The 7 Worst Presidents of the Last 100 Years

[lurkingdirk]

http://townhall.com/columnists/John..._7_worst_presidents_of_the_last_hundred_years

Liberal historians have been ranking Presidents for years and of course there's always a heavy leftward skew to their evaluations. Republicans are inevitably ranked lower than they deserve to be while Democrats are sure to be portrayed in the kindest historical light. Here's a different take on the issue: A look at the worst Presidents of the last hundred years from a conservative perspective.

Kind of interesting, though this is ultimately a subjective conversation. I find it problematic to include a sitting president in this list, as the longer term damage can't yet be evaluated. That said, I believe that former President G. W. Bush should likely have made this list.

Just my :2 cents:, but flame away!

 

[darkwarrior3007]

How can you put a sitting President on a best/worst list when his term isn't even over? What if the reason you put him on a list gets turned around before his Presidency is up? You don't put sitting Presidents on lists until their terms are over because you don't know what's gonna happen while they're in office. You wait and then evaluate.

 

[knowone]

These best/worse lists are more of a Rorschach Test for the personnel priorities of who writes them, then a impartial evaluation.

 

[zell]

Seems like some right wing bullshit to me.

 

[Straight Shooter]

There have only been 18 presidents since 1910. I think you should just do the 7 worst presidents.

 

[pete rose]

Geeze couldn't have guessed number 1!!! This guy is a TRAILBLAZER.

 

[Mayhem]

Both Bush's
Eisenhower
Ford
Carter ......hmmm, that's 5 already
Harding
Coolidge

That's my not-so-Magnificent 7. And I decided to do it before reading the article. 7 is a big number for 100 years though and I only put in Harding and Coolidge tacitly. Now, I'll see what the article says.

 

[Cloude]

That link has
-a FOX News ad
-a Rush Limbaugh ad
-a note saying John Hawkins is a professional blogger.

"Professional" as in paid for by those ads.

 

[Bearded_Menace]

That list is total bullshit. Number 1 should have been Hoover. That guy didn't do jack shit. Nada. Nothing. Zero effort on his part. This guy wouldn't piss on a newborn baby if it was on fire.

 

[Icewater Jones]

This list is complete, utter, whole-level, absolute, undeniable BULLSHIT. Another excuse for some right-wing douchebag to once again throw Obama under the bus, and subtely praise GW Bush and his grossly incompetent consecutive terms full of some of the worst moments the U.S. has ever seen... both domestically and internationally. How either Bush managed to escape a spot on this list is beyond any scale of retardation derived by man.

 

[Ace Bandage]

This article is a perfect example of why that site does not have any credibility whatsoever. The addendum also shows the author's grasp of history:

Editors' note: the original version of this article said that Richard Nixon was impeached over Watergate. He resigned before he could be impeached.

 

[bustybbwlover]

my favorite part is how right before the talk shit about obama they say

it's impossible to fully evaluate barack obama's presidency because it's not over

people are just so impatient to point out how much he's fucking up it makes me laugh

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

That list loses all credibility by including Wilson and mentioning FDR. Those two are two of the greatest Presidents in history. That list is sad.

 

[darkwarrior3007]

That list loses all credibility by including Wilson and mentioning FDR. Those two are two of the greatest Presidents in history. That list is sad.

Yeah, those two are almost always in the top ten best Presidents list.

 

[ForumModeregulator]

http://townhall.com/columnists/John..._7_worst_presidents_of_the_last_hundred_years



Kind of interesting, though this is ultimately a subjective conversation. I find it problematic to include a sitting president in this list, as the longer term damage can't yet be evaluated. That said, I believe that former President G. W. Bush should likely have made this list.

Just my :2 cents:, but flame away!

If it is your belief that it is too early to include President Obama (I agree), then why would your logic allow you to believe that after only 1 year (2001-2009) is sufficient enough to place George W. Bush on that list?

It seems silly to try to evaluate presidencies in the past, where we were not only not apart of, but when all we have are opinions and historical events (which can be tainted) to base it upon...

So it makes sense that people hate Bush and Obama, because those are the contemporary presidents that we have in recent memory. I would say the worse era of presidents we had were the ones leading up to the Civil War. Those guys were idiots for letting a country destroy itself. Nixon was a crook, and is responsible for the miserable war on drugs.

 

[titsrock]

I looked at the credentials of the writer and probably should've stopped reading there. But, no, I read the first paragraph...

Liberal historians have been ranking Presidents for years and of course there's always a heavy leftward skew to their evaluations. Republicans are inevitably ranked lower than they deserve to be while Democrats are sure to be portrayed in the kindest historical light. Here's a different take on the issue: A look at the worst Presidents of the last hundred years from a conservative perspective.

This paragraph sort of set up a "But wait! This will be different" kind of vibe...and sadly, the only thing different is the gross exaggeration of Dems instead of Republicans not to mention another tired mentioning of Obama and Socialist...

And any list of worst presidents without George W Bush at the top is not worth shit

How can a conservative fuck up Nixon's bio anyway? Again, conservatives don't know nor care about DETAILS! FACTS!

 

[maildude]

This guy knows history like I know Swahili.

 

[ForumModeregulator]

a much more educated and scholarly approach...

http://politics.usnews.com/news/history/features/the-10-worst-presidents

 

[DJCowboy]

a much more educated and scholarly approach...

http://politics.usnews.com/news/history/features/the-10-worst-presidents

Much better list but I don't think it's fair to put William Harrison on such a list. He was only in office for 30 days, that pneumonia-contracting pussy

 

[titsrock]

^
Still no Dubya on a list? Nyet.