I don’t know about single-handed. Whoever dislodged that pretzel’s got to get some of the credit.
Excellent point! And I appreciate that fact.
Nixon had people sabotage the Vietnam Peace talks, and then kept the war going for years longer when he knew it couldn’t be won. Ask all the Vietnamese and American Veterans who survived. W was stupid evil. Nixon was genius evil.
I voted GWB. As bad as Obama has been, as bad as Carter was, GWB combined two unique traits to create an epically disastrous Presidency: decisiveness combined with incompetence. Obama and Carter at least had the good sense to be indecisive in the face of decisions they weren’t qualified to make.
Bingo. For “worst president, 1789-present”, it’s really down to GWB v. James Buchanan. And I’d go with GWB because the Civil War was gonna happen anyway at some point.
A vote for President Reagan. By letting in the Moral Majority and other groups more focused on social issues, he transformed the GOP into party of vengeful dingbats that not even my parents could vote for.
Crap I thought I was voting in the who do you rank highest thread. Take away one vote for Wild Bill, add one for Chimpy.
George W. Bush and his disastrous tax cut, starting two unnecessary wars, putting John Roberts on the Supreme Court (and he wanted Harriet Fucking Meiers), and worst of all, picking Dick Cheney for vice president. Or was it Rummy the Dummy for defense?
Sorry, Ronnie, but W beat you out by a nose. Reagan cemented the unholy alliance between the far right Christian whack-a-doodles and the Republican Party and played the racist dog whistle to perfection (appearances at Bob Jones U and Philadelphia, MS don’t come by accident). He instituted the far-right doctrine that yes, there is a free lunch and we’re going to eat it. Tax cuts for everybody! Trillions for defense against enemies that aren’t there!
Carter, obviously. Iran, Afghanistan, stagflation, the botched hostage rescue attempt, the misery index, etc., etc.
Regards,
Shodan
Saint Ronnie - the Southern Strategy alone is bad enough. Never mind his chummy attitude towards the Apartheid government.
Even a Republican would have to put Dubya at the bottom, judging by his OWN standards.
Obama has been awful, but he didn’t start the Iraq War.
Darn that Carter for sending arms to Iran. Darn him to heck! Oh wait, that was Saint Ronnie. Well, blast him for starting that Afghanistan War under his watch. Oh crap, that was the USSR. Well doggone it, let’s crucify him for a helicopter breakdown in the desert. Son of a bitch should have been there himself with a tool kit.
The “trickle down” theory espoused by Reagan and his administration damaged this country way more in the long term than anything the subsequent Republican presidents ever did. He also started the bullshit war on drugs. Fuck that guy, I don’t even like him.
Which do you think was the most horrifying injury he did the country? Was it reducing both the poverty rate, and the number of US citizens living in poverty? Cutting inflation? Triggering the longest peacetime expansion of the US economy in history? Eliminating intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe? Setting the stage to win the Cold War? Reducing unemployment? Getting the Iranian hostages set free?
The unreasoning hatred of the lefties for Reagan is as grotesque as it is unfounded. I should be used to it by now, but I suppose I never will be.
Regards,
Shodan
Actually that was Nixon. Aided by people like this -
Cite, as if it were going to help.
Regards,
Shodan
This leftie’s loathing is very reasoned - the man and his cronies likely prolonged Apartheid by a good ten years.
It has to be good reasoning.
Regards,
Shodan
Don’t blame me; that was an accident. Bush the Lesses should have been listed as George W Bush, not just George Bush.
I want my vote back.
Voodoo economics. Arms for hostages. Exploding deficits. Dog whistle racial politics. Invasions of small Caribbean nations. Sucking up to the religious right. Undermining hostage negotiations between Iran and the Carter Administration. Don’t fucking tell me my loathing for that piece of shit Reagan was unfounded.
You misspelled Lesses.
You’re thinking of Al Gore 