Has any President had to deal with such an un-ending string of crises?

[underpants]

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Just as the ship got righted economicaly it seems like there have been a constant stream of no-win crises.

It is making my head hurt and I don't have to actually deal with it, I am just watching from afar.

Wow just wow

[randys1]

1. I just said to an office full of people

The wrong reaction by the wrong person in the next 24 hours could start WWIII

what i did NOT add because it would have started a fight is

"thank god Obama, not McCain, is president right now"


moments earlier a couple of the christian women were talking about how angry they are they have to help the Brown refugees

they didnt say Brown, what I wanted to say was "I wonder how helpful you would be willing to be if they had blonde hair and blue eyes"

[JackRiddler]

2. All of them...

And usually they had a hand in creating them, whether intentionally or accidentally.

Obama can be praised for seeking talks with Iran. Not for backing the coup d'etat in Honduras - a direct cause of the current refugee crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border - and certainly not for backing the current Kiev government with its neo-Nazi element and actively encouraging the violent offensive against the Russian population in the east.

[HooptieWagon]

3. FDR and Truman had to deal with much worse.

Although they didn't have the blatant racism to deal with.

[roguevalley]

39. It was there. It just wasn't directed at them.

[bhikkhu]

41. JFK had it pretty rough too

...bay of pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam question, civil rights, lots of things packed in those three short years.

[RobertEarl]

4. Warmongers are having a field day

I bet cheney is smiling.

[YarnAddict]

5. Well,

probably pretty much all of them. Dealing with world crises goes with the job.

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. I agree ...

some just deal with them better than their predecessors.

[YarnAddict]

19. True that n/t

[bluestateguy]

6. FDR and Truman

and of course Lincoln, Johnson and Grant.

Postwar periods are very prone to disruptive events.

[Brigid]

7. We have an intelligent, cool-headed President right now.

We are very fortunate. But I certainly would not want to be in his shoes, I know that much.

[Rex]

8. Abe, Ike, JFK, FDR

Some, but not many. Obama is one of them no doubt.

[amandabeech]

42. Good list.

The only one I can add is maybe Wilson during WWI. He had problems with aggressive German U-boat action that sunk US ships and other ships carrying Americans. It wasn't as bad as WWII, but we did not enter WWI for almost three years after it started, and Wilson was on a real tight wire for all that time. It must have been something of a brief relief when we finally did declare war and enter on the side of the allies. Tough going after that, though. War is always a tough on on presidents and on nations.

[Cali_Democrat]

9. I'm confident Obama will handle things well

Can you imagine if McCain won in 2008?

I honestly think we could have seen a nuclear holocaust by now.

He's that crazy.

[Rex]

10. Hot piles of radioactive ashes...

The best thing we ever did was elect Obama into office, twice! As far as I am concerned, he prevented WWIII and he will do it against despite the call from Cold War assholes like McSame to destroy the earth in order to save freedoms.

[Louisiana1976]

34. Exactly.

[conservaphobe]

11. I wouldn't take the job for any amount of praise or money.

That job is a curse.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Lincoln faced many more crises, almost on a daily basis.

Secession, slavery, long strings of defeats, the rebels threatened Washington with occupation at least 3 times, even victory was a crisis.

[cali]

14. Yes, and even worse.

[former9thward]

15. We had about 400 Americans get killed everyday in WW II.

That following the biggest depression in U.S. history. FDR had far more to deal with than Obama ever has.

[underpants]

20. Okay aside from the largest war ever

but these are endless events with absolutely no right answer. I guess that is what I meant.

[Louisiana1976]

35. I figured that was what you'd meant.

[underpants]

38. :-)

[ellenfl]

16. yes, but they didn't have the town criers shouting about every little thing. eom

[oldandhappy]

17. I have wondered the same question, underpants.

Some of the previous responses help me to remember that, yes, presidents do have a constant stream of situations which turn their hair grey. Obama has gotten really grey recently.

wow indeed. Sending hope.

[ruffburr]

18. If the repubs -

Were running this country we would be in the throes of ww3. And in the middle of a major depression with no safety net for no one,So thank goodness O is at the helm for now,Anyone who votes republican should really think about that

[NightWatcher]

21. I'd love to have a beer (or 6) with Obama 2 years after he leaves office

I bet he could vent and rip into it for hours.

[whistler162]

22. That guy named Lincoln had a few

small head aches.

[bigwillq]

23. Pretty much all of them

In some form or another.

[etherealtruth]

24. To quote (or paraphrase ) George W Bush

"Its hard work" (being president) ... not that he actually worked hard , but, he should have

[bigwillq]

25. Hard work indeed

But they know that going in.

[Throd]

26. That's why they age like dogs.

[bigwillq]

28. Again, they know this going in.

I respect it, but no sympathy from me.

[etherealtruth]

31. Yes they do ....

Some have an easier time (simply good or better luck) than others, but none has an easy time.

Great power comes with great pressure

[spanone]

27. romney would be a disaster

[flamingdem]

29. My thoughts exactly!

We dodged a bullet or maybe a nuke there

[tularetom]

30. A lot of them have

And they haven't always made the correct decisions.

[840high]

32. Truman and FDR deal with much more.

[toddwv]

33. Bush II did...

Of course, he created most of them and passed them on to President Obama.

[Louisiana1976]

36. True dat.

[kiva]

37. Seriously?

WWI. WWII. Great Depression. Gary Powers. Berlin Wall. Bay of Pigs. Missiles of October. That's thinking about it for one minute, so missed a lot.

[karynnj]

40. FDR had the depression and WWII - does that count? nt

Of course, he had fewer Republicans to nip at his ankles while he worked to right all the wrongs.

[amandabeech]

43. FDR was at the helm for 3 terms and a bit more

during the one-two punch of the depression and the worst war that the world has ever seen.

He kept us going through all that, and was an absolutely remarkable man.

Eleanor wasn't bad, either.

[HooptieWagon]

44. FDR had a lot of republican opposition....

... at times quite vicious. Truman had the famous GOP "do-nothing" Congress obstructing him. BTW, the "do-nothing" Congress did about 3X the work the present one has.

[karynnj]

45. Not saying they were all nice, but look at the numbers!

In his first term, he had 68 Democrats in the Senate and 57% of the House. That is when he passed most of the New Deal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/76th_United_States_Congress