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POLL: worst president ever ?
mcall ^

Posted on 02/08/2011 3:35:47 PM PST by stompk

In honor of Presidents Day, exercise your right to free speech and vote for the worst president in U.S. history! Cast your vote by clicking on the name of your least favorite president in the list on the right side of this page, then scroll down to the bottom, type in the words you see in the CAPTCHA and click the “Vote” button. Voting will also show you who’s in the lead in our unscientific Web survey! Look for the final results on our Town Square opinion page on Presidents Day, Feb. 21.

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To: All; stompk
Historians view puts Obama 15th???? WTH?

So many choices... Today I picked Woodrow Wilson as worst; tomorrow I might pick another. Wilson us the national progressive income tax, the Federal Reserve, created an actual "propaganda" arm of gov't, promoted Big Labor, practiced all manner of interventionism with setup of puppet gov'ts abroad, had willful disregard for his incapacity after a series of strokes, but most of all shaped the Treaty of Versailles setting the stage for the raise of Nazism and WW2.

61 posted on 02/08/2011 6:07:15 PM PST by newzjunkey
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To: nhwingut; All
Makes you wonder what the criteria they used.

W made some questionable decisions. It's too early for "history" to judge Iraq or Afghanistan - the major hooks these critics focus on. Whatever you think of his drunken sailor spending or the wars, even now it's clear W's term is objectively not "bottom 5 all time."

He responded timidly in the face of an immediately undermined presidency (Gore & selected-not-elected meme) and but well to 9/11 terrorist attacks: the economy kept moving, American people were kept safe.

There were no world wars, no brink of human annihilation, no civil wars, no Great Depression, allies still allies, foes still quietly dithering, no internment camps, no conscription... the primary complaints about W's tenure are "high class problems" - largely just effete whining.

W was not a GREAT president, more middle-of-the-road in my book, but Heaven help us if we'd had Al Gore or Obama in 2001!

62 posted on 02/08/2011 6:41:15 PM PST by newzjunkey
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To: newzjunkey

Actually we probably would have a Reagan in office now if we had Gore in 2001.

Bush was a horrible president and a progressive. They are the problem...


63 posted on 02/08/2011 6:43:19 PM PST by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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It was a hard choice between Obama and Cater.


64 posted on 02/08/2011 7:26:35 PM PST by NoRetreatNoSurrender
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To: stompk

http://www.mcall.com/opinion/yourview/presidents/mc-worstpresidents-2011-poll1,0,2322826,post.poll

Barack Obama and George W are tied at 38%


65 posted on 02/08/2011 8:52:02 PM PST by Steelers6
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To: dynachrome

* George W. Bush (3226 responses) 43%
* Barack Obama (2381 responses) 32%
7477 total responses

Me thinks that the KOS has been at it again or Huff has taken off with AOL and started ripping up the numbers.

Even so .. it aint so good for Barry


66 posted on 02/08/2011 10:39:08 PM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Munz

Looks like DU got on that one.


67 posted on 02/09/2011 5:29:04 AM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: dynachrome

Doesn’t matter their god isn’t looking too good at this point either.

It’s not about Bush anymore even though they still try to blame him for everything. Obama is going to start taking heat for his actions soon enough. I can smell it in the air.


68 posted on 02/09/2011 5:38:28 AM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: silentreignofheroes

Something has happened to the data:

Woodrow Wilson (88 responses)

1%

Warren G. Harding (95 responses)

1%

Calvin Coolidge (28 responses)

0%

Herbert Hoover (91 responses)

1%

Franklin D. Roosevelt (94 responses)

1%

Harry S. Truman (8 responses)

0%

Dwight D. Eisenhower (3 responses)

0%

John F. Kennedy (10 responses)

0%

Lyndon B. Johnson (26 responses)

0%

Richard M. Nixon (139 responses)

1%

Gerald R. Ford (2 responses)

0%

Jimmy Carter (213 responses)

2%

Ronald Reagan (807 responses)

9%

George H. W. Bush (168 responses)

2%

Bill Clinton (34 responses)

0%

George W. Bush (4272 responses)

46%

Barack Obama (2693 responses)

29%

9350 total responses

Looks like a bunch of BDS types noticed this poll and hammered it. So it again needs FReeping. BTTT.


69 posted on 02/09/2011 9:48:32 AM PST by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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To: stompk

W and Regan are the two Pubs who lead the worst while Obama is by far the worst Dem. I think W and Reagan will finish overall across the US, not in this McCall’s item, far better than Obama in years to come as our domestic and international safety is eaten away by this inept socialist in the WH. The nonsense that JFK is one of the top two for best is of course just inane. The poor guy was there for 3 yrs. and many people thought he would have a hard time in his re-election because of Cuba. Soaring rhetoric does not a Prez make. He had it but it was his tax cuts which turned out to be the best part of his reign.


70 posted on 02/10/2011 6:56:47 PM PST by phillyfanatic
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