These are why in my list actually, Silent Cal is in the Top 10 for sure. He’s one of my fav. presidents and pretty virtually unknown now for the lil’ things like speaking out vs. the Klan. I’m a fan of the old Honest Man, shtick.
A further note on Taylor: Yes, I know it wasn’t true cholera.
Switching to Van Buren then.
He was a dud.
He was pretty politically ineffective for such a political animal. He was an unpopular one term president, mostly due to the financial crises that was created by the policies of he and Jackson, whose charm he lacked. A lot of people don’t like how he dealt with the Amistad case, and a lot more people don’t much care for his treatment of Native Americans. He still kept trying to get elected to the presidency again. And then again.
Van Buren, just to annoy the Madisonians.
15 votes so far. Looks like it will be 2 more days or 5 more votes.
Madison, just to g e t i t o v e r w i t h.
Adams.
Well, there’s that haircut, for one.
The Trail of Tears and his failure to prevent the persecution of the Mormons in Missouri. His fiscal policy prolonged the Panic of 1837 and only increased deflationary pressure on the dollar.
How the hell can the guy who signed (and promoted) the most important social legislation of the twentieth century be among our worst Presidents?
Johnson’s not a bad choice, but Adams was worse.
As the Reader is Chicago-based, can we adopt local custom and vote more than once to get to the magic twenty? And my deceased grandmother would like to vote for Madison.
Bless her!
Despite a late charge by fellow Founding Father John Adams, James Madison, the only president to actually lose control of the nation’s capital to an enemy army, has been shown the door. He joins Hoover, Grant, and Carter as Presidents whose best achievements were made out of office.
George Washington (None, 1789-1797)
John Adams (Federalist, 1797-1801)
Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican, 1801-1809)
James Monroe (Democratic-Republican, 1817-1825)
John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican, 1825-1829)
Martin Van Buren (Democrat, 1837-1841)
James Polk (Democrat, 1845-1849)
Zachary Taylor (Whig, 1849-1850)
Abraham Lincoln (Republican, 1861-1865)
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)
George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican, 1989-1993)
William Jefferson Clinton (Democrat, 1993-2001)
Eliminated Presidents:
- James Buchanan (Democrat, 1857-1861)
- Franklin Pierce (Democrat, 1853-1857)
- Andrew Johnson (National Union, 1865-1869)
- Warren Harding (Republican, 1921-1923)
- Millard Fillmore (Whig, 1850-1853)
- Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican, 1969-1974)
- Herbert Hoover (Republican, 1929-1933)
- Ronald Reagan (Republican, 1981-1989)
- Andrew Jackson (Democrat, 1829-1837)
- Rutherford Hayes (Republican, 1877-1881)
- Ulysses Grant (Republican, 1869-1877)
- John Tyler (Whig, 1841-1845)
- James Earl Carter (Democrat, 1977-1981)
- James Madison (Democratic-Republican, 1809-1817)
I will vote for Woodrow Wilson, who was racist even for his time, conducted probably the most dishonest re-election campaign in presidential history, was horrible on civil rights during the war, and established the ideological precedent for a century of American military adventurism overseas.
Also, I think the five day, 20 vote minimum is just slowing things down. From here on out, the deadline is three business days. Which means the voting for this round closes at 2:30 PM on Monday.
John Adams.
James Monroe, because I don’t like the Monroe Doctrine.
Maybe the Madison haters can now turn their attention to somebody whose lifetime achievements pale in comparison to those of our shortest president.
Someone like CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR, f’rinstance.
Sorry, didn’t see this question before. We go to church together. He sometimes helps out with the high school kids, if you can believe it. He was an accomplished lawyer and also taught history at U of Richmond, VMI and the Citadel. Here’s a profile of him.
Okay, back to business:
Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho!
Chester Arthur’s got to go!
Arthur wasn’t really a good president, he does have an interesting record in regards to civil service reform considering how much he personally befitted from all sorts of corrupt behavior. And he didn’t really do anything terrible.
Anyhow, Still Van Buren…I’m waiting for people to join me on this little train.
I’m fine with Wilson at this point. The pointless engagement of the US in WWI, and his selling out his ideals in the treaty negotiations for his pet LoN project are reason enough for me.
Did a bit of reading on MVB. Bit of a spineless weasel, wasn’t he? Refused to lift a finger to help the LDS when they were being lynched in the midwest–so much for the first amendment. Left Texas out to dry as well–not exactly a resolute moment in presidential history. Then there’s the Trail of Tears, and let’s not even get into the Amistad affair. Good Lord!
I’ll put away my Adams schtick for now. Get MVB out of here, and I don’t care how many NYC gangsters come after me for saying it.