Bad Presidents And What Went Wrong

Jackson

Jackson created a terrible economic depression by killing rather than reforming the national bank. Then he ignored the supreme court to oppress some Indians. Jackson screwed over the Cherokee in particular. They had lived like "whites" for over a hundred years. Jackson — forget about genocide for a moment; his hostility toward the Bank of the United States also played a critical role in making slavery economically viable, and thereby helped set up Dred Scott . And let’s not forget who appointed the largest number of the justices who decided Dred Scott .

Probably best known today for his famous insult to Native Americans. He was quoted as saying, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” His hatred of Native Americans was, at the time, applauded by the common people. Jackson had a temper problem, and would call out anyone who pissed him off. That's not being a hardass - that's having a super thin skin.


Lincoln

Lincoln lead us into a civil war that killed 600,000 & radically changed our form of governance, but is considered one of our greatest presidents. Lincoln had several well organized, well thought out plots against him and only one succeeded and only succeeded in a half assed way come to find out. Lincoln and Washington's birthdays--yes, indeed. But observe them ON their birthdays--we don't need the shopping day.

Buchanan

Buchanan was the Democratic candidate and went on to win the election when Pierce was not offered the nomination in 1856. He and his alleged homosexual relationship with Buchanan will be the subject of another post. Buchanan rejected slavery as an indefensible evil but, like the majority of his party, refused to challenge it. In his inaugural address, the 15th president tacitly encouraged the Supreme Court’s forthcoming Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress had no power to keep slavery out of the territories.

Bush

Bush's debt can be blamed on the justified and almost forgotten Afghan war, and the ill-conceived Iraqi war and occupation. Now, years later, with a so called booming economy, per the mantra of tax cutting logic the debt ratio should be going down. Bush to the devil, a comparison that even Mr. Bush’s detractors found excessive if not offensive. Bush’s government has not only spent billions but gotten so little in return: Iraq is endless, Afghanistan is worsening, our deficit is exploding, our national debt breaking records, and grocery prices soar along with job losses. Bush as invisible – negative returns on lost “capital” doom not just Wall Street banks but a presidential legacy and the Republican Party brand.