Worst US President? *

[radcen]

Worst US President? *

*-Not named Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, or Obama. The actions of these five are too fresh to be accurately judged. Their actions are still shaking out and history will eventually put them in their proper place.

 

[ARealConservative]

1) FDR
2) Wilson

 

[soccerboy22]

I am torn between Franklin Pierce or James Buchanan.

 

[RabidAlpaca]

FDR without a doubt.

No other president has had that little respect for the constitution.

 

[DDD]

Still waiting

 

[YoungConserv]

Lincoln destroyed the tenth

 

[APACHERAT]

FDR probably did more damage to the American way.

Carter definitely the weakest President of the Twentieth Century.

 

[Un biased]

Andrew Jackson

 

[Masada]

Wilson, FDR, Carter, Jackson......in that order from worst, to horrible but not worst.

Honoring the OP statement, Obama will wedge himself between Wilson and FDR though, given time.

 

[Velvet Elvis]

Woodrow Wilson, hands down.

He created the "government behind the government"...the Federal Reserve, and eventually the I.R.S.
He was the first true shill for unionized labor.
His Sedition Act of 1918 was a blatant and tyrannical way to choke free speech from people.
He was an open racist and fascist. He wanted dictatorial control over the country.

Some of his more "colorful" quotes:

"A “true leader” uses the masses of people like “tools.”
“Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand….”
“The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit….”

 

[thinkforyoursel]

I like the question but I truly feel it would be better for us to answer the question based on the Presidents we do know...rather than the ones we don't.

Ronald Reagan is a classic example ......I don't remember a president as great when he was alive as he is today (via the right wing spin machine) now that he's dead!
I remember Iran Contra, cut and run after 241 dead marines in Beirut, propping up PW Botha and Apartheid ....and the list continues.

So the things you "think" you know about those presidents when there were no internet ...with many illerates in the country .... because you read some book ....can be far far from the truth!!

Look at Bush .....your grand kids are going to read about some kind of hero who saved Iraq ...when you and I are dead ...there are $Millions of out there to ensure his history is re-written!!

 

[radcen]

I like the question but I truly feel it would be better for us to answer the question based on the Presidents we do know...rather than the ones we don't.

Ronald Reagan is a classic example ......I don't remember a president as great when he was alive as he is today (via the right wing spin machine) now that he's dead!
I remember Iran Contra, cut and run after 241 dead marines in Beirut, propping up PW Botha and Apartheid ....and the list continues.

So the things you "think" you know about those presidents when there were no internet ...with many illerates in the country .... because you read some book ....can be far far from the truth!!

Look at Bush .....your grand kids are going to read about some kind of hero who saved Iraq ...when you and I are dead ...there are $Millions of out there to ensure his history is re-written!!

Quite the opposite. Many of the things we get so worked up about at the moment, are forgotten in history precisely because they weren't all that important or remarkable in the grand scheme of things. History tends to remember the things that actually did have a lasting impact.

Plus, when attempting to rate current or recent people we tend to place too much bias on our own biases, where history allows us to step back and be a little more objective.

 

[ARealConservative]

I like the question but I truly feel it would be better for us to answer the question based on the Presidents we do know...rather than the ones we don't.

Ronald Reagan is a classic example ......I don't remember a president as great when he was alive as he is today (via the right wing spin machine) now that he's dead!
I remember Iran Contra, cut and run after 241 dead marines in Beirut, propping up PW Botha and Apartheid ....and the list continues.

So the things you "think" you know about those presidents when there were no internet ...with many illerates in the country .... because you read some book ....can be far far from the truth!!

Look at Bush .....your grand kids are going to read about some kind of hero who saved Iraq ...when you and I are dead ...there are $Millions of out there to ensure his history is re-written!!

do you remember what it was like the 4 years before Reagan? It seems you are glossing over far worse times.

 

[radcen]

Quite the opposite. Many of the things we get so worked up about at the moment, are forgotten in history precisely because they weren't all that important or remarkable in the grand scheme of things. History tends to remember the things that actually did have a lasting impact.

Plus, when attempting to rate current or recent people we tend to place too much bias on our own biases, where history allows us to step back and be a little more objective.

Oops. I meant "too much emphasis on our own biases".