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Fri Dec-17-04 03:49 PM
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Aside from Bush, who has been our worst president? |
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Fri Dec-17-04 03:49 PM
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:20 PM
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Everyone left Grant off but, whoever comes in second, after four more years of the turd, second place will look good. I pine for Nixon (I never thought I'd say this). He was far more liberal than most Dems in office today.
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Fri Dec-17-04 03:50 PM
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2. Reagan, Nixon or Hoover |
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hard to pick.
I can't comment on pre WWI presidents due to some measure of ignorance on my part.
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Fri Dec-17-04 03:51 PM
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was said to be the most corrupt. I'd say reagan is right up there too!
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Fri Dec-17-04 03:54 PM
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6. As Stephen Colbert (Daily Show) said |
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in their book. "His presidency was a taint, not just a stain, but literally a taint: the anatomical area between the anus and the testicles. I hate Warren G. Harding. Fuck him."
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Fri Dec-17-04 03:53 PM
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4. Reagan was one of the worst for |
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the undoing regulations put in place to encourage fairness.
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Fri Dec-17-04 03:53 PM
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Harding was unfit for office. He even said himself he was "in over his head and wish he never taken the job."
Corrupt administration: Teapot Dome
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Fri Dec-17-04 03:55 PM
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My top five shitty presidents:
George W. Bush Ronald Reagan George H.W. Bush Herbert Hoover Warren Harding
I can't put Nixon on a list like this with a straight face anymore. Nixon was an evil man, but he wasn't nearly as corrupt as Hoover or Harding and the triumvirate of Reagan and the Bushes trumps all.
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:15 PM
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13. I'd swap Harding and Hoover in that list |
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Harding was incompetent and corrupt. Hoover was just wrong, and waited far too long and did too little for the sudden crisis the stock market crash brought. He did try to lean on companies to provide welfare jobs. Companies balked (they always do) because they felt they'd have noplace to sell the increased goods and services. Remember, they look at the market before they produce anything. Hoover wasn't evil, he was just wrong in where he placed his faith.
As for Nixon, he did nearly as much good as evil, signing the EPA into existence, opening China, and cooling off the Cold War. An accurate person would have to call him a mixed bag who cared about his country and its people, but whose character flaw got in the way of it.
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Fri Dec-17-04 05:37 PM
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China should have been his legacy. To bad he was such an unlikable man.
We should remember the social structure of the times as well, and not measure the past by today's moral standards.
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Fri Dec-17-04 03:56 PM
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Our worst presidents to me are:
Bush II (obviously) Bush I Harding Hoover Coolidge Reagan Taft Polk Buchanan Jackson
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:45 PM
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21. good list but what about Grant |
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:05 PM
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9. baby bush hands down.... |
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and reagan comes in second.
poppy, coolidge, hoover, harding, and taft also get votes. at one point I would have included nixon but in light of his successors, he looks pretty good!
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:10 PM
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11. In terms of evil, these two Bush's are miles ahead of any other POTUS |
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:09 PM
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10. Reagan, then Poppy, Nixon, Coolidge, Harding, and Hoover |
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I knew a descendant of Harding's in school, actually
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:22 PM
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:37 PM
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20. she; I didn't know her alignment, seemed moderate |
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Harding was more like a summer squash than a right-winger or moderate
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:14 PM
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He never gets mentioned for anything, so I thought I'd just throw his name out there. :D
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:26 PM
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:26 PM
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Undid 200 years of social progress with his economic policies.
Gave the global economic community a term that allows the discussion of people suffering abject poverty with the emotional impact of a political affiliation: "the homeless"
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:26 PM
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He laid the groundwork for Bushers.
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:47 PM
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22. Quick stab at a ranking: |
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Bush II (of course) Buchanan (doing his level best to do nothing, other than giving the Confederates the keys to various arsenals and supply warehouses) Nixon (paranoia at home, carpet bombing and invasion abroad) Reagan (opium dreams artfully packaged as Morning In America, eagerly consumed) Grant (for at least 130 years his administration represented the gold standard of White House corruption) Harding (Fat, drunk & stupid is no way to go through a presidency)
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Fri Dec-17-04 04:54 PM
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23. I'd have to go with Harding |
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In some ways he was like * - a cabal of unelected political fixers were powerful in his administration; his, or rather the fixers' obsession was $, lots of wheeling and dealing. Harding seemed mostly unaware of it, and was also said to be not very bright.
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Fri Dec-17-04 05:05 PM
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24. Just 'cause I'm feeling especially contrary |
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at this particular moment, I'll make what will surely be a futile attempt to derail this thread, and say. . .
My favorite pres was William Henry Harrison.
He caught a cold during his inauguration whilst giving a long winded speech on an icy day and died a month later of pneumonia.
He truly did no wrong to anyone but himself. Then again, he may have done himsaelf an enormous favor.
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:02 PM
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28. I swear,I didn't read your post before I posted mine below |
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Great minds think a like :toast:
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:27 PM
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that's always been my most favorite of presidential oddities.
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Fri Dec-17-04 05:07 PM
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Fri Dec-17-04 05:59 PM
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27. Experts say Warren G. Harding-I say William Henry Harrison |
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Edited on Fri Dec-17-04 05:59 PM by Up2Late
O.K. Harding was ALMOST as corrupt as GWBush, But Billy H. Harrison, as we call him in S. Indiana (not really, i just made that up), Was so STUPID and Prideful, that he refused to ware his overcoat at his inauguration, got sick, lingered for 31 days, and Died. :nopity:
How can you beat a President who never actually did a days work as President before dying in office? :silly:
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:11 PM
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32. I dunno, that actually sounds pretty good right now |
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:08 PM
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James Buchanan - a do-nothing whose ineptitude helped to fuel the fire that led to the Civl War Rutherford B. Hayes - another presidnet elected via fraud Calvin Coolidge - Silent Cal...'nuff said Herbert Hoover - need I say more? Richard Nixon - again, need I say more? Ronald Reagan George HW Bush ...and, of course....Dubya himself!
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:08 PM
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30. Deleted - accidently posted twice n/t |
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Edited on Fri Dec-17-04 06:09 PM by Divine Ms Q
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:08 PM
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Even Nixon said that Reagan's economic policies were 'too uncompassionate'.
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:13 PM
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:29 PM
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35. 1. Chimp 2. Hoover 3. U.S. Grant |
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:35 PM
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Corrupt, incompetent, and openly law breaking.
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:36 PM
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37. Toss up between Harding and Buchannan....probably, it's Buchannan... |
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His weakness was a catalyst for the Civil War.
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:37 PM
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:44 PM
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39. Something interesting to point out |
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With the exception of Buchanan, isn't it interesting that ALL the names put forward so far have been REPUBLICANS?
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Fri Dec-17-04 06:50 PM
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40. Reagan.....because he was such a Svengali |
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After that...Hoover. Then Nixon, not because he was such a bad president, but because he was so machiavellian and corrupt.
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Fri Dec-17-04 07:10 PM
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41. I have quite a few bad ones... |
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1. George Jr. 2. George Sr. 3. Ronald Raygun 4. Warren Harding 5. Richard Nixon 6. Franklin Pierce 7. James Buchanan 8. Rutherford B. Hayes 9. Calvin Coolidge 10. Zachary Taylor
Taft doesn't get a mention, mainly because of the fact that he knew he didn't want the Presidency and only ran because TR encouraged it. I'm too young to remember Eisenhower, and Gerald Ford from all accounts was a bumbler but a good person.
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Fri Dec-17-04 07:43 PM
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He did nothing while the South seceded and let Jefferson Davis move much of the federal arsenal to the south. He also used religious bigotry in an attempt to distract from the slavery issue by uniting the nation against the Mormons. Huh...he tried to start a bogus war to distract from our real problems. Maybe he was the first case of Wag the Dog.
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Fri Dec-17-04 08:06 PM
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like bush, a moronic front man for right-wing interests. An insider posing as an outsider in Washington and with a sense of moral superiority proudly violated the law.
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Fri Dec-17-04 08:27 PM
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He destroyed what Johnny Appleseed created. Terrible.
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Fri Dec-17-04 09:05 PM
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45. I don't know. Its such a drop off from this one |
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