America"s Worst Presidents

By James Jay Carafano@JJCarafano

"And now, let’s turn to the biggest losers.

#1. Lyndon Johnson.

Few presidents have managed to muster foreign policy disasters as muddled as their domestic messes. LBJ did it—in grand style. We went from Ike’s steady hand to the promise of JFK’s Camelot to the Nightmare in Elm Street. Forget Vietnam, if you
ever thought there was anything great about the Great Society, read “The Great Society: A New History,” also by Shlaes (2019).

#2. Jimmy Carter.

Carter inherited an America that looked more like the Cleveland Indians than Super Bowl champs. We were staggering under “stagflation” and saddled with a “hollow military.” Then Carter made almost everything worse. His greatest accomplishment was
losing to Ronald Reagan. Best to read about Carter in his own words: “White House Diary” (2010), by the man himself.

#3. Woodrow Wilson.

Okay, Wilson did manage to get us “over there” in World War I, but in the process his polices triggered a global pandemic. [See: “The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History” (2004), by John M. Barry. The Schoolmaster,
as he was known, also compiled an appalling record on civil liberties and civil rights. And he bungled the postwar peace. He made “progressivism” something other than a dirty word. He should have stayed in Princeton.

#4. James Buchanan.

If there was a chance to derail the march toward a Civil War it might have been his presidency. Epic fail. Read “The Worst President--The Story of James Buchanan,” by Garry Boulard (2015).

#5. Warren G. Harding.

He looked presidential, but Harding was a corrupt, poker-playing womanizer. Fortunately, he died before he could do great damage. Some might argue this lacked opportunity to really blow it bigtime should disqualify him from the list. But, honestly, what
were Republicans thinking? For an amusing-to-read biography of Harding, try 2004’s “Warren G. Harding: The American Presidents Series. It’s written by Watergate conspirator John Dean, who knows a thing or two about disgraceful presidents.

This piece originally appeared in the National Interest https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/memorial-day-history-5-best-and-5-worst-us-presidents-ever-186564

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On 6/29/2022 3:48 PM, D. Spencer Hines wrote:

America"s Worst Presidents

Yes,
Joe Biden Is Definitely Competitive
in with this group of worst Presidents.

By James Jay Carafano@JJCarafano

"And now, let’s turn to the biggest losers.

#1. Lyndon Johnson.

Few presidents have managed to muster foreign policy disasters as muddled as their domestic messes. LBJ did it—in grand style. We went from Ike’s steady hand to the promise of JFK’s Camelot to the Nightmare in Elm Street. Forget Vietnam, if you

ever thought there was anything great about the Great Society, read “The Great Society: A New History,” also by Shlaes (2019).


It was not as if the asshole LBJ was actually trying
to kill me and my generation,
it was that although he realized that JFK's quest was stupid,
and useless, and wasted millions of lives.
But the bully asshole chickenshit LBJ was too
chicken to reverse JFK's policy, so he just
left the meatgrinder functioning until we got
a competent POTUS in place to get our POWs back
and get out of there.
The asshole just did not care to save our lives!
58,000 of our nation's best were killed.

#2. Jimmy Carter.

Carter inherited an America that looked more like the Cleveland Indians than Super Bowl champs. We were staggering under “stagflation” and saddled with a “hollow military.” Then Carter made almost everything worse. His greatest accomplishment

was losing to Ronald Reagan. Best to read about Carter in his own words: “White House Diary” (2010), by the man himself.


All true about Carter. But he always seemed to be a decent man.
Horrible POTUS though.
But I will always have a bit of a soft spot in
my heart for him, because he clearly pointed out to me
how I could become wealthy. Just take advantage of the
huge inflation, year after year that he caused.
Yeah, it was not "Get Rich Quick", it was
"Get fairly Wealthy Slow and Gradual". Go in debt
buying quality real estate, keep it rented out,
and inflation will increase your value and greatly decrease
your true debt.
Houses that Carter's HUD could not get occupied and then
sold for $17,500 to $22,000 to $22,950 are now worth
well over $550,000 and rent for over $2,000 a month.
Buy them, keep working, hang on through thick and
thin, and retire at age 54 a multi-millionaire!
Easy Peasy!
Cherry Pie and Cherry Garcia ice cream for breakfast for life!

This piece originally appeared in the National Interest https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/memorial-day-history-5-best-and-5-worst-us-presidents-ever-186564

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On Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 6:20:50 AM UTC-10, a425couple wrote:

On 6/29/2022 3:48 PM, D. Spencer Hines wrote:

America"s Worst Presidents

Yes,
Joe Biden Is Definitely Competitive
in with this group of worst Presidents.

By James Jay Carafano@JJCarafano

"And now, let’s turn to the biggest losers.

#1. Lyndon Johnson.

Few presidents have managed to muster foreign policy disasters as muddled as their domestic messes. LBJ did it—in grand style. We went from Ike’s steady hand to the promise of JFK’s Camelot to the Nightmare in Elm Street. Forget Vietnam, if you

ever thought there was anything great about the Great Society, read “The Great Society: A New History,” also by Shlaes (2019).

It was not as if the asshole LBJ was actually trying
to kill me and my generation,
it was that although he realized that JFK's quest was stupid,
and useless, and wasted millions of lives.
But the bully asshole chickenshit LBJ was too
chicken to reverse JFK's policy, so he just
left the meatgrinder functioning until we got
a competent POTUS in place to get our POWs back
and get out of there.
The asshole just did not care to save our lives!
58,000 of our nation's best were killed.

#2. Jimmy Carter.

Carter inherited an America that looked more like the Cleveland Indians than Super Bowl champs. We were staggering under “stagflation” and saddled with a “hollow military.” Then Carter made almost everything worse. His greatest accomplishment

was losing to Ronald Reagan. Best to read about Carter in his own words: “White House Diary” (2010), by the man himself.

All true about Carter. But he always seemed to be a decent man.
Horrible POTUS though.
But I will always have a bit of a soft spot in
my heart for him, because he clearly pointed out to me
how I could become wealthy. Just take advantage of the
huge inflation, year after year that he caused.
Yeah, it was not "Get Rich Quick", it was
"Get fairly Wealthy Slow and Gradual". Go in debt
buying quality real estate, keep it rented out,
and inflation will increase your value and greatly decrease
your true debt.
Houses that Carter's HUD could not get occupied and then
sold for $17,500 to $22,000 to $22,950 are now worth
well over $550,000 and rent for over $2,000 a month.
Buy them, keep working, hang on through thick and
thin, and retire at age 54 a multi-millionaire!
Easy Peasy!
Cherry Pie and Cherry Garcia ice cream for breakfast for life!

This piece originally appeared in the National Interest https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/memorial-day-history-5-best-and-5-worst-us-presidents-ever-186564

Yes, Joe Abides

I too had a soft spot for Jimmy Carter and voted for him in 1976. But he turned out to be incompetent as POTUS, too enraptured by detail. He was even scheduling access times on the White House tennis courts.

The United States leadership looks incredibly weak to China now -- Joe, Kamala, Nancy Pelosi and Pat Leahy, who just fell and broke his hip.

DSH

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