DBWI: Worst President of the last 60 Years

Which one was the Worst?


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Penelope

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Poll to follow.

As the first decade of the 2000's comes to a close, who do you think was the worst President in the Last Sixty years?
 
Stockdale. Perot ended up getting very little done because he had a Congress full of pissed off Democrats and Republicans who saw him as the spoiler of 1992. Plus he had the two warring factions in the West Wing, liberal Ham Jordan and conservative Ed Rolling, more interested in influence and access than doing the right thing. Still, though, Perot had the cult of personality working for him. It allowed to whip the American people into a froth so they could prod their representatives and senators into supporting SOME of Perot's programs.

Stockdale, on the other hand, had absolutely nothing going for him. I think he just hung out in the Oval Office like the shell-shocked vegetable he was while Jordan and Rollins fought over the opportunity to handle the day-to-day business of running the country.

The smartest thing Stockdale did was to take himself out of the running in 1996. Not even sympathy over Perot's assassination could have carried him to 270 electoral votes. Hell, I don't think it could have gotten him 100 electoral votes!
 

Penelope

Banned
Stockdale. Perot ended up getting very little done because he had a Congress full of pissed off Democrats and Republicans who saw him as the spoiler of 1992. Plus he had the two warring factions in the West Wing, liberal Ham Jordan and conservative Ed Rolling, more interested in influence and access than doing the right thing. Still, though, Perot had the cult of personality working for him. It allowed to whip the American people into a froth so they could prod their representatives and senators into supporting SOME of Perot's programs.

Stockdale, on the other hand, had absolutely nothing going for him. I think he just hung out in the Oval Office like the shell-shocked vegetable he was while Jordan and Rollins fought over the opportunity to handle the day-to-day business of running the country.

The smartest thing Stockdale did was to take himself out of the running in 1996. Not even sympathy over Perot's assassination could have carried him to 270 electoral votes. Hell, I don't think it could have gotten him 100 electoral votes!

I agree, but personally, I voted for Nelson Rockefeller.

After Ford's assassination, there was a movement for him ofcourse, but slowly as the Korean Nuclear Crisis heated up, you could see that Rockefeller truly wasn't ready for the White House.
 
Rocky was one of those guys who is a lot like Gephardt. Someone who is immensely qualified for the job, but can't actually DO the job effectively once they have it.

Rocky would have been better off remaining as governor of New York.

Gephardt would have been better off either retiring after his 8 years as Kennedy's VP, or remaining in the House and eventually becoming speaker during the "Democratic Revolution" of 2006.

I guess Gephardt HAD to run after the extremely popular Kennedy years. People were itching to continue the so-called "New Camelot."
 
Easily Dan Quayle. Seriously, the guy mispelled missile on live television. Let us also not forget Quayle's 'Great Potatoe Famine'.:rolleyes:
 
Easily Dan Quayle. Seriously, the guy mispelled missile on live television. Let us also not forget Quayle's 'Great Potatoe Famine'.:rolleyes:

For me, the pinnacle of Quayle's presidency was when he "accidentally" head-butted Michael Howard at the last G8 Summit. You had to hand it to our former Prime Minister, he took it well (though not enough to save him from last month's defeat at the polls by Yvette Cooper).

Really though, I think that Quayle really marked the end of the line for the Neo-Conservative movement. While I'm still in two minds over the righteousness of his intervention in the People's Republic of Java, his handling of the Halifax Crisis and his systematic betrayal of the Kurds marks him out as a disaster, I can't even see him as fit for the State Senate personally.

:mad::mad::mad:

Let's hope Clinton can sort out the mess he left.
 
Come on! We can't blame a potato famine on Quayle anymore than we could blame Egypt going communist on Stevenson!

But of course we can. Quayle's fixation with eliminating every New Deal farm program on the book (including encouraging crop rotation and eliminating farm subsidies for poor farmers) in part did enough to encourage it. Sure, we aren't a large nation of farmers anymore, but Quayle's policies did enough to get Idaho to vote for Bill Clinton four years later.
 

Penelope

Banned
Dan Quayle certainly wasn't 'the end of the conservative movement' but he surely is one of the least prepared Presidents we have ever had.
 
I really want to say Quayle, but of course, as such a recent president, we can't judge his presidency in a historical context. Give it a decade, at least. Who knows, maybe the president who left us notably weaker than the Soviet Union for the first time will be vindicated by history.

Now Rockefeller was a disaster. It's a miracle that the Far East isn't a smoldering crater after his handling of the missile crisis. Besides billions of lives on the line, he also risked, and lost, the friendship of Japan. We've been kicking ourselves over that ever since, especially in in today's age, as Japan has become a major economic and military power.
 
As much as I'd like to make fun of Quayle (imagine what would happen if he went hunting with Cheney) I'm going to have to say Dewey. Cheeky bugger going around with that newspaper headed 'Truman Wins'.
 

Penelope

Banned
It's amazing that China and us did not go to war after the Rockefeller Disaster. It went a had and started the Manchurian War between North Korea and China, and it ultimately ensued in the nation of Manchuria being formed by the UN.

Dark times indeed.
 
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