The race for most hated president ever!

[rjung]

In a related vein, Dick Cheney is now even less popular than adultery.

[ElvisL1ves]

@This Year's Model

Cleveland got nominated by his party three straight elections, the third even after having lost as an incumbent.

There was some, um, controversy about that last point.

Brilliant link there, rjung.

[Frank]

@ElvisL1ves

There was some, um, controversy about that last point.

[John_Mace]

@rjung

In a related vein, Dick Cheney is now even less popular than adultery.

Yeah, everyone hates adultry, but soemthing like half of all married people cheat at some time or another. What does that prove, other than people are hypocrites and comparisons like this ludicrous?

Cheney is supposed to be the bad guy. If he didn’t take the heat, Bush’s numbers would probably be lower!

[What_Exit]

@rjung

In a related vein, Dick Cheney is now even less popular than adultery.

Wow, Thank you. I think today you are my hero.

Cheney less popular than adultery. This may need to be my sig line for awhile.

Jim

[ElvisL1ves]

John, if you don’t like that, from the same link there’s these:

Dick Cheney is now 18 points behind the number of people who believe alien beings have secretly contacted the U.S. government.

Bush, similarly, now trails the number of people who think astrology is scientific by five points.

[Foaming_Cleanser]

Says Wikipedia (when you scroll past the racist ugliness):

Corruption was rampant throughout Harding’s administration, though it is uncertain how much Harding himself knew about his friends’ illicit activities. The most infamous scandal of the time was the Teapot Dome affair, which shook the nation for years after Harding’s death. The scandal involved Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, who was eventually convicted of covertly leasing public oil fields to business associates in exchange for personal loans. In 1931 Fall became the first member of a Cabinet to be sent to prison.

Thomas Miller, head of the Office of Alien Property, was convicted of accepting bribes. Jess Smith, personal aide to the Attorney General, destroyed papers and then committed suicide. Charles Forbes, Director of the Veterans Bureau, skimmed profits, earned fat kickbacks, and ran alcohol and drugs. He was convicted of fraud and bribery and drew a two-year sentence. Charles Cramer, an aide to Charles Forbes, also committed suicide.

[elucidator]

@Ponder Stibbons

Pshaw. None of these johnnie-come-latelies was anywhere near as evil as Andrew Jackson …

Which reminds. Next person going to Hell, please remember to baste Andy Jackson.

[OtakuLoki]

I’m not going to say that he’s worse than the two more recent contenders, but we can’t forget Rutherfraud Hayes on the list. He does deserve, at least, an honorable mention, I think.

[elucidator]

Hold everything, I have a nitpick! Nitpick alert! AAAARRooooooga!

The OP is “most hated”. Not “most evil”, i.e., most deserving of hatred. Though FDR was widely loved, the running dog jackals of the ruling class hated him with an intensity that approaches theoretical limits.

[neutron_star]

@rjung

In a related vein, Dick Cheney is now even less popular than adultery.

What a pessimistic article! It fails to mention that Cheney is a full 7 points ahead of the number of Americans who are unable to find the U.S. on a map of the world!

[Captain_Amazing]

@OtakuLoki

I’m not going to say that he’s worse than the two more recent contenders, but we can’t forget Rutherfraud Hayes on the list. He does deserve, at least, an honorable mention, I think.

I don’t know that Hayes was particularly not well liked.

[OtakuLoki]

@Captain Amazing

I don’t know that Hayes was particularly not well liked.

Well, considering that Tilden got the actual majority of the popular vote, I think that there’s some room to argue he wasn’t well thought of. When you consider, too, that the fallout from his Compromise of 1877 at the very least sped the establishment of Jim Crow laws, and the repealing of the racial equality laws of the Reconstruction Era - I think it’s fair to estimate that he wasn’t loved by everyone, either. The Wiki article I mentioned lays some of the blame for the SC that handed down Plesey v. Ferguson at his feet, too. I’m not sure how just an accusation that is, but if it is defensible, it’s pretty damning.

[Ponder_Stibbons]

@elucidator

Hold everything, I have a nitpick! Nitpick alert! AAAARRooooooga!

The OP is “most hated”. Not “most evil”, i.e., most deserving of hatred. Though FDR was widely loved, the running dog jackals of the ruling class hated him with an intensity that approaches theoretical limits.

Oooh, good point. I sort of got off on a tangent didn’t I?

In that case, I nominate Andrew Johnson. So widely despised during his presidency that congress impeached him basically because they could.

[Captain_Lance_Murdoch]

@Captain Amazing

I don’t know that Hayes was particularly not well liked.

I’m not too sure I can’t agree with that.

[OtakuLoki]

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[Mr.Moto]

I nominate Truman. History has been far kinder to Harry Truman than his contemporaries were at the time.

He didn’t run for president in 1952 because it would not only have been a futile gesture, but it likely would have done considerable damage to his party.

Mind you, I have a great deal of respect for Harry Truman. But history is history.

[Dag_Otto]

@Foaming Cleanser

Paging Warren Harding!

From that same link:

Many self-appointed experts on Harding’s infidelities base their suppositions on innuendo, speculation, and stories that swirled around the President following his death. What is known, and has been recorded in primary documents, is that during his lifetime, Harding had an affair with Mrs. Carrie Fulton Phillips; he was also rumored to have had an affair with Miss Nan Britton, though information for this comes mostly from her book, written after his death.

So Harding was for adultery, which means he wasn’t as bad as Cheney.