Worst President of US

Mein Fuhrer! atriot:

 

yes to all..

 

I had George W. Bush, but if Hoover was an option..

 

reagan, because the boomers think he is the best president ever

 

Well, at least Hoover didn't start a war, hug the Easter Bunny, and claim he was 'pro-life' all at the same time...

 

Democracy=from the Greek language=the people rule. That maxim is now moot obviously because of the way the lacky legislators have been paid for and co-opted by the corporations, fascilitated by the supreme court ruling. It's a complete takeover ,albeit developed slowly but surely, by the truly sick power and money worshippers. The wars roll on so that the corporations can continue to extract resources from around the world ,backed by our huge military(and sell those resources to us),the economy is in shambles,(soon to get worse,I'm sure), and the republican side continues their obstinate,anti middle class raping of the populace at the behest of the 1%,while the democrats have absolutely lost the balls to stop them or even care much. The 'Move to Amend ' movement is a step in the right direction,however it will probably go nowhere precisely because of the ability of corporations to apply unlimited amounts of money to defeat it. An ignorant populace is a compliant populace---we have what we deserve.

 

i don't really feel qualified to judge those who were before my life time, but the odds are there were worse among them, if only because there were more of them. ALL of them IN my lifetime have been responsible for some pretty horrible things, and i'm pretty sure all or nearly all who came before were too. there were three in my lifetime, or two anyway, who i think tried to do as much or more good then harm. all three happen to have been democrats, but i don't think its entirely a matter of party affiliation. there have been some horrible dems too. just not as consistently.

 

If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
Nixon will be remembered as a classic case of a smart man shitting in his own nest. But he also shit in our nests, and that was the crime that history will burn on his memory like a brand. By disgracing and degrading the Presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.
----- Hunter S Thompson------- Rolling Stone Interview- 1993

 

Besides almost tripling the national debt, selling chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein and running guns to the Contras, Ronnie Raygun's legacy is the AIDS epidemic. For the first four years of AIDS existence, Raygun refused to do anything to stop the spread of the disease. Why? Because it killed those the republicans hated, homosexuals, I.V. drug users and black people. AIDS has now killed more than the 750,000 that Lincoln killed in the Civil war. That makes Raygun the worst.

 

God help 'em, they've always had the hardest job in the world, because they wield so much power, and yet so little, because of the congress they're stuck with, idiots.

Apathy, the misconception that one's vote can't make a difference, that's what the political machinery depends upon, as it has throughout history.

 

Herbert Hoover...?

 

Herbert Hoover inherited a situation that was going to collapse no matter what. Granted his response wasn't effective enough, but he actually had big philosophical concerns on how far he could go with government intervention, and not in the "fuck you, got mine, gotta make more money" way typically seen today. Hoover was actually a great humanitarian during WW1.

 

wasn't Hoover really unsupportive of the people during the depression
...he believed that the people should be more self sufficient and try to pave their own way out of the depression...which apparently didn't work too well.

FDR certainly did a better job @ directing the people and getting the economy back on track.

what about Nixon..or Taft? be it Taft didn't really want the presidency in the first place.

 

Hoover did think that a creation of some kind of dole would create dependency, but it's not like he was unsupportive of people, this is a man who organized the aid relief to millions of people who were starving in and after WW1. Hoover also didn't believe the federal government had the constitutional power to make massive works programs or things like social security. I mean what FDR did was pretty radical for its time and arguably had to be done because we finally entered into an economic area that a modern economy had never experienced. In fact many of FDR's programs were shot down as unconstitutional.(Which lead to a scandal where he tried to pack the supreme court with more justices)

Nixon is definitely near the top. People like point to the fact he signed many progressive pieces of legislation, such as creating the EPA and OSHA, Title IX, ect. But, he did it because congress had huge majorities of liberals and Nixon was a pragmatist who realized he needed to work with congress.

Taft was pretty decent though. Not great, but not bad. Filed more anti-trust lawsuits than TR, instituted the first corporate income tax, was pretty good on race relations, supported free immigration.

 

Could Obama be a future candidate?

 

Kinda sounds like an ideology that make sense, with a policy behind it that doesn't, just like we've got now. If only we could learn from history...

Obama may be the only candidate, if it's between him and Romney, yikes!

 

I voted for Andrew Jackson, the guy who caused the Trail of Tears to happen and thousands of Cherokee died on a wintertime forced march.

 

You are quite old then...

 

Hey GG, I think you forgot the ...