Posted on 02/20/2023 9:16:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The American presidency is one of the strangest jobs in the world.
Politicians aspire to it. The media focuses obsessively on the person who holds it and those who want to win it. Millions of books and articles have been written about it. And yet, most of the people who’ve held the job really weren’t that good.
There are a few truly great presidents, some pretty good ones and a handful of complete disasters. But most can be summed up, as the Simpsons famously once did, as the “adequate, forgettable, occasionally regrettable, caretaker presidents of the U.S.A.”
In fairness, the presidency radically changed in the 20th century, especially as the United States became a global power, so it’s a bit hard to compare the earlier commanders in chief to the modern ones. And despite the many mediocrities, ranking the presidents is a popular pastime, one I’ve dabbled in myself. So let’s ask a slightly different question: Who are the most overrated and underrated holders of the most thankless job in American politics?
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MSNBC-CCP Outlet cannot be taken seriously, unless you are an insane Lieberal.
He damaged our Party.
I used to feel the same way. But, now I look at the Patriot Act, Afghanistan, Iraq, Medicare, and the way our debt has exploded and look at it as a complete failure.
I voted for a team and screwed my country. As they say in Canada…”Surry”
He never defended himself, his administration or the Republican voters. He was a doormat.
W thought he would eventually be loved, or at least accepted, by the Left.
Sorry, loser. Wrong again
I’m not sure America survived the Clinton/Bush/Obama years.
Part of the James Carter re-evaluation articles that are coming.
The world will hate him when his role in 911 comes out.
I’ll take Carter over either Bush.
I was thankful his father was in charge when the USSR broke up. You don’t hear of rogue nukes.
I was thankful when W was in charge during 9/11. Kicking ass was in order. We had to take it to somebody. He lost me in the nation building. Then there’s the government building. Think TSA.
Considering Al Gore would have been President, I am satisfied.
I agree with MSNBC in one sense. My opinion of him dropped tremendously after he left office. While he was in office, I thought he had a mixed record but overall was positive. Now, I think the negative outweighs the positive. I think we wasted a fortune on Iraq that got us nothing.
Bush paved the way for Obama/Holder's total politicization of the US Intel agencies, and turning the DOJ into America's KGB. Everything from the Russia-gate fraud to Twitter-files to this nasty war in Ukraine is his responsibility.
I supported him. He can now F.O.A.D.
By the time November 2004 rolled around, I had determined that GWB was the worst U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson.
FB frenemy is calling Carter our greatest living president. Better, apparently, than the two-term demi-gods Clinton and Obama, I guess.
It’s funny. Our biggest enemy since ‘79 has been Iran. We never did anything to them outside of an oil platform under Reagan I think. Part of the hostage deal?
Nope, not gonna do it. I’m not gonna defend that loser because he’s being criticized by some POS lefties.
So why not Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia who were way more responsible for 9/11 than Iraq?
I’ll tell you, it was about avenging his daddy’s attempted assassination, it was personal.
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