Sorry, I think I know why I dislike Obama, it has nothing to do with his skin color. In fact, I was hoping he would be able to unite the country in that aspect. Instead hes done the opposite. If you think people are racists without them displaying any racism at all, then you have no integrity. Before Obama was elected he made many comments I disliked, he had zero executive experience, he spent his time in a church that spewed racist hatred and he was friends with a terrorist that made bombs filled with nails used to attack the United States. But YEAH I MUST HAVE NOT LIKED HIM for other reasons right. Other than that Mrs Lincoln how was the play?
Two seconds to run a search engine query: So 18 trillion dollars and currently estimated to rise to 20 trillion before Obama slimes out of office at the end of 2016. Hey now . . . way to go leftwingers!
I don't know you, so obviously I have no way to know what's in your heart or how you came there. And that's really not what I was talking about to begin with. I was talking about this corrosive hatred of the man that has permeated the conservative community and is frankly tearing it apart from the inside. It's normal to dislike a politician you disagree with, even to dislike them intensely. But this sort of irrational hatred is not normal, and cannot be accounted for by simple policy differences. For one thing because, like I said, this all started before he even took office. We know how this sort of thing can spread. Most people are primarily influenced by the opinions of the people around them. But where did it start? I've been looking and looking for six years now and found nothing. I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that this must have started with and been propagated because of simple racism, because I haven't been able to find anything else to explain it. And not only is there no apparent source for the hatred, look at the extremes it has taken this country to. No one, and I mean no one has claimed that cutting spending would create jobs since 1937. It's completely crazy and flies in the face of 80 years of history and economics. No one would have gone near this stuff until the minute the word, "stimulus" passed Obama's lips. Now we have people in Congress trying to start a second great depression simply because it's the opposite of what Obama wants. This has gone completely beyond the bounds of sanity.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean other people are incorrect it just means you don't understand it. There are pages after pages of threads of valid criticisms of Obama. You shouldn't have to look to far to find reasons why he is the worst President we have ever had. You can turn on the TV today and watch his foreign policy fail while he golfs. You can explain his relationship to a bono fide nail bombing terrorist and his listening to a preacher spout hatred for 20 years. Did you find the same hatred of Bush unacceptable?
Not a terrible list, but I don't understand how either Obama or Carter are worse than Woodrow "He Kept Us Out of War" Wilson, or Franklin "Court Stacker" Roosevelt. What's your reasoning, if you don't mind me asking?
This thread demonstrates that Carter has been so useless as President that he has even been able not to qualify in the race for the worse President ever ...
Exactly. What I'm trying to do is understand it. Like I said before, it's entirely reasonable to dislike politicians you disagree with. I'm not asking why conservatives don't like Obama; I'm asking why they're willing to burn the country down just to spite him. GW Bush is really the perfect example. Bush was intensely disliked by Democrats and liberals, but not hated the way Obama is. For example, when the Dems took the House Pelosi said impeachment was off the table once, and that was it. Boehner has said no to impeachment over and over and over, and the issue still isn't dead. For another example, Dems were willing to work with Bush to get things done, such as No Child Left Behind. (I'm not commenting on the merits of No Child here, just on the degree of bipartisanship that allowed it to happen.) And of course, no one ever shouted "You lie!" at Bush during a State of the Union. So why is it that Republicans who are willing to work with Obama to get the most basic of routine legislative business done are labeled as traitors and RINO's? And again, this is not about anything Obama's done as President - it started before he even took office. If this blind hatred isn't about race, what is it about? Seriously, I'd love it if you could give me something to show that it's not race. People don't react this way for no reason. The hatred has to be coming from somewhere. It's emotional, not rational, but it's still rooted in something.
I said Carter. I almost picked Obama, but I don't think Carter Jr. has been quite as inept of a president yet. However, he still has time to become the worse!
I understand the reasoning but recall that Carter did accomplish the Camp David Peace Accords during his only term of office whereas aside from ramming Obamacare sideways down a nation's gagging throat the Left's Anointed One still has accomplished diddly-squat that the nation as a whole actually wanted. So . . . I'd have to give the nod to Carter Junior as being the worse president of the two.
It's a difficult choice for me. Carter's policies gave us double digit inflation, and he handled Iran very poorly. I think he was a great person, I just think he was a lousy leader. He was too damn nice. I don't like Obama as a person or leader, but I don't think Obamacare will harm this nation as much as carter's policies did.
Worst of all-time: Woodrow Wilson Worst from the poll choices: W. Bush, followed by Nixon and Carter.
Uh, You left out Obama! He is first in the polling as being the worst! Obama is lying, incompetent scum!
The choices on the poll were limited. William Henry Harrison would be the worst President in my opinion. He refused to wear a coat or hat thinking that it would make him appear weak. He gave the longest inaugural address despite the cold weather. Then his only real act of consequence was calling the Congress into a Special Session that our country couldn't afford financially. (We didn't have a national debt back then.) Even his death threw our country into a constitutional crisis. But from the choices given, I chose Barack Obama. My reason for selecting him is based upon his complete lack of leadership ability. Of course, this is our fault. We, the voters elected a man to the highest office in the land that had no leadership experience. He'd never been governor of any state. Never been mayor or a city. He wasn't even troop leader of the boy scouts. Talk about set up to fail, we did it. His first two years in office he had the House, Senate and Oval Office all controlled by Democrats. However, rather than try and get Republicans on board, the Democrats at the behest of the President rammed through the Affordable Care Act basically telling the GOP that they didn't need them. Then at the polls, in 2010, the President got, in his own words a "shellacking". The American voters gave the House of Representatives to the Republicans in an effort to derail the Obama-Train. Now President Obama isn't the first President to have to deal with an opposing Congress. William Jefferson Clinton and George Walker Bush had to deal with both houses being in the opposing party's hands. But the two of them were leaders. I think few can argue that Bill Clinton's last two years were very productive. We had a balanced budget, there was even a surplus. George W Bush is certainly considered a leader, even by the Democrats. Just look at how many blame him for the woes during his term. President Obama isn't a leader. The Democrats know it. This is why they don't hold him responsible for anything. Leaders are responsible. He's a helpless passenger on the train that is headed for a train wreck. How many times have we heard him say that there isn't anything that he can do? What leadership requires is someone wiling to LEAD. It is very hard to get people to work with you when every time you take to the lectern you are insulting them.
I lean toward Obama. Right up there with Carter, Kennedy and Johnson. (no, I'm not a republican, there were many dems in the past I really liked. Very few contemporary ones though..very few contemporary reps either.) Obama is what he is; a community organizer. His view that running the country is merely another community organizing project is too short sighted. He is simply 'out of his element'. Carter was Carter..what more can I say? Kennedy made far more poor and dangerous decisions than good and beneficial ones. Johnson was a 'good ol' boy' old school politico. He too wasn't up for the job, but he was wise enough to know it and declined to run for a second term. (I give him credit for that)
In my lifetime, i have to go with obama.. i was born during eisenhour, but don't remember any of his speeches. But for me, the parameters of 'worst' are: 1. dividing the american people over race, economic status, & party affiliation. 2. trampling & despising the constitution, the essence of the american experiment. If we will not be ruled by law, we will be ruled by tyrants. 3. Stepping backwards in the evolution of human rights.. to life, property, & other individual liberties. His policies promote imperial rule, not law. 4. Lying, spin, distortion. I have never heard or heard of a more duplicitous president, in the history of america. 5. His goal of 'fundamentally changing' america. That is traitorous & destructive to the american experiment. It needs to be protected, & maybe tweaked some, but not dismantled. 6. ruinous debt. Deficit spending will lead us to collapse, which seems to be his goal.
