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There's no need to rehash who's the best. Ronald Reagan was the best President working for America, at least during my lifetime; no one else compares. But Worst President? No one has done more damage (yet) to our previously-great society than LBJ, AFAIC.

Dirty Socialists Lyndon Baines Johnson (D) and White Supremacist Richard Russell Jr (D)

The WORST could well be Jimmy Carter. He was so ineffective and weak that his legacy as worst President is secure among the younger generations. But look back to Lyndon Baines Johnson for my nod as Worst President.

Not only did LBJ ramp up the Vietnam conflict, but he created the "Great Society", the most devastating social program ever unleashed on this nation...

The actual consequences of Johnson's Great Society were disastrous for blacks, discouraging initiative, encouraging a sense of entitlement and victimhood, and creating a permanent dependency class. Until 1965, 82% of black households had both a mother and a father in the home -- a statistic on par with or even slightly higher than white families. After 1965 (the year the Democrats and President Johnson decided it was time to stop oppressing blacks and start "helping" them), the presence of black fathers in the home began a precipitous decline; today, the American black out-of-wedlock birthrate is at 69%.

Unlike its socialist cousin (the New Deal), the Great Society emerged in a period of prosperity. Johnson presented his goals for the Great Society in a speech at an elite liberal public university, the University of Michigan, in May 1964. So-called "do-gooder liberals," having little faith in their common man, loved its aims. The elitist "White Guilt" (see Shelby Steele's book of the same name) resulted in terrible long-term impacts. Soon after, the programs were heavily criticized by conservatives as being ineffective and creating an underclass of lazy citizens. They have been proven correct. Current evidence makes Johnson the villain. If he were alive today to see the effects, he'd cringe.

Socialism clearly makes individuals worse. Incalculable damage has been done to the black family by the neo-socialist policies begun under Johnson, which are a perverted form of what Eisenhower wisely began a decade prior.

Once Barack Obama's term is over, I'll be happy to reassess my call. We'll see how much damage BHO can do as compared to LBJ. No fair if BHO oversees the fall of the Republic; that would give him an unfair advantage. At least LBJ got us through his terms intact.

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