Who do you think was the WORST US president?

Go Teddy!

 

I don't get why people think NIxon was a bad president.

 

I agree. While I think Nixon was a crook and a shill for the Power Elite, just like the rest of 'em.... the way I see it, he must have been doing something right if "they" had him impeached.

 

Nixon was jsut more obviously corrupt and failure to remove him woulda have cause anger a,ong the massess. Roosevelt was good at what he did. The new deal was a good diea.

 

I'm going to go with Warren G. Harding. Of course, he was president during the roaring 20's when everything was in boom, but he did NOTHING to cool the economy down despite the warning signs and advisors warning him of an impending crash. That, and he has the distinction of having a cabinet filled with his poker buddies instead of people with credentials, but then maybe that was setting a precedent.

Calvin Coolidge followed and was asleep most of the time, and Herbert Hoover was on watch for the big stock market crash in 1929. Following that, he tried to save the economy by introducing his "trickle down" theory, and like all the other times they've tried it since, it didn't work that time either.

I may disagree with many presidential policies and personally don't agree with a lot of what they do, but as far as doing "presidential" things, I think Harding was the worst, with Coolidge and Hoover not far behind.

 

Nixon was a genius when it came to geopolitics, He is the single reason that the COld War cooled down so fast in the 70's.

 

I always laugh when people refer to the masses.

 

Lincoln- his entire legacy is full of deception...
Woodrow Wilson - the father of the American "world police", now headed by GWB.
FDR - the father of American Statism and Big Brother Nanny. Temporary fixes?...yeah
Richard Nixon - formed the DEA, was for big government, was a spy and yes, a crook!
Bill Clinton - Increased the drug war to more arrests than Bush Sr. & Reagan
George W. Bush - Need I even go there?

 

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Was this William Henry Harrison ??

 

Yeah he's the one. Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.

 

well i can't remember too much far back in the 19th century.

perhaps Harry Truman or Ronald Reagan

 

Who was the President who gave that long-winded inaugural speech out in the cold? He died of pneumonia a few weeks later. Harrison, I think.

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What do you watn me to call tehm? The proles, the lower order?

 

People are people. There are no masses. "The masses" is an elitist concept to feed the egos of leftists who consider themselves part of the intellectual elite, and look down on everyone else, ironically those who they claim to want to help.

 

I will go against the rules of this thread...

George W. Bush

 

Herbert Hoover. He's so much like Bush. We'll be in an other Depression before long, if he has his way. The rich get richer and everyone else gets poorer.

 

Yeah, pulling us out of the Depression and giving people work so they could EAT was such a HORRIBLE thing. Damn those poor people lovers. Let the poor starve. <heavy sarcasm>

Jeez.

AND there was NO 2 term "tradition" or law when FDR was in Office. In fact, he was instrumental in instituting it. The two term law came after FDR.

 

The only way Hoover is really like Bush is they both get blamed for a recession that happened months after they became president because of a boom time of unchecked growth in the years before they were president. And Hoover, even though he believed in limited government interference in the market made one of the biggest tax increasese in history to support new programs he made.

Anyways, my choice is James Buchanan

 

Yeah, and they are both good at blaming problems they are responsible for on those who came before them............an other way they are alike.

 

Bush is the first President since Hoover to not address the NAACP.

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