okay, I'll play your game.
George Washington used the military against his own civilians. John Adams signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts. Jefferson was extremely deep in debt, was a slave-owner, publicly condemned the dilution of white blood by mixing it with black, and had a number of illegitimate children by at least one of his slaves. James Madison attempted and catastrophically failed to invade Canada. James Monroe concieved of the Monroe Doctrine, which has since been used by a number of unscrupulous successors to justify their Manifest Destiny/King of the Hill like stranglehold on the world. John Quincy Adams probably only won the presidency because he gave the speaker of the house the vice presidency. Andrew Jackson was responsible for large-scale Indian resettlements, and his fiscal bunglings strangled the US economy. Martin Van Buren enforced the Indian policies of his predecessor and was responsible for the slaughter of thousands of natives; he also refused to stop the massacres of Mormons because doing so would result in him losing votes. William Henry Harrison was long-winded. John Tyler was a slave-owner. James Polk invented the idea of Manifest Destiny. Zachary Taylor was a slave-owner. Millard Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave Act into law. Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law. James Buchanan was horribly corrupt and his crushing ineptitude flung the United States into the civil war. Abraham Lincoln suspended civil liberties and the writ of habeas corpus. The first and second presidential impeachments were Andrew Johnson. Ulysses S. Grant was an anti-semite, an alcoholic, turned a blind eye to the critical amounts of corruption in his administration and is related to me. Rutherford B. Hayes used the military to force striking laborers to return to work; 70 died. James A. Garfield was involved in the Credit Mobilier of America scandal. Chester A. Arthur signed into law the Chinese Exclusion Act. Grover Cleveland reneged on pension payments for thousands of Civil War veterans. Benjamin Harrison was responsible for the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii. Grover Cleveland was also a vocal opponent to womens' suffrage. William McKinley censored news about the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Theodore Roosevelt didn't want to pay the Columbians for the Columbian Canal so he made Panama instead. William Howard Taft was responsible for income tax. Woodrow Wilson fought to keep America out of WW1, until it became politically beneficial to get involved; Wilson also advocated and signed into law his own anti-sedition (anti-foreigner) bills. Warren G. Harding had a number of extra-marital affairs. Calvin Coolidge was flippant and apathetic about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, not wanting to spend the money required for flood relief. Herbert Hoover, as the Secretary of Commerce for his precessessor, presided over the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt won his third term in office by promising to keep the United States out of World War 2 (in spite of the massive military spending he had spent his first two terms arguing for) and by undercutting presidential hopefuls from his own party. Harry Truman's administration turned a blind eye to corruption in his administration. Dwight D. Eisenhower firmly placed the Middle East within the US sphere of influence, setting a precedent for future and heavy-handed interference in the region. John F. Kennedy engaged in numerous extramarital affairs. Lyndon B. Johnson's policy of containment escalated the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon engaged in wide-scale illegal activities in an effort to undermine the election campaigns of his rivals, ordered illegal surveillance of his detractors, used government resources (the FBI) to harass journalists who made negative reports on his administration, and used government resources to conceal these illegal activities. Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon. Jimmy Carter was an active proponent of the death penalty and a public supporter of the Iranian Shah, leading directly to the Iran hostage crisis. Ronald Reagan put the United States $3 trillion in debt and was responsible for the Iran-Contra affair. George H. W. Bush pardoned those involved in Iran-Contra; later, he was responsible for the first Gulf War, saying that an order to overthrow the Iraqi government would have "incurred incalculable human and political costs... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq." President Clinton was a lame duck president; signed into law the Iraq Liberation Act which was later used to partly justify an invasion of Iraq; signed into law the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; initiated the 'Don't ask don't tell' policy; engaged in at least two known extramarital affairs while in office.
Do you still think George W. Bush is anything new or different?
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