Who is/was the worst of these three: Nixon, Reagan, or GWB - and why?

[bobweaver]

[StephanieMarie]

1. Bush. Iraq. War Crimes.

[Blind Tiresias]

38. exactly

not to mention 4400 dead americans on his watch, and counting...

[dorktv]

2. Reagan.

Without him there would be no GWB. Nixon at least had the clean water and air acts. And thanks to him some of the needed FBI reforms happened.

[Mr_Spock]

3. * - because he's still alive.

...though he ought to be executed if there is any justice in this world...

[Atman]

4. W = WORST president ever

Why even bother? Although one could certainly give a distant 2d Place Award to RWR just for setting all this neocon bullshit and hate-your-neighbor crap in motion. Nixon isn't even in the running. He was a piker compared to Bush. A paranoid, petty man who actually did some pretty impressive governing before his demons got the best of him.



NotBannedYet.US

[Southsideirish]

7. Agreed - this one is a complete horror. Nixon was a cool dude next to him

[havocmom]

23. At least Nixon had a sense of shame and a shakey grasp on reality

W has nothing but contempt for anyone and anything. He has no values and he has no value. He is the front man for the most evil band of thugs in our nation's history.

[shraby]

8. Annnd guess who underlies

all three men?????

George Bush 1

[DODI]

5. * - for so many reasons.

At least Nixon was a social progressive, EPA, Choice, etc. Ronnie, I believe, was only in real control for a little while. * is not only evil, but stupid to boot. It would take me a year, at least, to document all the things he has screwed up, is screwing up and will screw up. He is, without a doubt, the worst president ever!

[uppityperson]

20. ray gun was never in control, papabush was. n/t

[Hippo_Tron]

40. Papa Bush and Raygun didn't like each other

Raygun's neocon advisors were in charge, as was Nancy.

[Cha]

6. bush because he's here now and

he's the sociopath in the group..did nixon or reagun ever tell the truth about anything?..I'm betting they did..bush doesn't.

bush the killer who can't stand bad news.

[spinbaby]

9. Reagan

Bush and Nixon at least have the decency to look evil. Reagan managed to look and act like your favorite uncle--the one whose memory was slipping a bit who told long, rambling stories. It was his charming folksiness that gave the neocons their first real foothold.

[bluestateguy]

10. Oh that's a no brainer: Bush (who has no brain)

Nixon was a crook and prolonged the war, but on domestic policy matters he basically governed as a New Deal Democrat. Nixon gave us OSHA, EPA, the Endangered Species Act, consumer protection laws and a much more reasonable drug policy. Nixon also ended the draft. This president wants to bring it back.

Reagan did not mess with Social Security, and for all his talk, he never really was all that committed to the issue agenda of the religious right. His son Ron, put it nicely when he said that his father viewed his Christianity as responsibility, not a mandate. Also, Reagan also was willing to roll back parts of his irresponsible tax cuts of 1981 after the deficit exploded. Unlike Bush, he had a clear command of the English language, and was smarter than people generally realized (though his memory was visibly failing by the second term).

[shraby]

13. Reagan DID mess with Social Secuity..

he created the "notch babies" which left my Dad with less social security than the men born the year before him and the year after him.

[EVDebs]

19. yes ! and it was so he could pay for his 1981 tax cuts !!!!!!

Gee, who's trying that game now ?

[number6]

11. *

Gee Dubia Bee

has a Rethuglican House, Senate, Supreme Court.

Nixon, and Reagan could make a complete sentence

* more insane than both put together

;) :smoke: IMHO

[NNadir]

12. Nixon was evil, corrupt and smart. Bush is evil, corrupt and incompetant.

It is Bush who will go down as the most pathetic President in history, and the generation of Americans who put him in office will be remembered as equally pathetic.

This includes all of us.

[Lizzie Borden]

27. I gotta agree with ya NNadir.

As much as I relished hating Nixon, he did have a brain. Also, he opened China. That's the one thing he gets a little respect for from me. And he gets a few points for Watergate being such an entertaining scandal. Bush just doesn't have the gray matter to operate the ship of state.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. GWB

he's stupid and powerful

That's a very dangerous combination.

[yurbud]

15. you forgot mean, spoiled, and petulant

[jmowreader]

16. Come on. Nixon's not even in the top ten anymore

Nixon was the president you loved to hate.

I think he could have beaten McGovern without the Watergate break-ins. McGovern handed Nixon the 1972 win the second he ditched Thomas Eagleton.

Drop out Watergate and the war, and Nixon is one of our better presidents, strange as that may seem. He got good things done.

Bush is definitely the worst president we've ever seen, followed by his dad and Herbert Hoover. Reagan I don't know how to judge--he sucked as a president, but the Reagan administration was essentially GHWB's first two terms, so should we call *him* a rotten president? One can argue that Reagan really shouldn't have been allowed to remain in office anyway.

[Blue Wally]

22. Hoover was a good and decent man......

Hoover just happened to be president when all of the chickens came home to roost. In a lot of ways, he resembles Jimmy Carter. They were both engineers and both highly intelligent. Neither one of them had the vision or the ability to rally the country at a time when the wheels were coming off. Both men redeemed themselves after their presidencies by continuing to serve their countries and the world in lesser capacities.

[EVDebs]

17. GWB...since he could have learned from mistakes of Tricky and Ronnie

But that doesn't appear to be a concern of his. He doesn't make mistakes, remember ?

[radwriter0555]

18. Bush. Nixon and Reagan were both bush senior VICTIMS.

Go figure.

[intheflow]

21. GWB - he's still alive so still unleashing evil on the world. n/t

[rzemanfl]

24. Dubious George

All else aside, Nixon and Reagan were both duly elected Presidents of the United States, something * does not share with them.

[Dangerman]

25. GWB

He gutted the constitution, he manipulated the public, he murdered thousands of innocent people in an unnecessary war...

That's just icing on the cake.

[nevergiveup]

26. Nixon and Bush........a toss-up.

Nixon was a God is on my side paranoid schizophrenic and Bush is an egocentric knee-jerk fundamentalist moron.......both equally dangerous.

[Gman]

28. GWB going away

Nixon was a wretched, calculating and very evil man. Reagan was an idiot and later an Alzheimer's sufferer that was taken advantage of by the people around him. GWB is the most dangerous person to ever "lead" this country as demonstrated by the last four years.

[KoKo]

29. All three are equally WORSE...

Nixon, because he started "IT," Reagan, because he facilitated "IT," and Bush, because he implemented "IT."

[brindis_desala]

30. Reagan, the great destroyer

Committed treason by trading arms to IRANIANS in exchange for their holding the US hostages until after the election thus insuring his 'victory' (which was also questionable), nuclear arms buildup, star wars, "welfare queens", voodoo economics,
financed Mujahadeen jihadists, supported authoritarian regimes including apartheid South Africa and practically all of South and Central America where CIA trained death squads murdered over a million people, Invaded Grenada. Broke the law by violating Congress' Boland Amendment by supporting the Contras using profits from crack cocaine dispersed in the African American community.
* is just less "likable".

[AndyTiedye]

31. Dubya. There is no Second Place

Booosh** has severely if not irreparably damaged our entire democratic process.

[saltpoint]

32. Any is justified as a choice to your question --

-- but I'll go with Dubya, because he is a vacuous, incurious bully whose administration has deeply disgraced Americans in the eyes of other nations.

[MIScott87]

33. At least Nixon and Reagan had a foreign policy. nt

[sonicx]

34. Nixon was a liberal compared to the freaks running the show now...

[theresistance]

35. Reagan would just tip out Bush

Due to his policies in so many countries and the more deaths it lead too. For example, Central America and Afghanistan (though its very ironic that Carter started many of these policies). Reagan also spawned a whole host neo-crazies that are in power now.

[genieroze]

36. * because he's a Fascist. eom

[bobthedrummer]

37. I never thought I'd see a worse President than Nixon-boy, was I wrong!

George W. Bush aka The War President is all time worst criminal pResident.

[Disturbed]

39. Damn hard choices!

The lesser of three evil men. Hmmm....

The Silverspoon Sociopath because he is so vapid and arrogant that he refuses to realize when he is wrong. Will Amerika survive four years of Fascism?

[Hippo_Tron]

41. Bush makes Raygun look fiscally responsible

It's hard to say because everybody is right, without Reagan there would be no Bush. But in terms of pure substance, Bush is much worse than Reagan.

[AP]

42. Nixon was worst. But Bush will do way more damage.

Nixon was an evil motherfucker, but he actually cared a slight bit about the American working man for some crazy reason. And that craziness is why the Republicans probably shitcanned him. (I don't think Watergate could have happened if some Repubicans weren't on board.)

Bush doesn't care about the working American at all. He only cares about shifting wealth to the wealthy. But I think of him as more clinical precise. Nixon was on a different plane. It's hard to compare.

What am I saying, all three are equally bad.

[depakid]

43. With Nixon, the damage could be repaired, with Reagan

historians will look back and pinpoint his presidency with the end of the American elightenment- the beginning of an era of contempt for knowledge, equality and responsible application of the law and the push toward fundamentalism, unaccountible corruption and injustice.

Reagan and the far right cronies who rode in with him set the stage for all that's happening now- which is nothing less than the wholesale failure of the American experiment.