How's That Recovery Comin?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I like the way that this post implies that you actually know something about about all the other presidents and at some point you decided....yep, Obama is now worse than James Buchanan or John Tyler, or Andrew Johnson....or whichever president you had last on your list before.
You don't like the guy. Fine. But this "worst president in our history" stuff is just nonsense. You are comparing him to people that I feel confident in guessing you don't know the first thing about.
Its not just you either. There are polls like this all the time and I always think they are stupid. Does comparing the John Adams administration to the Gerald Ford administration really make any sense whatsoever? There's no reasonable way to do it....or really a very good reason to do it.

andrew johnson was pretty bad, more recently i'd have to say carter. buchanan was a pathetic joke. then there's polk, who was suckered by santa anna in exile, helped him come back to mexico-which lead to the mexican/american war...

[hi_im_god]

harrison would be difficult to rank. maybe you need a seperate list of best and worst first 30 days of a presidency. that would be the only fair way to judge his month in office against the other's.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

harrison would be difficult to rank. maybe you need a seperate list of best and worst first 30 days of a presidency. that would be the only fair way to judge his month in office against the other's.

he wouldn't be on a worst list for sure...he didn't have enough time to really screw anything up.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by Danzig

andrew johnson was pretty bad, more recently i'd have to say carter. buchanan was a pathetic joke. then there's polk, who was suckered by santa anna in exile, helped him come back to mexico-which lead to the mexican/american war...

Yeah but he wasn't president during "important times" like Obama.