America's Three Worst Presidents

American Thinker ^ | 2/18/08 | Ari Kaufman

[tpanther]

That’s just ridiculous. If any SINGLE person was responsible for those deaths it would be Jefferson Davis.

[tpanther]

1. Jimmuh Cahtuh...hands down THE worst of any era.

2. Clinton...not far behind, soiled the office, criminally...sold out the country, ignored not just threats but actual great harm to the Republic.

3. LBJ...for all the reasons previously listed.

Unsurprisingly, all modern hypocrats...anyone else see the trend of destructive liberalism?

[Churchillspirit]

I would have hated to be the parent of a child or teenager during Bubba's terms.

How do you tell your kid that there are people in the world who have no morals or ethics and one of them just happens to be the President of their country?

[Natural Law]

“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” - Mark Twain

[television is just wrong]

LBJ and Carter (who made the way for) Clintoon.

[Rider on the Rain]

Karter
Klinton
Kennedy

[okie01]

While you can rank them in various orders, it seems pretty obvious that the FOUR worst presidents in U.S. history were (in alphabetical order):

Buchanan, James
Carter, Jimmy
Clinton, William
Johnson, Lyndon

There is a distinct separation between these four and the next worst (probably Harding).

The most revealing thing about the list is that it includes the three most recent Democrat presidents. All of them presidents who -- through either corruption or incompetence -- did serious, lasting physical damage to the country.

It's not a record that a political party should be proud of.

[tpanther]

OH the irony!

http://www.twainquotes.com/19010212.html

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Clinton
Carter
FDR

[beckysueb]

Jimmy Carter was the worst. He started this hell called radical islam. clinton was 2nd because he enabled it. FDR because he started the welfare state that has destroyed the moral fiber of this country.

[Rosemont]

Carter = worst ever

[patch789]

how I rank the presidents serving during my lifetime.

Reagan
Eisenhower
Nixon-JFK

(big gap)

Ford, kinda invisible

(big gap)

GHWB
GWB-Clinton

(big gap)

Carter
LBJ

[junkman72]

don’t agree with Washington; Nixon made the bad mistake of choosing evil companions (not Liddy). Other than that, your list is good.

[rustbucket]

But since you seem to be one of the lost causers then wouldn't it be fair to include Jeff Davis in the poll?

In these enlightened modern times, one can get away with comparing Davis to other presidents. Wasn't so in old Lincolndom.

"The Democratic Evening Journal published an editorial comparing Lincoln unfavorably with Jefferson Davis. Major General Robert C. Schenck, commander of the troops in Baltimore, ordered the arrest of Albert Boileau, the Journal’s editor, and the suppression of the offending newspaper." [Source]

[CommerceComet]

Reading through the posts, I'm seeing a lot of recency bias. Sometimes it takes decades for the full effects of their actions or inactions to be clearly seen. We need to give it some time for the cream to rise to the top and the sludge to settle to the bottom.

Fifty years from now, I think that historians will look back at the last sixteen years and be shocked at the inaction of Clinton administration against rising Islamic militarism and praise George W. for correctly perceiving the threat.

[r9etb]

While I'd agree with Jimmuh Carter being at the bottom of the list, the author's discussions of Johnson and Buchanan are silly.

His argument is that Buchanan should have "done something" about slavery ... well, what? It had been clear for decades that a war was coming. Buchanan may well have been ineffective, but the Civil War was not his fault.

As for Johnson ... well, it's a strange sort of "bottom" when the fellow gets there by being an extraordinarily effective president in the very areas that the author dislikes. True, the results were not good. But unlike Carter, Johnson was a very effective chief executive.

[ScratInTheHat]

FDR was the bottom.

Thanks for the socialism road Frank!

[Senator Goldwater]

Carter, Buchanan and Johnson were all debacles, but those two missing skycrapers in lower Manhatten attest to the frivolity of the Clinton years.

[ScratInTheHat]

FDR’s lend/lease made the U.S. the richest nation in the world at the end of WWII and the world’s only super power. Because of lend/lease, at the end of the war, all our allies were broke, and all of them owed us money.

Any freakin idiot could have done that. NO! NO! Any freakin idoit that didn't do that under those conditions should have been shot! Don't give someone credit for something that falls in their lap!

[Non-Sequitur]

In these enlightened modern times, one can get away with comparing Davis to other presidents.

Then feel free to do so. Where would you rank a president with policies like his?