American Thinker celebrates the three worst presidents in American history.

Lists like these are necessarily subjective, but its interesting to note that these three presidents--Johnson, Buchanan and Carter, are pretty much universally described ambivalently at best and failures at worst on other lists of this type.

They are all Democrats.

Notably, Johnson and Buchanan's presidencies failed because of the distinctly Washington Democrat paradigm--government by poll. Buchanan and Johnson governed on the basis of what would keep them in power, not what the country needed. Buchanan set the stage for the civil war, Johnson's depredations were so obviously awful that he did not run for reelection.

Carter certainly didn't run on the basis of the polls. Turning over the Panama canal to a tin pot dictator was distinctly unpopular with the American people. Carter just had and still has, extraordinary bad judgment.