Who was the worst President ever? And who was the best?

Answer 1

Worst president: the current, George W Bush
Best President: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Answer 2

Okidoki I'm not young and I know Bush is awful. Your not an American, your a Republican and if howdy doody was a republican and in office you'd blindly back him. Sad.

Also, if Truman didn't drop the bomb, thousands; maybe hundreds of thousands of more American lives would have been lost because Japan flat out was not going to surrender. I'm so sad at what happened but I'm glad Truman had America's best interests.

TL your obviously a stout right winger but that's cool. I appreciate your comments but Bush's overriding the constitution and taking away civil liberties like he has is bordering fascism, not conservative politics. Saying Kennedy was as conservative is ridiculous. He should have done more for civil rights but at least Kennedy talked to black people.

The worst president is George Bush (poor economy, bad war, more outsourcing, gas prices increased 250%, high corporate scandals, taking away of civil liberties). Mr. Bush proved that anyone really can be president.

James Buchanon and William Harrison are also listed at near the bottom. Very inept people who really didn't do much. Garfield and Andrew Johnson are obviously not well thought of either.

The top 3 are almost always seen as Franklyn D. Rossevelt, Abe Lincoln and George Washington. After that people like Harry Truman (the buck stops here) was a great president.

Lincoln and Truman were interesting because at the time they were in office, 50% of the country liked them and the other half didn't. Truman once said good leadership was when 1/2 the people were mad at you all of the time. He realized tough decisions needed to be made and being popular wasnt' the goal, but running the country was. Something that won't be seen again in the techno society we live in today.

As the years went on they realized what great men these 2 were because they made some of the toughest decisions in history. If you think everything a president does is right, then your not an american your either a Repub or a Democrat. No one should ever blindly follow or agree with a leader.

If you notice during election times, many presidential candidates from both the Repubs and Democrats will quote Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman because both are now so well thought of and respected. I wish they were alive today.

Answer 3

Worst was Nixon, until Bush got elected! He is by far the worst president the US ever had! Just Bush's polls says volumns about what America thinks of Bush!




PollingReport.com


PRESIDENT BUSH – Overall Job Rating in recent news media/nonpartisan national polls

Newsweek 8/24-25/06 36% Approve, 56% Disapprove, 8% are unsure

"How does any president's reputation sink so low? The reasons are best understood as the reverse of those that produce presidential greatness. In almost every survey of historians dating back to the 1940s, three presidents have emerged as supreme successes: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. These were the men who guided the nation through what historians consider its greatest crises: the founding era after the ratification of the Constitution, the Civil War, and the Great Depression and Second World War. Presented with arduous, at times seemingly impossible circumstances, they rallied the nation, governed brilliantly and left the republic more secure than when they entered office.

Calamitous presidents, faced with enormous difficulties -- Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Hoover and now Bush -- have divided the nation, governed erratically and left the nation worse off. In each case, different factors contributed to the failure: disastrous domestic policies, foreign-policy blunders and military setbacks, executive misconduct, crises of credibility and public trust. Bush, however, is one of the rarities in presidential history: He has not only stumbled badly in every one of these key areas, he has also displayed a weakness common among the greatest presidential failures -- an unswerving adherence to a simplistic ideology that abjures deviation from dogma as heresy, thus preventing any pragmatic adjustment to changing realities. Repeatedly, Bush has undone himself, a failing revealed in each major area of presidential performance."

Answer 4

I have to disagree with the previous answers. I would say Truman was the worst He set off the bomb the killed millions. Gee where is the out rage on that one? I guess Eisenhower was a very popular president but that was a little before my time. Anyone that says bush is the worst must be either narrow minded or very young and knows nothing about the history of the country they are criticizing

Answer 5

Worst Bush
Best Clinton

Answer 6

This isn't Georgie Bush's best day, he is the worst, he has betrayed us all.
Best was one who didn't do much, nothing much happening, but he was a good man. Eisenhower. In those days when some one had a mistress or an affair. It was a well known secret. As long as he did his job, all was quiet.
Not the most admired by the people, but a decent honest man has to be Harry Truman. He had a terrible job dumped in his lap. Did what he thought best and lived up to the responsibility of his office . saying "The Buck Stops Here" and meaning it.

Answer 7

Worst George W Bush

Best Kennedy

Answer 8

The worst was Clinton and Bush( both of em')
The best was probably Abe in the old days, Teddy in the early 1900s, Eisenhower in the mid 1900s and Ronald Regan in the late 1900s.

Answer 9

lol this is hilarious!
Bush worst Kennedy best?
What is so different between the two?
Both cut taxes
Bush has Iraq, Iran,, N Korea
Kennedy had Vietnam, Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile Crisis

If JPK were alive today he'd be considered more conservative then most republicans are.

And FDRs critics called him a warmonger for helping the Allies in WWII

Poll numbers dont mean everything. Many great leaders are not truely appreciate until many years later.

BTW In recent history best was Reagan, worst Carter

P.S. If you think our current economy is bad you are absolutely clueless, we are not even anywhere near a recession never mind a depression!

Answer 10

Worst: Clinton, Best: Lincon