How can Carter be the worst President ever when George W. Bush proves every day that he deserves this title?

Answer 1

carters is blamed for inherited problems. he inherited high unemployment,high inflation,bad economy and oil problems from ford,who inherited them from nixon. his idea of independence from foreign oil and alternate energy sources were good. had we payed attention,we wouldn't be in the mess we are now. ford shared some of his ideas on that. he is blamed for amnesy of raft dodgers,he only took fords pardons of them a step further. as for iran,reearch reagans involvement behind the scenes. camp david accords are still a success tody.

edit. johnson did not get us involved in vietnam.

Answer 2

Come on, everybody knows the worst President in history was Nixon. He's the only president to ever be impeached. Carter was just ineffective, which unfortunately many of our past leaders have been. Harding, Hoover, jeez you can list a dozen presidents who didn't do much of anything. But at least they kept things the relatively the same and don't push us backwards. The very worst presidents actually make things worse for Americans, and Bush (like Nixon) actually has accomplished that feat.

We are all worse off today than we were 7 years ago. More debt, more wars, more risk of terrorism, more dependency on oil, more outsourcing, less student loans, less Social Security, lower currency exchange rate, less global allies. Thanks George

Answer 3

On Thursday, January 11, 2007, 14 members of the Carter Center's advisory board resigned, telling Carter in a letter “We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position. This is not the Carter Center or the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support.” Just last month Ken Stein, a fellow at the Carter Center, turned in his resignation letter in which he said that the book was "replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions and simply invented segments."

Not long ago, Israel gave up all of Gaza, making painful sacrifices for peace. The response by the Palestinians has been to launch more than 1,200 rockets into Israeli civilian areas.

Perhaps Carter cares deeply about human suffering. Let him convince them that they're being held back by their failure to recognize Israel, their past peace agreements and their refusal to renounce terrorism.

If Carter wants to focus on saving lives in the Middle East, he should pay more attention to the Iranian President, who says he wants to wipe Israel off the map while he is developing nuclear weapons.

Answer 4

President Bush responded to an act of war by attacking those responsible. Despite the argument that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, he was a terrorist leader and therefore needed to be deposed. President Bush enacted tax cuts - across the board for all taxpayers - which invigorated the American economy. Tax receipts are up because more Americans are working. If you have a crappy job, get an education and improve yourself. It isn't the government's job to babysit you.

President Carter did not respond to an act of war in 1979 when islamic terrorists sacked our embassy in Tehran and took Americans hostage. His economic policies led to stagflation. He dismantled our military with his idiotic budget cuts to defense, while trying to prop up Lyndon Johnson's old and failed New Society.

Jimmy Carter ranks dead last behind Millard Fillmore as the WORST President this country ever had. Thank goodness the American people only needed a small dose - 4 years - of his incompetence to get the country back on track.

To his credit, though, his work with Habitat For Humanity is highly commendable. He needs to keep his piehole closed on things he has no intelligence for, however, like foreign and domestic policy.

Time will tell about George Bush's legacy. Those who hate him have had their minds made up since his first inaugeration. They preach tolerance and understanding but only as long as you agree with them. To his credit, Bush has ignored opinion polls and demonstrates one quality that Carter lacks: backbone.

Answer 5

Actually, Abraham Lincoln was considered to be the worst President in history, followed by US Grant according to a survey I saw on Wikipedia. If anything, former President Carter was ineffectual and weak. President Bush, while controversial could not be called weak or ineffectual in my opinion. But let your hate flow man....get it out, eventually, it may run itself dry.

Answer 6

It's clear that none of you were around during the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (Neither was I, but I don't fall into the error of thinking that my place in history is attended more closely by the gods than any other epoch.) Roosevelt launched several major disasterous social programs, from whose costs we have been burdened and from whose fallout we shall continue to suffer. George Bush merely mismanaged the Katrina disaster by letting Michael Chertoff give away lots of free money to all comers... provided they were blacks. So although Bush threw a lot of money into the toilet, he didn't waste nearly as much as FDR has wasted posthumously on an overblown federal welfare bureaucracy and its clientele. Likewise, Bush's war in Iraq is very small compared with the war FDR got us into -- after lying in America's face about how he hated "woah" and would "nevah" send American "boahs" to fight in a "fahwen woah." Bush is an evil man, but he is a petty man compared with the grander evil which was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Answer 7

I think Harding was pretty bad, with all the corruption that dominated his Presidency. Buchanan was pretty bad too. He failed to act in the face of the mounting slavery crisis. So, neither Carter nor Bush (yet) can claim the title, although both have made very bad mistakes and have accomplished very little.

Answer 8

Carter was not the worst president.

Answer 9

I have lived through both their presidency's. Carter wins the title hands down!

Answer 10

Bush is an optimist. Carter was a moron. It's that simple. Maybe you would like to run the country since you know it all??? I hate it when people who couldn't govern themselves out of a paper bag sit here and criticize our leaders. That's very constructive.

Answer 11

Jimmy Carter is a great humanitarian and good person...he was not a very decisive leader or president.