Aside from Bush, who has been our worst president?

[ZombieNixon]

Ever.

[KitchenWitch]

Tie - Reagan and Bush I

[Chef]

14. Grant?

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.

[andyhappy]

1. um ...cheney?

[UdoKier]

2. Reagan, Nixon or Hoover

hard to pick.

I can't comment on pre WWI presidents due to some measure of ignorance on my part.

[madinmaryland]

3. Warren G Harding

was said to be the most corrupt. I'd say reagan is right up there too!

[ZombieNixon]

6. As Stephen Colbert (Daily Show) said

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."

:D

[Politicub]

4. Reagan was one of the worst for

the undoing regulations put in place to encourage fairness.

[caledesi]

5. No doubt - Harding.

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

[jmowreader]

7. Ronald Reagan

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.

[Warpy]

13. I'd swap Harding and Hoover in that list

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.

[Old Mouse]

26. Good Nixon points

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.

[Lenape85]

8. My Top 10

Our worst presidents to me are:

Bush II (obviously)
Bush I
Harding
Hoover
Coolidge
Reagan
Taft
Polk
Buchanan
Jackson

[bamacrat]

21. good list but what about Grant

he was a better general

[jackster]

9. baby bush hands down....

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!

[billbuckhead]

11. In terms of evil, these two Bush's are miles ahead of any other POTUS

:nuke:

[MisterP]

10. Reagan, then Poppy, Nixon, Coolidge, Harding, and Hoover

I knew a descendant of Harding's in school, actually

[Lenape85]

15. Was he right wing?

[MisterP]

20. she; I didn't know her alignment, seemed moderate

Harding was more like a summer squash than a right-winger or moderate

[Emboldened Chimp]

12. Millard Fillmore

He never gets mentioned for anything, so I thought I'd just throw his name out there. :D

[Lenape85]

16. Know-Nothing scumbag

[Old Mouse]

17. Reagan

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"

[DireStrike]

18. Raygun

He laid the groundwork for Bushers.

[hangloose]

19. He wins

[hatrack]

22. Quick stab at a ranking:

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)

[Mist]

23. I'd have to go with Harding

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.

[stellanoir]

24. Just 'cause I'm feeling especially contrary

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.

[Up2Late]

28. I swear,I didn't read your post before I posted mine below

Great minds think a like :toast:

[stellanoir]

34. cheers

that's always been my most favorite of presidential oddities.

[one_true_leroy]

25. HOOVER

[Up2Late]

27. Experts say Warren G. Harding-I say William Henry Harrison

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:

[American Tragedy]

32. I dunno, that actually sounds pretty good right now

[Dark Secret]

29. Harding

[Divine Ms Q]

My top worst presidents:

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!

[Divine Ms Q]

30. Deleted - accidently posted twice n/t

[American Tragedy]

31. Reagan

Even Nixon said that Reagan's economic policies were 'too uncompassionate'.

[leftofthedial]

33. Reagan

George the First

Nixon

[MrSlayer]

35. 1. Chimp 2. Hoover 3. U.S. Grant

By my reckoning.

[LSdemocrat]

36. Harding

Corrupt, incompetent, and openly law breaking.

[dave123williams]

37. Toss up between Harding and Buchannan....probably, it's Buchannan...

His weakness was a catalyst for the Civil War.

[ailsagirl]

38. Bush I

[knight_of_the_star]

39. Something interesting to point out

With the exception of Buchanan, isn't it interesting that ALL the names put forward so far have been REPUBLICANS?

[indigobusiness]

40. Reagan.....because he was such a Svengali

After that...Hoover. Then Nixon, not because he was such a bad president, but because he was so machiavellian and corrupt.

[Arkana]

41. I have quite a few bad ones...

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.

[Radical Activist]

42. James Buchanan

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.

[Parrcrow]

43. Reagan

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.

[Kablooie]

44. George Washington

He destroyed what Johnny Appleseed created. Terrible.

[mmonk]

45. I don't know. Its such a drop off from this one