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   Worst Presidential Blunders

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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.


"We can probably learn just as much - or maybe even more - by looking at the mistakes rather than looking at why they were great,"

 Buchanan didn't do enough to oppose efforts by Southern states to secede from the Union before the Civil War.

The second worst mistake, 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.

"We continue to pay" for Johnson's errors,

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 that 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 War1.

-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 that 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.

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Hillary Clinton Set up Website to Change Democratic Party Rules

 Mrs. Clintons words, "If you cannot win, playing by the rules, CHANGE them!"

Jefferson never told us to include in any official document that we should separate church and state! The real story, as Paul Harvey likes to say, is that the Danbury Baptists were fearful that this new President was going to make them change their method of worship, which was controversial in his day, and so they wrote him asking him to address this. President Jefferson immediately wrote back to assure them. In that letter, he wrote,

 “I contemplate with sovereign reverence the act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”

Past Democrat Presidents may have agreed with Gingrich. It was Harry S. Truman, who said,

 

“We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.”

 

And it was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who claimed,

 

“Rules are not necessarily sacred, but principles are!”

 

My favorite quote, though, comes from President Ronald Reagan,(R) who said,

 

“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under!”

 

The coming 2008 election is the most important one we will ever face as we will be making the decision as to what kind of country we intend to leave for our children or grandchildren to inherit. Will it be a Godless, Socialist democracy with high taxes causing fewer jobs while those who do work will have to not only support their own families but also take care of those who refuse to work or are not legal citizens? Or will we leave them the great Republic Americans have been building since 1776 with freedom for all to pursue happiness as promised by our Constitution. Our nation is now teetering on a political cusp ready to slide down to the left or the right. Your 2008 votes will decide the future fate of this country and what those ready to inherit this nation will have to live with. Once the votes are counted, there will be no turning back. 2009 will start eight years of the following:

 

1) To maintain a nation under God or to continue to completely separate church and state, thus to maintain faith or move to being a secularist nation;

 

2) To stay as a Republic or be converted to a European-type Democracy;

 

3) To keep Capitalism or accept Socialism;

 

4) Keep lower taxes with more jobs or higher taxes with fewer jobs available as a result.;

 

5) To have a Constructional or a Legislative Supreme Court;

 

6) To continue our current emotional and political “Cultural War” or to, once again, unite as the true United States of America!

 

How you vote in 2008 will answer which of the above our next generation will inherit!

 

If anyone else has information on past Democratic Presidents that caused problems in our country during their term.. Please feel free to post them..!