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| View Poll Results: Worst President of the 20th Century | |||
| William McKinley |
  
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1 | 0.71% |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
  
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0 | 0% |
| William H. Taft |
  
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5 | 3.55% |
| Warren G. Harding |
  
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12 | 8.51% |
| Calvin Coolidge |
  
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2 | 1.42% |
| Herbert Hoover |
  
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10 | 7.09% |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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7 | 4.96% |
| Harry S Truman |
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3 | 2.13% |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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0 | 0% |
| John F. Kennedy |
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0 | 0% |
| Lyndon B. Johnson |
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12 | 8.51% |
| Richard Nixon |
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15 | 10.64% |
| Gerald Ford |
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2 | 1.42% |
| Jimmy Carter |
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19 | 13.48% |
| Ronald Reagan |
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18 | 12.77% |
| George H. W. Bush |
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25 | 17.73% |
| Bill Clinton |
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5 | 3.55% |
| Woodrow Wilson |
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5 | 3.55% |
| Voters: 141. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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 Member 266 Level 32.27 Mar 2006 
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I'm actually going to have to vote for Ford in this regard, simply because I believe that his pardoning of Nixon for Watergate has done more than any one event to create the distrust and apathy for federal government that we have today.
I also fully expect Lord Styphon to prove me wrong immediately. Jam it back in, in the dark.  |
Member 266 Level 32.27 Mar 2006
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There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Member 266 Level 32.27 Mar 2006
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In essence, yes, I was suggesting that. I suppose, though, in this case, it was damned if you do, damned if you don't. Ford either could have let the trial go forward, letting everything be bared and (admittedly) tarnishing his and the government's rep further to eventually have closure and a public that knew that justice was done, or pardoned him and put a stop to the entire thing.
I also wonder if the damage DID end with Carter's presidency, since there are a fair few votes for him as well. Fuggit, I'm just sitting back and reading from now on. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
Member 266 Level 32.27 Mar 2006
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@potentiality:
So... basically, you would be A-OK with the people who had 401K retirement plans in Enron being screwed without Social Security? Don't get me wrong, you're right. People should save up and invest in their retirement plans. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out like you want it to, and Social Security is a buffer. I think that it's the wrong way of going about it, and that it's a problem, but removing it completely is tantamount to condemning millions of people to poverty. Most amazing jew boots |
Member 266 Level 32.27 Mar 2006
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*shrug* I'm no expert on Social Security, and I can't be fucked to do the research to win an internet fight, so I'll just say that I have no idea as to the proper solution, but even my limited expertise can say definitively that removing it outright is nothing short of catastrophic.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
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