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Who Was The Worst President in American History?
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  Entity Sentiment Detection: James Buchanan    strong contender   Supreme Court   red carpet  
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There are presidents who presided over genocide and slavery but no, the worst president is guilty of being black while President.
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I'm amazed at just how many people jump on the "of course it's a recent liberal!" bandwagon, and I definitely agree that Buchanan is a strong contender for the reason you cited. Harding would be a solid choice as well, since his presidency was marred by numerous scandals, including the notorious Teapot Dome. Andrew Jackson should always get an honorable mention at the very least on lists like this solely for the Trail of Tears, and for all @TKDB's focus on impeachment, Andrew Johnson was also convicted (and fought giving now-freed slaves voting rights and citizenship to boot). I won't speak to the accuracy of claims that more modern presidents should be placed on the "worst of all time" list (I think it's too early to know just how much damage they've done - I think we've only recently seen the full effects of the George H.W. Bush presidency come to fruition), but I think it's kind of amazing that so many people in this forum can't think beyond the past couple of decades worth of presidents.
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I think it is reflective of the degradation of the attention span in the general population coupled with the "What existed before my time doesn't really matter, and what may exist after me doesn't either" mentality...
And you're right about Harding! ^^
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Tell me more about how Obama's supposed inability to work with a congressional majority is uniquely worse than genocide, slavery or ensuring that even free black people weren't considered US citizens and that no you're not at all racist!
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Yeah, it has nothing to do with his embarrassing, abysmal record or his flagrant corruption or his penchant for Marxist policy positions or his proclivity for appeasing our enemies and alienating our allies or his laughable economic illiteracy or his relentless pursuit of class warfare and the politics of envy; it's ALL about his race.
Seriously, don't you people ever get tired of hearing yourselves repeat this nonsense? If Obama was a white guy from Chicago named Barry O'Bannion and he had the same exact policy agenda and record, I would rank him exactly the same. Translation: I don't care for communists, especially thinly-veiled, closeted ones.
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https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Barack_Obama +61% Net popularity in the UK
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Donald_Trump -46% Net popularity in the UK
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/George_W_Bush -25% Net popularity in the UK
Just about the only ally Obama had poorer relations with was Israel and that's pretty much down to Israel.
That your criticism of Obama is bizarre vitriolic screed with no substance only furthers my argument as it certainly shwos a clear animus towards Obama, but the stated reasons for the animus are false. Tack on "Oh, I'd say this is he were white too" at the end all you want, but his behaviour was completely conventional and yet we can see you're not attacking white presidents for the same thing.
CYDdharta said: How magnanimous of you to simultaneously forgive slavery and genocide even when it was viewed as morally wrong by many at the time and try and turn it into a political issue to attack Democrats regardless. Doesn't really help you on your "Not racist" credentials though.
I will also repeat - as you didn't seem to learn and are just repeating a failed argument - every single one of your claims is just your own personal opinion. You can choose to say Obama was corrupt or used federal agencies as tools of political oppression, but you have presented 0 evidence to support this. Don't therefore pretend you have made a "logical argument" or provided "factual data".
My opinion about the racism of Obama detractors with no real evidence is just my opinion too, same as yours. If my argument is inadmissible, so is yours. The main difference is I'm not a whiner who complains that someone has a different opinion from me.
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It appears, based on the contents of your post, that you are from the UK. In my view, the opinions of leftist Brits on the performance of American Presidents mean virtually nothing. You folks have managed to screw up your own country irretrievably with your penchant for marching towards Marxism. You've nationalized much of your economy with predictably disastrous results. Your judicial system consistently crushes your freedom of speech on behalf of a certain religious minority as that minority grows increasingly radicalized and threatens your entire tradition of Western liberalism. Instead of defending your liberty, you coddle and enable the very people who will eventually take it from you entirely. You'll have to excuse me for rejecting your past actions, your future goals and your belief system in general.
It's clear from the ignorance displayed in your post that you get your information from the same biased, leftist press that dominates American journalism. Did you really think that the American people and a Republican-led Congress were going to allow Obama to destroy free market capitalism in the US within eight years? He did his best but there are far too many of us who will have none of it. Those of us who understand the sin of omission committed by the American MSM know the truth about Obama and the radical American left. The fact that so-called journalists have been complicit in covering up the truth about the man for the last 15 years is unforgivable in my opinion. The corruption, ineptitude and dishonesty of the Obama regime was unprecedented. Considering that the Clintons occupied the White House a mere 8-16 years prior, that's saying a lot. I'd be happy to give you plenty of detail on Obama's crimes and malfeasance but this post would then be interminable.
Again, my animosity towards Obama has little to do with his race other than the fact that he actually exploited his race to create further division amongst the American people. I don't like leftists no matter their skin color. I especially don't like leftists who use the kind of dirty, corrupt, Chicago-style tactics that Obama did to further his Marxist policy agenda. Your "opinion" on the racism of Obama detractors isn't really an opinion; it's a leftist talking point and mantra crafted to shift the focus away from the truth and onto some bogus bogeyman.
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Unless you've been living in a cave, you're already aware 0bama's IRS has admitted wrongdoing by targeting TEA Party groups. You should also have heard that 0bama's DOJ spied on James Rosen. Those are just incidents that you already know about; I didn't feel the need to provide evidence of incident of which you are well aware. 0bama's corruption is well documented, it's not just my opinion. Here is a more detailed list of 0bama using governmental agencies are political weapons;
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1. Woodrow Wilson
The guy responsible for the currently predominant statism. He introduced federal tax for the first time in the history of the US, closed borders for the first time in the history of the US, attacked free speech relentlessly, got the US into the war it has little business in, and overall created a regime closest to a dictatorship in the history of the US.
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
His atrocious handling of the recession not only got the US into the greatest economical crisis in its history, but also created a toxic culture of people referring to the government every time any issue arises in their lives. Roosevelt was the one who put an end to the Founding Fathers' ideals of individual freedom and liberty that, up until then, were predominant in the American Society.
3. Abraham Lincoln
Aside from horrific, unprecedented in the American History, human right violations such as abolition of habeas corpos, forced conscriptions and unlawful taxation as means to assist the war effort, he outrageously sliced the independence of states and made everyone dependable on the central government. I am not saying Confederates were any better, but too much credit is give to the victory of the Union nowadays, that, in the end, was a federalist victory, and a loss for independence and liberty.
4. George W. Bush
A series of unconstitutional laws pushed through in the wake of 9/11 made the US government dangerously resemble authoritarian dictatorships around the world collecting information on their citizens, doing background checks everywhere and, overall, expanding the government into all the fields of citizen's lives.
5. Barack Obama
Not only did he torture the economy by destroying the last remnants of the free market and voluntarism, but he also started the horrible practice of abusing the right to invoke executive orders - one the current president successfully inherited.
6. George Washington
This is the guy who started it all. In the philosophical debate of the statists led by Hamilton, and libertarians led by Jefferson, Washington ultimately won the right to become the first US president - and this federalist created a lot of precedents that, over the centuries, slowly led us to where we are now.
The best presidents would be
1. Thomas Jefferson, who is almost solely responsible for the fact that, up until this day, the ideas of freedom and liberty still breath, even if heavily, in this society.
2. Ronald Reagan, who managed to end the Cold War and who implemented free market reforms advocated by Milton Freedman, that were so necessary at the time.
3. Bill Clinton, who managed to see the potential in the IT sector just in time and loosen up the market regulations in this regard - without him, chances are the current technological explosion would not have happened for a few more decades, at least.
Trump seems pretty average to me so far. He has made a share of both abysmal and stellar decisions, and I cannot say I overall view him negatively or positively. As a person, he repels me, but that has never been my criterion for evaluating one's presidential performance.
People like to mention JFK as a good and Nixon as a bad president. In my opinion, JFK was a good person, but a pretty mediocre president, remarkable for jos ability to waste taxpayers' money on questionable in terms of practical gain projects. Nixon was overall unremarkable, and the scandal he got into hardly changes anything: the country upon the beginning of his term was about the same as upon its end.
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Also when your non-racist credentials are 150 years out of date, yeah - they're bad.
Oh no, investigative agencies investigated people they thought may have committed crimes, then didn't prosecute them or take action against them once they discovered crimes hadn't been committed. How terrible! Truly,has there ever been a greater miscarriage of justice in all of USA history?
Also bad on basic facts, for instance the IRS targeting began under Bush and was stopped under Obama: https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2017reports/201710054fr.pdf "TIGTA found that, from August 2004 through June 2013, the IRS potentially used 259 criteria to identify tax-exempt applications for further review". Obama only became president in 2009.
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woodrow wilson is a pretty good choice for the worst President. A couple things that you didn't mention about him, but may strengthen your resolve about him though. He embraced eugenics and believed in "genetic health", and "racial health". He also was a vocal supporter of the kkk. A quote of his made it into the kkk movie "the birth of a nation", which depicted black people as rapists and thieves. After wilson saw the movie, he said something to the effect of, "It's sad, but it's true. He also resegregated the federal government after 50 years of desegregation. He is not considered a racist by today's standards, he's considered a racist by 1913 standards.
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My position:
A genocidal racist from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions
A good guy from from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions
A person from the modern era alive today should be - Judged based on their own actions
Your position:
A genocidal racist from over a century in the past should be - Never judged on their own actions because you can't judge people from the past by today's standards
A good guy from from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions because apparently you can judge people based on the past based on today's standards when it's convenient to you
A person from the modern era alive today should be - Either judged based on their own actions or judged based on the actions of people who've been dead for over a hundred years and have no connection to them besides happening to share the same political party, even if the political party has since changed values
My issue isn't isn't that people from a hundred and fifty years ago can't be judged by their actions, exactly the opposite, the issue is YOU want to be judged by the people of 150 years ago rather than by your actions and you want to switch up on whether people 150 ago can be judged based on their own actions depending on whether it's convenient for you.
Feel free to apologise for being a hypocritical loudmouth at this point.
The issue you are trying to make because it's convenient for you and the actual issue are two very different things.
You're quoting the section which talks about a past audit that didn't have a mandate to look at the whole situation and was only based around May 2010 to 2012.
Not very shocking that if you deliberately take misleading quotes out of context that don;'t actually reference any of the work looking at what happened before 2010, they'll be misleading and it won't reference any of the work before 2010! Stop being a partisan hack for once in your life.
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My position:
A genocidal racist from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions
A good guy from from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions
A person from the modern era alive today should be - Judged based on their own actions
Your position:
A genocidal racist from over a century in the past should be - Never judged on their own actions because you can't judge people from the past by today's standards
A good guy from from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions because apparently you can judge people based on the past based on today's standards when it's convenient to you
A person from the modern era alive today should be - Either judged based on their own actions or judged based on the actions of people who've been dead for over a hundred years and have no connection to them besides happening to share the same political party, even if the political party has since changed values
My issue isn't isn't that people from a hundred and fifty years ago can't be judged by their actions, exactly the opposite, the issue is YOU want to be judged by the people of 150 years ago rather than by your actions and you want to switch up on whether people 150 ago can be judged based on their own actions depending on whether it's convenient for you.
Feel free to apologise for being a hypocritical loudmouth at this point.
The issue you are trying to make because it's convenient for you and the actual issue are two very different things.
You're quoting the section which talks about a past audit that didn't have a mandate to look at the whole situation and was only based around May 2010 to 2012.
Not very shocking that if you deliberately take misleading quotes out of context that don;'t actually reference any of the work looking at what happened before 2010, they'll be misleading and it won't reference any of the work before 2010! Stop being a partisan hack for once in your life.
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My position:
A genocidal racist from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions
A good guy from from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions
A person from the modern era alive today should be - Judged based on their own actions
Your position:
A genocidal racist from over a century in the past should be - Never judged on their own actions because you can't judge people from the past by today's standards
A good guy from from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions because apparently you can judge people based on the past based on today's standards when it's convenient to you
A person from the modern era alive today should be - Either judged based on their own actions or judged based on the actions of people who've been dead for over a hundred years and have no connection to them besides happening to share the same political party, even if the political party has since changed values
My issue isn't isn't that people from a hundred and fifty years ago can't be judged by their actions, exactly the opposite, the issue is YOU want to be judged by the people of 150 years ago rather than by your actions and you want to switch up on whether people 150 ago can be judged based on their own actions depending on whether it's convenient for you.
Feel free to apologise for being an utter hypocritice at this point.
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My position:
A genocidal racist from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions
A good guy from from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions
A person from the modern era alive today should be - Judged based on their own actions
Your position:
A genocidal racist from over a century in the past should be - Never judged on their own actions because you can't judge people from the past by today's standards
A good guy from from over a century in the past should be - Judged based on their own actions because apparently you can judge people based on the past based on today's standards when it's convenient to you
A person from the modern era alive today should be - Either judged based on their own actions or judged based on the actions of people who've been dead for over a hundred years and have no connection to them besides happening to share the same political party, even if the political party has since changed values
My issue isn't isn't that people from a hundred and fifty years ago can't be judged by their actions, exactly the opposite, the issue is YOU want to be judged by the people of 150 years ago rather than by your actions and you want to switch up on whether people 150 ago can be judged based on their own actions depending on whether it's convenient for you.
Feel free to apologise for being an utter hypocritice at this point.
The issue you are trying to make because it's convenient for you and the actual issue are two very different things.
You're quoting the section which talks about a past audit that didn't have a mandate to look at the whole situation and was only based around May 2010 to 2012.
Not very shocking that if you deliberately take misleading quotes out of context and don't actually reference any of the work looking at what happened before 2010, they'll be misleading and it won't reference any of the work before 2010! Stop being a partisan hack for once in your life.
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