Who was a worse president: Andrew Johnson or George W. Bush? Why?

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Andrew Johnson, he botched up the reconstruction effort and set this country back decades in the process.26 - bachelors degree business marketing
 
41 college degree Petroleum Engif I ranked them, I would put James Buchanan up at the top for failing to prevent or delay the civil war. The I would go with either Johnson or Harding, and finally GWB.... Harding for Teapot Dome....Johnson for being run out & reconstruction etal...it is early yet to judge W....but he certainly must rank up there for his failure to handle katrina, iraq, the economy or the capturing of bin laden or the US Attorneys being fired.... or the torture and prisoner abuse.http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_historygreat article on said subject
 
I really can't say because I didn't live through Johnson's Presidency and therefore couldn't honestly answer how his policies affected me.
 
I'm no fan of Bush, but Johnson is responsible for the Trail of Tears. Johnson was a savage responsible for pain and misery in the native communities.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_tears
 
well now that Obama a so called president,he will be the worse president ever.look what hes doing,getting this country so much more in the black ,no pun intended,also he want to react the fairness doctrine,which will take our freedom to speak away,he will let out the bad men from git mo,and cause terror all throughout the world.
 
Bush marched Americans to their death in an unnecessary war. Johnson did it in a much more callous fashion. Both a have demonstrated a cold and cruel indifference to human suffering. But what Johnson was down right evil.
 
Boy, you sure know how to pick 'em, don't you? This isn't an easy question. Johnson was at far more of a disadvantage than W ever was. He was a Southern Democrat (from Tennessee) in a Northern Republican Administration. And he came to power by accident (Lincoln's assassination) not design. Lincoln had chosen him, a Southern Democrat who'd stayed with the Union when his state seceeded, in order to form what would be called a national unity government today. But it all came apart when Lincoln was murdered. Then there was no one to hold back the Radical Republicans in the government, as Lincoln had done. Johnson tried to, but he got impeached over it, and came within a single vote of conviction. I can't say Johnson was worse than W, but he certainly served under far worse conditions than W did, Afghanistan and Iraq notwithstanding. And I'm sure that if popularity polling had been around back then, he'd have been rated even lower than W is today. But history has shown he was an honorable man who'd been dealt a losing hand and played it as best he could. I think future historians will feel the same way about W. This economic crisis didn't start on his watch. The roots run back to at least the Carter administration. W just had the bad luck to be president when the bubble burst. By the way, I'm 56 years old, have a college degree, and the equivilant in hours of yet another one.
 
Andrew Jackson was a proud racist who forced Indians off their land even when they won a Supreme Court victory. He was worse than Bush.Both relied on the southern conservative vote though.
 
Geroge Bush. Andrew Johnson could catch thrown shoes with his bare hands while Bush could only dodge it!
 
Neither ........ Jimmy Carter is the worst president this country has ever had.....but wait 4 years....he may have a contender for the honor!
 
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