Who is/was the most immoral politician and why?

Question

a) George Bush Sr.
b) Ronald Reagan
c) Joseph McCarthy
d) Ted Bundy
e) Dick Cheney

f) George Bush Jr.

Answer 1

It's a tie between Reagan and Cheney... Cheney being behind the Iraqi War more than Bush Jr.

Both committed treason.

Reagan did when, as gov of Cali, he was running for the presidency in 79. At the time, Carter was trying to get some hostages freed that the Contras were holding. No matter what Carter did for some reason, they would not release the hostages. This made Carter look incredibly weak.

What Carter didn't know was that Reagan in an attempt to make Carter look weak and himself look strong, had cut an arms deal with the Contras. The stipulation was they get weapons as long as they release the hostages when he became president.

On Jan. 20th, 1980, the day Reagan took the oath of office, the hostages were released.

This was treason making an arms deal behind the president of the USA back in an attempt to undermine his presidency.

Cheney committed treason by aiding in the production of false intelligence in order to undermine the American public leading them into a wrongful war that has cost American lives.
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Answer 2

None of those. I don't know how anyone could say with any certainty who is THE most immoral, but you seem to have left out Johnson. Kennedy had signed a bill into law that was going to pull all US troops out of Vietnam, but after he was killed and Johnson took over, he reversed the bill. Then he escalated the **** out of the war into a situation we couldn't get out of, instated the draft, and gave war contracts to his friends who made all the helicopters used in Vietnam and sold them to the military. And in the end, after all the blood that was shed, the millions spent and lives lost, not a damn thing was accomplished, thanks to bureacratic bullshit in DC.

Sounds a lot like the criticisms people say about President Bush, doesn't it? Except with President Bush, there's not going to be a draft. Selective memory I guess..........

Answer 3

Marion Barry, mayor Washington D.C. 1979-1991 Democrat

Answer 4

I'd have to go with Ted Bundy. He was an OK politician, but the rest of his life was a little over the top.

Joseph McCarthy is next. He destroyed a lot of innocent lives for personal gain. Generations suffered because of this sadistic and egotistical man.

Answer 5

I say Dick Cheney because while I despise Joe McCarthy, I think he had genuine paranoia problems and while it was the worst possible way to doso, he did feel he was acting in the intersts of his country. Dick Cheney has done nothing of the kind and has on several occasions acted AGAINST his country for personal profit knowing full well what he was doing and why. He has no excuse.

Answer 6

None of the above. Bundy was not a politician. The 3 of the other are/were moral by politician standards. If you limit it to US pols, Clinton. If you make it international, there have been so many it's impossible to say.

Answer 7

A, B, C, E and F with F winning as the worst. Which one has been responsible for countless Iraqi deaths and over 3200 American deaths for, what? Bush The Second - not a Junior, by the way - is on a par with Hitler and Stalin when it comes to being thought of as a mass murderer. The man is a disgrace to the office of President. And, he's a pathetic excuse of a human being. When most Presidents leave office, they are looked up to as an elder statesman who is wise and knowing. This fool won't be, except by the Republicans. He should be shunned and vilified for the remainder of his miserable life and should be made every day to look at the pictures of the children who have no fathers thanks to him. He's a total disgrace to the human race.

Answer 8

Bill Clinton. Hillary will top him. Oh yeah, Johnson was a crook too.

Answer 9

nice list-I guess you were afraid to put a Dem or two out there-they might have won the contest.

Answer 10

Ulysses S Grant.

"The first scandal to taint the Grant administration was Black Friday, a gold-speculation financial crisis in September 1869, set up by Wall Street manipulators Jay Gould and James Fisk. They tried to corner the gold market and tricked Grant into preventing his treasury secretary from stopping the fraud.

The most famous scandal was the Whiskey Ring of 1875, exposed by Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow, in which over 3 million dollars in taxes was stolen from the federal government with the aid of high government officials. Orville E. Babcock, the private secretary to the President, was indicted as a member of the ring but escaped conviction because of a presidential pardon. Grant's earlier statement, "Let no guilty man escape" rang hollow. Secretary of War William W. Belknap was discovered to have taken bribes in exchange for the sale of Native American trading posts. Grant's acceptance of the resignation of Belknap allowed Belknap, after he was impeached by Congress for his actions, to escape conviction, since he was no longer a government official.

Other scandals included the Sanborn Incident at the Treasury, and problems with U.S. Attorney Cyrus I. Scofield.

Although Grant himself did not profit from corruption among his subordinates, he did not take a firm stance against malefactors and failed to react strongly even after their guilt was established. When critics complained, he vigorously attacked them. He was weak in his selection of subordinates, favoring colleagues from the war over those with more practical political experience. He alienated party leaders by giving many posts to his friends and political contributors rather than supporting the party's needs. His failure to establish working political alliances in Congress allowed the scandals to spin out of control. At the conclusion of his second term, Grant wrote to Congress that "Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent."

[edit] Anti-Semitism

Grant's legacy has been marred by anti-Semitism. The most frequently cited example is the infamous General Order No. 11, issued by Grant's headquarters in Oxford, Mississippi, on December 17, 1862, during the early Vicksburg Campaign. The order stated in part:

The Jews, as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also Department orders, are hereby expelled from the Department (comprising areas of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky).

The order was almost immediately rescinded by President Lincoln. Grant maintained that he was unaware that a staff officer issued it in his name. Grant's father Jesse Grant was involved; General James H. Wilson later explained, "There was a mean nasty streak in old Jesse Grant. He was close and greedy. He came down into Tennessee with a Jew trader that he wanted his son to help, and with whom he was going to share the profits. Grant refused to issue a permit and sent the Jew flying, prohibiting Jews from entering the line." Grant, Wilson felt, could not strike back directly at the "lot of relatives who were always trying to use him" and perhaps struck instead at what he maliciously saw as their counterpart—opportunistic traders who were Jewish. [McFeeley p 124] Although it was portrayed as being outside the normal inclinations and character of Grant, it has been suggested by Bertram Korn that the order was part of a consistent pattern. "This was not the first discriminatory order [Grant] had signed... he was firmly convinced of the Jews' guilt and was eager to use any means of ridding himself of them." [10]

The issue of anti-Semitism was raised during the 1868 presidential campaign, and Grant consulted with several Jewish community leaders, all of whom said they were convinced that Order 11 was an anomaly, and he was not an anti-Semite. He maintained good relations with the community throughout his administration, on both political and social levels."