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The list suggests a short memory, with almost no history. Presidents Truman and Kennedy should have rated much more highly. President Ford deserves more credit, though he had only a brief time in office.

IMO, GW Bush was by far the worst. He presided over the worst national security failure in American history, then used that as an excuse to invade a country that had nothing to do with it, and doubled the national debt. He also appointed John Roberts and Samuel Alito to SCOTUS.

President Obama has also doubled the debt and signed Obamneycare, after campaigning against it when it was called "Hillary's Plan." (To be fair, Hillary's Plan was a bullet point version of her prior ClintonCare, which was even worse.) Still, he's much better than his predecessor, and much better than either of his two Republican opponents.

The public opinion chart illustrates two of Winston Churchill's observations:

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"

Considering what it takes to win an election in this country, I am impressed that we've survived this long.

HEY YOU says

Why didn't they include G.W.Bush?

They did, and Bush #2 was the second worst.

rando says

I just don't see what Obama has done that's so evil.

Obama's total incompetence should be enough.

The worst were Truman for his atrocities on Japan and getting us into the Korean War, although that may have been unavoidable.

LBJ for his great society, medicare, Vietnam and his lying to escalate it, his contribution to stagflation, i.e. he created it by forcing Fed Chairman Martin to print money to pay for his horse shit.

George W for getting us into Iraq, and for TARP and for taking away civil liberties.

Obama is tied with LBJ for the worst because of Obama Care and Dodd Frank and for Common Core and for a huge increase in regulations and for what ever headway he made with TPP.

I wasn't alive for Eisenhower's years, but from what I've gathered he was a good leader. I also wasn't alive for Carter, but I feel like he came into a bad situation and tried his best to do what was right for the US in the long term and nobody cared, they just wanted things instantly fixed.

zzyzzx says

Obama's total incompetence

You should get started on HIllary now. Claim she is incompetent and will make a terrible President, and invest as much emotion as possible in this belief, repeat it to yourself dozens of time per day, sometimes hundreds of times per day.

Whatever you do don't let the fact that you are human and that if things had been different long long ago you might have been capable of objectivity and critical thinking.

So just stick to your guns, starting now, don't even allow yourself to think too much, and then 8 years from now you can lament how you were right all along and Hillary was another terrible democrat President. Who knows, maybe if you're lucky, you can really justify that hate, and she will be even worse than Obama.

Let these be your watchwords: "If a democrat is elected President, God help us if they aren't really really terrible for the country."

"When Trump bangs a supermodel, he closes his eyes and imagines he's jerking off."

marcus says

You should get started on HIllary now. Claim she is incompetent a

I've already mentioned how someone who can't handle having 2 emails isn't qualified to be president.

Nixon tops them all with his open door china policy which lead to massive grain imports that san franned the ricearoni brand...

Nixon was one of the worst because he took the US off Bretton Woods, the rest was just BS

At least he ended Vietnam.

Tenpoundbass says

Bush went to Congress and the UN and NATO for every single action he took, he never unilaterally took military actions.

Yes, Bush went, and acted regardless of outcomes of ruling bodies. The Bush Doctrine was the most unilateral foreign policy implementation we had ever seen in America, up to that point. It justifies preemptive application of military force and doing so unilaterally.

The 2nd Gulf War invasion of Iraq was strongly opposed by NATO, and the UN believes, to this day, that there are grounds that it was illegal. The only country to lap dog support us was the UK, and that is likely the most unpopular decision of Blair's rule, and one not made by the people of the UK, but by their leadership. There was news cycle devoted to just that last week.

Our congress would have been ok invading Monaco, if the Bush admin said "the bad guys" were there. I don't think the dazed consent of a post 911 attacked population counts as being a builder of coalitions and multilateral support for military action.

To me, Bush and 911 remain the spark which touched off so many ills for our country.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/192374/americans-satisfaction-direction-remains-low.aspx

- See first graph : '01 to '09 is Bush

http://www.gallup.com/poll/193517/bush-leads-obama-blame-economic-troubles.aspx

- and a majority of American's still see the shadow of Bush in what Obama has had to face ... even now ... 8 years on

Ironman says

Everyone else knows Obama has had close to 8 years and hasn't got shit accomplished.

He got plenty accomplished all of it bad.