Who Is The Worst President of All Time?

[President Johnson]

James Buchanan. But Andrew Johnson and Franklin Pierce are very close second. All three totally incompetent.

[MATTROSE94]

Definitely Buchanan, though I would expect most forum members to vote for Ronald Reagan as the worst President.

[IceSpear]

Obama because the healthcare website crashed,

hillary will replace him on day 1 because emails

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

There is a case to be made that Franklin Pierce's administration was much, much more damaging to the country than Buchanan. By the time the latter took office, the country was already hopelessly divided - I doubt even Washington could have prevented a civil war. Pierce, by contrast, had an opportunity to heal the country and he blew it. He was a shameless Southern partisan - a doughface of the lowest order - to the point where even the Democrats couldn't make excuses for him anymore, and his unyielding fealty to the slave power was a key factor in the collapse of the Second Party System and the rise of sectional politics. The only good thing I can think to say about him is that his horrendous policies inadvertently hastened the end of slavery, but there are no points for being right by accident.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Definitely Buchanan, though I would expect most forum members to vote for Ronald Reagan as the worst President.

Uh, I'm pretty sure both progressives and conservatives would agree that slavery is worse than neoliberalism (Snowstalkers of the world aside).

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The more I read about Pierce and Buchanan the more inclined I am to agree with Truman that Pierce was worse. Buchanan was worse than useless, obviously, but Pierce was much more of a doughface true believer, without the excuse of being from near the Mason-Dixon Line, and he was a prophet and early architect of American imperialism.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Wilson

[HisGrace]

As others have said, Pierce and Fillmore are way worse than Buchanan, who gets too much flak.  Nothing was going to stop the Civil War at that point, and why would anyone want to stop it then anyway, since there was pretty much no other way left to end slavery.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

The answer is Fillmore, with Pierce in second.

The Compromise of 1850 was a disaster that set everything else off.

Things were already falling apart. Hence the desire for a compromise.

[Breton Racer]

James Buchanan chose to ignore the slavery issue, and fast tracked the Civil War.

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

Woodrow Wilson: Reduced tariffs just to saddle the American people with the Federal Reserve and an income tax.

[FairBol]

IMHO, it's Barack Obama, by a landslide.  Nobody else is even close, unless you count Jimmy Carter. 

[FairBol]

Wait a minute....TEN PEOPLE voted for Ronald Reagan?! Is everybody freakin' nuts around here?

[IceSpear]

Wait a minute....TEN PEOPLE voted for Ronald Reagan?! Is everybody freakin' nuts around here?

Says the guy that voted Obama?

[Intell]

Wait a minute....TEN PEOPLE voted for Ronald Reagan?! Is everybody freakin' nuts around here?

No, Reagan was a shi*t president.

One of the worst president of the post 20th century, and 21st century presidents, probably only better than McKinley, Coolidge, Hoover and probably equal to Bill Clinton, in terms of horribleness.

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

[Lambsbread]

Johnson, followed closely by Buchanan. Andrew Jackson gets an honorable mention for literally overseeing genocide.

[CapoteMonster]

Buchanan, without his failures as president there was a good chance we could've avoided the civil war.

[HisGrace]

Buchanan, without his failures as president there was a good chance we could've avoided the civil war.

How was he supposed to do that other than yet another compromise on the slavery issue? Since we're all (I'm assuming) glad that slavery was abolished I don't think any of us would view that as a good thing.

[Miles]

Wilson