Top 5 worst President since 1900

[chuckjames]

I thought I would take Dlews idea and make it only since 1900 since no one really cares or knows about the presidents before then.(other than Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson)

My list
1. George W. Bush-Created the budget mess we are currently in, presided over a war that was started on false pretenses, caused the worst recession since the great depression.
2. Calvin Cooledge-caused the great depression
3. Jimmy Carter-terrible leader, the country lost faith while he was in office.
4 Richard Nixon-anytime you have to resign you make the top 5
5. George H. W. Bush-he really wasnt that bad but i needed someone to be 5 and he obviously sucked if he was voted out after only 4 years.

[_33]

I think the 5 worst presidents were the 5 that were most opposite of my political philosophy.

[puniraptor]

Can you maybe post a list so that I can choose without lookin it up myself

[OK_Cat]

grover cleveland is a dick

[kim carnes]

if anything, george w. bush was the #1 president.

[Cartierfor3]

Calvin Coolidge did not cause the depression.  You had horrible history teachers. 

[chuckjames]

I would like to amend my list and add Wilson instead of the first bush. And obviously the president gets far too much credit for a growing economy and far to much blame for a recession. so caused is too strong of a word, but cooledge alot like Bush 43 relaxed regulation to the point of it being very bad for the economy. some of the blame for the great depression can also be attributed to the federal reserve since it did not increase the money supply fast enough for fear of devaluing the dollar. 

[puniraptor]

McKinley - Shot to death and died in office.
JFK - Shot to death and died in office.
Coolidge - heart attacked to death in office.
Truman - brain attacked to death in office.
Nixon - Impeached to death and quit.

Dying and lying are terrible policies.

[chuckjames]

Calvin Coolidge did not cause the depression.  You had horrible history teachers.

indeed i got my presidents mixed up...it was hoover not cooligde...sorry calvin...i am an idiot and will now put myself in posting timeout for a week.

[kim carnes]

I thought I would take Dlews idea and make it only since 1900 since no one really cares or knows about the presidents before then.(other than Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson)

My list
1. George W. Bush-Created the budget mess we are currently in, presided over a war that was started on false pretenses, caused the worst recession since the great depression.
2. Calvin Cooledge-caused the great depression
3. Jimmy Carter-terrible leader, the country lost faith while he was in office.
4 Richard Nixon-anytime you have to resign you make the top 5
5. George H. W. Bush-he really wasnt that bad but i needed someone to be 5 and he obviously sucked if he was voted out after only 4 years.

hey you idiot, poor people torpedoed our economy by taking out loans they couldn't pay back.  goodness, get a clue before posting

[DQ12]

Why limit since 1900? 

Anyways, yeah Woodrow Wilson was an bad person.  I vote him numero uno.

[wetwillie]

it is easily Lyndon Johnson.  On top of being a descendant of a Baylor University president(woof) his alma mater is Texas State(double woof).  He wiretapped MLK(racist), was fat and smelled terrible, vietnam. 

[Rage Against the McKee]

My list, in no particular order:

1. Nixon - Everyone knows why Nixon was a shitty president.

2. Hoover - He was a great man and a great American, who stood for everything the "balanced budget" conservatives claim to stand for but aren't willing to follow through on (cutting government waste, paying for spending with taxes to balance the budget, etc.). His policies were a horrible failure, though, and while it's unfair to say that he created the great depression, his policies made it about 100x worse than it had to be.

3. Harding - Appointed the Ohio Gang to his cabinet and oversaw the most crooked administration the United States has ever had.

4. Carter - Like Hoover, he is a great American and a great human being, but a horrible president. The Iranian Hostage Crisis was just the cherry on top of his 4 year tenure.

5. Coolidge - A firm believer in laissez-faire government, who didn't really do anything of note while in office, and did absolutely nothing to even try to slow the great depression, which came about right as he was leaving office.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

I thought I would take Dlews idea and make it only since 1900 since no one really cares or knows about the presidents before then.(other than Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson)

My list
1. George W. Bush-Created the budget mess we are currently in, presided over a war that was started on false pretenses, caused the worst recession since the great depression.
2. Calvin Cooledge-caused the great depression
3. Jimmy Carter-terrible leader, the country lost faith while he was in office.
4 Richard Nixon-anytime you have to resign you make the top 5
5. George H. W. Bush-he really wasnt that bad but i needed someone to be 5 and he obviously sucked if he was voted out after only 4 years.

hey you idiot, poor people torpedoed our economy by taking out loans they couldn't pay back.  goodness, get a clue before posting

Here is a that proves who is truly responsible for the collapse.

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[jmlynch1]

 

grover cleveland is a dick

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

[bubbles4ksu]

1. Reagan - exploded the deficit
2. Bush - Iraq
3. Wilson - couldn't join his own peace organization
4. Truman - dumbass couldn't graduate college
5. Taft - fat

[DQ12]

Ging post.

1. Reagan - exploded the deficit
2. Bush - Iraq
...
5. Taft - fat

[EMAWmeister]

Blows my mind how Chuck can actually make a point in this shitty dunning kruger dome yet be absolutely insufferable on twitter.

This thread has nothing to do with the bolded statement for the record.

[ben ji]

I thought I would take Dlews idea and make it only since 1900 since no one really cares or knows about the presidents before then.(other than Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson)

My list
1. George W. Bush-Created the budget mess we are currently in, presided over a war that was started on false pretenses, caused the worst recession since the great depression.
2. Calvin Cooledge-caused the great depression
3. Jimmy Carter-terrible leader, the country lost faith while he was in office.
4 Richard Nixon-anytime you have to resign you make the top 5
5. George H. W. Bush-he really wasnt that bad but i needed someone to be 5 and he obviously sucked if he was voted out after only 4 years.

Any list that doesnt include Harding 

Background

In the early 20th century, the U.S. Navy largely converted from coal to oil fuel. To ensure the Navy would always have enough fuel available, several oil-producing areas were designated as Naval Oil Reserves by President Taft. In 1921, President Harding issued an executive order which transferred control of Teapot Dome Oil Field in Natrona County, Wyoming, and the Elk Hills and Buena Vista Oil Fields in Kern County, California from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior. This order was not implemented until 1922, when Interior Secretary Fall persuaded Navy Secretary Edwin C. Denby to transfer control.

[edit] Single-bid contracts followed by kickbacksLater in 1922, Fall leased the oil production rights at Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair of Mammoth Oil, a subsidiary of Sinclair Oil. He also leased the Elk Hills reserve to Edward L. Doheny of Pan American Petroleum. Both leases were issued without competitive bidding. This manner of leasing was legal under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920.[3]

The lease terms were very favorable to the oil companies, which secretly made Fall a rich man. Fall had received a no-interest loan from Doheny of $100,000 (about $1.3 million today[4]) in November 1921. He received other gifts from Doheny and Sinclair totaling about $404,000 (about $5.26 million today[4]). It was this money changing hands that was illegal — not the leases. Fall attempted to keep his actions secret, but the sudden improvement in his standard of living prompted speculation

[OK_Cat]

grover cleveland is a dick

Hi, I'm Grover Cleveland.  I'm huge and smell like butthole.  My hair is dumb, my 'stache is unkept and my bow-tie makes me look like a jackass.

[Rage Against the McKee]

grover cleveland is a dick

Hi, I'm Grover Cleveland.  I'm a huge and smell like butthole.  My hair is dumb, my 'stache is unkept and my bow-tie makes me look like a jackass.

He does look like he only stops drinking to pass out.

[kstate16]

anybody that puts Ronald Reagan on this list has Down's.

[sonofdaxjones]

Will someone research which party controlled Congress during the tenure of your worst presidents list.

I enjoy political discussion like this.   One minute "Its all the Presidents fault"!!  The next "Well you see the President doesn't have much control over that."

I'll give you a good example.   Democrats took control of Congress in 2006.   Democrats controlled both the White House and Congress in 2008.   Democrats controlled the Senate and the White House in 2010.   How have we been doing since oh . . . 2006 or thereabouts?  How about since 2008??

Remember when Democrats said they were going to pull the troops out of Iraq in 2006?   Tell me, what war spending bills DID not get through Congress between 2006 and 2010?   How about budgets?  Economic legislation? 

[OK_Cat]

hey dax, who gives a crap.

tell me why grover cleveland isn't a dick