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With a US election coming up and Australia currently under the 'leadership' of what is most certainly the biggest joke of a PM we've ever had, it inspired me to see who everyone thought was their particular country's worst President/PM/etc ever.
Here is a video of Tony Abbott to get you in the mood.
Bush. Bush. Of course Bush.
probably Nixon but for the sake of my lifetime I have to go with Bush :shobon:
Andrew Kelly was the worst leader we ever had. There were only ever two of us in the gang. As a six-year-old, I didn't fully understand my role in the party. My main responsibilities appeared to be giving Andrew all of my football stickers.
It's difficult to really discern this since there are certain President's whose policy's I'm against (Bush Jr./FDR/Andrew Jackson) but in terms of causing the most damage to the U.S. probably James Buchanan. The President who stood by and did absolutely nothing to quell the early signs of the Civil War and just let it escalate to the conflict that still defines most of the problems in the country today.
If I didn't say Margaret Thatcher, the northern side of my family would hunt me down. :p
In all honesty, she was a pretty terrible PM.
Every person from the UK I've ever talked to and Thatcher came up in a conversation either said she was pure evil Satan Incarnate who was the worst PM ever or say she was the greatest thing that ever happened and they love her forever. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
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They either love or loathe her. I've never heard any of them say "Oh yeah, Margaret Thatcher. She was...meh, she was alright."
I work in a pharmacy and 99% of the time someone tells me "Thanks, Obama" they're referring to something that started with Nixon.
Yeah, I can't count the number of times I've pointed out to people complaining about "Obamaphones" that Safelink, the first provider of said phones, has been around since Bush was president and life line subsidizes phone services originated while Reagan was president in the 80s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪
It goes in one ear and out the other.
Woah I can't believe that guy's in charge of an entire continent. Oh well, I guess that's what some good ol' Quetiapine will do to ya!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pheesh
Nixon's damage to the status of the Presidency was pretty severe, but outside of that he was just a pretty average bad President, a heap of bad stuff, some of it his fault and some not, but a few good things redeem him, most notable in the international sphere, where he was a genuinely extremely skilled operator.
Reagan and Thatcher are 100% deserving of having their graves defiled though. Thatcher at least had a degree of competence in her brazenly evil policies, and she did admittedly navigate the Falklands War very well, but that's it. Everything else either of them did was absolutely terrible to the point that a dispassionate eye could only conclude the damage done to the US and UK, respectively, was so great (and remains ongoing), that it must be called, without hyperbole, treasonous.
Sorry but Thatcher was far from the worst leader ever. I mean lets stop being pathetic and saying Tony Abbot or Bush or even Blair's incompetence was bad. Let's get past the union crushing (frankly at the time, the unions needed it and I'm working class and I say it. They need another good crushing now too imho, especially the unions for the Tube) and wars that countries were ill prepared to fight and get to the real gritty stuff.
There's 2 names whom immediately come to mind:
Adolf Hitler
Josef Stalin
Both did irreparable damage to their countries reputations. They committed mass murder on the scale of Genocide. They were not considerate to a major part of their governed population and hypocritical in their execution of their vile plans.
Do we really need to argue this more?
^ Well the reason why you're not hearing Stalin or Hitler largely stems from the OP saying they wanted to know who we thought was the worst leader of our own countries. ;)
Yep, that was the original intention.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno
It's actually amazing that people still say that with complete sincerity still.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪
Hey dude I think you missed the point of the thread almost entirely!Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve