Whose policies destroyed America?

[Gringo]

Poll question: Whose policies destroyed America?

On balance, which president's policies did the most damage to this country's democratic institutions, foreign policy stature and/or long-term economic health?


This poll concerns presidents leading up to but not including the present White House squatter.

[jpgray]

1. Believe it or not, the press started getting REALLY lazy

'Roundabouts Nixon time.

[LoZoccolo]

2. Woodward and Bernstien

"Remember, /All the President's Men/ was so unusual they had to make a movie out of it." - Greg Palast

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=33&row=1

[drscm]

3. But we all know that

Clinton's c*ck ultimately did it.

[wuushew]

4. Who voted for Carter?!

I usually don't think of a Nobel Peace Prize winner as a likely canidate for destroying nations.

[RichM]

7. Your remark is logical, but look - Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize.

And GW Bush was actually under consideration as a possible recipient!!

The point is that the Nobel Peace prize is a very political creature. Your can't ascribe all that much meaning to who wins it. If Kissinger won, Eichmann could conceivably have won, had world events played out a bit differently.

[Gringo]

8. I like Carter very much

but I included him because the criticism of his inaction after the loss of the helicopters in Iran was legitimate, IMO. He also passed the first round of tax cuts, to be followed by Reagan's.

I wish we had a President with his decency today, but his domestic performance was not so hot.

Of course, I don't think he's near as bad as any of the repukes, but I had to include some dems to be fair(?)

I included Johnson because of Vietnam, Truman because of the unnecessary (IMO) atomic bombings and insane Truman doctrine, and Wilson because of his goading the UD into WWI, and his virulent racism.

[LSdemocrat]

5. Nixon of course. . . .

He sabotaged the 1972 Democratic Primary and he secretly invaded Cambodia during the Vietnam War! Not to mention sabotaging the Vietnam War peace talks in 1968 to help himself get elected.

[lpbk2713]

6. It was a collaborative effort........

..... of the RNC over the last 35 years or so. They never got over Tricky Dick and Spiro being shown for the weasels that they were. They've had a grudge ever since.

[Gringo]

9. I agree with the majority, sort of

It was Bush Sr., via his puppet Ronald Reagan who wrecked everything.