Who was the best and worst USA president ever???

Question

who do you think was the best or worst president ever and why??? 10 pts for the best answer!!!

Answer 1

The worse is Mr. Jimmy "Hamas is not a terrorist group" Carter.

The best are several.

T. Roosevelt, G. Washington, T. Jefferson, F.D. Roosevelt

Answer 2

Washington - best, he had to form the government from a sloppy written charter. He formed government strictly and made it work. He made it so we can continue to function under the Constitution.

Jimmy Carter is by farrrr the worst - horrible economy, supported dictators, communicated with Cuba - clearly against US law, and had terrible foreign communications that we are still attempting to fix.

Answer 3

Woodrow Wilson for creating the Federal Reserve after which he said

    I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

    ~ Woodrow Wilson

Not sure who the best is yet

Answer 4

Reagin best-Clinton or Carter worst......

Answer 5

Reagen - Best

Charter  - Worst

Answer 6

Teddy Roosevelt was the best. He was a reformer and a republican, which is what we are in dire need of today.

Jimmy Carter was the worst, and I think Obama would  be the very worst.

Answer 7

Washington-best

Carter - worst, reason, he was probably the most honest man

                  to ever be president, sadly everyone else wasn't

Answer 8

Lincoln for best.

Carter for worst.

Answer 9

Theodore Roosevelt is the best because of his personality as he is a great example of a person with a combination of strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness, and great unselfishness. He even wrote a thesis on racial struggle between "civilization" and supposed savagery (of people of color). Furthermore, he invited African American reformer Booker T. Washington to a dinner at the White House, an action which caused outrage among many newspapers in the South, which objected to "mixing of the races on social occasions."

Carter is the worst...not going to comment anything bad about him as I shouldn't judge him in such a manner.

Answer 10

G. Washington was probably the best because there was nothing prior to compare him to

G W Bush presently is holding the world record of awfulness as a person and as a president. At least he may make fame for the Guinness Book Of Records in something.

Answer 11

I see that all the right wing Christian fundies in here are all bashing Carter yet history shows a different picture....

Granting that President Carter had important deficiencies as a politician, we should all be grateful if the next President compiled a record as good.

His historic achievements include the Camp David accords; the Panama Canal treaty; the second strategic arms limitation treaty (which President Reagan respected for six reluctant years), the improvement of United States standing with the third world; a persistent and constructive emphasis on human rights abroad; a share of credit for deregulating the transportation industry, and a superb environmental record, which included setting aside a national park area in Alaska as large as the state of California.

But that's not all. The Central Intelligence Agency has acted disgracefully (at times) under Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Johnson and Reagan - but not under Mr. Carter. For four years that rogue agency confined itself to actions that did not besmirch our reputation around the world. How much credit did Mr. Carter get for that? None.

Nor did he receive credit for the general absence of major blunders during his tenure. There was no Watergate, no Bay of Pigs, no Vietnam, no arms-for-hostages deal, no loss of 241 marines in Beirut and no attempt to double-cross Congress.

It is no exaggeration to say that Mr. Carter had the most scandal-free Administration since Franklin D. Roosevelt. And no President leveled with the American people more consistently than Jimmy Carter.

His call for austere and painful conservation measures during the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries oil crisis represented about the only peacetime appeal for significant national sacrifice that any American President has ever made.

Republicans make much of President Reagan's invasion of tiny Grenada and the aerial strike against Libya, but neither of these begins to compare to Mr. Carter's political courage in calling for a grain embargo and a boycott of the Olympic Games when the Russians invaded Afghanistan. That took real guts.

Mr. Carter strove hard to bring his party from a politically untenable liberal posture to a more middle-of-the-road stance. Party liberals blasted him for his budgetary frugalities, but history has shown him to be wiser than his critics.

Mr. Carter was not only knowledgeable on what was going on in his Administration but he also got his facts straight at press conferences. Nor did he consult astrologers when planning his schedule, or let Jody Powell invent fake comments for him. Is that the record of a failure? Let us hope, however, that the next President is luckier than Mr. Carter. He was mainly responsible for the Camp David accord, but Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar el-Sadat won the Nobel Peace prize. The Russians invaded Afghanistan just when Senate ratification of the strategic arms treaty was at the critical stage.

OPEC raised oil prices to preposterous levels; serious droughts in various parts of the world drove food prices up; labor unions demanded wage increases to more than compensate for these, driving prices higher still. Who took the rap for inflation? Jimmy Carter, of course. The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized American hostages and refused to release them, virtually dooming Mr. Carter's re-election prospects. Then there were the bogus scare about a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba, the antics of Billy Carter and the theft of Mr. Carter's briefing papers before the Reagan-Carter television debates. To say nothing of news media that endlessly harassed Mr. Carter for minor political blunders while overlooking or minimizing significant Carter achievements.

Republicans harp on the ''misery index'' under Jimmy Carter. How about a ''fairness index'' when the news media come to appraise his record? REO M. CHRISTENSON Adjunct Prof., Political Science Miami University Oxford, Ohio, May 16, 1988

History will show Bush as the worst President ever to take the office. I'm just glad he didn't claim to be God because you'd all be bowing down to him, of course in a way you are anyways when you thow logic and reason out the door in regards to all he has done to bring down the United States.

Answer 12

President Jimmy Carter