Who do you think is/was the worst President? Who do you think is/was the best President?

Question

Please give details of why you gave that answer. Also provide your political party

Answer 1

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfield and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:

1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of hundereds of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.

2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.

3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.

4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.

5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.

6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnaping, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions on governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.

8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."

10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.

11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.

12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.

13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.

14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.

15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.

16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."

17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life.

18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.

19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.

20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court.

May God Bless America!

Answer 2

best ... imho, Abraham Lincoln. While George Washington rebelled against intolerable conditions and won the ensuing war with backing from an apparent minority of the population; I think Lincoln was the one who had to live through the darkest days -- when it appeared that Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia might just win the war for the South and forever divide America into two.

Lincoln did what had to be done to win. He fired Generals. He sent hundreds of thousands to die or be maimed. He freed slaves everywhere within the United States to whip up his flagging people and double the effort to win.

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worst .. tossup between Richard Nixon and James Earl Carter. As we know, Nixon personally approved the use of 'dirty tricks' against his political opponents -- despite being comfortably ahead in the polls. The resulting political backlash lead directly to the election of Carter.

As we also know, Carter almost single-handedly created the current regime in Tehran. His fit of anger at the methods employed by a foriegn government to root out communist spys [after an attempted communist takeover of that same country in the late 1940s] lead to the fall of the Shah. Carter personally approved the following religious government; apparently mistakenly believing that all world religions are as benign and inoffensive as his simple Baptist church in rural Georgia.

Libertarian ftw !!

Answer 3

FDR,HST,WJC, all really to close to call for who is the best.
The worst... GW BUSH. Some think Carter, but he never lied to gain a "Legacy" as said former IS. Carter may not have been the best, but he was and is by far better then Bush. I served under Carter's watch in the Navy.

If you want to know why I chose FDR,HST,WJC, you have (I hope) the mental capabilities to search their Archives at the National Archives or at their Presidential Libraries and read for yourself what most of the truth seeker already know.

Answer 4

Not sure about the worst, but my vote will go for Clinton because of the cut of military budgets, the economy he left in shambles, and the millions in tax dollars that was spent for an investigation on his adultery.

Teddy Roosevelt gets the best from me because he was a Rough Rider, he had restraint and morals not to kill a tied up animal for trophy, and he created what we know today as the National Park System.

Answer 5

Best - George Washington. He resisted power in an incredible way, and relied on people he knew were smarter than him. A great man in every sense of the word.

Worst - Herbert Hoover. The country was in complete collapse and he was in denial.

Answer 6

Worst (without a doubt) is George W Bush!

Best (with some hesitation) was Franklin Roosevelt.

The best (after office) former president is Jimmy Carter.

Party: Independent

Answer 7

Worst...George W Bush....Best....Franklin D Roosevelt

Political Party: Independent

Answer 8

Worst Carter he record says it all


Best Reagan a real American

Answer 9

Best - Kennedy, Clinton, Nixon
Worst - Bush, Bush 2.0, Bush 2.1

Blue Party

Answer 10

Independent

Clinton - best
GW Bush - worst

Answer 11

Clinton was awful. Time will tell whether Bush jr. was good or not.