Who was the worst Democratic president of the 20th century?Who was the worst Republican pres of the 20 century
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Worst Democratic president was Franklin Roosevelt. His policies will lead to the ultimate end of the United states. He created the 'Entitlment mentality' that is prevalent today. This will bankrupt us all eventually and continue to foster corruption in government. \nThe worst Republican president was Herbert Hoover. Hoover instituted massive trade Tarrifs that excascerbated the oncoming Depression and was completely inept at influencing economic policy. This worldwide Depression led to the environment in the 30's where people voted for Roosevelt who ruined America! Also, the Depression created the environment of instability that led to the rise of the Axis Powers prior to WWII.
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Before you knock the Democrats too hard, let's check some of the track records.\n\nWho was President during WWI? A Democrat. Which we helped win, by the way. Who were the Presidents in the era between WWI and the Great Depression, during the Roaring Twenties, the Al Capone/John Dillinger/Bonnie and Clyde era? Republicans. Who got us out of the Great Depression, got the country to working again? A Democrat. \n\nWho was President during WWII? A Democrat. A very strong, intelligent man. Truman was President when the Korean War started, but a Republican pulled us out of it without finishing it. Just kinda tucked our tails between our legs and left. Who was President for both Iraqi messes? A Bush. \n\nGranted Dems were in office during the Vietnam mess.  And Ike was still in office when we first got involved in it--1960.  Look it up.  And who pulled us out of Vietnam, leaving the people who had helped us hanging out to dry, holding the bag? A Republican.\n\nWho didn't want to bother with the Space program until the Russians got Sputnik up there? A Republican. Who backed the Russians down during the Cuban missile crisis? A Democrat. Who promised a man on the moon by the end of the 60's? (Which we did, by the way, with a Democrat in office). A Democrat.\n\nWho had a surplus in our budget, the highest ever? A Democrat. Who has the biggest deficit in our budget ever? A Republican.\n\nLooks to me like the Democrats have a much better follow through record than the Republicans.\n\nAs far as this illegal immigrant thing is concerned, there are people on both sides of the aisle who want to just give them instant citizenship because it will win votes for their party.\n\nI think we need to let BOTH parties know that we're not going to have that.  No other country in the world has such a lenient attitude toward illegals.  We NEED to toughen up, not only on the illegals themselves, but the corporations that make the whole sad situation possible.  Especially them.
455484
Yes, he is probably the worst Pres. we've ever had. He and his friends have ruined this country for everyone not just black people. They have destroyed the economy, the environment; they're responisble for illegal immigrants, jobs being outsourced, and thousands who died in a war based on a lie. Please vote in the next election and vote Dem.
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There have been eight presidents who have died in office. Namely:\n\nWilliam Henry Harrison (Whig), Zachary Taylor (Whig), Abraham Lincoln (GOP), James A. Garfield (GOP), William McKinley (GOP), Warren Harding (GOP), Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dem) and John F. Kennedy (Dem).\n\nSo the answer could be Whig and Democrat.
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I seconded your vote for dumbass of the day. And if that was a Democrat being compared to Hitler, everyone would be all up in you about it.
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Worst president: Grant (see whiskey ring: first link)\n\nBest: Lincoln (How could you not choose him)\n\nHorniest: Clinton (Who else would keep head of state waiting while he got serviced)\n\nDrunkest: Grant (he was known to hit the bottle, during the civil war)
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1.George Washington, 1789-1797 \n2.John Adams, 1797-1801 \n3.Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809 \n4.James Madison, 1809-1817 \n5.James Monroe, 1817-1825 \n6.John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829 \n7.Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837 \n8.Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841 \n9.William Henry Harrison, 1841 \n10.John Tyler, 1841-1845 \n11.James Knox Polk, 1845-1849 \n12.Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850 \n13.Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853 \n14.Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857 \n15.James Buchanan, 1857-1861 \n16.Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 \n17.Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869 \n18.Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877 \n19.Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881 \n20.James Abram Garfield, 1881 \n21.Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885 \n22.Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 \n23.Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893 \n24.Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897 \n25.William McKinley, 1897-1901 \n26.Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 \n27.William Howard Taft, 1909-1913 \n28.Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 \n29.Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923 \n30.Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 \n31.Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933 \n32.Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945 \n33.Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953 \n34.Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 \n35.John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963 \n36.Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969 \n37.Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974 \n38.Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977 \n39.James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981 \n40.Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989 \n41.George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 \n42.William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001 \n43.George Walker Bush, 2001-
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I concur, and sadly I don't think we've seen the worst of the wanna be emperor. Bush and the republicans are acting like the azz kicking they got  a month ago at thte polls was an aberration. Bipartisanship and Bush is an oxymoron. He will go down kicking and screaming like the spoiled child that he is.
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This is kind of a lopp sided question as it is always easier to complain about whatever we currently have.  However in this case the answer would be George W. Bush.  I have read some of the answers that you have gotten and some are based on complete misconceptions.  Yes our economy was better under the Clinton Administration, however that was due to the fact that the things that Reagan did for the economy were finally bearing fruit.  By the end of the Clinton years we were back into recession that plagued the early Bush Administration.  Clinton campaigned in 1992 promising National Health Insurance, however in his 8 years as President was not even able to get it to the floor of Congress.  Clinton had Congress's approval for the same reasons as Bush did in 1998 to go to war with Iraq, yet he never followed through with it.  If we blame Bush for making mistakes in his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress and the President made the same mistake in 1998.  What seems to be a common thing for both the American Public as well as our Politicians is a short attention span and a short memory.  In retrospect most Americans now think of Nixon as being a good President as well as a great statesman, yet in 1974 he was the most hated man in history moving Hitler to number 2 for the first time in over thirty years.
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Worst President in Americas History. I am sure there will be several chapters about George Bush in the Civics books just like the criminal Nixon.
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10! Democrat! Bush sucks!
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IT'S VERY EASY TO KNOW THAT GEORGE. W. BUSH IS THE WORST EVER.  ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO KNOW IT IS BE CONSCIOUS.
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I'd say........Howard Dean. He seems to be the most hatefilled of all of them. Maybe that Murtha idiot.
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Yes, Wilson was a Democrat. And so was Polk (Mexican-American War). So FDR, Truman, Johnson, Wilson, and Polk. That's 5. unless I missed someone...\n\nOh, and as for Republicans: Lincoln, McKinley, Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush 1 and Bush 2. So that's 6.\n\nEDIT: Kennedy never presided over wartime. There were conflicts in Cuba and Vietnam, but it really could not be called wartime prior to real engagement after the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964. Similarly, there were conflicts, even bombing, in Iraq during Clinton's administration, but we wouldn't call him a wartime president. So I'd still say it's 5 and 6.
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No. In order to be the worst elected official, you have to be elected legally. Bush doesnt fit that basic requirement. Check out this article on what really happened during the last election.\n\nhttp://www.whatreallyhappened.com/2004votefraud.html\n\n\nNixon or Reagan would have to be the worst elected officials.\n\n\npeace
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What other president has had to deal with the issues President Bush has had since taking office? The economy was in a slump, 9-11 in his first year, Katrina, the list goes on. Certainly he has made mistakes, but I don't think his mistakes are enough to warrant "worst president ever." What about democratic presidents that got the US involved in Vietnam with over 50,000 DRAFTED US servicemen dead? I am not a Bush fan by any means and I do wish we had elected a different President, but worse ever isn't fair either.
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In eighthgrade my history teacher compared Bush to Polk, they are the same in a lot of ways (that wa last year, I'm in 9th grade, and for some stupid reason 9th graders don't take history we take he stupidest class ever, Life Skills, in which you learnabsolutely nothing,instead). I don't know which is worse, and although I wish Bush would get impeached I doubt he will.