For nearly two and a half centuries, the United States has struggled, survived, and succeeded under the leadership of popularly elected presidents—this includes the stolen Biden election, at least one—the second—stolen Obama election, and God knows, likely others as well.
While some have achieved greatness, others have failed miserably. Some were thankfully forgettable.
This from msn.com.
Even the disgraced Bill O’Reilly is capable of putting together a thought-provoking read that is not anti-Trump or too acerbic to digest. He has examined each president in his new book Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden. and from this comes the five worst with brief explanations.
O’Reilly broke down who he believes are the five worst in a special report with Leland Vittert, host of NewsNation’s On Balance with Leland Vittert.
5. Franklin Pierce
O’Reilly says the nation’s 14th president was a dud because ‘he didn’t do anything.’
During the New Hampshire-born president’s tenure, he sowed discontent across America with his handling of slavery through the Kansas-Nebraska Act and an unfeeling approach to politics.
O’Reilly wrote:
Franklin Pierce was a drunk … and that really affected his ability to make decisions and to even function on some days.
4. John Tyler
According to O’Reilly:
The first vice president to take over the office, John Tyler—nicknamed “his accidency”—was “a mediocrity.”
What did he do while in office?
Nothing! Because everybody hated him. His own party hated him. The only reason he was on a ticket with Harrison is because he was pro-slavery, and Harrison needed some southern states. That’s it.
Tyler joined the Confederacy after his stint in the White House, with O’Reilly calling him a “cheerleader for slavery.”
O’Reilly explained:
There’s nothing else that he did because he served such a short time.
He got nothing done at all, nothing.
3. Lyndon B. Johnson
Another vice president who ascended into office, O’Reilly ranks Lyndon B. Johnson as the third worst president of all time.
O’Reilly said:
He did good, but his bad outweighs it in a tremendous way.
Johnson took over when John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in 1963, championing landmark civil rights legislation and sweeping social reform agendas.
The dark mark on his legacy, however, is his role in the escalation of the Vietnam War.
O’Reilly said:
He’s not going to lose a war. He does not care how many American boys are killed or maimed.
Johnson eventually decided not to seek reelection.
2. Joe Biden
O’Reilly’s newest book acknowledges the difficulty of assessing a president until at least two decades have passed since their time in office.
But, he’s willing to make an exception for the sitting president, Joe Biden.
O’Reilly said:
Biden’s decades of political experience haven’t been enough to cushion some of the blowback from his decisions—like the one to remove U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2021 or his border policy.
O’Reilly explained:
All I’ve seen from Joe Biden, from his many years in the Senate, to his vice presidency, to his presidency, all I have seen is ‘I’m going to do what the Democratic Party wants me to do.’ I’ve never seen an independent thought.
Further:
I’ve never seen a conviction that ‘we must get this done.’ I’ve never seen a reach out to try to heal the country as he promised.
I don’t see one thing that he’s done to try to heal this country, not one.
Biden also decided against seeking reelection, a fact O’Reilly said made him “feel sorry for Biden.”
He clarified:
I don’t dislike Joe Biden. I just think he’s been a disaster for the country.
1. James Buchanan
O’Reilly blames James Buchanan, who was in office from 1857-1861, for the start of the Civil War.
O’Reilly said:
Choosing him as the worst president on the list wasn’t a hard decision to make.
Further:
No, he leads the league by a big margin, not even close. Oh, this guy was the worst.
O’Reilly said the escalation up to the war—southern attacks at Union depots, the organization of brigades and terrorizing Black people—was not treated seriously by a “coward” like Buchanan.
O’Reilly explained:
He does nothing, doesn’t send federal troops, doesn’t cut off money.
In fact, at Fort Sumter, when the Union force is surrounded, he wouldn’t send ships to help them.
Though preventing a Civil War seems like an impossible task for anyone, O’Reilly—and a letter from Harry Truman—says otherwise.
O’Reilly claimed:
[A] president like Jackson would have been 100 times more powerful than these organizing rebels.
Further:
I mean, all you had to do is incarcerate about 10 of them, all right, and they didn’t have any leadership, and they knew who the 10 were that were running around causing all these problems.
Given the chance, O’Reilly said he’d like to “go back and slap him” for his inept presidency.
Final thoughts: O’Reilly’s misread of puppet Biden suggests he is an apologist for Dementia Joe. With no mention of the purposeful destruction of America, Obama’s hands up Joe’s backside, and the stolen election, I’m encouraged to think even less of O’Reilly’s opinions. Plus, to make a statement like “feel sorry for Biden” strongly suggests O’Reilly is pandering, but to whom and for what?
Also, O’Reilly gave Johnson a broadbrush pass with zero mention of the destruction of America still being experienced by his “civil rights legislation and sweeping social reform agendas.”
And shouldn’t Obama’s fundamental transformation of America garner at least an honorable mention? Perhaps “two decades” from now O’Reilly will have risen to that level of understanding about the traitor Barack Hussin Obama.
