rumitoid wrote:
I am in my seventies and will back you on that statement. Yet your statement is neutral, just a fact. You did not editorialize it as wrong or right. That he is the most hated president in recent memory, and maybe in our history, does not mean it is wrong. I feel he deserves it, as do many. Yet it is only an unfair or unjust sentiment if he does not deserve it. You don't lean either way. Just the fact of him being hated more than other recent presidents says nothing other than he is not liked by most.
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Even if he were as much of a liar as the left accuse him of, if he were unfaithful to his wives, if he were a womanizer, if he were incompetent, and if he was dishonest in business; it still would not justify him being more hated than ANY OTHER president. Yet the accusations leveled against him are almost all unsubstantiated or immaterial to his being a good president, such as whether or not he has been a womanizer.
Andrew Jackson's attack on the Cherokee nation, many of who were completely integrated into American society. The result was the Trail of Tears"
Jon Tyler was a vocal advocate for slavery.
Millard Fillmore supported slavery including by being instrumental in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed.
Franklin Pierce's territorial expansion resulted in more slave states.
James Buchanan's weak compromises which led to the expansion of slavery, including encouraging the Dred Scott decision.
Andrew Johnson survived impeachment after opposing Reconstruction initiatives including the 14th amendment.
Ulysses S Grant presided over a presidency with huge outbreaks of graff and corruption.
Woodrow Wilson introduced the Federal Income Tax.
Warren G. Harding allowed his friends to plunder the US Treasury.
Herbert Hoover. Hoovervilles!!!! His actions exasperated the Great Depression leaving large numbers of Americans destitute and living in Hoovervilles.
Lyndon B Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War.
Nixon's rigged public opinion polls (same characters were involved in the Watergate break-in.)
Ronald Reagan's Iran Contra Affair, the Keating 5 (Savings and Loan crisis), and his Trickle-Down Economy. The 5 were: Alan Cranston (Democrat of California), Dennis DeConcini (Democrat of Arizona), John Glenn (Democrat of Ohio), John McCain (Republican of Arizona), and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (Democrat of Michigan). As usual, McCain sided and worked with Democrats.
Clinton policies, such as repealing the Glass Steagall Act which allowed the financial institutes to participate in the feeding frenzy bubble which wound up causing the 2008 crash.
G. W. Bush. The Iraq War, the bailouts of the perpetrators of the 2008 crash, and the outing of Valery Plame.
Barak Hussein Obama wiretapping the Israeli Embassy, Fast and Furious, weaponizing IRS to target conservative non profits, Iran Nuclear Deal, ransom for hostages, his signing of the Energy Policy Act (govt pays back loans to a company if borrowers can’t), Benghazi.