Who does Obama LEAST want to succeed him as President?

[ScottieF]

People voting for Hillary are silly. Obama is a pragmatist, regardless of his views on her he knows she is the candidate most likely to preserve his legacy.

Ranking the Republicans from most to least terrible to succeed, from Obama's POV:
1. Cruz
2. Trump
3. Carson
4. Huckabee
5. Santorum
6. Bush
7. Paul
8. Rubio
9. Fiorina
10. Graham
11. Gilmore
12. Kasich
13. Pataki
14. Christie

[The Mikado]

Cruz far and away. Maybe Trump is second, but there's no doubt that Cruz wins by a country mile.

[H. Ross Peron]

Trump and Cruz for policy reasons, but on a personal level Bush in as much as he succeeded George W. Bush.

[Young Conservative]

anyone who will undo the programs he has created

[Leinad]

A republican, that's it.  No matter who it is, they all will pursue the same policy initiatives, maybe only using different tactics.

You really think a John Kasich presidency, a Rand Paul presidency, and a Rick Santorum presidency would all have the same end goals in mind?

Not that any of those people will be elected (especially Santorum, the others aren't quite dead, but it's unlikely) but I'm using those as examples of the vastly different viewpoints of the party's various table legs. Some Republicans are moderate libertarians, others moderate theocrats, and others just moderates, and those are radically different ways to run a country.

[Suburbia]

Bush, Rubio, Kasich. I would put Trump as a fourth pick if we had a fourth option. Obama does not want to see Marco Rubio president, a young rival just like how Clinton was upset that GWB won in 2000. To see Jeb Bush as president after running against his brother's legacy in 2008. Kasich would be a scary choice to replace him, a governor from a swing state. Maybe Hillary Clinton as well, but I don't think so. He may have wanted Gillibrand or Deval Patrick, Cory Booker, or even Julian Castro replace him.

[Phony Moderate]

Hillary.

[Reaganfan]

With the GOP's odds so low in 2016, I doubt he's thought about it much.

Someone hasn't been around

LOL I knew this same denial in late 2007. Looking back, it was hopeless to retain the White House.

[The Mikado]

With the GOP's odds so low in 2016, I doubt he's thought about it much.

Someone hasn't been around

LOL I knew this same denial in late 2007. Looking back, it was hopeless to retain the White House.

If next year brings the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression...again...you will definitely have a point.

Of course, if that happens, a Republican winning the White House will be the least of anyone's worries.

[Sir Mohamed]

Cruz at first, Carson at second and Rubio in third place. Next would be Trump.

[IrisBloom]

Who does Obama LEAST want to succeed him as President?

Jeb Bush, Donald Trump and Rubio
1)Trump, because he often questions whether President Barack Obama's birth certificate is real, resurrecting the old conspiracy theory that many Americans viewed as the low point of the 2008 presidential election.
2) Jeb Bush, member of famous clan of Bushes, members and 'headliners' of Republican party, historically confronting with Democrats and fighting for pork barrel against them
3) Rubio. Cause lots of his colleagues, even Mitt Romney characterize Rubio as manageable and compliant state official. It means that he is tend to political corruption. Rubio has close ties with Bushes. Jeb Bush strongly supported the nomination of Rubio as a senator first and Vice president of the US later. Now we back to 2)  

[whiplash]

Who does Obama LEAST want to succeed him as President?
I think Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. I even heard silly jokes that birth certificate is on the wall in main office of ISIS.
More seriously, they are Jeb Bush, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio.
Liberals do not like members of Tea Party, politicians who oppose rights of homosexuals and support policy of isolationism.   

[whiplash]

I'd say...

1. Trump (birth certificate)
2. Cruz (shutdown, default threats)
3. Huckabee (calling Obama a crazy Muslim)

I disagree with you about Huckabee. Only lazy people did not call Obama a Muslim. All the sins can be forgiven if you support illegal immigration. And Huckabee supports illegal immigrants. He is famous for such statement: "I do not support an amendment to the Constitution that would prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens."