Carter. Worst president in United States history. By a mile-long gas line.
Clinton's sexcapades were at least amusing and he signed Free Trade and Welfare Reform.
Posted on 08/12/2005 3:25:54 PM PDT by hang 'em
Who is/was the WORST U.S. PRESIDENT EVER? Carter? Clinton? Make your choice and state your reasons.
I'd say Carter because he originated the paper tiger image of the US with his inept, cowardly handling of the Iranian hostage situation. He also helped put the current Iranian fascists in place.
[Carter's legacy also includes: double digit inflation, alternating gas days, sky high real estate market, etc.]
Clinton follows Carter's illustrious legacy of cowardice in the face of terrorism with the addition of selling out the country to the Chinese.
Otherwise it's a tossup.
Woodrow Wilson. You can thank him for the federal income tax, and, indirectly, for the U.N.
Carter. Worst president in United States history. By a mile-long gas line.
Clinton's sexcapades were at least amusing and he signed Free Trade and Welfare Reform.
I'd have to say FDR or Lyndon Johnson. Both are borderline socialitst bustards.
Carter. The only president ever attacked by a giant swimming rabbit while fishing. Unfortunately the rabbit withdrew his attack.
Hey gang....Only one President sold secrets to the Chinese....
Carter.
He was a bad President. Couldn't do anything right. Still can't. We're still recovering from the mess he made when he was President. I'm sorry I voted for him, but I give him credit for turning me to the GOP.
Clinton gets honorable mention.
Carter: 20+ misery index, decimated military, failed foreign policy.
Pierce: Did nothing at all including nothing about upcoming civil war.
John F'n Kennedy.
Let's not forget JFK whose weakness at the Bay of Pigs inspired the Soviets to almost wipe out civilization. People who give Kennedy credit for not blinking at the Cuban Missile Crisis seem not to realize that when he failed to provide the promised air support when the Bay of Pigs invasion got a bit rocky, he signalled the Russians that he was weak. We almost all died as a result.
See #65. The myth that "Hoover did nothing" seems to never die.
Others may have been even less competent, misguided, or immoral, but FDR takes the cake by a mile because of the monumental effect of his pushing our nation away from its founding ideals.
Manson may have been more evil that Hitler on an absolute scale, but Hitler is worse because of the magnitude of the ill effect he had.
1. LBJ
Now if this was taked on Liberty Post, the final results will be:
1. George W. Bush
The canal never meant anything, in the case of a war, a ship sunk in that canal renders the whole thing useless.
Nothing but nothing takes the title from Clinton as the worst President ever.
#1 He gave China rocket technology and missile guidance technology so they can now nuke any city in the USA.
#2 He had Bin Laden after Laden declared war on the USA, yet let him go saying he had no cause to keep him.
#3 9-11 itself. Seems he had things in place which prevented the FBI from getting information about the whereabouts and activities of terrorists operating in the USA, including some of those that gave us 9-11.
He is the KING of worst Presidents. Who could ever hope to come close?
Someone needs to count em up, but it looks like the majority is for Carter.
I would question his credentials as a "great general" as well, considering that his idea of strategy was "Overwhelm the Confederates with numbers, and damn the Union body count!" He was an effective general, but I would argue that being "effective" does not necessarily make one "great."
Waco happened on his watch, so did the first attack on the towers. 9/11 would have happened because he was busy playing "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".
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