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Worst American Presidents

Worst American President


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Vote other. Carter is nowhere near on my list to worst. Hoover, Harding or one of the idiots that did nothing to stop the Civil War top my list. Honestly. Carter cannot even compare to those who let 500,000 Americans die because they lacked the courage to do what was necessary.
Please expound on this "do what was necessary".
Our President is similar to an orchestra conductor. Here, at least, the musicians try to work as one.
President Obama has to face the conservatives, who prefer to try to complete the wrecking of America.
 
Really? Do you think that raising taxes and cutting spend while starting a massive trade war had no impact?

What happens when 11% of your economy vanishes?

I don't know where you get 11%, but raising taxes and cutting spending would not have caused a depression like the one the U.S. faced in the 1930s. Here is an article where current Fed Chariman, Ben Bernanke, explains how the fed turned a recession into a depression:

Bernanke: Federal Reserve caused Great Depression
 
As much as I can't stand Obama if ANYBODY tries to say that Obama is the worst president they are a moron IMHO.

Obama has been the worst. No other president has risen our debt so high in such a short time. His policies have repeatedly failed, and his lies outnumber the truths. I remember how he said his bill would reduce health insurance costs, I remember how the stimulus was supposed to boost jobs and keep the unemployment level below 8%. The debt is too high, Obama is spending like a teenage girl with daddy's credit card, and his policies are failing. I don't really know of any good policies he has passed.

There's your sign.
 
My list of worst presidents, not in any particular order yet:

1. Andrew "screw the supreme court, I will cause an economic panic due to a vendetta" Jackson.

2. Woodrow "let's set back racial relations 50 years" Wilson.

3. Ronald "I fund terrorists, deficit spend on military ventures while pretending to be fiscally consersvative, and overthrowings democratic governments while trumpeting freedom,"Reagan.

4. Herbert "maybe if I ask really nicely, businesses will stop being jerks," HOover.

5. James "I can't prevent states from rebellion on my watch" Buchanan.

6. Rutherford "I'm gonna throw blacks under the bus to win an election" B. Hayes.
 
I don't know where you get 11%

Economists.

but raising taxes and cutting spending would not have caused a depression like the one the U.S. faced in the 1930s.

Alone no. But starting a massive trade war when the US was more intergrated into world trade then we were circa 2002 did.

Here is an article where current Fed Chariman, Ben Bernanke, explains how the fed turned a recession into a depression:

Bernanke: Federal Reserve caused Great Depression

You really expect me to take that seriously?

The Fed saved our ***es. Know what the TED rate is? What interbank lending is?
 
Barack Obama has made it plain that he is somewhat of agreement with, Black liberation theology, and some other anti-American views.Simply by the way he has conducted his administration.
 
Economists.



Alone no. But starting a massive trade war when the US was more intergrated into world trade then we were circa 2002 did.



You really expect me to take that seriously?

The Fed saved our ***es. Know what the TED rate is? What interbank lending is?

Why would you not take that seriously? I listed well respected economists to backup my assertion. You said economists to back up your claim. And my argument was simply that the Federal Reserve caused a depression. I said nothing about who got us out of it so I'm not sure why that would be relevant.
 
Why would you not take that seriously? I listed well respected economists to backup my assertion. You said economists to back up your claim. And my argument was simply that the Federal Reserve caused a depression. I said nothing about who got us out of it so I'm not sure why that would be relevant.

Perhaps Federal Reserve policy influenced the depression, but it is excessively simplistic to treat it as a one-variable causality. No serious economic historian does that. When people outside the field make these simplistic models, they're often wrong. Many factors caused the Depression, including things that happened well-before 1929. Some factors were private, some were caused by government. The theory that the government was the sole problem that caused the depression is a Friedmanite dogma.
 
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Perhaps Federal Reserve policy influenced the depression, but it is excessively simplistic to treat it as a one-variable causality. No serious economic historian does that. When people outside the field make these simplistic models, they're often wrong. Many factors caused the Depression, including things that happened well-before 1929. Some factors were private, some were caused by government. The theory that the government was the sole problem that caused the depression is a Friedmanite dogma.

Who in your eyes is an economic historian? I would like examples since my link contained three well respected economists who backed up my argument. Obviously there were other factors that hurt the economy, but what turned a recession into a depression was Federal Reserve policy. Your post is entirely your own opinion and a feeble attempt to discredit mine. Also, I did not say it was government policy that caused the Great Depression. All I said was the Federal Reserve turned a recession into a depression. In fact, I was defending the government. The Federal Reserve is privately owned, not a part of the government.
 
Who in your eyes is an economic historian? I would like examples since my link contained three well respected economists who backed up my argument. Obviously there were other factors that hurt the economy, but what turned a recession into a depression was Federal Reserve policy. Your post is entirely your own opinion and a feeble attempt to discredit mine. Also, I did not say it was government policy that caused the Great Depression. All I said was the Federal Reserve turned a recession into a depression. In fact, I was defending the government. The Federal Reserve is privately owned, not a part of the government.

David M. Kennedy is an example, as well as James T. Patterson. Both are great historians whose work covers extensively American economic conditions relevent to the period. I am sure some economists would certainly blame the government or the Federal Reserve--I know of many who do. They have single variable equations and leave it a that. This isn't knock against you or your argument's credibiliy. I actually said I agree that reserve policy probably contributed.

Economist are not historians, and really, I see no reason to take what economists say too seriously anyway due to the political bias and poor methodology of economics, anyway, They are often wrong badly, and most of the world's "top economists" couldn't even see the recent recession coming or hitting them in the face. A lot of Friedmanite economists fancy themselves economc historians and try to paint it as "the government's fault" by saying the "Fed caused it." Milton Friedman actually directly stated that, which was later parroted by Greenspan. It was then published a paper saying "Government admits it caused Great Depression.

We now see this canard in historical revisionism in books like "A Patriot's Guide to American History." It's a rather sad assault on serious academic history.
 
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Bin Laden determined to strike in US. — title of presidential daily briefing on August 6, 2001

Bush was on vacation and took no action; just over thirty days later thousands of Americans died in New York City and the Pentagon.
 
Bin Laden determined to strike in US. — title of presidential daily briefing on August 6, 2001

Bush was on vacation and took no action; just over thirty days later thousands of Americans died in New York City and the Pentagon.
Does anyone else agree that "Determined to strike" =/= "Will strike"?

/facepalm

Not to mention, I seriously doubt he "took no action" whatsoever for 30 days.
 
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Does anyone else agree that "Determined to strike" =/= "Will strike"?

/facepalm

Not to mention, I seriously doubt he "took no action" whatsoever for 30 days.

Bush and his team got thousands of warnings in the 6 weeks before the 9-11 strike

its like the FBI getting a tip that somewhere some place a bank will be robbed by someone.

even that commission full of hacks like Jaime Gorelick (who imposed the wall of silence between the various agencies) couldn't blame Bush

so the BDS victims continue to blame Bush when in reality clinton's weak response to WTC I was what emboldened Bin Laden to hatch this scheme of mass destruction.
 
How many presidents started wars they didn't finish? …




Bush started two.
 
George W. Bush was the worst president in American history and the conservatives in this country are to blame.
 
George W. Bush was the worst president in American history and the conservatives in this country are to blame.

No, the RINOs in this country are to blame. Bush had a Democrat congress hampering him. He was a bad president, but not worse than Obama.
 
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