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.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"Where is the link to the poll?"

This thread IS the poll.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"FDR. There the socialism process really got going."

Socialism got Saturn V sized booster rockets under LBJ.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"U.S. Grant...no lasting accomplishments ..."

Some one of these days we mignt consider "No lasting 'accomplishments'" the mark of a really good president. 'Accomplishments' these days seem to be measured using a social engineering measuring stick. There is no such thing as a 'good' social engineering accomplishment. That is what the Left is all about. More and more we are getting way too much of that from the 'Right' also.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"I wish I could put them both on a rocket to outer space that would never return."

What goes around comes around...inner space might be better, starting with a hole about...

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"[Carter's legacy also includes: double digit inflation, alternating gas days, sky high real estate market, etc.]"

'...alternating gas days...' yah, that 50 cent a gallon gasoline that went with those alternating days was a really nasty thing.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"...FDR or Lyndon Johnson. Both are borderline socialitst bustards."

No, not at all borderline...Johnson more than FDR, and FDR took lessons from 'Uncle Joe'.

[mad_as_he$$]

I mostly agree with you but the damage caused by those Administrations is well past us and mitigated. I draw a direct line from our current "war" to Carter's front door. His lack of strength dealing with the Iranian hostage crisis lead us to this fork in history.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"Except Ike gets credit for the interstate highway system."

Interestingly, Senator Gore (algore's father) gets credit for backing it and seeing it through Congress.

[PatriotBill]

1) Jimmy Carter - Iran Hostages
2) LBJ - The Great Society

[An.American.Expatriate]

Any and all democrats since, well, forever.

[MNJohnnie]

Jimmy for now but Bill has some real momentum building for him in light of Able Danger

[MNJohnnie]

Jimmy Carter - Iran Hostages
2) LBJ - The Great Society


Oh wow. Excellent point. LBJ is a contender for SURE. Don't forget it was his micromanagement of Vietnam that screwed that up. LBJ messed up Foreign AND Domestic

[MNJohnnie]

I would add Ulysseys S. Grant to that list, after the 'Toon perhaps the most corrupt administration in U.S. history.


Not even close when you compare it to Clinton's.

[Reconray]

A big 10-4...Johnson. Millions dead and still dying today...

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

1. Lincoln

2. Johnson

3. Wilson

(It's too soon to throw Bush in there but he's been making a strong case.)

How are you justifying Lincoln? Unless, of course, you are an unreformed racist.

[Virginia Queen]

Good point.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Gee.

Wilson?

Prohibition Amendment (promoted and passed), income tax amendment (promoted and passed), WWI fiasco, the entire reparation and revenge after that he began with its "peace" treaty, League of Nation, corruption, direct election of Senate Amendment (promoted and passed), ...

And to top it all: He was ill and did NOTHING the last year in office (ran by his wife while he basically unconscious).

[nicollo]

The Progressives were ardent supporters of 'free trade' and lower tariffs, the party Roosevelt unfortunately sided with in this election...this is where I depart in my optimism for T.R.

You can stick with Teddy, then, because he stood for protection. From the 1912 Bull Moose plank:

We believe in a protective tariff which shall equalize conditions of competition between the United States and foreign countries, both for the farmer and the manufacturer, and which shall maintain for labor an adequate standard of living.