Who do you think did more damage to the US in their 6 years as US President:?

Question

Nixon or Dubya Bush?

Answer 1

Nixon was extremely horrible, however, Bush is giving him a run for his money and I'd call it neck and neck. Problem is, Dubya isn't finished yet.

Answer 2

Jimmy Carter did more damage to America in 4 years than either. Moreover Nixon was not a bad President he made one error in judgement and paid a very hefty price for it. Who gave 18 year olds the right to vote, who ended the war in Vietnam, Maybe you should look into history instead of spouting your brainwashed liberal Horse SH!T!

Answer 3

Let's see: Richard M. Nixon covered up a third-rate burglary attempt out of sheer paranoia and hatred. George W. Bush has:
1) Lied to the American people about 'weapons of mass destruction', resulting in the U.S.A. unconstitutionally and illegally invading another sovereign nation for no justifiable reason;
2) Tortured and abused prisoners in direct violation of the Geneva Convention;
3) Disregarded the needs of poor hurricane victims in New Orleans;
4) Turned America into a police state where citizens are assumed guilty until proven innocent;
5) Stolen one - if not two - elections from the American public;
6) Tarnished America's reputation as a world leader and global peacekeeper;
7) Put American taxpayers TRILLIONS of dollars in debt;
8) Weakened the American economy to a point where it will never recover (and, in fact, may very well create a massive economic depression shortly after Bush leaves office);
9) Ignored the mounting environmental and ecological issues facing this country - and the world - without regard for the future of this good Earth's human beings, plants and animals;
10) Killed more than 675,000 Iraqi citizens and thousands of U.S. soldiers for no morally justifiable reason other than that he and his big-business cronies want to enjoy profiteering from the effects of war and the booming business of cheap, easily-accessible foreign OIL.
I'd have to say George W. Bush has done more damage. He should be tried by an international tribunal for crimes against humanity, and - if convicted - should be hanged just as his old buddy, Saddam Hussein, was hanged in humiliation. -RKO-

Answer 4

When you say 6 years, then you knock out all the one term presidents, I'd say Clinton, when he signed the NAFTA agreement in 1994 and sent all our factory jobs to Mexico, so far we have lost 4 million factory jobs and continue to lose then at a rate of about 200,000 plus a year, he had little foreign policy experience, so to prove he knew what he was doing , he sent troops all over the globe, several troops lost their lives in non-declared wars around the world

Answer 5

Carter in 4 years

Answer 6

It's going to take more thought before I decide between Carter & Clinton.

The numbers don't bother me either. Since the rest of your childishly loaded question's bias is so transparent I thought it better to give a more appropriate and well-considered response.

Answer 7

Bush is only known because he is infamous. Nixon isn't that well known compared to Bush, even if he wasn't the best president. So Bush is worse.

Answer 8

Bush! Never has our country been so disgraced as now.
This is the future George Orwell wrote about in his novel, 1984.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0708-27.htm
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history

And at this site: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101509.html
Despite some notable accomplishments in domestic and foreign policy, Nixon is mostly associated today with disdain for the Constitution and abuse of presidential power. Obsessed with secrecy and media leaks, he viewed every critic as a threat to national security and illegally spied on U.S. citizens. Nixon considered himself above the law.

And at http://hnn.us/articles/5019.html
The second most common response from historians, trailing only Nixon, was that the current presidency is the worst in American history. A few examples will serve to provide the flavor of such condemnations. “Although previous presidents have led the nation into ill-advised wars, no predecessor managed to turn America into an unprovoked aggressor. No predecessor so thoroughly managed to confirm the impressions of those who already hated America. No predecessor so effectively convinced such a wide range of world opinion that America is an imperialist threat to world peace. I don 't think that you can do much worse than that.”

“Bush is horrendous; there is no comparison with previous presidents, most of whom have been bad.”

“He is blatantly a puppet for corporate interests, who care only about their own greed and have no sense of civic responsibility or community service. He lies, constantly and often, seemingly without control, and he lied about his invasion into a sovereign country, again for corporate interests; many people have died and been maimed, and that has been lied about too. He grandstands and mugs in a shameful manner, befitting a snake oil salesman, not a statesman. He does not think, process, or speak well, and is emotionally immature due to, among other things, his lack of recovery from substance abuse. The term is "dry drunk". He is an abject embarrassment/pariah overseas; the rest of the world hates him . . . . . He is, by far, the most irresponsible, unethical, inexcusable occupant of our formerly highest office in the land that there has ever been.”

“George W. Bush's presidency is the pernicious enemy of American freedom, compassion, and community; of world peace; and of life itself as it has evolved for millennia on large sections of the planet. The worst president ever? Let history judge him.”



Bush has taken this disdain for law even further. He has sought to strip people accused of crimes of rights that date as far back as the Magna Carta in Anglo-American jurisprudence: trial by impartial jury, access to lawyers and knowledge of evidence against them. In dozens of statements when signing legislation, he has asserted the right to ignore the parts of laws with which he disagrees. His administration has adopted policies regarding the treatment of prisoners of war that have disgraced the nation and alienated virtually the entire world. Usually, during wartime, the Supreme Court has refrained from passing judgment on presidential actions related to national defense. The court's unprecedented rebukes of Bush's policies on detainees indicate how far the administration has strayed from the rule of law.

Answer 9

Nixon was a Crook...Bush makes Nixon look like a Saint...

Answer 10

Probably Bush as he is know around the world for being a simpleton.

America had great potential to be even greater but he threw it away.