In 5th place, it's Andrew Johnson
4th-Richard Nixon
3rd- James Buchanan
2: Jimmy Carter
And a drum roll please for the worst president ever: Barack Hussein Obama
Their reasoning: He took office at a time when the U.S. economy was on its worst slide in 75 years, but pushed policies using borrowed money that were more meant to preserve government jobs than broadly help the private sector where the great majority of Americans work, ensuring the jobs crisis continued.
He railed against the heavy
spending and big deficits of his predecessor, but blithely backed
budgets that had triple the deficits ever seen in American history.
He
promised a smart, sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system, but
ended up giving us a Byzantine mess promoted to the public with myths:
that offering subsidized care to tens of millions of people would save
money; that people would keep their own doctors; that access to care
wouldn’t change; and that rationing would never happen.
He
promised a more sophisticated approach to the economy than that of his
predecessor, but had so little common sense that his health law actually
gave businesses a big financial incentive to discontinue providing
health insurance to their employees.
He
offered hosannas to genius entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs in his
prepared remarks, but when speaking off the cuff betrayed his
faculty-lounge view of the world, saying of businesspeople, “if you’ve
been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.”
He
swore to bring overdue oversight and honest accounting to the corporate
world, but made flagrantly dishonest claims about General Motors paying
back its government loans that would have triggered a criminal fraud
investigation in the private sector.
He
promised to set a high new standard for ethics in the White House, but
used a baffling claim of executive privilege to shield his embattled
attorney general from the repercussions of a cover-up involving the
death of a federal law enforcement officer.
He
denounced his predecessor for permitting harsh interrogation tactics
with suspected terrorists, but once in office somehow concluded that a
better, more moral approach would just be to use drones to assassinate
such suspects without getting any information from them http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/22/presidential-busts/Ouch, that's going to leave a mark. In the reader poll and in a close race, Jimmy Carter edges out Obama.
They are now running a poll for it's readers for the best presidents of U.S. history and I would not be surprised of Obama shows up on the list.
You can vote here: http://www.utsandiego.com/best-presidents-survey/
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