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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who has been the WORST President of YOUR lifetime? And Why? [View all]randys1
(16,286 posts)6. Good one, wasnt allowed the chance, was he.
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W was really bad, but I give Reagan the most credit for reversing the New Deal.
immoderate
May 2014
#1
Bush with the Patriot Act, changed our country forever! The wars broke our bank and way of life.
TheNutcracker
May 2014
#32
Reagan upped the "War on Drugs," the biggest abrogation of Constitutional rights
toddwv
May 2014
#56
Democratically Elected President who doesn't even bother to show up to work
IronLionZion
May 2014
#48
Nope... Al Gore was supposed to be it, and Cheney in fact was the REAL president then...
cascadiance
May 2014
#69
Nearly every problem we have today can be traced back to Reagan era decision
liberal N proud
May 2014
#28
Reagan. I see everything awful that's happened economically & politically started with that
catbyte
May 2014
#33
I voted for Bush, but for me it was really a toss up between Bush and Reagan. Bush
RKP5637
May 2014
#52
GWB, by far...responsible for 4200 American death in Iraq and thousand of innocent Iraqi lives.
demosincebirth
May 2014
#59
Nothing can match the royal clusterf/ck that was GWB. And GWB is proud of that, I'm 100% sure.
blkmusclmachine
May 2014
#62
Reagan began the labor/institutional dismantling and corporate takeover that continues today.
ancianita
May 2014
#67
W is some stiff competition, but Reagan made him possible and I say Reagan for all the reason cited
Bluenorthwest
May 2014
#68
W. hands down. he took my vague disdain of repukes i had as a child and cemented it into my brain...
dionysus
May 2014
#77
In the Vietnam war era, I thought it was Nixon. Then Reagan came along, and I thought
struggle4progress
May 2014
#80
I don't see how you can separate Reagan and GW Bush...the decline of America began with
Jefferson23
May 2014
#92
Reagan. He laid the ground work for the problems that came to fruition during W's reign.
FSogol
May 2014
#105
Reagan for the genocide against people with HIV. Shameful does not even describe it.
McCamy Taylor
May 2014
#114
I chose Reagan, because, although Bush did some even worse things, Reagan set the agenda in the
LeftishBrit
May 2014
#116