Most hated presidents in history...

[Bobbie Jo]

# 1...given.

Do any others even come close? I mean you almost had to feel sorry for Nixon.

[Union Thug]

1. Put RayGun on that list. n/t

[jeff30997]

3. Agreed!

[jobycom]

6. He's tied with Bush, for me. People have given him a pass lately

but he was every bit as evil, and every bit as out of his element, as W. The bastard kicked off his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, MS, a town known only for the civil rights murders of three volunteers. Rather than talk about unity, the sacrifice of these three men, etc, Reagan talked about the rights of southern states to set their own values.

Vile man. Bush ain't got nothing on him.

[usaftmo]

18. Absolutely!

I still can't believe they named the airport in my hometown after him (Washington National Airport). When mentioning this airport I never include raygun's name in it.

[davidinalameda]

2. I don't hate Bush

I have never hated him

I hate what he's done to this country but never him personally

why expend the energy to hate someone

[Bucky]

8. Exactly. "Bush hater" started off as a myth concocted by Righties, projecting their Clinton hatred.

Clinton hatred ran thru half the members of the House Republican Caucus. Congressional Democrats don't hate Bush, they just are really really annoyed with him for ruining the country, impuning their patriotism, lying about why we went to war (and doing so badly), behaving arrogantly, and generally not being willing to work with them. They take hits around here for being too willing to work with a man who clearly doesn't intend to meet anyone half way. But even with all their civility, they're accused of "hatred."

In the last few frustrating years some of our fellow online Lefties have come to embrace that particular right wing talking point, that we hate Bush. He pisses me off royally just about everytime he opens his mouth, but I've never gotten to the point where I hate him. I just want his pathetic ass gone from government.

[Union Thug]

21. I do. And it doesn't take much energy at all! n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. It's kind of weird, because I consider him the greatest president, but Lincoln was

probably hated by as large a proportion of the country, and with greater emnity, as any president... Although when you throw in the hatred and contempt of the rest of the world, the shrub has gotta take that one running away...

[provis99]

7. Millard Fillmore!!!!!

[Bucky]

10. Lincoln was a big fan of Millard Filmore. Millard was Carter to Abe's Clinton

Altho not what you'd call a successful president, Filmore was the one president between John Quincy Adams and Lincoln who opposed the westward expansion of slavery. Before his inauguration, Lincoln went to visit Filmore and sought his advice on how to run the country and save the Union.

[provis99]

12. precisely, thats why he was hated!

the criteria isn't for how good they actually were, but how much the folks despised them

[newyawker99]

19. Hi provis99!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[bluestateguy]

5. Nixon did a lot of good things

It's just that he did a lot more bad things.

The only good thing Bush ever did was the National Do Not Call List--hardly a landmark achievement.

[TahitiNut]

9. Worst. pResident. Ever.

Not even close.

[Journeyman]

11. Mr Abraham Lincoln . . .

the vitriol of the press, the hatred from his fellow citizens in the North, the depths of destruction plumbed by the war. . . his wife slandered as a traitorous spy, his humanity questioned without cease, his every light-hearted moment castigated as demonic. . . those who supported him always convinced he moved too slow, his opponents delusional in their rabid hatred. . .

Without doubt the most hated man of his day. . .

[driver8]

13. I have never felt hatred like I feel for Bush and Cheney and the

rest of the crime family.

I hate what Bush has done to this country and I hate him. He is trying to destroy this country and I despise him for it...same with Cheney.

[angry_chuck]

14. they do it with impunity

and spit in the face of real patriotic Americans.

[Bucky]

15. Lincoln was certainly hated and ridiculed in his time. But the difference from Bush is significant.

Lincoln's popularity rose and fell with his fortunes in office. When his generals had a winning streak of battles (which was pretty rare) his popularity increased. When he took risks or ventured into new territory--as with the Emancipation Proclamation--his popularity dipped and the infamous "gorilla" cartoons would appear again. Despite the low spots, by the end of his years in office he was actually pretty popular. He had saved the Union and brought an added dimension of antislavery to the American experiment.

Bush on the other had rose high in popularity polls due to outside events. With his personal popularity at an apex, he chose to spend his political capital and the world's goodwill support on a lunacy of a war, dishonestly sold, and his popularity ratings have been in a tailspin ever since. Lincoln held the country together and made our moral mission in history seem larger and more noble than it had seemed before. Bush took a united nation, and a united world even, and brought division, chaos, and an unprecedented pettiness into American politics. His legacy is to have left the country far more divided than when he found it.

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. How about "most hated people in history"?

Given that the population is higher than ever before, and satellite communications give the media global reach, I should think that Bush is probably more hated by more people all over the world than anyone, ever.

[cyclezealot]

17. First I hated Nixon most, then raygun, now Dubya II.

Bush is the most hateful. Even Nixon's mannerisms , stupid speech, and hateful actions; wern't this hateful. How can one not hate this president so full of arrogrance and hatred.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. LBJ, Nixon, Reagan have to make the finals.

[LeftishBrit]

22. I also hated Reagan (though Mad King George is even worse)

Of our own leaders, I hated and always will hate, loathe and detest Maggie Thatcher - who also happened to be best friends with Ronnie.

[catmandu57]

23. Nobody hates Hoover?

I would think he'd be right up there with the moran*.