Worst President from World War 2 to 2012? And why?

[sdu754]

Nixon -unlike George W. Bush (whom I know many are going to pick anyway) he threatened the very institutions of our democracy through his actions that led up to Watergate. 

I chose Johnson, He did the same types of illegal activities as Nixon, plus he gets credit for the Vietnam debacle, failed "great Society" programs, with thier budgetary time bombs, and his "guns & Butter" policies created the stagflation of the 70s

[sdu754]

Bush: Afghanistan, failure to prevent 9/11, PATRIOT Act (and entailing spying, restrictions on freedoms, seizures, indefinite detention, associated expenditures), torture, invading Iraq, occupying Iraq, making Homeland Security, Adam Walsh Act, Katrina, Iran Freedom Support Act, attempt to overthrown Chavez, supporting Ethiopian action in Somalia, funding attacks against the Islamic Courts Union, supporting Gaza civil war (Fatah vs Hamas), led to decreased stability in Pakistan, vetoed less than any other President, backing opposition to reforms in Bolivia, Andean Counterdrug Initiative, Operation Pipe Dreams, Project Safe Neighborhoods (specifically the "renewed enforcement of federal firearms law"), invented "free speech zones", TSA, Need I continue?

You don't need to continue YOUR A DEMOCRAT we get it! Much of your list was either none of Bushes fault, or "vetoed less than any other President" has nothing to do with either being good or bad. It might not even be historically accurate, as most early presidents didn't use the veto alot.

[sdu754]

Johnson is easily in the top 10 presidents; if not for Vietnam, he'd be just below Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt.

For What? Failed social programs? Budgetary time bombs? Screwing up the economy? The only thing he got right was civil rights, which he only did to buy black votes. Historians don't look kindly on Grant, and he was for civil rights when it was unpopular. Even without Vietnam, he'd be a very poor president.

[sdu754]

That is saddening that both the Gipper and Dubya are considered worse Presidents than Jimmy "lusting in the heart" Carter.

Says more about the voters than the presidents