Worst President of the 20th Century

I'd have to say Jimmy Carter. One of the worst presidencies this country has ever had to endure. But hey, you know, at least he went out and did something nice after he screwed stuff up. You have to like the guy even though he was a terrible president. He's just better at doing humanitarian stuff without being leader of the USA.

Specifically I'd have to call attention to how badly he botched up the Iran hostage crisis. Or the, you know, insane inflation that he was almost entirely responsible for. Or how he went on so much about human rights, but still tried to work with favorable trade conditions with China, which still is one of the worst human-rights abusing countries on the planet. Losing the Panama Canal, the whole bit in Afghanistan...his entire presidential story is nothing but a series of botch-ups.

EDIT: I don't know enough about a lot of the listed Presidents to say for sure which one I'd think is the worse. However, out of the Presidents I do know a fair bit about, my vote goes to Carter for the worse.

EDIT EDIT: As far as do-nothing presidencies go, you should probably take a look at the Eisenhower presidency. Honestly, whenever he gets mentioned, everyone is like "Isn't he the highway guy?" That's all he'll ever be remembered for. Building roads. He wasn't a bad president persay, just uneventful.

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Originally Posted by RABicle

Oh my post was deleted. Fair enough.

I voted Reagan because he was completely out of his mind. The Contras, Star Wars and the secret early 80's plan to completely level the USSR that was only halted when NASA pointed out their best prediction was a nuclear winter plunging the US to a -20 July

"Nuclear Winter" is a joke. Nobody predicts that sort of thing would happen anymore. Reagen did do some pretty weird shit, but he did get us out of the tax nightmare that Carter had created. A missile defense system is actually a good idea (and i for one think it's preferably to have money going into defensive research rather than offensive research). I mean, OK, maybe the way he envisioned it was a bit ludicrous, but the concept was there and it isn't a bad one. I can't say he's the worst or even close, because he did fix quite a bit, and there's plenty of stuff he did right.

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