Can you name any president(s) you think was worse than "W"?

[WI_DEM]

If pushed maybe Buchanan, but I've been reading a biography of him, and I'm not even sure he is worse, certainly not personally.

[ladjf]

1. No. n.t.

[tekisui]

2. Nope.

[niyad]

3. not a one

[Glorfindel]

4. No

I don't think it's possible.

[Control-Z]

5. No n/t

[TahitiNut]

6. Not yet.

They don't exist in the past ... so we'll have to await the future and see who uses the precedent of the Cheney/Bush administration to wreak even greater damage.

[immoderate]

9. !

Once I thought we'd never top Nixon. Then We got Reagan. Surely, I thought, nobody could be worse than this! But DAMN! :scared:

--IMM

[DCKit]

7. Does it have to be an American President? Non-fictional?

How about just a leader?

[Better Believe It]

8. Adolph Hitler?

Oh .... you mean an American President!

Nevermind.

[baldguy]

12. Hitler was Chancellor

[baldguy]

15. oops

dup

[Diclotican]

24. baldguy

baldguy

Hitler was Chansler of Germany, that is true, but in 1934, when Von Hindenburg, the then President of Germany was old and died, he, after a refurendum no less, managed to be both Chanclor of Germany, and the German President. But after a while he wanted to be titulered just as The Furher becouse of respect for Hindenburg...

Diclotican

Sorry my bad english, not my native language.

[Better Believe It]

30. Mooseohleeknee?

Oh .... he was the Italian dictator.

Nevermind.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Andrew Johnson and Reagan come to mind. But, Boobya even tops them.

"History has tried to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.  Now, to go and stick one at the very head of government couldn’t be wise." - Mark Twain

[Faygo Kid]

33. My bottom two were Andrew Johnson and Nixon. But it isn't even close. W. is the worst.

He lapped the field. You could make begrudging arguments that even the bad ones weren't psychopaths.

W. is a psychopath.

[tuckessee]

11. Idi Amin.

Oh, you mean US Presidents.

No, there has never been a worse one than W. Economics, foreign policy - you name it, he f*cked it up.

Best we can say about W is he's not a cannibal (at least that we know of).:)

[MyUserNameIsBroken]

Warren G Harding...

...would have been, if he hadn't been gracious enough to die in office.

Grant and Buchanan are down there too. Nixon was a nasty guy, and a criminal, and a war criminal, but actually had a few bright spots (the EPA, China) that keep him from the very bottom of the barrel.

Ask me again in twenty years. He may have sunk farther by then. :)

[TahitiNut]

14. Harding, Fillmore, Grant, Buchanan, Nixon, and Reagan were ALL better than ...

... Smirk and Sneer, the two turds in the Offal Orifice.

[Poiuyt]

17. Grant wasn't a "bad" man, but there were a lot of scandals in his administration

He didn't do much to punish the corrupt people that were working for him.

Nowhere near Bush in evilness.

[Occam Bandage]

13. No. To be "fair" to Dubya,

the Federal government is a far more complex place than it was in, say, the late 19th century, when the principal job of the President was to sit on his ass and look out the window, so direct comparisons of talent are impossible. But if you look at how well they performed the job they were given, Dubya is by far the worst President ever.

[baldguy]

16. President Suharto? President Marcos? President Fujimori?

[TheKentuckian]

18. I'll still stick with Reagan

As I keep saying the shrub just stomped on the accelerator on the vehicle that St. RayGun built for him. I'm not saying Bush is the wrong answer but I just don't see him as the root cause of today's debacles.

[zorahopkins]

19. No. Bush Is The Uuorst President EVER!

It is uuithout doubt that Bush/Cheney is the UUORST Regime EVER in the history of the US.

Note: In protest of the continuing occupation of OUR Uuhite House by the illegal and totally corrupt Bush/Cheney regime of thugs and cronies, I REFUSE to use the letter betuueen "V" and "X". Instead, I use a "double u", as in "Uhite House".

[HughBeaumont]

22. My first initial is W. I'm taking it BACK.

[FiveGoodMen]

20. Not even close.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

21. Hoover, Nixon are the two obvious 20th century candidates.

Reagan at a pinch, but probably not. Harding is near-universally derided, but I know very little about him, as are Buchanan and Johnson.

As to which, if any, of those were worse than Bush, it's decades to early to say.

[TexasObserver]

32. Hoover should not be on any such list.

He was barely in office when the stock market crashed.

If you want to blame someone for the crash, blame that idiot, Cal Coolidge.

Hoover lived in a world in which the US was not a super power, and there were virtually no controls on the excesses of big business.

[Still Sensible]

37. I think you can rightly blame Coolidge, but

Hoover was too stuck on the myth that the free market will correct everything that he floundered with no efective response.

[roamer65]

38. Hoover's biggest failure was listening to his asshole Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon.

"Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs."

-Andrew "Asshole" Mellon

You are exactly right, Still Sensible.

[TexasObserver]

42. Hoover tried a number of programs, and some were used later by FDR.

Hoover unjustly gets blame for the Depression and for not taking action to end it, but he was hobbled by congress and an environment that had not embraced government interventions. He did enact some laws in 1932 to help with some of the economic problems, but by then it was too late.

I am not his advocate, but he's not bottom 5 material. Lowest one third, YES, but I don't blame him for the failure to get things done to help the Depression problems. He gets a bum rap on that. It took the election of '32 to get congress on board, and even then, the GOP controlled Supreme Court remained a problem for years.

[truedelphi]

23. Dick Cheney would have my vote. n/t

[Johonny]

25. Clinton

dah haven't you heard all the bad things that happen to Bush were his fault.


:sarcasm:

[leftyladyfrommo]

26. I think Nixon was more physically unattractive.

But Bush ended up causing a ton more damage to our country than Nixon ever even thought about.

[Juche]

27. Reagan in some ways

Because Reagan helped build the movement conservative movement whereas W brought it to an end. So in that regards Reagan was worse than Bush.

I don't know when the culture of lawlessness started in the executive branch. It may've been with LBJ and Nixon, but I really don't know. But presidents since then have realized they can break the law with impunity and there are not going to be consequences.

[surrealAmerican]

28. Buchanan. About the only good thing you can say about "W" ...

... is "he didn't lead us into a civil war".

[nevergiveup]

29. For a long time I held out that Nixon

was worse but I have now come to the conclusion that they were equally terrible. "W" is an egocentric immoral idiot and Nixon was a very intelligent paranoid schizophrenic. They are equally dangerous when in positions of power.

[wildbilln864]

31. nada! nt

[TexasObserver]

34. No, he's the worst of all time.

The bottom five:

Bush, Jr.
Harding
Andrew Johnson
Buchanan
Coolidge

[MzNov]

35. Franklin Pierce

ooops, wait a minute!

Chucklenuts is a direct decendant through his mother, Barbara SeaHag Pierce Bush, of the very first worst President ever!

It freaking runs in the family!


:rofl:

[L0oniX]

36. NO !!!

[Mari333]

39. no. nt

[rasputin1952]

40. No, he makes some of the other bad one's look pretty good...

Buchanan, A. Johnson, Harding, Coolidge, Nixon, Regan actually don't look so bad compared to this clown.

[Aristus]

41. William Henry Harrison was stupid enough to deliver a two-hour Inaugural speech

in a driving snowstorm without wearing a coat and hat.

Thankfully, he had enough self-respect to die of pneumonia a month later and spare us more of his stupidity.