Friday, September 05, 2008
I'll start from the bottom few of the Presidential rankings. George W. Bush was not ranked, nor were William Henry Harrison or James Garfield who held office too short a time to give an idea. The remaining 37 were rated this way.
37. James Buchanan. There is just nothing good to say about him. He was a failure in every sense. He should have been competent (kind of like John McCain) given all the government offices he held throughout his long life, but he had no plan for the presidency and ended up unable to prevent one of the greatest calamities in American history.
36. Franklin Pierce. Statistically tied with Buchanan for dead-last but gets a slight bump-up since he wasn't in office when the South seceded. He shouldn't be too happy about it.
35. Millard Fillmore. He was thrust into an office he wasn't prepared for, but did nothing with it either. Instead, he let pro-slavery apologists dictate to him and helped set up the Civil War.
34. Martin Van Buren. In addition to blindly following Jackson's disastrous policies, Van Buren gets an F for being so politically motivated he had no personal morals and for his role in trying to get a shipload of free slaves returned to slavery in Spain, all in the name of getting re-elected.
33. Rutherford B. Hayes. Not a bad man, but his complicity in the corrupt bargain that made him president caused him to sell out freed blacks in the South and allow the return of pre-Civil War power holders that Grant had crushed.
To be continued....
37. James Buchanan. There is just nothing good to say about him. He was a failure in every sense. He should have been competent (kind of like John McCain) given all the government offices he held throughout his long life, but he had no plan for the presidency and ended up unable to prevent one of the greatest calamities in American history.
36. Franklin Pierce. Statistically tied with Buchanan for dead-last but gets a slight bump-up since he wasn't in office when the South seceded. He shouldn't be too happy about it.
35. Millard Fillmore. He was thrust into an office he wasn't prepared for, but did nothing with it either. Instead, he let pro-slavery apologists dictate to him and helped set up the Civil War.
34. Martin Van Buren. In addition to blindly following Jackson's disastrous policies, Van Buren gets an F for being so politically motivated he had no personal morals and for his role in trying to get a shipload of free slaves returned to slavery in Spain, all in the name of getting re-elected.
33. Rutherford B. Hayes. Not a bad man, but his complicity in the corrupt bargain that made him president caused him to sell out freed blacks in the South and allow the return of pre-Civil War power holders that Grant had crushed.
To be continued....
// posted by The Pendragon @ 12:11 AM 
