Under the heading "Ronald Reagan: Worst President ever?", some Robert Parry wrote in best English language a critic about this Republican President and seems to prove that Ronald Reagan was worse than GW Bush or James Buchanan.
Thank you Robert: Since I can write my European English as foreigner, I pretend that Hollywood minor star Ronald was at the source of the economic and ecologic catastrophe of these days.
But let's start differently, with a listing of the best and worst Presidents of USA ever:
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
They are the founders of democratic and free land USA . It is sure that they cannot be the worst presidents of USA . It is difficult for me, although I know a lot from their history, to say, they were the best. But it is clear: From an ethical and historical viewpoint, they are very high in the listing of the best. Had USA governments and congress followed up this ethical and political line, we would not be suffering under a complete collapse of economics, ecology and culture, as we are in - word-wide - since the year 2006.
Abraham Lincoln
To say, he was the best of all president, is poring water in the Mississippi . Sure he was great with Black folks, the war against the Southern Bush Republicans was justified and he had a good character. However, what he would have done in modern times with Shock-doctrine idiots around Milton Friedman and Karl Popper, is anything else but sure. He was the right person at the right moment, not more, that's the whole truth about Lincoln .
The 2 Roosevelts
Both Presidents seem to come out of an upper Dynasty of intellect, contrary to Bush and Clinton. But we have to remember: In view of the danger that Hitler would taken, together with the Japanese, the World-power, if having the atom bomb and missiles first, some chaps like Roosevelt, Churchill and de Gaulle only functioned as they had logically to do. It is error to think that outstanding times create outstanding politicians. This is a reversal of logics and philosophical conclusions. Obama is only great, because America made a mess out of economics and ecology.
John F. Kennedy
One of the most overvalued presidents. He was some sort of a soft-opera thing, with his nice-looking Lady for Gala-Papers - and his affair with Marilyn was not fine at all. This chap can be glad, political correctness was not yet the major program of USA , at those times, as it was later with Bill. He just continued in killing millions of Vietnamese, and he was behind the CIA-program, torturing youth and intellectuals in almost all countries in Central and South America . His behaviour in the Cuba crisis against Soviet Union was not more than logical and no deed of a hero. On the contrary: His taking risks with army force could have produced an atom world-war - and today, we would be living on a rotten planet.
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
Robert Parry is right: Both are heavily undervalued today. Nixon opened the frontiers both with Russia and China and Ford was not far behind Nixon in his politics. Watergate was a stupidity, something like the suck of Clinton , but overdone. The dirty plays between Republicans and Democrats have been program, since the first 3 Presidents mentioned above, went to heaven. So don't overdue small facts, and raise stupidity to heroic deeds, as always all editors of U.S. Media did, since I can read Newspapers.
Bill Clinton
The nice affair with a pretty girl is okay. All men do it, and Hillary may not have been in the picture about the real needs of Bill. In politics, Bill Clinton prepared with Hillary the very critical situation about Israel and Palestine , source of hatred of 1500 million Moslems against 6 million of Jews. He needed the Wall Street Jews to become President, as all others before and after him - and so he extended the Chicago School systems and prepared as starting basis, today's Crash potential. So he was the logical forerunner of the politics of GW Bush.
Obama Barack
I have written at least 10 reports on Obama, proving that he continues in fact the politics of GW Bush and Ronald Reagan, although his Speech in Egypt may make assume the world that he is very open to modern thinking in economics, ecology and politics. This is Error, dear friends. If Obama does not really change the mechanics of U.S. Politics, he can go down the drain in history, just as will Bush and Ronald. I say: Obama is the most intelligent President of all times, he has ethics and morals and he knows what he is doing. But this is not sufficient in a terrifying complex CHAOS we are today living in.
James Carter
As we can see today, Carter is a very fine character. And this is not news: When I heard that Carter won Presidency, I knew that a new era of decency could have been born in America . It was not so, but it was not the fault of Jimmy Carter. He must have understood after shortest times that in America , a policy of moderate profit-making, of fine ecologic logics and of better understanding for foreign and other, perhaps better, civilisations, would be out of question. And in fact, proof was given: Stupid Americans preferred the greatest idiot in Politics, Ronald Reagan, to Carter, after his first 4 years.
GW Bush
Like his father, George H.W. Bush, this dynasty is simply a gender of highest stupidity. Bush the First - at least - had a fine character. He continued with politics of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, made Greenspan, and crept in the you-know-what of Popper and Friedman, but in a way, he was just, straight and correct.
Not so his rotten Son, GW Bush (don't write correct names for idiots). This GW Bush ended the program of destruction, putting on downwards scale dear United States , however initiated some years before by Ronald Reagan. And how!! His blindness for ecologic problems of the Earth is a crime for human mankind as a whole, only surpassed by the crime of U.S. folks taken as a whole, driving around like idiots with monster-cars from GM, Ford and Chrysler. Bush continued lowering taxes for the richest companies and VIP. With privatisations and deregulations, he not only gave the spirit into the heads of Worldbank and IMF and WEF of Davos, when destructing Africa and other poor areas. Bush prepared with Hedge Funds, orthodox Wall Street investment bankers and Republican politics of the worst, the breakdown of U.S. Finance Business and of world's Real Economy. Bush - just go to hell now. He should be torn in front of a Human-rights tribunal for his stupidity.
Ronald Reagan
This small film-star out of Hollywood is the most stupid man ever seen. He surpasses easily Hitler and Stalin in common mind. However, Hitler and Stalin were just mindless and cruel children who gained power by history. But Ronald Reagan gained power by more than 50 percent of democratic Americans and by times, 99 percent of U.S. editors and journalists around Murdoch.
Ronald Reagan is at the source of today's downfall, based on collapses in economics, politics, ecology and culture. His stupidity made America blind for the present disaster in ecology, not to be cured with quadrillions of Dollars. The Parallel-World of rich VIP, paying no taxes anymore with help of Tax Heaven countries like Switzerland , Luxembourg , Liechtenstein , Monaco , Caribbean Islands , Hong Kong etc. is one of his criminal deeds, to be borne by Middle Class and Poor of all Lands on this globe, now. The downfall of U.S. industry is based on neo-liberal logics, allowing the Cheapness politics in China , who from the profits were stupid enough, to finance during 15 years the mad consumerism a la Ronald, "covered" by worthless U.S. Treasury Bonds.
In short: I should need 10 pages like this to bring into the minds of people, who never understand facts, when they happen, why Ronald was a disaster and what Ronald Reagan meant to America and to the rest of the planet - as we only can see and understand today.
Rene Delavy, Berlin and Bournemouth
Author of many reports and books - see www.rene-delavy.com