Presidents I have hated.

[Lionel Mandrake]

Last edited Thu May 30, 2013, 09:12 PM - Edit history (6)

There were only three. Which of them was the worst?





Note on edit: By popular demand, I have added an "all of the above" option.

DU's software for editing a poll does not work properly. When there are apostrophes or quotation marks in the "Poll options", the software inserts slash marks. I keep taking them out, and the software keeps putting them back in. That's why I have edited the OP so many times. Now I have removed the offending punctuation marks, and I hope the editing software wil not fuck up the poll this time.

13 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Richard (the Dick) Nixon
	1 (8%)
	Ronald (Bonzo) Ray Gun
	2 (15%)
	George W. (War Criminal) Bush
	9 (69%)
	All of the above
	1 (8%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
Show usernames Disclaimer: This is an Internet poll

[Sekhmets Daughter]

1. The insanity began with Nixon...and his silent majority bs.

Took to moralizing and the liberal agenda was always the culprit. Turned out he didn't have a clue about morality.

[Lionel Mandrake]

3. Morality to Nixon meant putting on a coat and tie and being seen in the vicinity of a church.

I wrote a letter to my congressman recommending impeachment the day after the Saturday Night Massacre. By then it had become obvious that Tricky Dick was trying to cover up the Watergate scandal.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

4. Exactly.

I've always believed Nixon set the tone that allowed Reagan to hoodwink half the nation into believing he had an active brain cell and cared about the nation.

Nixon also worked hard to keep Carter from reaching any kind of cease fire in Vietnam.... He was incredibly immoral.

[liberal N proud]

2. The War Criminal was just trying to finish what Reagan started.

Reagan was put in office to do what Nixon was supposed to do but failed.

Every problem this country has today can be attributed to a Reagan era decision or policy.

[Lionel Mandrake]

5. When Ray Gun was running for Governor of California,

he did his best to destroy the University of California, and especially the Berkeley campus. As governor he continued this effort, and did lasting harm to the University. Later he destroyed PATCO, the union representing air traffic controllers. Among his other accomplishments was the "Strategic Defense Initative" (aka Star Wars), in which Raygun was aided and abetted by Edward Teller, aka "Strangelove West", aka the Father of the H-Bomb. Teller's favorite Star Wars project was the X-Ray Laser, which never worked (Teller's lies to the contrary notwithstanding) but soaked up lots of the taxpayers' money. These are just a few of the things we have Raygun to thank for.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Yep. He ran this country off the rails.

He turned me into a liberal at age 14 and I utterly despised him, but back then I had not a clue just how terrible he would ultimately prove to be.

[HeiressofBickworth]

6. It's so hard to decide

Each one (Nixon, Reagan, W) created short and long term damage to the country, its economy and its standing in the world. Each one was responsible for the deaths of numerous people from Vietnam to Iraq. So which was the worst? Perhaps we can just agree that Republican presidents aren't good for America.

[Art_from_Ark]

29. Although I voted "All of the above",

I think that Tricky Dick wasn't as bad as Reagan, in that at least Nixon did finally pull the troops out of Vietnam and he was supportive of some important environmental legislation. However, Nixon, like Reagan, stirred up trouble in Latin America and surrounded himself with crooks. And their respective attorneys-general (John Mitchell and Edwin Meese) were the antipathy of the positions they held. However, Nixon's Interior secretary, Walter Hickel, was certainly better than James Watt.

Of course, with bu$h Jr, just about everything he touched turned to crap.

[olddots]

8. In about twenty years the country will realize what Runny Ray-gun did

Coke , greed , deregulations more greed , more coke and greed .
The scum bags love him because he was what they want =a dumb old white sell out bad actor corporate turd maggot.

[Rowdyboy]

9. Each Republican nominee since Gerald Ford has declined in both talent and intelligence

That says a lot about the state of the party.

Dubya wins hands down only because McCain and Romney never became president (thanks be to God!)

[Locut0s]

10. I'm to fucking young on these forums lol.

Earliest president I remember is Bush Sr. If I had to choose a president who has historically done the worst damage I would say Reagan though. He's the one who single-handedly, during his administration that is, started dismantling the public sector. The right wing nut jobs that came after were just walking in his footsteps.

[Arugula Latte]

20. Aah shaddap, ya dang whippersnapper

[LWolf]

11. No contest.

[bluedave]

13. American idiot

[bigwillq]

12. I voted for Dub, even though Reagan was probably worst

I guess I don't realize how bad RayGun was because I was too young.
But I do realize how bad GWB was, so that's why I voted for him.

[lastlib]

14. Where is the "All of the Above, and Bush I, too!" option???

I'm not greatly fond of Ford, either, given his pardon of Nixon, and his fealty to war criminal extraordinaire Henry Kissinger. Google "Kissinger East Timor" and read the shocking contempt for human rights the Ford/Kissinger regime displayed.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

18. My thoughts exactly!

I voted for Nixon because I believe he set the stage... without him the others would not have been so successful. He willfully divided the nation... imo

[MrScorpio]

15. Where's that war-mongering fucker, Poppy?

Underhanded, CIA dirty-trickin', blood soaked, lying sonovabeyotch, that asshole is.

Fix yer poll.

[Lionel Mandrake]

19. No can do.

I never hated Poppy, so i can't honestly add him to the list.

IMHO Poppy was a bad president, but nowhere near as bad as his son. Poppy showed restraint in the (first) Gulf War, when our invasion of Iraq was not unproked and hence not a war crime. Just my opinion.

[Myrina]

21. "Nowhere near" ?

Arms-for-hostages?
October Surprise?
The fact that the 1st Gulf War's "line in the sand" just happend to be very near Jr's oil property?
Disparaging environmentalists/Al Gore ("Ozone&quot because they were discussing environmental issues lonnng before it became cool?

Are you kidding?

[Lionel Mandrake]

23. Disparaging environmentalists, October Surprises etc. are not crimes.

Arms for hostages was bad, but war crimes (as defined at the 1945-46 Nuremberg Trials) are worse. Iran-Contra happened during Raygun's 2nd term, when Poppy was VP. Poppy's main contribution came later -- he pardoned some of the perpetrators during the final days of his presidency. Again this was bad, but not a crime. Ditto for the oil aspect of Gulf I.

Which October Surprise did you have in mind? There's one in almost every election.

[RebelOne]

16. Hated all three, but GW Bush the most. n/t

[hamsterjill]

17. The Shrub!

Hated every minute that the idiot was in the white house. I honestly believed then (and still now) that Shrub was unstable and that there was no telling what he might pull.

[tabbycat31]

22. I'm only old enough to remember one

I was not around during the Nixon administration, and Reagan was elected when I was a baby so I can only judge those two by history.

However, I awoke politically because of George W. Bush so I can safely say I hated him (as a president, I'm sure he's a nice person).

[Wait Wut]

24. Pass

All of the above.

[Lionel Mandrake]

27. I've updated the poll.

I think that means you can now vote for "all of the above".

[SteveG]

25. I have to go with RR

Without Reagan, Bush II would not have been possible. It was Reagan who unleashed the Radical Reactionary forces in this nation. It was Reagan that gave the Neo-Cons, Religious fanatics and the Economic Libertarians the legitimacy to have a place on the national political scene.

[LongTomH]

26. That's like choosing between tyhphoid, cholera and smallpox!!!!!

[Lionel Mandrake]

28. Or choosing whether you wish to be executed by hanging, beheading, or the electric chair.

NB: you can now vote for all three.

[LiberalEsto]

30. George H.W. Bush

aka Poppy

Not only was he a horrible president, but he spawned Dumbya