WORST President? (Poll 1/3)

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Without Abraham Lincoln, there would be no Union.

This is going to go three threads in as to who was the WORST president BEFORE DUBYA.

The FIRST 10 presidents listed will move on to an actual poll, where the top three will go on to compete for the title of Most Unpopular President Among L(Little "l")ibertarians.

I nominate President Abraham Lincoln.

You have to be joking.

 

[Fox McCloud]

I nomiate Woodrow Wilson

He signed the Federal Reserve Act, and set in place the ideology of "we have to make the world safe for democracy", which is the basis for an interventionist policy.

FDR and Abraham Lincoln have already been mentioned....

I'd say Bill Clinton too, for bombing so much.

 

[polomertz]

Where's you're sense of history you guys??!!

Not a single mention of Woodrow Wilson??

First on my list, followed by Abe then both Roosevelts.

Woodrow Wilson would be first on my list as well.

 

[AutoDas]

Woodrow Wilson

Typical Democrapt.
He was a segregationist, tried to reduce America's sovereignty with the League of Nations after failing to solve the run-up to the Great War that the nation wanted no part of, and passed many government monopolistic acts that were the catalysts needed for the Great Depression.

 

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Presidents should be judged by how they preserve the Constition. If not, who cares?

I nominate President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Richard Nixon. I also second Abraham Lincoln.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were great leaders in charge of American movements to reestablish the civil purpose in the Constitution. That is what is important. Any counterfeit wealth or legal precedent challenging the civil purpose of the Constitution is nothing more than excrement. Doo doo.
Franklin Roosevelt created the measures of the New Deal to combat the philosophy of social Darwinism during the Great Depressions. Abraham Lincoln was like Gandhi in that both leaders were lawyers and both felt people should be encouraged to settle out of court. Also like Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln was trying to save a divided nation. Unlike Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi was unable to keep India from splitting into 2 nations.
The Gettisburg Address was nothing less than Lincoln's reconsecration of the Founding Father's Declaration of Independence before he proceeded to take steps to reunite the Union.
Nixon was not part of any movement so he certainly should be part of anyone's poor list.

 

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Lincoln was the greatest President because he saved the Union

Since FDR and LBJ have already been mentioned, I'll add Abraham Lincoln.

Abe was a brilliant writer and statesman, but that bugger is responsible for so many of the problems we're dealing with today.

EDIT: I just noticed the OP nominated lincoln. Damn.

Did anyone take notes in Government class? George Washington set a surprizingly gentle precedent for what was expected to be a strong administrative position of the Presidency in the U.S. government. Andrew Jackson was so popular and such a dominating president that the Whig party was created to limit the power of the Administrative branch relative to the Congressional branch. Lincoln later expanded the power of the Presidency by establishing new legal policies necessary to save the Union.

 

[Unspun]

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were great leaders in charge of American movements to reestablish the civil purpose in the Constitution. That is what is important. Any counterfeit wealth or legal precedent challenging the civil purpose of the Constitution is nothing more than excrement. Doo doo.
Franklin Roosevelt created the measures of the New Deal to combat the philosophy of social Darwinism during the Great Depressions. Abraham Lincoln was like Gandhi in that both leaders were lawyers and both felt people should be encouraged to settle out of court. Also like Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln was trying to save a divided nation. Unlike Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi was unable to keep India from splitting into 2 nations.
The Gettisburg Address was nothing less than Lincoln's reconsecration of the Founding Father's Declaration of Independence before he proceeded to take steps to reunite the Union.
Nixon was not part of any movement so he certainly should be part of anyone's poor list.

Killing 600,000 Americans is OK, as long as there is some greater purpose behind it, right?

 

[nate895]

Did anyone take notes in Government class? George Washington set a surprizingly gentle precedent for what was expected to be a strong administrative position of the Presidency in the U.S. government. Andrew Jackson was so popular and such a dominating president that the Whig party was created to limit the power of the Administrative branch relative to the Congressional branch. Lincoln later expanded the power of the Presidency by establishing new legal policies necessary to save the Union.

You call yourself a Ron Paul supporter?

The Presidency was setup to execute the laws of Congress and direct the military in times of war (which you can argue is redundant because war is in law). It wasn't meant to set laws or policy, except in cases of peace terms in war time and who they sent out to be ambassadors and consulars to nations.

 

[ChooseLiberty]

Woodrow Wilson - Federal Reserve, League of Nations, CFR (Edward Mandell House, Bernard Baruch, Otto Kahn, Jacob Schiff, Paul Warburg, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller).

He sold the US out to the International Bankers the same way Bush sold out to the Neocons. Weak minded puppet president controlled behind the scenes.

 

[constitutional]

Woodrow Wilson - He started off nice with non-interventionalist policy but made a 180 degree turn during the brink of WWI.

 

[LEK]

Woodrow Wilson and everyone after him.

 

[LEK]

Woodrow Wilson - He started off nice with non-interventionalist policy but made a 180 degree turn during the brink of WWI.

It was all down hill after that.

 

[klamath]

Wilson

 

[bkreigh]

Chalk another one up for Wilson!

 

[Gadsden Flag]

Unpopular as he seems to be here, I like Lincoln.



I nominate Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson. (Although Johnson did help end segregation)

 

[JosephTheLibertarian]

Woodrow Wilson.

 

[Theocrat]

The "Schoolmaster in Politics"

I nominate Woodrow Wilson (Dubya Dubya).

 

[Cowlesy]

Buchanan.

 

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I have to vote for Woodrow because of the Fed.

 

[JRegs85]

Close call between Woodrow Wilson and FDR.