Whom to your knowledge has been the worst US president?

Answer 1

Taft.

Answer 2

I've been around since Harry Truman and I'd have to say the worst I ever saw was Jimmy Carter. He brought in one of his old cronies to run the CIA (Stansfield Turner) and fired all the assets on the ground in Iran. That lead to the 444-day hostage taking that only ended when President Reagan took over. He cut the military budgets so deeply that most military families were qualified to receive welfare. Another result of his cuts were the failed hostage rescue missions because the equipment the Special Forces were issued was in such poor shape it was unusable. Just read Col. Bull Simon's report on that debacle. His buffoon of an alchoholic brother Billy made a mockery of the White House and Jimmy proved to be about as incompetent as anyone could be. Even since he left office he's done nothing but criticize this country whenever there's been a Republican in office, and now he's presented himself on the world stage criticizing every single effort we've made in the war against the Islamo-Facists. This guy acts like he hopes we lose just to make him look smart. Personally, I think he'd make a perfect poster child for birth control. He'd be better off sticking to building habitat homes and keeping his big mouth shut. It's better to remain silent and be thought of as an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Answer 3

FDR, in my opinion.

1. Instituted the "New Deal" which lead to our current disaster of the welfare state and entitlement mentality.

2. Instituted the "New Deal" and other economic policies that kept us in the "Great Depression" for 8 years (1933-1941). Revisionist history blames Hoover for the depression, but he was only in office for 2 years of it (1931-1933).

3. He sat by and did nothing while many of our Allies in Europe were conquered by the Nazis (1939-1941). Even while England was on the verge of collapse (1940-1941) he did nothing. If we had gotten involved before December 1941, WWII would probably have been over far sooner and not killed 57 million people.

I'll give him a little credit for doing a good job fighting the war. But he was far too late in getting us involved, and we are still feeling the pain of his domestic policies today. This is why I feel is was the worst President.

Answer 4

To my knowledge, President Johnson is the worst President. He forced us into Vietnam which became a stalemate war that wasn't any of our business. Also he was under the influence of a select few companies that wanted to make a lot of money supplying military supplies. Even though I don't like the Iraq war and the situation this country is in these days, the number of US casualties doesn't even come close to comparing to that of past wars our country has been involved in. We went to Iraq with good intentions that turned against us.

Answer 5

What's all this nonsense about Bush?

Can't any of them see past their own noses?

Try Nixon a liar and a crook

What about Johnson, how many young G.I.'s had to die in Vietnam because of his incompetence and John Wayne, shoot from the hip mentality?

How about Grant, corrupt and a thief?

What about Thomas Jefferson the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, fighting the so called tyranny and slavery of us horrible English? He had slaves so how's that for hypocrisy ?

So Bush is a crap President but he's got an awful lot of competititon, get your heads out of the sand and look over your shoulder for a second.

Answer 6

There was a program on NPR recently that had somehow statistically shown that the current Bush is the worst president. He's definitely the worst speaking president, in my opinion.

Answer 7

Eras are so much different... and times change... so I will not answer this in terms of all time..... for it is hard to compare (Just for example) George HW Bush to John Quincy Adams...

In the modern era (Post WWII), I would have to say that the 3 worst have been Carter, Clinton, and Nixon

Answer 8

It's a tie between Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. It's a wonder America survived their miserable presidencies.

Answer 9

bush because he has gone away with so many things in his time, that if it was clinton he would have been kicked out. Think about it Clinton was being kick out for getting a bj and Bush has been sending soldiers out to iraq without an exit plan and he is still in the white house

Answer 10

Clinton

Answer 11

In my life time: Lyndon Johnson. Escalated the Vietnam war into the quagmire it became, then didn't even have the balls to run for election again.