The Worst President in US History?
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Plenty of candidates for worst president in history.
I'm thinking of one who:
- got us involved in the longest war in U.S. history, with over 50,000 Americans dead,
- tried (unsuccessfully) to assassinate at least two heads of foreign governments,
- developed, funded and trained a revolutionary army, and then abandoned on the beach to die in the middle of a coup attempt ,
- backed another coup in a middle-eastern country,
- came the closest in history to getting us into a nuclear war,
- kept a significant medical condition which might affect the performance of his duties from the public,
- cheated on his wife, while in office, with several other women,
- and managed to do this all in less than three years.
Then there's the one who:
- after promising to keep us out of war, got us into a world war,
- suspended habeus corpus,
- encouraged passage of the Sedition and Espionage Acts, and then used them to, among other things, jail 175,000 Americans for voicing opposition to the war and the draft,
- created para-military organizations of several hundred thousand people to spy on their neighbors, break strikes, arrest people suspected of not being "100% American", and commit other abuses.
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Originally posted by rainstick:
However, I still think it's a bit early for guessing what history will say about Bush. In a couple of years, fine, but right now, while he's still president,
Why? What could possibly happen in the next few months that would mitigate the last 7 and a half years? Lets call a spade a spade. Bush the younger is THE WORST PRESIDENT in US history.
See the earth didn't explode.
eta: the author of the article is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History at Princeton University. So regardless of where the article is published, I think he might have some knowledge in this area.
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Someone should explain to them that they do'nt get to choose who's in and who's not.
So who does? FHM? Maxim? GQ? Faux News? You?
If not THE worst, I think history is going to put GWB at least high on the list of the worst Presidents in history.
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Quote:No not me, the mass's do. FOX News #1 in cable news, why? Ratings. Rush Limbaug #1 in talk radio, why? Ratings. American Idol #1 TV show, why? I think you get it by now, just because rags like Rolling Stone and TIME keep putting B.O. on there covers it does'nt mean he's #1. I can not pick the next fad or super star, but again who are they to decide for us. Firefly did'nt make it because of ratings and was canceled, yet I'm a Browncoat anyway, if I could choose the next big fad, Firefly would be bigger than STAR WARS or STAR TREK.
Originally posted by Kwicko:Quote:
Someone should explain to them that they do'nt get to choose who's in and who's not.
So who does? FHM? Maxim? GQ? Faux News? You?
If not THE worst, I think history is going to put GWB at least high on the list of the worst Presidents in history.
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I have to disagree, Shrub is a putz, but he's far from the worst we've ever had historically.
I do believe "honest" Abe Lincoln takes that singular honor, hands down, but he stands in company with other sumbitches almost as bad.
Adams
Wilson
FDR
Nixon
Johnson
That's just off the top of my head - and part of why Shrub has been so damaging has been the pathetic unwillingness of the other branches to curb his abuses, most especially the nutless pansies in congress, regardless of party.
And I highly suspect the reason the Dems have pussyfooted around when it comes to rolling back his usurpations is because THEY wish to use them once his administration is run out of town on a rail, all the while playing like their own hands are clean cause he set the precedent.
Watch out for that people, this from the person who TOLD YOU the Dems would roll over like a bitch once they got a congressional majority, however slight, and ya didn't believe me then, did you now ?
Anyhows, Shrubs far from the most awful Prez we've ever had, he's too bonehead stupid to carry forth some of the vicious agendas of his predecessors.
Stupid ? sure.
Incompetent ? hell yes.
Juvenille ? oh yeah.
Misguided ? one could say so.
Worst president in history ?
Not by a longshot.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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The worst in recent history, then
(Like, since I been able to vote history)
Clarifyin' Chrisisall
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Hello,
"developed, funded and trained a revolutionary army, and then abandoned on the beach to die in the middle of a coup attempt,"
It was my understanding that the President X alluded to above actually inherited this project from his predecessor. It was also my understanding that the CIA misled President X about what sorts of support would be essential to the operation.
So it's always been my understanding that President X inherited a turd and was misinformed about how to squeeze it out.
If you have information to the contrary, do let me know.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Hello,
On a further note, I don't think a presidency can be adequately judged without distance.
In ten years, if you all still think Bush was the worst president ever, okay then.
But that kind of judgement should take time and territory to ascertain.
Besides, isn't it enough that he's not a very good president?
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Bush is prolly not the worst President ever in history. However, I think he will be remembered as the Gorbachev of the USA in that he presided over the beginning of the end of the US empire.
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Frem,
I'd like to hear your thoughts on FDR,
who rates among the top of my list for best Presidents...
is this just an idealogical disagreement because he ushered in social programs such as social security?
I can think of two major detractors of his Prsidency taht I know of, but am intersted in others...
Tried to stack the supreme court by expanding its numbers so that he could nominate like 5 more people(didn't go over well with his own congress)(and to be fair, my other favorite president, Thomas Jefferson did something similar in the reverse when faced with Jon Adams choices on the bench)
intered Japanese Americans, which truly is disgusting...and even when I was about to defend it as being a condition of the times, there being no real political choice in the matter, I don't know if that's true or if that's a good enough excuse(even in the face of trying to focus on a global war)
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by the way, did you see the documentary Adams? Just wondering because I dont' know much about him beyond certain policy enactions, and the drama paints him as a much more moderate individual than say, Hamilton.
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