re: So, who's the worst president ever?

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Biden, Obama and Carter all sucked.

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Don't forget LBJ. He's should be the one blamed for starting a lot of what has progressed through the years to what we are seeing today.

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Obama fukked this country up more than any in my lifetime...And he continues

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But in a very very smooth and silent way.

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William Harrison didn't get much accomplished...

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He didn't frick anything up, either.

So he probably makes the top 10 best presidents.

Obama Joe Biden… literal coin flip

A couple of unsung contenders:

Grant - essentially ran for POTUS because he needed a job. Presided over the Indian Ring Scandal.

Harding - complete nonentity. Real imbecile. Totally unqualified to be POTUS. Presided over Teapot Dome Scandal.

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I go back to Jimmy Carter and what we're dealing with today and how he worked behind the Shaw of Iran and what we're dealing with today is all because of him

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Blaming Carter is how people see it, but it’s not how it was. The Shah’s health had been declining since the early 70’s and in 1973 or 1974 he was diagnosed with cancer 2 1/2 years, before Carter was president. For the next 6 years the Shah suffered from severe depression, extreme fatigue, and cognitive decline until he died in 1980. When he started treatments in 74 they caused him to have psychological problems. The Shah made terrible decisions and didn’t take advice from the West or doctors and lost support from his people and military. The Shah left the country 3 weeks before the coup started when his spleen had enlarged to the size of a basketball.

After Carter made a deal to get the hostages back from Iran Reagan’s campaign made a better offer. The hostages were released minutes after Reagan was sworn in. The next 6 years the Reagan Administration armed the Ayatollah in their war against Iraq

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But I go back to Jimmy Carter and what we're dealing with today and how he worked behind the Shaw of Iran and what we're dealing with today is all because of him.

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Don't forget the Panama Canal, the Russian grain embargo (which was devastating to our farmers), the Olympic boycott (which only hurt our athletes), inflation between 13% and 15%, double digit home mortgage rates, and unemployment around 8%. And of course his utter ineptitude with the hostage crisis. Biden certainly gives Carter a run for his money, but those numbers are hard to beat. For me, it's still Carter.

Capitalism.

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without even his failure that led to the civil war.

Democrats should absolve their party for the benefit of mankind.

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Tell me know nothing about political alignments of the 19th century

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2. Herbert Hoover

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Hoover is in the top 2

He had a hard time understanding and evaluating the crisis America was in going through in the late 20’s and early 30’s that caused the Great Depression.

When he came in to office in 1929 he was worth around $100 million which is about $2 billion now. He didn’t understand the common man or understand their problems. He signed bills that only made things worse by listening to bad advisors and trusting Congress.