You find it funny, that your opinion differs from most presidential historians? That's cool, I guess.
Well, you can ask the question if you want to, but it's my personal liberty to decide whether to answer or not!! Freedom!
Plenty of historians who aren't fans of Lincoln don't regard Buchanan very highly either. He doesn't seem to have many supporters from any particular corner.
One of the better things about Polk is that he set out to do a small list of things and accomplished them. Once he did that, he didn't seek re-election.
Looks like he wasnt so bad to me Polk reduced tariffs in an effort to stimulate trade and created an independent U.S. Treasury. (Federal funds had previously been deposited in private or state banks.) Also during this time, the U.S. Naval Academy, Smithsonian Institution and Department of Interior were each established, and in addition to Texas, two more states–Iowa (1846) and Wisconsin (184–joined the Union.
Obama has made almost nothing but mistakes in his time in office. If Dubya were up there, it would have been a harder decision. Glad to see no votes for Washington though.
Thanks Captian Obvious, I didn't know you were entitled to your own opinion. Thanks for enlightening me.
Yes. But then he was more concerned about keeping his Party from irreversibly splintering and going the way of the Whigs, so he didn't have much to work with re leadership and legislative power; many in his own Party were jumping ship or actively spying for the Republicans at the time. I doubt it mattered much who was President at the time in that situation, though maybe a stronger and tougher pol might have been better, but then they might have been worse and made the consequences of the Panic of 1857 even more divisive.
For the record, I like Polk. - - - Updated - - - It is true that Buchanan entered office at one of the worst times (if not the worst) to be president.
Could a pitiful, horribly brainwashed, mentally crippled cultist Obama be called "American President" at all ? Or rather his lord and master ? And finally Judge for yourselves..
Probably the clearest indication I've yet seen on here that Conservatives have little real use for the present nation of America, as it has come to be, or even as it was proposed to be
A poll that makes me think of 1984. Manipulate and distort so you get a result you can use in your partisan agenda. Childish and useless.
I see. And your point is that Republicans never make the occasional mis-statement? MOD EDIT - Off Topic
With a last drop of irony, I would add a leader to the list ... the worse US President ever has been, and is ... Vladimir Putin [!].
Before you place too much blame for Vietnam on LBJ, you might want to check out the new book by Bob Woodward. In it one of Nixon's main aids kept all of the papers he worked on during his tenure under Nixon. In those papers it is shown in a memo where Nixon hand wrote a note where he commented that the bombing that was going on was doing "Zilch" the day after he went on TV to say the bombing was working. In the note it came to light the only reason he was bombing and continued bombing was to gain points in his planned bid for re-election. It had nothing to do with the war effort, it was simply a political move to affect his popularity.
There is something to despise for everyone in Woodrow WIlson. He reinstituted segregation of DC and the federal work force after Republicans had imposed desegregation. He started the war on drug with the Harrison act of 1914. He initiated the concept of U.S. as world police in WWI. He began the war on the 1st amendment by putting people in jail for the distribution of anti-war pamphlets (Schenk case). In general he created the concept of the modern nanny state with the Harrison Act, Mann Act (sex police) and Volstead Act, which to his credit he opposed, but not enough to stop it. Wilson also gave birth to the federal income tax, which was promised to apply only to the super-wealthy, with an initial top rate of 7%, and a simple filing process.
