Well, some folks without historical knowledge would have you think so. In reality, there are a slew of presidents worse than W. Of course, this can change based on information that comes out through the years and sometimes what seems unimportant today is viewed as important in the future. So, this list is fluid based on what comes out.
As we know, there have been 44 presidents. Grover Cleveland counts twice since he served two non-consecutive terms. We shall count him once. Also not included: William Henry Harrison (served one month), James Garfield (served 6 months), and Barack Obama (less than a week).
Presidents are arranged chronologically:
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829): Completely ineffective as a result of himself as well as congress.
Martin Van Buren (1837-1841): Martin Van Ruin: Southern Lapdog
John Tyler (1841-1845): Became a man without a party; helped the South to secession; did have some accomplishments
Millard Fillmore (1850-1853): Who?
Franklin Pierce (1853-1857): Kansas-Nebraska
James Buchanan (1857-1861): Complicit with secession
Andrew Johnson (1865-1869): Impeached, blocked Reconstruction, his actions helped set up a century of racial strife
U.S. Grant (1869-1877): Different scandal every week...and there were some doozies
Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893): Economic policies (protectionism and inflationary monetary policy) created a depression.
William H. Taft (1909-1913): The Era of Bungled Diplomacy; TR ended up coming back to challenge him
Warren Harding (1921-1923): Teapot Dome, Nan Britton, and other assorted scandals
Herbert Hoover (1929-1933): The Bonus March, Hoovervilles, and his own version of the New Deal...
Jimmy Carter (1977-1981): Hostages in Iran, gas lines, Misery Index, the Carter years are a model of incompetence
Bill Clinton (1993-2001): Warren Harding on steroids. Impeached, turns down a deal for Bin Laden, regulatory policies that led to the crash of 2008, bureaucratic rules that helped lead to 911...the Clinton Years sell themselves!
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Bill Clinton? And then you go on to cite not a single accurate stat about him. You know this information is readily available, right? I realize that the average American is a drooling idiot and won't bother to check things out for themselves, but Clinton is not responsible for the economic policies that led to this crash, and while he did, in fact, decide not to go after bin laden, he did so under the advisement of the CIA, the leadship of which was put in place by Bush Sr. It is also intellectually dishonest to say he was impeached without giving any context. He was witch-hunted over a blow job to the tune of millions of wasted taxpayer dollars. Clinton also operated under an extremely hostile Republican legislature that was more concerned with promoting their whacked out agenda than doing anything good for the country. You're starting to sound more and more like a Fox commentator, all rant, not substance.
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