Worst US President?

I'd go with Buchanan. The Dred Scott decision was passed while Buchanan was in office and he did little to prevent it as he considered the slavery issue of "little practical importance." A recession hit in 1857, while he was in office. Seven slave states seceded while Buchana was in office and he lost all forts in tohse states but one, furthermore 1/4th of all American soldiers surrendedered to Texas troops.

Anyone else agree or is there somebody else in mind?

I don't like Lincoln...

Ulysses S. Grant.

Besides accomplishing almost nothing as president, his time in office was racked with scandel and ineffectiveness.

George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Andrew Jackson(for his mercilless butchery of Native Americans) also deserve mention.

Jimmy Carter. Double-digit inflation, a botched hostage rescue attempt, and a desperate try to buy military votes during his reelection bid.

I don't like Lincoln...

No_Hablo_Ingles

Toss-up between Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. Both terribly repulsive; one skilled and the other incompetent. Not really sure which is worse. :P

Our modern presidents, for all that people love screaming about "war crimes" and "treason", have nothing on these guys.

Jimmy Carter. Double-digit inflation, a botched hostage rescue attempt, and a desperate try to buy military votes during his reelection bid.

topsemag55

Toss-up between Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. Both terribly repulsive; one skilled and the other incompetent. Not really sure which is worse. :P

Our modern presidents, for all that people love screaming about "war crimes" and "treason", have nothing on these guys.

GabuEx

Regan, traded arms for hostages. duxup

Reagan was nowhere near as bad as other presidents. His policy of outspending the Communists(I am aware that the USSR was already in the decline) was a major victory.

Also, I am glad that Nixon has not been mentioned. Nixon was actually a pretty good president, establishing trade with China, helping relax the Cold War and establishing the EPA among his greater accomplishments.

Obama...lies too muchAnti-Venom

news flash, but every president has lied to you. A lot.

Obama...lies too muchAnti-Venom

I dislike lincoln and carter the most.

[QUOTE="Anti-Venom"]Obama...lies too muchheysharpshooter

news flash, but every president has lied to you. A lot.

Obama...lies too muchAnti-Venom

Whether or not Obama lies, I think we can at least agree that he is not responsible for nor influential in the basically willful murder of thousands of people, nor did he do absolutely nothing to stop a civil war and somehow succeeded in pissing off both sides.

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[QUOTE="Anti-Venom"]Obama...lies too muchAnti-Venom

news flash, but every president has lied to you. A lot.

Can you name 1 lie? With evidence he is lying? BTW, Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity type evidence will not help you.

[QUOTE="No_Hablo_Ingles"]

I don't like Lincoln...

nimatoad2000

[QUOTE="Anti-Venom"][QUOTE="heysharpshooter"]

news flash, but every president has lied to you. A lot.

Can you name 1 lie? With evidence he is lying? BTW, Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity type evidence will not help you.

[QUOTE="heysharpshooter"]

[QUOTE="Anti-Venom"] not as much as ObamaAnti-Venom

Can you name 1 lie? With evidence he is lying? BTW, Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity type evidence will not help you.

Well then, there you go.

Obama...lies too muchAnti-Venom

[QUOTE="heysharpshooter"]

[QUOTE="Anti-Venom"] not as much as ObamaAnti-Venom

Can you name 1 lie? With evidence he is lying? BTW, Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity type evidence will not help you.

Lol...

Anyway, imo the worst president is James Buchanan.

[QUOTE="No_Hablo_Ingles"] i'm interested in hearing why if you don't mind.nimatoad2000

I don't like Lincoln...

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Jimmy Carter. Double-digit inflation, a botched hostage rescue attempt, and a desperate try to buy military votes during his reelection bid.

nimatoad2000

I don't like Lincoln...

No_Hablo_Ingles

Yeah, He wasn't as great as people think. Lets a war start on his own soil (North vs. South).

I can't say Obama yet because he's not done. So, I'll go with Lyndon B. Johnson, for Screwing up Vietnam, thousands of lives lost for Nothing. HE was a pig too, look him up.

Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were garbage as well.

[QUOTE="duxup"]Regan, traded arms for hostages. heysharpshooter

Reagan was nowhere near as bad as other presidents. His policy of outspending the Communists(I am aware that the USSR was already in the decline) was a major victory.

Also, I am glad that Nixon has not been mentioned. Nixon was actually a pretty good president, establishing trade with China, helping relax the Cold War and establishing the EPA among his greater accomplishments.

[QUOTE="No_Hablo_Ingles"]

I don't like Lincoln...

Snipes_2

Yeah, He wasn't as great as people think. Lets a war start on his own soil (North vs. South).

Lets a war start? James Buchanan was the one who basically let it start. Seven states had already seceded before Lincoln even took office, and hostilities began only a little over a month after Lincoln took office. The Confederates were the ones who made the first attack on an American military fort, and it was Lincoln taking retaliatory action as a result that really lit the fire of the civil war. To blame the Civil War on Lincoln seems kind of odd.

Bush!

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[QUOTE="No_Hablo_Ingles"]

I don't like Lincoln...

Yeah, He wasn't as great as people think. Lets a war start on his own soil (North vs. South).

Lets a war start? James Buchanan was the one who basically let it start. Seven states had already seceded before Lincoln even took office, and hostilities began only a little over a month after Lincoln took office. The Confederates were the ones who made the first attack on an American military fort, and it was Lincoln taking retaliatory action as a result that really lit the fire of the civil war. To blame the Civil War on Lincoln seems kind of odd.

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"]

[QUOTE="No_Hablo_Ingles"]

I don't like Lincoln...

GabuEx

Yeah, He wasn't as great as people think. Lets a war start on his own soil (North vs. South).

Lets a war start? James Buchanan was the one who basically let it start. Seven states had already seceded before Lincoln even took office, and hostilities began only a little over a month after Lincoln took office. The Confederates were the ones who made the first attack on an American military fort, and it was Lincoln taking retaliatory action as a result that really lit the fire of the civil war. To blame the Civil War on Lincoln seems kind of odd.

He could have done something to stop it from coming about.

"The American Civil War (1861–65) began because leaders of Southern states were unhappy with the outcome of the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). Fearful of losing their economic system, which was based on agriculture and dependent on slave labor, the Southern states began to act on their promise to secede (withdraw) from the United States (called the Union) and form their own nation. South Carolina was the first to secede, in December 1860".

http://www.enotes.com/history-fact-finder/war-conflict-pre-twentieth-century/how-did-american-civil-war-begin-how-did-end

Bush!

Crimsader

He could have done something to stop it from coming about.

Snipes_2

Such as...?

[QUOTE="GabuEx"]

[QUOTE="Snipes_2"]

Yeah, He wasn't as great as people think. Lets a war start on his own soil (North vs. South).

Snipes_2

Lets a war start? James Buchanan was the one who basically let it start. Seven states had already seceded before Lincoln even took office, and hostilities began only a little over a month after Lincoln took office. The Confederates were the ones who made the first attack on an American military fort, and it was Lincoln taking retaliatory action as a result that really lit the fire of the civil war. To blame the Civil War on Lincoln seems kind of odd.

He could have done something to stop it from coming about.

I don't know what he could have done to stop it, I'm not Lincoln. Why are we arguing over my opinion?

I don't know what he could have done to stop it, I'm not Lincoln. Why are we arguing over my opinion?

Snipes_2

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I don't know what he could have done to stop it, I'm not Lincoln. Why are we arguing over my opinion?

No_Hablo_Ingles

But it's my opinion, how can it be wrong. :P

(I know you're kidding).

I don't know what he could have done to stop it, I'm not Lincoln. Why are we arguing over my opinion?

Snipes_2

Well if you hold an opinion, isn't it generally logical to have a reason for doing so? :P

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I don't know what he could have done to stop it, I'm not Lincoln. Why are we arguing over my opinion?

GabuEx

Well if you hold an opinion, isn't it generally logical to have a reason for doing so? :P

I posted my reason. :P

[QUOTE="No_Hablo_Ingles"][QUOTE="Snipes_2"]

I don't know what he could have done to stop it, I'm not Lincoln. Why are we arguing over my opinion?

But it's my opinion, how can it be wrong. :P

(I know you're kidding).

Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were garbage as well.Snipes_2

I'd go with Buchanan. The Dred Scott decision was passed while Buchanan was in office and he did little to prevent it as he considered the slavery issue of "little practical importance." A recession hit in 1857, while he was in office. Seven slave states seceded while Buchana was in office and he lost all forts in tohse states but one, furthermore 1/4th of all American soldiers surrendedered to Texas troops.

Anyone else agree or is there somebody else in mind?

Bobzfamily

I would say Lincoln or Carter..

Andrew Jackson or John Adams.