people, from wage slavery. And because Free Trade is the natural, the normal atmosphere for this historical evolution, the economic medium in which the conditions for the inevitable social revolution will be the soonest created—for this reason, and for this alone, did Marx declare in favor of Free Trade.”(Engels: On the Question of Free Trade)
Marx and Engels wanted free trade because they thought it would sweep away survivals of the old economy and society and open the way to communist revolution. Sometimes they ridiculed the whole debate as a capitalist one of no concern to communists, but they generally came down on the side of free trade. They did not have a high opinion of protectionism and protectionists.
Is there any doubt about Buchanan? While the country was screaing for leadership, he stuck his fingers in his ears and went "NAH NAH NAH" and waited out his term until the Great Dictator took over and gave us the government we have today.
The only reason that Jimmah Caatah has gotten so many votes is that Hillary hasn't been elected yet.
If you want to read some devastating criticism of both the NRA and AAA from the period, check out the old Chicago Defenders from the early 1930s. Such phrases for the NRA as "Negroes Ruined Again" "Negro Runaround Act" and "Negro Removal Act" were common.
I think you overstate evidence of a budding socialist movement in the South in the 1930s. There were some fascistic/socialist types like Huey but most Southern politicians (Richard Russell, Harry Byrd, Eugene Talmadge, John Nance Gardner, were more conservative. Debs was mouldering in his grave and Norman Thomas did much worse than Debs when he ran in 1932. His weakest showing was in the South!
Huey had a big following but it was more national than regional and crested 1934-1935, after the NRA/AAA were either dead on or on their last legs. The death of these agencies at the hands of the Supreme Court was unlamented even by FDR. Huey was not particularly bothered either.
After the Civil War, which they started, every one of them should have been given at least life terms for the horrors they & other traitors inflicted on this great nation.
Carter for being president and his actions since trying to destroy this country.
Your overview is a perfect description of today's deplorable situation with the neo-confederate crowd.
I respectfully think you have never been so wrong in your emtire life. 9/11 and the entire terrorist world we now live in can be laid at these 2 men's feet. The Iranian Hostage Crisis told the followers of the moon-god pedophile muhammed (may he burn in hell forever between 2 pigs) that the USA lacked courage and the lack of any substantive response. During the Klinton regime, the complete absence of a strong response to the all the terrorst attacks -- the 1st WTC attack, the Cole, Bosnia, capped by the chickensh*t retreat in Somalia -- told them that if they hit us hard we would run.
Carter/Clinton=Terrorism
Top 5 is a tough call -- but C/C still handed us what could be the end of freedom as we know it. Through their cowardice.
I just wanted to help you take the long view. The seeds C/C planted have grown to be the poison ivy that will destroy the world.
The rest were issues that pretty much stayed in the era that they infected (except arguably the Vietnam War, although the war itself was not that important, the response to it reverberates).
Same thing. Marx and Engels did not support free trade as a means of running the economy, only as a tool for the destruction of capitalism. The implication was that free trade was a Marxist concept. It is the antithesis of that. It is the ultimate expression of capitalism. You see I don't believe in Marx and Engels or their theories. I don't believe in their premise.
There for to say that Marx was a free tradeer is to completely misinterpret him, Marxism, and what he wrote. He was not embracing free trade for himself, he was only embracing it as a negative force.
Why did trade increase after 1938? Here's a good reason. By this time, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had finally persuaded FDR to abandon Smoot-Hawley and replace it with the pro-free trade policy of making Most Favored Nation Treaties.
Disagree. The Democrats gave Hoover pretty much everything he wanted including the RFC and his bone-crushign income tax increase. It is true, however, that FDR refused to cooperate with Hoover's recommendation for a bank holiday and other measures. FDR wanted the glory.
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