Caught in your own bathtub, eh Taft? Let your wife’s ambitions supercede your own? Great.
Spoken after his appointment to the Supreme Court:
That’s funny. No one else remembers anything about it either.
Except your poor bathtub.
John Adams was obnoxious and disliked.
Thomas Jefferson spent years decrying the dangers of a powerful centralized federal government. As president, he ruled dictatorially and increased the power of the federal government more than any federalist would have dreamed possible or constitutional.
If Truman gave as much of a rat’s ass on policy matters as he did on threatening to beat up music critics, the late 40’s/early 50’s might have been a better time than they were.
Andrew Jackson destroyed the American economy on pure whim alone.
NOT,B he very probably peed out the Oval Office window on a regular basis (he was known to do so while practicing law in Buffalo, the fat prick).
Taft was fat, Wilson was a humorless bigot, Harding was dumb and corrupt, Coolidge slept through his term, Hoover did nothing, Roosevelt was a Socialist, Truman was Soft on Communism, Eisenhower did nothing, Kennedy was a womanizer, Johnson was a potty-mouthed warmonger, Nixon was a crook, Ford was a klutz, Carter was a bumbling incompetent, Reagan had Alzheimer’s, Bush 41 was an elitist preppy, Clinton was a womanizer, and Bush 43 is a moron.
There, I’ve covered them all for the last 100 years!
Going back farther, though, it’s real hard to think of a sound-bite insult about Benjamin Harrison.
And he was a racist murderer who ignored the Supreme Court to steal the Cherokees’ land from them.
Friggin’ impostor couldn’t even win the popular vote over that adulterer Cleveland.
Rutherford B. Hayes stole an election from Samuel J. Tilden, and his administration is best known for his wife “Lemonade Lucy” and her teetotalling ways, plus her brilliant idea to start the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn.
Benjamin Franklin was such an astonishingly bad president, he never even held the office.
…but the number of people who think he did will make you weep.
Abraham Lincoln was a warmongering tyrant.
Seriously. Nothing in the Constitution says that states can’t secede, and prior to the Civil War it was generally assumed that they could. Also, Lincoln had no legal authority to draft troops, but did it anyway. As has already been mentioned by another Doper, he didn’t give a rat’s ass about the slaves. There’s a fairly well-known quote of Lincoln’s where he says that if he could preserve the union by freeing the slaves, he’d do it; if he could preserve the union by leaving the slaves in bondage, he’d do it; and if he could preserve the union by freeing some slaves, but not others, he’d do it. He only cared about slaves as a source of political capital. The Gettysburg Address, where Lincoln first talked about freeing the slaves, was given because public support for the Civil War was eroding, and Lincoln realized that he needed to stake out some moral high ground.
I don’t see how that statement follows from the ones prior to it.
George HW Bush married his mom.
To Theodore Roosevelt: “You call that a big stick?” 
What I meant was that Lincoln wasn’t an abolitionist, but he was willing to use the slaves’ plight to his advantage. By the time the Gettysburg Address was being given, the people in the North were sick and tired of all the fighting and dying that was going on. Keeping the country together just wasn’t worth the price. Lincoln realized that he needed to persuade the public that there was some sort of higher purpose to the fighting, or else he would eventually be forced to acquiesce to the South’s secession. Ending slavery was the purpose he latched on to. His private correspondence, however, makes it quite clear that he didn’t have any personal opposition to slavery.
That’s scary. I thought that for a long time before he was prez. “Why is he always campaigning with his mom?”
Chester A. Arthur was gay.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
He’s also the one who had an illegitimate child before he became President. His opponents circulated cartoons showing a woman with a baby carriage, with the child asking “Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa?”
After he was elected, his campaign team ran a retort: “Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa? Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!”
History classes would be so much more interesting if they taught stuff like this instead of the boring stuff, wouldn’t they?
Cite?
I think it’s more accurate to say that he was personally opposed to slavery but, for much of his life, didn’t believe the government had any right to interfere with slavery where it already existed.
This site gives Lincoln’s words concerning slavery. I’ve included one quote below as an example.
He’d have no trouble getting elected today.
Brackets mine; added for clarification.
That’s closer to my understanding of Lincoln, not that I’m any kind of historian.