[lbo-talk] Who is the worst american president...

Sandy Harris sandyinchina at gmail.com
Wed May 23 23:09:03 PDT 2007


On 5/24/07, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> So apparently Carter said that Dubya was the worst American president.
>
> Is that true? What about Harding?

Andrew Jackson?

He was largely responsible for the "Trail of Tears", driving the Cherokee and others off their lands: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html

Anyone think Bush's surveillance stuff is the first president to blantantly ignore the constitution, and get way with it?

Here's a quote, from: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/publicinfo/speeches/sp_05-23-03.html

... the Supreme Court, in Worcester v. Georgia, held in favor of the Cherokees. Georgia then refused to obey the Court. President Andrew Jackson reportedly said, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." And Jackson sent troops to evict the Cherokees, who traveled the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, thousands dying along the way.

First president to use troops to break a strike: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(194910)55%3A1%3C54%3AAJS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z

And wasn't he the one that fought an election campaign with the slogan "54 40 or fight" on the Oregon boundary issue, then backed down once in office?

-- Sandy Harris Quanzhou, Fujian, China



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