Why do some people think Obama was the worst President in History

JagerIV

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Edit: well, in a conversation about who we believe is the worst president ever, our understanding of what actually happened and how things relate radically change that ranking.

For example, what you believe to be the most important things FDR did were, and what the real effect of those actions were are so contentious that he can swing between one of the greatest presidents and one of the worst.

Sure, there's an underlying truth were trying to get at, but reality is complicated and messy, and "what iffs" near unprovable, so it mostly comes down to questions of models (which are fickle) to try and draw direct lines on how the actions of one man caused changes in the actions of 100s of millions and to guess how things would have gone differently if other actions were taken, as well as value questions: for example, some Neo-Nazis and Tankies aren't simply deluded, but just have such radically different value systems that they really do think "Hitler/Stalin did nothing wrong", or at least did the best they could.
 
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