And if you said “Boris Yeltsin”, I think you’re ready the wrong blog. I am talking about American Presidents here.
A lot of my Republican friends are proclaiming their votes for Obama. But that’s the same as all my Democratic friends said about Bush while he was President.
Other than the party out of power griping and moaning about the current occupant, is there really a worst President ever?
It’s a tough topic but not very much different than the Best President ever, but that will have to wait for another post. Today we examine the scum-magnet.
Some CT (conspiracy theory) people say it was Lincoln, or even Washington because of his Masonic connections.
I have heard good arguments for John Adams, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson (or rather his wife), Teddy Roosevelt or his cousin Franklin, and on and on. Seems a lot of people have their favorite to hate.
But I think my candidate is hands-on the most obvious choice and for very concrete reasons. Fortunately, I won’t tick off any current members of his political party because the party he was in no longer exists. Whew!
Yes, the Republicans and Democrats can relax. Liberals too… except they’ve not had a president yet so they have nothing to worry about… for now…
And the winner is: (drum roll)
William Henry Harrison!!
And I am hearing a few yawns along with the assorted “Who the f— is that?” or “Was he a President?”
Yes, Mister Harrison (not to be confused with Benjamin Harrison, his grandson who was a President as well) was the ninth President of the United States who won fame being a General at the famous battle at Tippecanoe. He even ran for office with the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”… Tyler was his Vice-President.
And a very lucky VP, too.
William Henry Harrison, the old war-horse, decided to ride his old war-horse in the inaugural parade – even though the temperatures hovered around the zero mark – and delivered his long-winded inaugural speech in the open air.
As one would expect, the fellow caught pneumonia and passed away thirty days later.
Yes, he was the shortest tenured President in history. And it is that reason that most people overlook him for worst President.
They think he was not President long enough to do any damage… or good.
Au contraire!
The decisions he made for his first day as President were so poor, so wrong, that I think we saw what the next four years was going to bring.
Had he lived, no telling where his poor judgement might have led us.
If you have another candidate for the “honor”, I’d be glad to hear it.
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