TOP 10 WORST U.S. PRESIDENTS

10 WARREN

HARDING

10

WARREN HARDING

To our fellow Americans, a word of advice:

never trust a guy who uses the word

“normality” in their speech. Warren G. Harding

was elected President back in 1920 and did so

with promises to restore the country back to its

pre World War I state. Yet his presidency was

full of corruption and favoritism, prompting

scandals and a poor approval rating. He was

accused of bribery, adultery, and just being an

all-around crappy Prez. His horrible term in

office even prompted what some call the

“Warren Harding Error.”

ANDREW

JOHNSON

ANDREW JOHNSON

Why Andrew Johnson? Well, we must say that

coming to office after Abraham Lincoln was

tough. Yet Johnson could have done it with a

lot more skill. Instead he nearly obliterated all

of Lincoln’s hard work. Immediately following

Lincoln’s death, Johnson supported the South.

Longing to return to the white supremacy

pattern of society, he used the Republican

Congress’s recess to push for pro-slavery laws.

He granted pardons to and also allowed

Confederate entities to take over control of

some states and establish “Black codes.”

MILLARD

FILLMORE

Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore was the 13th President and

had a solid beginning, a sort of rags-to-riches

story as he made his way up the ranks in

political circles. So what happened? He

shoved morals and ethics down the toilet and

favored being a politico. His approval rating

tanked and did nothing to ease the build-up

to the Civil War. Whoops. People wanted to

quickly forget about him, and in fact, most

folks have. Kids do not even learn about him.

ULYSSES

S.

GRANT

ULYSSES S. GRANT

This is another United States president that

allowed an onslaught of corruption within his

political circle. He is most often referred to as

a president who had a not-so-fruitful term in

office and he lacked a lot of the admirable

qualities most of us look for in a presidential

candidate. Ulysses S. Grant did not exhibit

stellar public-speaking skills, nor was he quite

dominant in politics and he was more quiet

and under the radar.

RICHARD M.

NIXON

RICHARD M. NIXON

In June, 1972, several of Nixon’s men were

caught breaking into Democratic Party

headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. Nixon

himself downplayed the Watergate Scandal as

mere politics, but when his aides resigned in

disgrace, Nixon’s role in ordering an illegal

cover-up came to light. Nixon owed back

taxes, had accepted illicit campaign

contributions, and had harassed opponents

with executive agencies, wiretaps, and break-

ins. In addition, he had ordered the secret

bombing of Cambodia.

JOHN

TYLER

JOHN TYLER

Tyler’s Presidency was rarely taken seriously

in his time. Opponents usually referred him to

as the “Acting President”. Tyler shocked

Congressional Whigs by vetoing virtually the

entire Whig agenda, twice vetoing Clay’s

legislation for a national banking act. Tyler

was officially expelled from the Whig Party in

1841 and became known as “the man without

a party.” In 1843, after he vetoed a tariff bill,

the House of Representatives considered the

first impeachment resolution against a

president in American history.

JIMMY

CARTER

JIMMY CARTER!

Though he still has his proponents today, the

case could be made that Jimmy Carter was not

the best President. While a generally genial

and compassionate man, what the country

needed was a strong leader willing to face up

to the Ayatollahs and tackle the double digit

inflation. To be fair, Carter did have a couple

of successes; for example, he did get Israel

and Egypt to sign the Camp David Peace

Accord, which brought peace to the two

antagonists after nearly thirty years of

intermittent warfare….but that’s it.

GEORGE

W.

BUSH

GEORGE W. BUSH

Like Rutherford B. Hayes, George W. Bush

became our 43rd President only by emerging

as the victor in an extremely contested

election. Bush lost the popular vote to his

opponent, Al Gore, but won via the Electoral

College when the Supreme Court handed him

the State of Florida’s electoral votes. While he

was able to win re-election in 2004, after

acting as a calming and resolute force

following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, historians

give Bush low marks for the way he first

became President and his status as a divisive

instead of uniting figure.

John F.

Kennedy

2. JFK

John F. Kennedy spent his 35 months in the

White House stumbling from one crisis and

fiasco to another. He came into office and

okayed the Bay of Pigs invasion. Then he

went to a Vienna summit conference and got

his clock cleaned by Khrushchev. That led to,

among other things, the Cuban missile crisis

and a whiff of nuclear apocalypse.

BILL CLINTON

1

BILL CLINTON

Bill Clinton took an oath to preserve, protect,

and defend the Constitution and then as a

sitting President lied, under oath, and subverted

the rights of a U. S. citizen under that

Constitution. His behavior as a womanizing

cheat is not just between himself and Hillary,

it's a matter of moral turpitude and is of public

concern. If he lied about his sexual escapades

that liberals think is of little consequence, what

would he lie about when the stakes were much

higher. He degraded the Presidency in great

measure as Nixon did by lying the American

people - just to cover his behind.

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