Slick Willie makes the cut!
but just barely
"Scholars" , not bloggers, actors, talking heads, or blubbering message board trolls have determined the Top Ten Presidential Blunders in history!
"IndyStar.com Local News Nation/World
February 19, 2006
Historians select top 10 presidential blunders
By Elizabeth Dunbar
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- From engaging in sexual relations with an intern to letting the Vietnam War escalate, U.S. presidents have been blamed for some egregious errors.
So who had the worst blunder? President James Buchanan, for failing to avert the Civil War, according to a survey of presidential historians organized by the University of Louisville's McConnell Center.
The survey's top 10 presidential blunders were announced Saturday during a Presidents Day weekend conference called "Presidential Moments."
Scholars who participated said Buchanan didn't do enough to oppose efforts by Southern states to secede from the Union before the Civil War.
The second-worst mistake, the survey found, was Andrew Johnson's decision just after the Civil War to side with Southern whites and oppose improvements in justice for Southern blacks beyond abolishing slavery.
Lyndon Johnson earned the No. 3 spot by allowing the Vietnam War to intensify, Gregg said.
Where does Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal rank? Many scholars said it belonged at No. 10, saying it probably affected Clinton's presidency more than it did American history and the public.
The rest of the top 10 blunders:
4: Woodrow Wilson's refusal to compromise on the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
5: Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
6: James Madison's failure to keep the United States out of the War of 1812 with Britain.
7: Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807, a self-imposed prohibition on trade with Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.
8: John F. Kennedy allowing the Bay of Pigs invasion, which led to the Cuban missile crisis.
9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua."
Way to go Willie!
Hmmm, no "Bush" names listed....
"Scholars" , not bloggers, actors, talking heads, or blubbering message board trolls have determined the Top Ten Presidential Blunders in history!
"IndyStar.com Local News Nation/World
February 19, 2006
Historians select top 10 presidential blunders
By Elizabeth Dunbar
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- From engaging in sexual relations with an intern to letting the Vietnam War escalate, U.S. presidents have been blamed for some egregious errors.
So who had the worst blunder? President James Buchanan, for failing to avert the Civil War, according to a survey of presidential historians organized by the University of Louisville's McConnell Center.
The survey's top 10 presidential blunders were announced Saturday during a Presidents Day weekend conference called "Presidential Moments."
Scholars who participated said Buchanan didn't do enough to oppose efforts by Southern states to secede from the Union before the Civil War.
The second-worst mistake, the survey found, was Andrew Johnson's decision just after the Civil War to side with Southern whites and oppose improvements in justice for Southern blacks beyond abolishing slavery.
Lyndon Johnson earned the No. 3 spot by allowing the Vietnam War to intensify, Gregg said.
Where does Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal rank? Many scholars said it belonged at No. 10, saying it probably affected Clinton's presidency more than it did American history and the public.
The rest of the top 10 blunders:
4: Woodrow Wilson's refusal to compromise on the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
5: Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
6: James Madison's failure to keep the United States out of the War of 1812 with Britain.
7: Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807, a self-imposed prohibition on trade with Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.
8: John F. Kennedy allowing the Bay of Pigs invasion, which led to the Cuban missile crisis.
9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua."
Way to go Willie!
Hmmm, no "Bush" names listed....
posted by Boffo at 9:54 AM
1 Comments:
Wow, MNF 118thambl gives your blog credit for being able to incite rioting and mayhem WORLDWIDE! What a expansive readership you must truly have.
Hey 118 - Assholery, no matter how offensive is not a viable or reasonable excuse to kill, defile and riot. The "stirring the hornets nest" argument makes it no more so.
To capitulate at this point would invite more of the same.
Sorry for bringing down the blog MNF, way too much seriousness.
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