The Worst President, your thoughts?

[Subcommander R.]

^
Taft was the 'guy who got stuck in the tub.'

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'm a Democrat and, despite some differences, I think it would be difficult to keep Ronald Reagan off the top ten list... so I'm not sure how you could list him in the bowels of the president's list.

It's amazingly easy. Anybody putting him in their top ten list is either delusional or ignorant.

None of that, please.

 

[Admiral Shran]

I saw a poll of historians awhile back, and what amazed my was that there were two or three presidents (Frankling Pierce was one of the, IIRC) that finished behind William Henry Harrison. Now, for whatever good qualities WHH may have had, the fact remains that he spent most (if not all) of the thirty days of his Presidency in bed hacking up phlegm and dieing of pneumonia. So, my question is this: how bad do you really have to be to finish behind a performance like that?

William Henry Harrison was one of the best presidents we've ever had. Since he was sick most of the time, he didn't have a chance to either wreck the economy, get us involved in a war, kill a bunch of minorities, or run roughshod over the Constitution.

 

[KJbushway]

Sounds fair to me.