Most overrated president

[lidaker]

This has probably been up before... but anyway.

I say John F. Kennedy.

[The Dowager Mod]

Reagan

[minionofmidas]

This has probably been up before... but anyway.

I say John F. Kennedy.

Well, with all that cant about him being one of America's greatest presidents ever, you're probably right.

[Dr. Cynic]

Ronald Reagan.

[lidaker]

This has probably been up before... but anyway.

I say John F. Kennedy.

Well, with all that cant about him being one of America's greatest presidents ever, you're probably right.

I'd say he isn't even among the 15 greatest, but considering that he only had barely three years in office, he did good.

[Dr. Cynic]

Kennedy is highest ranked of the ones who never served a full term.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Ronald W. Reagan would be close...  but only because of his middle name.  The most overrated and indeed the worst president the United States has ever has was Woodrow Wilson.

[nini2287]

Wilson, Truman or Andrew Jackson

[PBrunsel]

Franklin Roosevelt

People tend to ignore that his heavy taxation of the rich actually helped prolong the Depression.

[Akno21]

Reagan.

[Dr. Cynic]

I feel that Truman is rated about right. FDR is rated well in my opinion too. He wasn't the best, but he wasn't the worst. FDR did alot for this country. And if you disagree with that, at least he gave us hope.

[7,052,770]

ANDREW JACKSON!!!

[gorkay]

Right now it's Reagan by a landslide, but history will probably correct this in time. Eisenhower is getting to be pretty overrated too.

[WalterMitty]

bill clinton and ronald reagan

[Reignman]

-Wilson
-Eisenhower
-JFK
-Reagan

[Dr. Cynic]

Reagan was definately the most overrated. This is the same man who told schools to give kids ketchup, because he said it would provide the veggie part of the "Balanced" school lunch. That sounds really redundant.

[The Duke]

Correct answer: Andrew Jackson.  Our worst President is often regarded as top 10 because he hated the rich.  Never mind that his policies hurt the poor more than the rich, his hatred endears him to leftist historians.  JFK is second most overrated.  He is often rated too high by the public, but he actually was a decent PResident, as opposed to Jackson who was not.

Reagan was definately the most overrated. This is the same man who told schools to give kids ketchup, because he said it would provide the veggie part of the "Balanced" school lunch. That sounds really redundant.

In 500 years, what will matter more: Ketchup as a vegetable or the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact?

[Dr. Cynic]

In 500 years, I'll be dead. I guess it really wouldn't matter. I just find Reagan's ignorance about things like that overwhelming. The same as I found Jimmy Carter to be utterly unfit to be President. I think though, by the time Reagn was President, the people were kidding themselves if they thought the Soviets wouldn't collapse soon.

[PBrunsel]

I will always believe that SDI was not so much a new weapon, but a program to bankrupt the USSR. Smart move for Reagan. He was smart when it came to winning the Cold War.

[The Duke]

In 500 years, I'll be dead. I guess it really wouldn't matter. I just find Reagan's ignorance about things like that overwhelming. The same as I found Jimmy Carter to be utterly unfit to be President. I think though, by the time Reagn was President, the people were kidding themselves if they thought the Soviets wouldn't collapse soon.

On January 20th, 1981, the USSR was more powerful than the US.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In 500 years, I'll be dead. I guess it really wouldn't matter. I just find Reagan's ignorance about things like that overwhelming. The same as I found Jimmy Carter to be utterly unfit to be President. I think though, by the time Reagn was President, the people were kidding themselves if they thought the Soviets wouldn't collapse soon.

On January 20th, 1981, the USSR was more powerful than the US.

Hah!

[WalterMitty]

john ford you know that is just as incorrect as the 'missle gap' was.

[PBrunsel]

We tend to forget Ander Jackson saved the Union from an early Civil War. He stared down Vice President Calhoun, the "nulification" man, and told him, "Our Union, it must be preserved."  He threatened hangings to any Congressman who preached sessesion on the floors of Congress.

Jackson saved the Union.

[Keystone Phil]

Most overrated without a doubt is JFK. I always find someone who says JFK is their favorite President and then when I ask what they love about him or what he did to think he was great, they can never answer.

Now I like that JFK cut taxes and solved the Cuban Missile crisis (I think Nixon could have provided much stronger leadership during that time) but there were other elements of his Presidency that were not successful at all. I still don't understand why people put him as one of the best and one of their favorite Presidents.

[minionofmidas]

We tend to forget Ander Jackson saved the Union from an early Civil War. He stared down Vice President Calhoun, the "nulification" man, and told him, "Our Union, it must be preserved."  He threatened hangings to any Congressman who preached sessesion on the floors of Congress.

Jackson saved the Union.

Postponed it till the South had no chance of winning it, is more like.