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Tough choice. Buchanan, Harding, or Coolidge. I can excuse Harding to some extent. He was just stupid and completely unqualified for the job... even he knew it. He wasn't corrupt as much as those he put in important positions were corrupt. Buchanan's lack of leadership and action lead to the Civil War, Coolidge's lack of leadership and action lead to the Great Depression. Hmmm... Buchanan was a life long statesman, having been a Representative, a Senator, and a Secretary of State, and should have known better. I give him a little sympathy because he did not have the kind of personality to be President during the time in which he served, a time that required strong leadership, but that does not excuse his failures.
Could you expand upon this?
After the Civil War when the 13th/14th/15th Amendments were passed, the Republicans (the dominant party in Congress at the time) had every intention of allowing minorities to have the same civil rights that whites had. Most of them envisioned a kind of racial equality like we have today, rather than what we had for the 100 years following the Civil War. Johnson, on the other hand, actively undermined them at every turn and allowed southern states to pass "black codes" (the earliest version of Jim Crow) in direct violation of the 14th Amendment.
"This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men." - Andrew Johnson. And he made good on that promise.
Only one other guy, besides me voted for Buchanon? This is fantastic.
Nope. The states had/have a right to secede. He had no right to keep the states united by force.
How are the hyper-partisan hackies voting more than once? Do they all have multiple accounts?
Why isn't Ford on the list?
Probably because considering he was only President by virtue of being Speaker of the House during Nixon's resignation, he's probably the luckiest President by virtue of just keeping our republic stable during all the fallout of Nixon's corruption, the fall of Saigon, civil unrest, and economic downturns that would plague into the Carter years.
The people that chose GWB are amusing.... because there's not one thing that was 'bad' about GWB that The Obama isn't worse.
Uhmm he was the V.P. Speaker of the House is third inlinerof
Why isn't Ford on the list?
The people that chose GWB are amusing.... because there's not one thing that was 'bad' about GWB that The Obama isn't worse.
I don't know enough to make a decision.
Given my limited knowledge of US presidential history, and taking into account my being too young to notice until the late Bush 41 years, I don't have all that much to go on.
No, the states did not have the right to seceed, therefore he had every right to keep the states united. Firstly, they illegally confiscated federal property. Secondly, read Texas v. White for reference.
It's a public poll - what did you expect?The complete lack of temporal vision in this thread disturbs me.
125 votes for Obama. Really?
As a pretty solid Republican, Obama is not the worst president. Pierce is the worst; he is a cause of the Civil War. No one on this list has that prize. Learn some history people.
It's a public poll - what did you expect?
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