[Chi-townChief]

Sounds pretty left - who are these "historians?"

[ncountylee]

Previous related thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564970/posts

[Graybeard58]

The survey's top 10 presidential blunders were announced Saturday

No mention of F.D.R. and he could have had all 10 of them.

[Radix]

I wonder where they put Jimmy Carter's handling of the Iran situation(s.)

[nuconvert]

Where is Carter???

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Bush I breaking his "No New Taxes."

[Bob Eimiller]

What about FDR and The Potsdam Conference???? He let the Soviets Partition Europe... Worst BLUNDER in human history... IMHO....well, Maybe next to electing Jimmy Carter and Bubba Clinton presidents....

Nah...On 2nd thought... I guess Potsdam ruined more lives...

[jocon307]

They act as if Buchanan could have single handedly prevented the civil war, I think that's ridiculous. Probably the same with most of the rest of these "errors".

I hate it when people expect other people to be like God, all knowing, again, ridiculous.

[delacoert]

9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua.

What a crock, but hey, it's sort of surprising that the list went all the way to #9 before the effects of liberal political bias crept into the poll.

[ThePythonicCow]

No mention of Clinton's selling of miltary secrets to the Chinese for political money.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Wilson's shelling of Vera Cruz wasn't too good of an idea. It was at least as bad as the Iran-Contra affair; Wilson's actions didn't have any upside at all, even in the short term.

[tkathy]

How about JFK sending 14000 ground troops to Vietnam, thus starting the Vietnam War.

[Berlin_Freeper]

-9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua.

Why is this listed? It worked.

[REDWOOD99]

Scholars= Those who can't.

[D-Chivas]

Nixon imposing price controls was worse than the Watergate coverup.

And where's Jimmy Carter? Being a wimp with Iran, giving away the Panama Canal, 14% interest rates, 20% mortgages, skyrocketing gasoline prices, and general "malaise" - does that not count for something????

[muir_redwoods]

Where does appointing Souter fall in the lisat?

[Busywhiskers]

They forgot about Herby Hoover signing protectionist legislation that greatly contributed to the severity and length of the Great Depression. In fact Herby and Franklin Roosevelt should get a joint award for making the depression worst through their meddling.

[JCEccles]

Jimmy Carter could have, should have, picked up all ten top spots on his lonesome.

[hinckley buzzard]

Really poorly informed judgments. Lame, one might say. I wonder when someone will poll the living presidents and ask what was the worst advice they ever received from their academic "experts and advisors."

[tiki]

It wasn't the fact that Kennedy allowed the Bay of Pigs. It was that he encouraged it and promised help and didn't come through.