If Bush2 isn't the worst president ever, who is?

Answer 1

It completely boggles my mind how detached some people are from reality.

Robert C, you are off your rocker.

It's as if the entire country has gone to the race track. At the end of the day, the liberals and sensible conservatives go home, while the rest of the conservatives continue to cheer on their horse, long after he's lost the race.

Bush is the worst of my lifetime, although I was too young to remember Carter. Regardless, anyone who even suggests Clinton is purely a partisan hack who is at odds with historians and fact.

Answer 2

Carter was elected because the country was disgusted with the (Nixon) Republicans. In my humble opinion, Carter was the worst, do nothing, president ever. But everything is relative to the times. It is true that Regan was corrupt and helped bring about the demise of middle class America but he was a strong leader that this country needed after Carter. And contrary to some opinions, relative to the time, FDR was probably the best president we have ever had. Even though the Republican's tried to bog Clinton down with "non-issues" he did achieve some useful accomplishments and was one of our better presidents. Bush Jr is doing his best (which is scary) but I am sure he will go down as one of the worse leaders we have ever had but what were our choices...? I would love to see a strong, electable, independent candidate, with no allegiance to Republicans or Democrats but I'm afraid it won't happen anytime soon.

Answer 3

I'm not a big Bush fan, but he's definitely not the worst.

WOODROW WILSON was pretty awful. He tried desperately to get America involved in WW I. His justification was that if he could get America involved in the War, then America could have a powerful seat at the peace table.

HERBERT HOOVER was worse than Bush. The Great Depression wasn't his fault, but he put into immediate action programs which exacerbated the problem, many of which were adopted by FDR.

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT totally sucked. Under FDR, average unemployment was 18% from 1933 to 1940, camparatively Bush's record is astonishing. The legislation he pushed through was a patchwork of absurdidties. FDR originated the ideal of paying farmers to destroy crops to keep food prices high (this during the Great Depression!), e.g., six million pigs were slaughtered and ten million acres of cotton were destroyed.

Roosevelts' New Deal spending programs were disasters. The spending programs either displaced or destroyed private sector jobs. The whole system was rife with corruption. Why, for example, did the South, where people were the poorest, receive the least assistance from FDR's Works Progress Administration? FDR spent more on western states than on Southern ones because the South, which had given him 67% of the vote, was much more politically secure than the west, and he had little need to buy their votes.

He used political intimidation against businesses and anyone who opposed him. For instance, a Catholic rado station in Chicago freatured Father James Gillis (who had taken a vow of poverty) who criticized FDR's court-packing scheme. FDR had the FCC take their license away. He had the FBI harass and investigate a variety of conservative organizations.

Neither FDR nor WW II lifted us out of the Great Depression. During the war the government pulled the equivalent of 22% of the prewar labor force into the armed forces. Presto, the unemployment rate dropped to a very low level because they were now taking bullets from the Japanese and Germans. Prosperity would have returned much sooner had it not been for the foolish and destructive policies of Hoover and Roosevelt.

Like Wilson, and for similar reasons, FDR was desperate to involve America in WW II. He did so by provoking and pressuring the Japanese with things like freezing their American assets and coordinating a boycott of key goods, especially oil, that Japan needed to acquire from abroad. Oh year, FDR also instututed the outrageously racist policy of Japanese internment capms, which were really disgraceful concentration camps on American soil.

Did I mention how Roosevelt obsequiously worshiped and caved-in to Stalin as often as he could?

RICHARD NIXON was corrupt and practically collectivized American agriculture, pegged oil prices, instituted Affirmative Action, banned DDT and all sorts of other ridiculously government-activist policies. All that and Watergate to boot!

There are a few other candidates for the "worse than Bush" award, but I think these are pretty clearly worse.

Answer 4

Those who really study history don't rate presidents until they are out of office for a while and normally are dead.
So that standard takes out Bush1 and2, Carter, Clinton.

My #1 worst president would be FDR.
He didn't get us out of the depression it was WWII.
He took this country that long depended on each other during hard times and turn it to a country to depend on the government.
He turn away a ship full of Jews that went back to Europe to face the holocaust.
He rounded up all those from Japan after Pearl Harbor took their land and belongings.
He censor all mail going in and out of the country.
How did he die in the arms of his mistress it wasn't Elnor.

Yet you mention FDR he is cult hero.

Lincoln was not a great president at the time he was consider the worst.

So for those who rush to say W or Clinton or Carter or Bush Sr.

Read more history and really look at all the presidents we had with some accurate context you be surpised on what you will learn.

Answer 5

Junior Bush is the worst....but if he's not as your question asks...
I would have to say Reagan.
He started this mess.
Among his many crimes against humanity and America Reagan started the present world war crisis by empowering Islamic Jihad. He helped to create and entrench Jihad in Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq...everywhere...to "fight communism" which is as lame a reason as can be imagined.
All the "enemies" Junior is fighting, and the Alqaeda 9/11 terrorist leaders were people Reagan armed financed and otherwise aided.

Furthermore he and Daddy Bush gave Saddam the WMDs he used on the Kurds...which would have been revealed had Saddam not suddenly been executed at the start of the Kurds murder trial.

And of course Reagan's disastrous tax-cuts for the wealthy elite, which cost Daddy Bush his re-election was the beginning of the destruction of the American middle class which is now well underway......

Answer 6

Not ALL problems are down to the president? If he was the worst president ever why is he still in office? Why hasn't he been impeached? Because he does a good job! Sure he makes mistakes but who doesn't???

Answer 7

Jimmy Carter

Answer 8

Carter. Only man of whom it can be easily said was a much better ex-President than he ever was a President, but then again he set the bar pretty low for himself.

Answer 9

Nixon

Answer 10

Harding