Who is the worst President in American history?

Question

And why?

Lyndon Johnson was never elected???

Answer 1

Carter

Answer 2

Bush is pretty bad, but history will judge him relative to other presidents. Some of the other worst presidents are Andrew Johnson and Warren Harding.

Answer 3

Of the Presidents I have personally lived through, Bush is a spectacular disaster compared to any of them, back to Nixon.

Before that, historians say Andrew Johnson, Coolidge, some others were pretty bad.

One of the traits that qualifies you for the list of worst is the stubborn refusal to change course when persistent policies are a disaster.

That is the quality that Bush has in spades that puts him in the discussion, from here forward, as among the worst ever if not the worst.

Answer 4

Hmmm, so many to choose from. Carter, Johnson, Buchanon, perhaps Nixon. Even Clinton who may have been great for many reasons, truly sucked for the military. I guess the answer may be who created the worst conditions. Could it be that those we consider poor are simply the scape goats for whom we consider great? Bush on the other hand...

Answer 5

I would say Lyndon Johnson. He was never elected, and he helped turn the Vietnam war into more of a disaster than it already was.

EDIT: Wow, that was poor wording on my part. He wasn't INITIALLY elected. He took over when Kennedy was shot, but he got re-elected for a second term. The Vietnam disaster was largely his fault though.

Answer 6

George W. Bush

First of all, he is not well prepared for the job. He is not sufficiently qualified.
Second, he is very stubborn. Doesn't accept ideas from others.
Third, he has driven the country into a big problem (war in Iraq) and the economy is slow.

Answer 7

G.W. Bush

Americans are slowly realizing that Bush’s war in Iraq was a huge mistake, and that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the chief architect of that conflict, was rightly fired.

A Washington Post-ABC News survey revealed that 56 percent of the country now believes the cost of the conflict in Iraq outweighs the benefits. The Washington Post points out that this is the first time since the war began that a clear majority of Americans have judged the war to have been a mistake.

A 54 percent majority of Americans say they doubt the elections in Iraq next month will be honest and the votes counted accurately. In other words, they are expecting an American-style election.

Barely a third of Americans thinks Rumsfeld is doing a good job as defense secretary. More than half feel he should be sacked.

Relatives of deceased soldiers, and many congressional leaders, are outraged that Rumsfeld could not even find the time to sign letters to the families of those soldiers who paid the ultimate price for Bush’s war in Iraq. Instead of actually signing the correspondence of condolence, Rumsfeld used a machine to stamp his signature on more than 1,000 letters. Their anger is justified: their kids gave their lives while the defense secretary could not even come up with less than a minute per letter to sign his name.

Bush, predictably, resisting the tide of discontent against Rumsfeld, obstinately defended his Secretary, saying he was doing "a really fine job" and would stay on despite mounting criticism.

Despite the incessant arrival of body bags and broken bodies that are airlifted back to U.S. soil. nearly six in 10 -- 58 percent -- said the United States should keep its military forces in Iraq rather than withdraw them. This is mind-boggling.

Answer 8

FDR Social Security

Answer 9

I will be hard to tag a two-term president as a "worst" choice, just by definition, so GW Bush doesn't fit. In my opinion, Jimmy Carter.

Answer 10

Historians have generally agreed it was James Buchanan who was totally inept and didn't accomplish a thing during his term in office.

However, thanks to all of his outstanding deeds, poor James will have to step aside for George W. Bush. He took a massive budget surplus and has turned it into a massive deficit. When the country was attacked by terrorists operating out of Afghanistan, he attacked Iraq to remove the leader there whom he didn't like. He has let the victims of a hurricane along the Gulf Coast suffer for going on two years with no promised aid coming. He has proven to be a joke when it comes to education, not to mention one helluva poor role model in that area. The list is endless, but I'm sure you get the picture.