Our Worst President Ever? By Victor Davis Hanson

Your are right with what you have said. Firings with precipitated accounting scandals, internet bust all due to Clinton's lack of having his 'eye on the ball' His firing of DOJ attorneys and treating terrorism as a criminal matter were all major errors in judgment. But the man himself is a major error in judgment on the part of the American voter.

All that taken into consideration that can not erase the fact that the unemployment and inflation rates were low. That is good for the people. You can call it a 'false economy' if you like, however people lived through it.

Yes, Clinton's lack of control gave Bush a bad first quarter but it came under control and the rates that went slightly up came back down.

Yes, his mis-management caused other problems. Yes, he a a major character flaw and blot on humanity. Regardless of all Clinton's faults, flaws and scandals the economic indicators were good. They will go down in history as such.

As for Congress they also play a role ... and the Republican controlled Congress was not as forceful and a watchful as it should have been. They could have rectified many of his errors and made course corrections ... they didn't.

As for Clinton's impeachment it should have been for his real failing ... in national security. Republicans in Congress sought to placate the minority and in doing so created a circus.

Your last line refers to someone whose "policies will lead us to the next world war." Who do you mean? Aren't we already in the next world war, brought to us by the Islamos?

Hell no! We are fighting an ideology, not countries. Not at the level of WWI or WWII. When China starts to get involved and we have to seriously fight a war at the levels of WWI or WWII, then you will have a World War. Right now its a containment war that no country has any major commitment in to defeat, unlike the other world wars. Don't mis-interpret this by bringing up those that have sacrificed thier time and lives in this endevor. I'm speaking strickly on a historical level of multiple countrys commitment to utterly destroy and crush the enemy. We are not at that level yet, so no this is not a WW IMHO.

Andrew Jackson was a great president. He might have been a Democrat, but he was nothing like a modern day socialist democrat. In fact, if he were alive today he would probably challenge the dumbocratic leadership to a duel. Jacksonian policies set the stage for what would later become known as Manifest Destiny under President James K. Polk. In fact, Polk (also from TN), considered himself the last Jacksonian President. In short, Jackson (along with Polk) is a big reason the USA is one big country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. During his presidency South Carolina even threatened to secede due to tariff disputes. After Jackson threatened to hang all conspirators from the tallest tree, this secession threat was quickly dropped. He was probably the closest thing to John Wayne we ever had in the Oval Office.

everyone forgets the crooked administrations like Harding and Grant...

People throw this crap at me all the time...and my response inevitably is, “I guess you are ignorant of the track record of so many other presidents in our history.”

Benjamin Harrison? Van Buren? the second term of Jefferson almost ended the US economy! Americans need to educate themselves on their history.

And 20 years down the road, when Iraq is secure and Lebanon and Jordan have democracies...he will be praises as Cold War victor Ronald Reagan is today...

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