The worst president ever?

The Metro West Daily News ^ | Sunday, December 4, 2005 | Richard Reeves

[Rakkasan1]

this difference between this Reeves and the other Reeves is this one is dead from the neck up. the other one is just dead.

[TheForceOfOne]

Jimmah Cartah, in a land slide.

[midwyf]

I would have to agree on FDR, he started this country on the gimme road. I'd rank Carter ahead of Clinton. Clinton was there for what he could get out of it easily. Carter thought he was so in touch with everything and still does. He undermines our very security, and gave the terrorists courage to start down this road that Bush Jr. is trying to fix.

[joebuck]

"...his real failures were in refusing to move after South Carolina announced secession from the Union and attacked Fort Sumter,"

It's hard to take a columnist seriously who doesn't even know that LINCOLN was president when Fort Sumter was attacked. (april 1861) - And in a column about presidential history, no less.

[hosepipe]

[ President John F. Kennedy was considered a historian because of his book "Profiles in Courage," ]

That book was ghost written for JFK.. paid for by his father..
Kennedy was a moron, like Al Gore.. or Kerry or his brother Teddy.. his speechs were written for him.. The real brains in the family was his wife.. and she was a Ditz.. like Terry Heinz..

[yankeedame]

But I'm sticking with FDR as a lock for the number one position.

Have you ever read FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression" by Jim Powell.

I'll admitt it's a pretty weak title but a real eye opener. It's a snap to read, being done up in Q & A chapters, i.e. Why did food cost more? Why were taxes higher? Why did the government demand a minimum wage at a time when jobs were so scarce? etc.

[RJL]

The worst president ever?

FDR, His administration was knowingly full of communists and he ushered in many of its tenets that we are still fighting today.

[billbears]

Worst president ever. lincoln. Followed closely by FDR, Wilson, and then maybe LBJ

[Soul Seeker]

LOL! I was reading the beginning and thinking the description fit...

Carter leaving Reagan a mess to clean up.

Clinton leaving Bush a mess to clean up.

[Alberta's Child]

The moon landing turned out to be one of the most overrated events in U.S. history. It made for great PR, but the lunar exploration program was so useless (and generated so little interest after the first mission) that they ended up cutting it short in the early 1970s.

He also kept a nuclear threat out of Cuba.

This is one of those events where JFK's role has been deliberately obscured over the years for political purposes. Originally the Cuban missle crisis was used to highlight JFK's qualities as a tough military leader who "didn't back down to the Soviets." The reality -- as we learned years later when records from that era were de-classified -- was that Kennedy cut a deal with the Soviets under which the Soviets removed their cruise missiles from Cuba and the U.S. removed ours from Turkey.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I would have to agree on FDR, he started this country on the gimme road. I'd rank Carter ahead of Clinton. Clinton was there for what he could get out of it easily. Carter thought he was so in touch with everything and still does. He undermines our very security, and gave the terrorists courage to start down this road that Bush Jr. is trying to fix.

Yes the gimme road plus
- all the commies in the administration up to and including
Henry Wallace, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White and others.
- cozying up to Stalin in WWII at the expense of Churchill.
- Yalta
- The U.N.
- The attempt to pack the court
- running for 4 terms in direct violation of the unwritten rule to only serve 2
- Being a lying, conniving, double-dealing, back-stabbing,
socialist, commie-loving p***k.

[kidd]

I'm kinda neutral on JFK.

He stood up to the USSR/Cuba, made us The technology leader with the moon landing goal and gave a modest tax cut.

OTOH, he botched the Bay of Pigs badly, significantly escalated Vietnam, made the Cold War "colder", and with his infidelity he marked the beginning of a long string of truly horrible presidents that resulted in a lack of respect for the office of the President and government in general.

[Pessimist]

Treasonous, corrupt and gay!?

If he were alive today, no doubt he'd be the defacto dem front runner for '08.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

FDR couldn't stand the thought of giving up the reins of power, until the Reaper finally relieved him of his duties.

What a dramatic contrast to our first president! After stewarding the power entrusted to him as long as he could stand it, Washington could hardly wait to retire back to his farm to enjoy life.

Compared to this cherished American ideal, Franklin Roosevelt comes off pretty...monarchical.

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No question about it. But it's worse than that. We essentially had an unwritten rule that you didn't serve more than two terms. It was only after FDR that this had to be codified as the ?? amendment. By deliberately going against this rule in my mind he was doing the same thing as when he packed the court - destroying the country and its institutions to further his own ends.

[Alberta's Child]

I become more convinced by the day that from 1961-1963 the U.S. managed to survive a brief period of time when our nation's chief executive was a certified loony-tune and maybe even a heavy user of narcotics.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Have you ever read FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression" by Jim Powell.

I'll admitt it's a pretty weak title but a real eye opener. It's a snap to read, being done up in Q & A chapters, i.e. Why did food cost more? Why were taxes higher? Why did the government demand a minimum wage at a time when jobs were so scarce? etc.

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No haven't read it but it all makes perfect sense to me - if you want to ruin a country/economy you institute social/economic planning - by 2005 we should all know this lesson by heart.

[hang 'em]

Worst President Ever (vote)

[Alberta's Child]

JFK can be aptly described as our nation's first adolescent president -- a term (for better or worse) that lay dormant for a while but resurfaced in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.

[robowombat]

Very true. The AHA has gone from a pretty orthodox organization of centrist liberals to a PC nutjob outfit obsessed with 'marginalized groups' race, gender, and cultural marxist approaches to history.