Every category has a greatest of all time—the most wins, the fastest, the highest, the quickest start, the most kills, the most beautiful, etc., etc.
Most categories, too—if not every sport—use the acronym GOAT to denote their greatest of all time.
This from zerohedge.com.
Our GOAT list for presidents would likely include Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Reagan, and Trump. But what about a different category, some overdue exposure for the WOAT (worst of all time) list of presidents?
On this Presidents Day, as we honor our chief executives of past and present, the one category that comes to mind—given Biden is masquerading as president and Trump is in all actuality via Continuity of Government our Commander in Chief—is a WOAT list of presidents.
Some parameters to define our WOAT competition:
– First, certain presidents who briefly held office should be excluded from the running. Zachary Taylor was in office for a mere year and a half; William Henry Harrison (he delivered the longest inaugural address in history, only to serve the shortest period of time in office) served 31 days; and James Garfield served only 199 days,
– Second, presidents should have served one full term to be WOAT-eligible. This will eliminate a number of suitable candidates, like Warren Harding, Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur, and John Tyler. It also technically cuts out Andrew Johnson, but he accomplished so much bad in his less-than-one full term he should receive at least a dishonorable mention, and
– Third, our current pretender in chief will certainly make any Worst of All list, because he has not yet served a full term and may not serve the remainder of his term, he should be excluded from possible selection.
With the above guidelines in mind, let us turn to the nominees:
Franklin Pierce: One of a number of pre–Civil War compromisers, Pierce was passionate about adding new slave states to the Union and also signed into law the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed residents of new states to decide whether to allow slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Act. Although from New Hampshire, he was a Jackson Democrat who even proposed at one point annexing Cuba as another slave state. Even while enlisting a pretty good author to write his campaign bio — his buddy Nathaniel Hawthorne—he failed to be renominated by his party for the 1856 race.
Jimmy Carter: It says something about one’s presidency when one is called the best ex-president of history. From killer rabbits to Billy Beer, from his “crisis in confidence” speech—known as the malaise speech—to the Iran embassy crisis and the aborted desert rescue, the presidency of the man from Plains was marked with risibility and retreat.
Andrew Johnson: On the plus side, while president, the Tennessean did resist fellow Southerners who tried to undo the results of the Civil War. Also, after leaving office, Johnson broke the political mold by showing humility and returning to public life in a lesser capacity (like John Quincy Adams) by serving in the U.S. Senate. But he was a political oaf and made numerous tone-deaf mistakes, showing indifference to the plight of newly emancipated blacks to the point of opposing the 14th Amendment. Plus, he was impeached—which is, contrary to some current spin, still a bad thing—and survived removal by all of one vote. Seems to have been not very popular with his peers.
Lyndon B. Johnson: Another of the Johnson boys, Lyndon did as much damage internationally as he did domestically. Ike gave us steadiness; JFK gave us Camelot; LBJ ratcheted up Vietnam to its height. As Bill Murray said in Stripes, when it comes to war, we’re 10 and one, and LBJ is pretty much responsible for the one. He also followed up the New Deal with the Great Society, which nobody thinks is so great anymore.
James Buchanan: History has not been kind to James Buchanan, as close to a consensus No. 1 pick as you can get. Think of him as a gopher ball served up to Abraham Lincoln. Even before becoming president in 1856, he was a tergiversator [avoided giving a clear direct answer] with no equal, supporting measures that perpetuated North–South division, like the Kansas–Nebraska Act, and, in his inaugural address, encouraging the Dred Scott decision. Once in office, his hands went perpetually numb from his sitting on them.
Barack Obama: No such list would be complete without the president who vowed to “fundamentally transform America” even though most of America pretty much liked America the way it was. As an African American, he also had the opportunity to heal—or at least radically improve—race relations in America but opted to play the same old racial grievance game. [His administration, which has become known as The Regime due to its high degree of corruption and blatant treason, is becoming widely known for being weaponized against the American people, as well as spying on his successor, and performing a coup d’etat against his successor. Further, this past president is believed to be controlling the current pretender like a puppeteer.]
So, who is your WOAT?
