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by russell 3720 days ago
Wow! FDR at the bottom, below Buchanan, Harding, Fillmore, Pierce, and GW Bush. I shudder to think what your political views are.
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FDR was a tyrant. He jailed thousands of american citizens for no reason other than their ethnic heritage (over the objecting counsel of his wife) , tried to swing his dick and pack the supreme Court, and at one point, closed the banks for several days and at the end of it, everyone came out poorer (screwing over the poor the hardest even though ostensibly it was for their sake). In all his actions Roosevelt was the epitome of hubris, never stopping to think as president, "should I really be doing this?". Don't worry, gwb is not that much higher than FDR - FDR is the worst because of the magnitude and unprecedented nature of his executive overreach and the fact that it served as inspiration to future presidents.

One of the better presidents was William Henry Harrison; didn't last long enough to mess things up.