outlawauron said:
Andrew Jackson is and will probably always be my number 1 pick for this dubious award. |
Yeah... really when it comes to "Worst" president too... it depends on what basis you are measuring on.
A) Worst outcomes due to their presidency.
B) Worst attrocities they committed under their presidency.
C) Worst decisions they made under their presidency whether they got lucky or not.
If you go with B. The script flips quite a bit and you end up with FDR at the bottom... and is argueably Obama's weakest placing due o his massive use of illegal drone strikes.
C) is espeically interesting, and fun to consider. You just have to think "What would this president done in the other's place."
Though full of guesswork... it really shows how a lot of presidents are judged more by their time then their presidency.
For example, put George W Bush in FDR's place... and he's probably pushing for WW2 harder then FDR was. He'd suddenly be a hero and one of the "best" presidents... Bush's crimes in his presidency actually pale at all the illegal shit FDR did.
Put Jimmy Carter in the presidency of John Quincy Adams where agriculture is still king and there are no big foreign policy issues and he may of been regarded even higher then JQA (Who actually historically gets a bad rap.)
Really... the peacetime presidents in general get a bad rap in my opinion. Which is partially why Teddy is my favorite President.
