# The President Elimination Game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 24, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317 "2009-09-24T01:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/141 "2009-10-05T23:48:26Z")
Indian-killer Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/142 "2009-10-06T01:23:28Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I’m going to keep voting for Reagan till the rest of you get it right. Oh, don’t worry, he’ll be coming up real soon now for me-gotta take the bigger trash piles out first… ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/143 "2009-10-06T01:58:20Z")
**HOOOVER** He really sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/144 "2009-10-06T01:59:43Z")
> [@Reloy3](#): > > Polk James Knox Polk was one of our _greatest_ presidents to be topped only be Lincoln, Washington, the Roosevelts, and Truman. Hoover got axed though the Depression was NOT his fault and he did have some New Deal measures that FDR took credit for later on. George Washington (None, 1789-1797) John Adams (Federalist, 1797-1801) Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican, 1801-1809) James Madison (Democratic-Republican, 1809-1817) James Monroe (Democratic-Republican, 1817-1825) John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican, 1825-1829) Andrew Jackson (Democrat, 1829-1837) Martin Van Buren (Democrat, 1837-1841) John Tyler (Whig, 1841-1845) James Polk (Democrat, 1845-1849) Zachary Taylor (Whig, 1849-1850) Abraham Lincoln (Republican, 1861-1865) Ulysses Grant (Republican, 1869-1877) Rutherford Hayes (Republican, 1877-1881) Chester Arthur (Republican, 1881-1885) Grover Cleveland (Democrat, 1885-1889, 1893-1897) Benjamin Harrison (Republican, 1889-1893) William McKinley (Republican, 1897-1901) Theodore Roosevelt (Republican, 1901-1909) William Howard Taft (Republican, 1909-1913) Woodrow Wilson (Democrat, 1913-1921) Calvin Coolidge (Republican, 1923-1929) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat, 1933-1945) Henry Truman (Democrat, 1945-1953) Dwight Eisenhower (Republican, 1953-1961) John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat, 1961-1963) Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democrat, 1963-1969) Gerald Ford (Republican, 1974-1977) James Earl Carter (Democrat, 1977-1981) Ronald Reagan (Republican, 1981-1989) George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican, 1989-1993) William Jefferson Clinton (Democrat, 1993-2001) Eliminated Presidents: 1. James Buchanan (Democrat, 1857-1861) 2. Franklin Pierce (Democrat, 1853-1857) 3. Andrew Johnson (National Union, 1865-1869) 4. Warren Harding (Republican, 1921-1923) 5. Milliard Filmore (Whig, 1850-1853) 6. Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican, 1969-1974) 7. Herbert Hoover (Republican, 1929-1933) James Madison for the third time. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/145 "2009-10-06T02:02:57Z")
Cleavland. Frickin’ apologist. The worst excesses of the Gilded Age came out of his inability to do anything other than stand there and do nothing for fear of upsetting someone. ---
**Author:** ![St.Anger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@St.Anger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Anger)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/146 "2009-10-06T02:07:32Z")
Well, it’s time to address the 800 pound gorilla that’s been in the room for a little while: Jimmy Carter. Thanks to his mishandling of the Iranian Revolution, we can thank Jimma for Iran being run by radical zealots who are about to build a nuclear bomb. America was humiliated in front of the world by the Iranian hostage crisis for over a year. Jimma was unable to control inflation. He gave away the Panama Canal, which could one day prove to be a colossal strategic blunder. As a result of multiple failures, Carter was crushed in a landslide election by a bumbling half-senile former actor, being the first President to get voted out of office since Herbert Hoover, and the first Democrat to also be given the finger by the voters in over 100 years. Carter deserves credit for the Camp David Accords, and his post-Presidential efforts around the world. But while in the White House, for the most part, Jimma was a dismal failure. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/147 "2009-10-06T02:07:41Z")
Jackson. Again. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/148 "2009-10-06T02:12:41Z")
Gonna go with Carter. Stagflation, general indecisiveness and the swamp-rabbit. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/149 "2009-10-06T03:06:20Z")
I’m gonna take a shot in the dark here… Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/150 "2009-10-06T03:53:55Z")
Hayes again. Hoover seems like the wrong guy in the wrong place to me (as in, he’s not completely without blame, but much happened which was outside his control). ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/151 "2009-10-06T04:47:42Z")
> [@Ro0sh](#): > > I’m gonna take a shot in the dark here… > Reagan. Bet BobLibDem might take your side on this one, Rooshie. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/152 "2009-10-06T06:15:27Z")
That’s what I’m going for 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/153 "2009-10-06T09:40:34Z")
Can’t vote for Carter before Grant goes. Like Carter he was primarily concerned with healing the nation after a great crisis (Civil War, Watergate). And like Carter, his failure to control his underlings meant that corruption was rife right under his nose. I just think that Grant was far worse in this regard. Boot Grant, and I’ll vote Carter for the next round. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/154 "2009-10-06T10:04:47Z")
Reagan Reagan Reagan. > [@](#): > > Thanks to his mishandling of the Iranian Revolution, we can thank Jimma for Iran being run by radical zealots who are about to build a nuclear bomb. America was humiliated in front of the world by the Iranian hostage crisis for over a year. Jimma was unable to control inflation. He gave away the Panama Canal, which could one day prove to be a colossal strategic blunder. Regarding Iran, what would you have him do? He got them out unharmed. Bush would have bombed Sweden. If the rescue raid had gone well, you’d be singing a different tune right now. Regarding the Panama Canal, it was simply the right thing to do. The Canal Zone was a relic of an imperialistic past that had to go. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/155 "2009-10-06T12:11:28Z")
Since John Adams has no traction, then I will throw in for Grant as well. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/156 "2009-10-06T13:39:03Z")
Abandoning Madison for the moment to vote for Ronald Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/157 "2009-10-06T17:11:50Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > Since John Adams has no traction, then I will throw in for Grant as well. Similarly, I’m the lone voice in the wilderness crying for Arthur’s ouster, so I’ll abandon my quixotic quest for now and cast my vote for Carter. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/158 "2009-10-06T17:15:06Z")
Hayes. (Again.) ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/159 "2009-10-07T18:43:51Z")
Hayes. As John said, Hoover was essentially screwed by circumstance–his actions, viewed dispassionately, were darn near Keynesian. I’m not a fan of the guy, but he hardly created the Depression. Hayes, on the other hand, had all the Republican momentum in the world going for him to do the right thing. And he didn’t. I earnestly believe that the majority of our social ills today stem from his administration, insofar as government or lack thereof can be credited with such a thing. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/160 "2009-10-07T18:54:48Z")
Reagan. Many of the other presidents are too long gone to still affect us. It can be said that America survived their disaster. The ushering in of Reagan was a turning point in the religious right gaining power, whose vehement vitriol seems to have no end in sight. Politics may forever be diminished because of Reagan and what he represented. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317.md?page=9)