What past president is similar to bush?

[cynatnite]

Been watching 'The Presidents' on History channel. Thinking McKinley is closest. He was called puritantical and a friend of the corporates.

[nytemare]

1. I would say Nixon, but at least he was competent.

:shrug:

[norml]

23. Dubya makes Nixon look good.

That's how bad he is.

[wake.up.america]

34. ex-president Charles Taylor

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Not one comes close to his level of evil, meanness and total lack

of concern for the future of this country and the world in general.

I do not believe that there has ever been a totally insane person in the White House before.

[Faygo Kid]

13. You and me both.

As you can tell. You get it.

[BrklynLiberal]

21. Atticus Finch. My hero.

:loveya:

[Arkansas Granny]

36. I agree. He has not given one thought to the future of this country

or what his policies will mean to our children and grandchildren. They will be working for generations to undo the damage that this man has done in just 5 1/2 years. I hate to even think about it.

Bush is concerned with nothing but himself and the grandiose legacy he wants to leave behind. In truth, his legacy will be death and destruction.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. ideologically, Reagan started a lot of this crap

also the idea of a "figurehead" president with no skillz and the real policy apparatus elsewhere

[C_U_L8R]

4. It's a 4-way tie

President Augusto Pinochet
President Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier
President Idi Amin
President Pol Pot

[Zynx]

7. Now that's not fair....

Bush doesn't eat people like Idi Amin....yet. ;-)

[BrklynLiberal]

22. Not that we know of.... yet.

[Island Blue]

29. How do you know he doesn't?

There have been a lot of missing white women during the past five years ... I'm just sayin'. :shrug:

[Botany]

5. Coolidge, Buchanan, & Harding

Coolidge because he took naps and let the economy go to hell and
helped set up the great depression
and Buchanan because he did nothing and but protect the status quo and
let things boil up to the civil war.
Harding because of total corruption (tea pot dome)

[Zynx]

6. John Adams in the sense he could not deal with criticism.

Adams never consulted anyone when he got an idea in his head.

[cynatnite]

9. Wasn't Andrew Johnson the same way?

I remember reading about his long list of vetoes during the reconstruction.

[Zynx]

15. Most of that had to do with racism, but yes he was a singular minded

individual.

[polmaven]

14. But that assumes facts not in evidence.

Namely, that this (p)resident actually gets ideas on his own...:shrug:

[Faygo Kid]

8. No, I won't play this game. W. is unique in being the worst.

Spare me Buchanan, Reagan or even Nixon. Great show on The History Channel, but there is nothing, ever, no matter how much you or any other posters here advocate for them, that a president has even come close to the evil and incompetence of this one. I am into this show, too, as The Masters is in a rain delay.

[cynatnite]

12. Advocate?

Where did you get that from?

[Faygo Kid]

16. Advocate for a candidate even close to George W. Bush.

Meant it generally, of course. But I don't want any other president, no matter how incompetent, to stand with the evil that is this president. I know there is no "advocate" here, but I mean any advocate that any president is like this unique one. Not just the worst, because of incompetence or ideology. But the worst, to destroy this nation.

[Zynx]

18. Buchanan through his bungling and Pierce through his mistakes did

much more damage.

[Faygo Kid]

28. Honorably and respectfully disagree, my friend.

The two you name are so tragic. Buchanan, with the death of his fiance in the 1820s. Pierce, as he and Jane watched their only child crushed on his way to his inauguration in a train accident. They were incompetent. Their incompetency is nowhere near the evil - for the first time ever by the presidency - we face. Thank you for posting, and I appreciate the opportunity to disagree.

[cynatnite]

19. Understood

Thanks for clearing that up. I was just looking at comparisons, but in far too many respects bush could in no way come close to the men that held office before him.

Thanks :hi:

[Faygo Kid]

25. And I return the respect. Thank you.

[ClintonTyree]

10. Steve Reamer.....

he was the president of our senior class (class of 1968!). He's an alcoholic now, twice divorced living in a one room cabin in Arkansas. A complete idiot. Asshole extraordinaire! Republican through and through. (I came from a VERY Republican Town).

Yep, George Bush compares well with Steve Reamer. They could both fuck up a one car funeral procession. ;)

[cynatnite]

30. That would never have occured to me

:rofl:

Love that!

[Selatius]

11. Woodrow Wilson, one of the most totalitarian presidents we ever had.

He liquidated the anti-war movement and drove it underground. He deported and imprisoned members of the Socialist Party, and this was before the USSR even existed. He set up a propaganda ministry called the "Committee on Public Information," and it helped sell WWI to a weary American public.

Read up on the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. Together, these bills made it virtually a crime to criticize the government in times of war. Thousands of people were arrested for daring to question the authority of the government and the rationale for war.

[Minnesota Libra]

17. Nixon, and possibly Reagan too, but especially Nixon. nt

[Warpy]

20. Yeah, and got shot and died before he did any damage, plus

he didn't go out of his way to alienate US allies.

Polk started preemptive wars and alienated allies but didn't do as much damage domestically. He failed to put the gummint close to bankruptcy, in other words. He was no friend of Americans, but he didn't throw them in prison without charges.

This asshole we have squatting in Gore's house is one stop shopping for the worst of all presidents. He's done it all. Everything he's done in office has been exactly wrong, better for business and the rich than for you and me. Even that shining jewel in an otherwise shit encrusted crown, the do not call list, is flawed by exempting companies you've used in the past as well as political callers.

Nobody in the past came close to the disaster we have now.

[foo_bar]

24. Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was a fuckwad of the first order. Andrew Jackson sodomized Lady Liberty and passed her on to his friends. Andrew Jackson was not just a bad president, he was an enemy to the American people and a traitor to the Constitution.

See, in 1830, gold was discovered on Indian lands and so the Indian Removal Act was promptly established. The Cherokee, however, operating under the delusion that our nation has a justice system, challenged the government in American courts. It was finally decided by the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Marshall, that the U.S. government was obliged to honor the treaties it had made with the Cherokee and other Indian nations. Yay! Right triumphs over might! The American star shines nobly forth, spilling the light of freedom over all her children, regardless of race or creed!

But hold! Enter that fucker Andrew Jackson, stage left! "John Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it now if he can," Jackson spat. And the babyhumping bastardo sent out the militia to round up the Cherokee and march them eight hundred miles, over the Trail of Tears. Twelve thousand people were dispossessed and four thousand died.

http://www.pigdog.org/auto/liberty/link/2220.html

It isn't exactly a history textbook, but this isn't exactly a history class.

[Blue_In_AK]

26. Yeah, and then they had the NERVE to name

our beautiful Denali after him. :puke:

[Cooley Hurd]

27. Benjamin Harrison...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/bh23.html

- In the Presidential election, Harrison received 100,000 fewer popular votes than Cleveland, but carried the Electoral College 233 to 168. Although Harrison had made no political bargains, his supporters had given innumerable pledges upon his behalf...

- Long before the end of the Harrison Administration, the Treasury surplus had evaporated, and prosperity seemed about to disappear as well. Congressional elections in 1890 went stingingly against the Republicans, and party leaders decided to abandon President Harrison although he had cooperated with Congress on party legislation. Nevertheless, his party renominated him in 1892, but he was defeated by Cleveland.

On edit: Mustn't forget Warren Harding:
- Due to a number of scandals involving others in his administration, after his death Harding gained a reputation as being one of America's least successful presidents. In numerous polls of historians, Harding is ranked as one of the worst.

[originalpckelly]

31. Do I have to pick a President, I think Kings are the only comparison

Well his first name was George too.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

32. Good old "salt of the earth" Ronald Reagan. Another drooling idiot.

Sold the same bill of goods to the populace as "straight shootin'", "Stand up fer 'murka", "Plain talkin'", half-witted moron, who could be "trusted" because he was a "man of the people".

Translation of all the above:

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” - H.L. Mencken

[MrBenchley]

33. How about Millard Fillmore?

Headed a party called the Know-Nothings which pandered to bigots.....

[CoffeeCat]

35. I'd say the president of Enron--Kenny Lay--is very similar (nt)