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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:42 PM
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Poll question: Worst president ever
All but Buchanan were Republicans, BTW.
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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:43 PM
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1. at least Buchanan was a Pennsylvanian...
The one and only
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MNBiker Donating Member (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:45 PM
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2. Willian Henry Harrison is #1look it up
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:48 PM
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4. Only because he gave a 3 hour speech in a blizzard
during his inaug when it was held later in the winter and died barely 3 months into his presidency.

He never had a chance to do anything
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MNBiker Donating Member (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:49 PM
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5. 30 days and that was it...
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:52 PM
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8. I was thinking it was 45 days
but could not remember
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:55 PM
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11. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh9.html
When he arrived in Washington in February 1841, Harrison let Daniel Webster edit his Inaugural Address, ornate with classical allusions. Webster obtained some deletions, boasting in a jolly fashion that he had killed "seventeen Roman proconsuls as dead as smelts, every one of them."

Webster had reason to be pleased, for while Harrison was nationalistic in his outlook, he emphasized in his Inaugural that he would be obedient to the will of the people as expressed through Congress.

But before he had been in office a month, he caught a cold that developed into pneumonia. On April 4, 1841, he died--the first President to die in office--and with him died the Whig program.
U.S. Presidents: United in Service
Take a look at presidential biographies made by kids and videos about service from the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.

Ninth President
1841

Born: February 9, 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia

Died: April 4, 1841. He died in Washington D.C. of pneumonia a month after taking office. He was the first president to die in office.

Married to Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:57 PM
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13. What the heck did the Whigs stand for? -nt-
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 10:00 PM
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16. http://www.earlyrepublic.net/whigs.htm Read On
The Whig Party, in the United States, was for most of its history concerned with promoting internal improvements, such as roads, canals, railroads, deepening of rivers, etc. This was of interest to many Westerners in this period, isolated as they were and in need of markets. Abraham Lincoln was a Whig for most of this period.
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BurgherHoldtheLies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:51 PM
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7. The only PA President. Are you in PA, east or west?
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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:54 PM
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10. West n/t
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Tim4319 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 11:01 AM
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27. George W. Bush by far
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:45 PM
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3. I almost voted for Raygun
In a sense, we wouldn't be here without his destruction of the fairness doctrine.

If he wasn't dead, I'd go give him a stout kick in the face.

Hell, I still might go do it.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:50 PM
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6. Bush - and the only mandate he'll ever get.
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ilovenicepeople Donating Member (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:54 PM
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9. Arnold in 2008 will be the worst president
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 06:26 AM
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26. How could he be worse than W?
I genuinely want to know.
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ilovenicepeople Donating Member (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 03:41 PM
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32. You'll just have to wait for that answer
The won't be calling him the Terminator for nothing.
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shesemsmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:56 PM
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12. Bush
Iv'e lived a bunch since 1957. The guy is even worse that Nixon
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Flying Dream Blues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 09:59 PM
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14. Amen
* makes Nixon look like Albert Schweitzer!
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shesemsmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 10:05 PM
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18. I disagree
makes Nixon look like the Saviour of the whole free world lol
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 05:48 AM
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23. Nixon was a raging Liberal in comparison
and knew tons more about foreign policy to boot.

If only he hadn't been such a paranoid bastard.

He was a much better man OUT of office than IN.

Further evidence: my freeper friends call him a "pussy." There's an endorsement for ya.

John Dean should know, having seen both. Even he says "Worse than Watergate."
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shesemsmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 06:24 AM
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25. lol Now that is a fact n/t
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MASSAFRA Donating Member (461 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 10:00 PM
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15. Didn't Andrew Jackson
violate an order of the Supreme Court and take land from the American Indians forcing them onto the trail of tears?
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 01:04 AM
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19. Yeah, he did
Edited on Wed Dec-08-04 01:04 AM by Art_from_Ark
"The Supreme Court has made its decision, let the Supreme Court enforce it", he sneered as he began pushing Cherokees off their land in violation of the ruling.

One of the many reasons why I hate Jackson with a passion, and why he'd blend in perfectly with today's republican party.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 02:59 AM
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21. Jackson wouldn't blend with today's Republican party in the least bit
Because unlike George Bush who pretends to be an economic populist, Andrew Jackson actually was one. He was pro "small government" but this was before the time of big corporations, where government regulation wasn't necessary. On the flip side, Jackson was corrupt as hell and engaged in the whole Tariff crisis for personal reasons. Yea and there is that whole trail of tears thing. I remember in 7th grade US History, our teacher taught us about the Jackson administration but left out everything regarding violence toward the Indians. On the test I wrote an essay about how Jackson was a good man but a bad president. How WRONG I was.
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Traction Donating Member (97 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 03:32 AM
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22. How did he wind up on the $20?
Did he do something right?
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-04 10:04 PM
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17. I wish I could cast more than one vote
because Reagan did a lot more than sleep through his presidency.


then again, I think that Bullsh the Elder was in charge that whole time anyway....
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firebee Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 02:35 AM
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20. Bush takes the cake, but....
Edited on Wed Dec-08-04 02:36 AM by firebee
Ulysses S. Grant is a close second in my opinion. Grant's Administration paved the way for corporate corruption when they started legislating in the interest of the railroads and banks. Ulysses S. Grant's presidency legalized political contributions from corporations, entitled corporations to the same rights as persons and pretty much defied the values of our founding fathers. If it wasn't for Grant and his administration paving the way for the corporate corruption of our government, we might not have the mess we're dealing with today.
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 05:53 AM
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24. Correction
George W. Bush: liar, rat bastard, scumbag, FAKE CHRISTIAN, Godless, bumbling, incompetent, "fortunate son" worthless ass-puppet POS.

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Zero Gravitas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 11:12 AM
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28. 100th vote for Busholini
Worst. President. Ever.

Also needs fashion tips from (former) buddy Saddam and (new) buddy Ghadaffi on dictator pseudo-military uniforms... :puke:
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Tighthead Prop Donating Member (57 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 11:18 AM
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29. Dubyah
Only being 21, I had the unfortunate duty of starting to be politically conscience in Clinton's presidency. I had to go from that to this right wing idiot. OY!
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 11:51 AM
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30. You left out Andrew Johnson who fought reconstruction.
And, in doing so, laid the foundation for the 1877 "compromise" which removed northern troops from the south, thus condemning millions of freed slaves and their descendents to decades of oppression and murder.

But, Richard Nixon gets my vote. A murderous sociopath who also engineered the "southern strategy" of uniting the poor whites against their own best self interest, into a powerful force of redneck power.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 11:51 AM
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31. like my T-shirt say ... it's bush he's the worst IMO
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 03:59 PM
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33. Reagan -- because Bush** is not a pResident
but a tinhorn fascist dictator who would be perfectly at home in Haiti or, better yet, in the unnamed Central American country in the Woody Allen movie Bananas, where the dictator declared the official language to be Swedish :-)
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