2024 POTUS WINNER: Worst President Ever? (1 Viewer)

[ShamrockPride]

Let’s not find out  

No no, The Rock is the exception here in the world of fantasy celebrity politicians.

Could you just imagine The Rock showing up shirtless to a summit with Putin or Xi? I can see the wet pants in my head.

 

[FairWarning]

First we need to know who is fortifying the election, then go from there. 

 

[Godsbrother]

Don't forget the part where we retroactively decide the previous guy wasn't so bad, but only in relation to the current guy. So conservatives who spent the entire Clinton presidency telling us he was the devil suddenly decided during the Obama Administration that he wasn't so bad, because he at least signed welfare reform or something. Similar with liberals and Bush/Trump. Haven't heard it as much so far with Biden/Obama, but it's coming.

What I find really scary is that this means a decade from now we Democrats will be saying, "I never liked Trump, but compared to co-Presidents Diamond and Silk he was at least a man you could do business with."

I was very critical of GWB on this forum back in the day but it was over policy, nothing personal.   I still think his speech after 9/11 was the best presidential address to the nation since JFK's "ask not what you're country can do for you".  I'm not sure how much of it Bush wrote but he delivered it beautifully and at that moment I think the country was the most united that I have ever seen in my lifetime.

It didn't last long because of the Iraqi invasion and Afghanistan war but for a brief time it was great.  I may not have agreed with GWB on a lot of things but I believe he is a good person and was legitimately doing what he thought was in the best interest of the country.

Trump is a different animal.   He is such an awful person that I'm pretty confident that I'll never look back and say "you know that guy wasn't that bad".   Biden has been a huge disappointment and I'm already ready for a change but he did accomplish one thing:  he beat Trump in the 2020 election and I am thankful for that.

 

[roadkill1292]

Not really.  More like a 3-5 person group, still elected by the people but on different election cycles. More similar in its management to the board of a large company.  

This appeals to the structural reformist in me.