What president of the US do "YOU" think was the worst in history?
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all of them (except the few first ones and JFK)\nno offense guys but i cant understand how would anyone vote for Bush!!!???
1094432
I can't really say of all time, but of my life time George W Bush.  He is clearly racist and elitist and puts his own financial and political well being before the good of the nation as a whole in a way that is without precedent.
719589
FDR\n\nWhy did you use death camps against American citizens?
1187810
I'd say........Howard Dean. He seems to be the most hatefilled of all of them. Maybe that Murtha idiot.
855864
Many historians think that he's the worst in SOME AREAS.  For instance, his handling of the environment has been deemed the worst, and that even George Washington had more regard for the environment.  His tax policies that benefit mostly the rich are also extreme, in that they make Nixon look like a flaming liberal.  I think he has mis-handled the war in Iraq, but we also had Vietnam in recent history.  It is all a matter of opinion, and my opinion is that he definitely isn't the BEST president we've ever had.  And one can truly make the argument that he was put there by his peers so they (Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney, etc) could run the country.  I actually feel pretty sorry for him, because I think he's just a simple guy that got in too deep.
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I don't hate him but I consider him to be the worst thing\nto happen to the U.S. in decades. His decision to send troops to Iraq not only alienated many of America's closest\nallies but cost lives,caused more hatred for the West and plunged the country hundreds of billions of dollars in debt.\nIt was even worse than Lyndon Johnson's decision to send more troops to Vietnam.
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The worst ever... its kind of hard.  Clinton sunk the level of President to a new low, that'll be hard to beat.  Carter had his "malaise" (well, he was lame but not corrupt, just his cabinet was).  FDR and the new deal, sounded good until it was realized he used public money to support private industry and he created a permanent welfare state, which as everyone knows was the beginning of the end of personal responsibility.  JFK did a great job rallying around the flag and making people happy they were American again, but he was lost on the international stage and "Camelot" was only really good if you were rich, a democrat and from Massachusettes, but despite all that he wasn't that bad.  \n\nThere was Daley, sure.  But don't leave out all the others who sat in congress for years and didn't consider themselves corrupt because they weren't stealing money directly, just funneling it to people who would eventually employee them one they "retired".\n\nAnd just to appease the whiny libs out there, yes I acknowledge there have been corrupt republicans out there, but just look at White Water and all the people involved who "suicided" or just were killed under suspicious "accidental" circumstances and you'll realize that "Monica-gate" was one of the more elaborate ruses in the history of politics.  There may be some bad republicans, but the democrats have a time honored tradition of dishonesty and corruption.\n\nAnd why are the people answering this question bringing the authors appearance and spelling into the argument?  Are you third graders who can't form a coherent thought ?  Grow up!  We know you are upset because year after year you vote the party line and continue sending lame thieves into office.  Just look at New Orleans putting Nagin back into office and tell me I'm wrong.
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jimmy carter.\nhe is well known for being the most ineffectual president in american history... and this is because he put the thoughts and concerns of common people before those of the wealthy beaurocrats in washington.  even today, he selflessly serves the community and reaches out to those in need.\n\nfurthermore, the people who say george w bush are hilarious... am i the only person who remembers him giving that speech about ten years ago saying that the quickest way to the oval office is through christianity?  it's such a front... it's sickening.
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Second worse is a tie between Daddy Bush and Dutch (the speechreader) Reagan.  If you go back and look at the crock of sh-t Reagan spread during his reign of terror , you'd agree.\n\nMy personal favorite was his smoozing up to the air traffic controllers and then backstabbing them as soon as he took office.\n\nMy second favorite was his "War on Drugs".  During this fiasco we had more drugs in America than ever before or after!  Shoot, even on of the S.S. guards at the White House reportedly said that when the Vice President's kids came to visit ( this would be W and his brothers) that they ( the S.S. guards) felt they should pat them down for weapons.  \n\nThe guards also stated the "boys" liked their white powder and left traces of it in the rooms.
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You write that "anyone who says [the current president] is the worst president ever has ... never studied any history." Well, strangely, following your logic, it seems a lot of historians have "never studied history." Many historians now believe that GW Bush is "perhaps the worst president in the nation's history." (You can contact me and I will tell you where to get this authoritative information online.)\n\nI would never vote for a person like GW Bush. I am very liberal and refused to vote for Clinton also because Clinton was, I believed, a slick rhetorician, a prevaricator, an ambitious opportunist, and a sophist. I turned to the Green Party in 2000. \nFor three years I tried to be careful in the phrasing of my apprasal of the current president. I would say, "I honestly think he is one of the worst presidents ever." But in 2004 I came to believe that he was actually THE WORST (my reasons are too much to detail here). \n\nIt is important to remember that thousands of Americans being slaughtered in Iraq, a burgeoning national debt and grossly unbalanced federal budget, and failing to catch Osama bin Laden were not the historical reasons that Bush lost favor with the American electorate. It was the Katrina diaster (not the "disaster" that was the hurricane, but the disaster that was the federal response to the hurricane). Only then did people begin to realize just how incompetent their commander in chief really was. Only then!\n\nBy the way, you mention Reagan and his "trickle down" economic philosophy. GW Bush's father derisively called it "Voodoo economics," and the country's leading economists at the time said it was an unsound, misguided policy. The current president has done the very same thing: give trillions of dollars to middle and upper class people. It is both sad and fascinating historically to watch this play out. How can he get away with a plan to essentially mortgage the nation and place the debt on Amercan children (as it is they who will pay the taxes to finance this windfall for the wealthy)? The Republicans had a lot of money, but it is pure genius to use the tax money itself, and thus you can buy votes; just tell people that you'll give them huge tax rebates, and you'll get millions of votes that way. Who wouldn't like to pay $4,000.00 less in taxes each year? (The rich taxpayers got a lot more than $4,000 apiece of course, starting in 2001.). \n\nHere is something you've perhaps never given any thought to: Clinton (astoundingly) balanced the federal budget before he left office. This was remarkable, fantastic, unbelievable (as it had been grossly unbalanced by his predecessors, Reagan and Bush Sr.). So, in 2000 there was a small surplus. That "surplus" should have gone, of course, to pay down the enormous federal debt that stood then at over $5 trillion. Now, only six years later, the debt is approaching $8 trillion. And there is one lone guy in this whole universe who is responsible for this situation. I don't have to tell you his name. You know it. \n\nAlso, just for your information, some historians do not believe that Abraham Lincoln was the best of all the presidents. However, I do, and the consensus among historians collectively is that Lincoln WAS the greatest of all the presidents. Lincoln was a Republican, but do not confuse this with the Republicanism of today. The political dynamic changed dramatically during the Great Depression (with FDR). The Republican politics of today to not resemble the Republican politics of 160 years ago. \n\nRead more. Search online for reputable Universities and history organizations that are not political but professional. There you will find frank apprasals of the current president. (Many conservatives discount these views of scholars however because it is well known that scholars (intellectuals) tend to be politically liberal. - which should not surprise;
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Greatest: Mr. John F. Kennedy (saved our country)\nWorst: Mr. Shrubs (bush) (demoralized it)
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Well it depends on what is "worst." For example, a president can be really bad for not doing anything. This was what Warren G. Harding's admininstration was. His entire term, until he died in office, was completely about doing nothing. However, if you are talking about acting on things, but doing a terribel job, i think Bush is definitely up there. I really can't think of any other president "messing up" so badly.\n\nSooooo.... it falls down to acting badly vs. not acting at all or a battle, in my opinion of course, between Warren G. Harding and George W. Bush.
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Yes Bush is very bad, sure Nixon was involved in planning a robbery, but both of these men are not the worst.  Andrew Jackson was the worst President in our history, after all his policy of genoside against the American Indians solidifies his standing as the worst.  Of modern Presidents Humphrey did enable the Great Depression, sure his conservative fiscal policy plunged the world into a depression, but you still think Bush is the worst!\n\nI am a hard line liberal, I can't stand Bush, but I will give him credit for not being the worst of all time, the worst in the last 70 years, still no thanks to trick Dick.  So Bush gets forth worst over all.  You never know, we could get stuck with Pataki, who just might do nothing at all and lull the country to death.
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bush is the worst pres. ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
249224
Kerry, but I would have voted for just about anybody but Bush and it turned out I am right. He is probably the worst president that this country has ever had....
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Rolling Stone mag just had an article by an historian\nwho considers him the worst president we ever had.\n The only consolation to that is that we've lived thru\nhistoric times.
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But I was of the opinion that Bush was THE WORST president of this century.