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I don't know if this is the best way to judge, but just looking at how the country was when they came into office versus how it was when they left, I'd have to say Lyndon Johnson and George W Bush among recent presidents.
Between 1963 and 1969, the US spiraled out of control on so many fronts due to decisions made by Johnson. A quagmire in SE Asia and massive social unrest at home.
GW Bush entered office with a country at peace and the federal government running balanced budgets. He left with 2 mismanaged wars and a financial meltdown along with massive deficits.
The Glenn Beck University alumni association makes its voice heard...
look it up, you will see i am correct.
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According to Goldberg, fascism in America predated the regimes of Mussolini and Hitler. He believes that Woodrow Wilson turned the United States into a “fascist country, albeit temporarily” during World War I. Americans in 1917 were reluctant to join the slaughter in Europe. Their nation hadn’t been attacked; there was no defining event — a Fort Sumter or Pearl Harbor — to rally public support. So Wilson formed the country’s first propaganda ministry, the Committee on Public Information, to teach people what they were up against. The devil became German militarism — the merciless Hun — and Americans were encouraged to lash out at those of German ancestry inside the United States. Vigilante groups arose to mete out justice and spy on fellow citizens. Congress passed draconian laws banning “abusive” and “disloyal” language against the government and its officials. The Post Office revoked the mailing privileges of hundreds of antiwar publications, effectively shutting them down. Rarely if ever in American history has dissent been so effectively stifled.
Fascinating. In two posts to me, you have yet to address the topic of this thread or comment on Buchanan as a candidate for "worst." Nothing but snide personal attacks ("Oh yeah? Who elected YOU gawd, huh?") from the get-go. You bombard people with insults and then get your bowels in an uproar when they respond.
My attitude was intended to provoke disagreement, not insults. "My belief is that you are what I think of as a" (a singularly infelicitous jumble of words, by the way) "personal confrontation" poster, less interested in the topic at hand than with intimidating and insulting others.
Go yap at someone else. Anything you address to me henceforth will be ignored.
I'd tend to agree here, atleast on the aspect of keeping along original thread intentions
Minus the homophobic mention(which personally do not see the big deal there)and if he was gay so be it
George W Bush will go down in history as one of the, if not THE worst POTUS ever. In addition to getting us in a needless war in Iraq which cost 5000 American lives--in addition to a couple hundred thousand inoocent Iraqi civilian lives--his reckless, wannabe cowboy ways made the U.S. one of the most despised nations on the planet. And this, coming at a time when we should have garnered much sympathy after the 9/11 attacks.
Bush also approved alot of the de-regulation for the banks and lending insitutions which contributed significantly to the financial meltdown of 2008.
Bush made the world a far more dangerous place for Americans. The only demographic that prospered under his watch was the Big Corporations & the wealthy (of course).
Too, Bush created such a fervent protestation (rightfully so, mind you) to his ways that a totally unqualified man, Barack Obama, was elected as POTUS. Obama gained office simply as a protest vote; much the same way Carter did in 1976 after Nixon & Watergate. See? No Nixon: no Carter. Same deal here: No Bush, no Obama! Ergo, much of the damage that Obama has done--and will do--can in a way be put on W.
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