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.

[crazyhorse691]

It's Jimmy Carters title to lose. I dang near left the country because of Carter, but, having been exposed to southern democrats at an early age, nothing Clintoon does surprises me.

[BMC1]

CLINTON...If he had been paying attention during the 90's instead of playing graba$$ with Monica, 9/11 may not have happened.

[spinestein]

Nixon.

Similar domestic policies to LBJ's and almost as dishonest as WJC. And when his crap catches up to him his stink permeates the Republican party, allowing the Democrats to implement their socialist agenda unanswered.

[rlmorel]

I can only go on what I know from personal experience, so I would say Carter followed by Clinton.

They were both bad for the country in different ways.

Carter was bad because he set the USA up for were we are now with terrorism. He stabbed the Shah in the back, and was too stupid to manage the country. There were some things he couldn't control, but he totally balled up the things that he could.

Clinton was bad for the everlasting damage his administration did to the office of the presidency, and the demolition of our national security.

I like Bush, that is evident, but the thing I do like best is that you know President Bush is there to work, not find playthings to manipulate with cigars. Clinton thought the presidency was his private playground. And like uncultured hillbillies thrust into money, they were grabbing at it with everything they had. Pathetic.

[carlr]

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.
Beyond that,FDR.We are still burdened by his flirtation with socialism which gave way to Johnson and yes Nixon expanding the welfare state.FDR`s trust of "uncle Joe"Stalin led to the cold war which ultimately during Carters term led to the start of militant,radical Islam.
Quite a line of failure,all drawn by the hand of supposed good intentions.

[rdb3]

(7) Pat James Buchanan

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

U.S. Grant. Scandal, incompetence, no lasting accomplishments in office. Great general, lousy president.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Hoover and Roosevelt only made things worse by their meddling in the economy.

Hoover didn't "meddle" in anything. Sheesh FReepers need to retake U.S. History 101.

[Issaquahking]

Carter - the great appeaser. I was in the military from 78 -82 and saw the damage. Carter should have flattened Iran for taking our 52. What the ragheads learned was that they could cut us on the underside when we have an idiot in power. On the flip side, look how fast we got our hostages back the day Reagan became president!

So I lay a lot of the raghead/terrorist problem at his feet.

The ultimate insult was today they named a U.S. submarine after the chicken$hit!

[Argh]

FDR. There the socialism process really got going.

[hardworking]

Jimmy Carter.
This man single-handedly changed the U.S. forever. How? Because he destroyed the economy. I remember it very well, because I graduated from college when he became president. All of us thought we would be able to plan and work and buy homes and raise families. Wrong. Suddenly EVERYONE was faced with needed TWO incomes to be able to buy a home. Hence, something that is NEVER mentioned is the fact that MILLIONS of women had to keep on working beyond anything any married couple had ever contemplated. This gave birth to the feminist movement and the rest, as they say, is history.

[Euro-American Scum]

Lyndon Johnson.

He wanted to fight in Vietnam, but not win there. He wanted a social program for every deadbeat who showed up at a welfare office with their hand out. But he didn't want to provide the resources to crush the communist menace in Southeast Asia.

Everybody remember the 70s? Energy crisis, stagflation, 20% inflation, ultimately the recession of 79-82.

Thank you Lyndon Johnson. The president who wanted to be liked by everyone.

[Legal Conservative]

I forgot about FDR... I don't know how but I did. He ranks above Johnson.

[Truth is a Weapon]

Jimmy Carter. Even though Clinton made plenty of bad decisions, he could not top Carter. I remember those days. He almost had the American people convinced that we were losers and would remain losers for a long time. Clinton just made conservatives angry. Carter had a bad effect on the national psyche.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Like that, eh?

[HangnJudge]

WRONG! Herbert Hoover wasn't the "architect" of the Great Depression. It was poor federal reserve policy in the late 1920s that caused the depression. Hoover and Roosevelt only made things worse by their meddling in the economy.

I stand corrected, thank you

[Publius6961]

Jimmy Cahttuh.

In a class by himself!

[Types_with_Fist]

look how fast we got our hostages back the day Reagan became president!

The plane was on the runway with the hostages onboard while he was taking the oath of office.

[RightWhale]

Grant.