Worst leaders in history.

[Sidhe]

Ok me not reading the OP, in the whose the worst leader thread has made me think about who are the all time greats.

Who's your tip of the top, bad leader of all time.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Jim Jones and Marshall Applewhite come to mind.

 

[R.B.]

Giant Radioactive monkey mad at bad leadership accusation! RRRRRRRRR!!

On a serious note, Kim Jung Il will probably get the most votes. Also, Louis XVI wasn't a bad leader-he was just taken advantage of by his wife. It was her spoildness that got them into the Guilottine. Poor Louis, according to some, required the guillotine to go down a second time.

 

[GenMarshall]

Other: George W. Bush

 

[Irish Caesar]

Pope John XXIII is considered one of the greatest Popes in history by Catholics and Protestants alike...

 

[Sidhe]

Other: George W. Bush

Couldn't put him in, although he's a bad president, I don't think he stands out enough to rate along side the others, but he certainly is worthy of an other vote

 

[Sidhe]

oops

my mistake

I included pope XIII but was meant ot be XXIII

Heres number 12 in the count up, or should I say down.

John XII (955-964)

Pope at 18, thanks to a brutal father who had seized control of Rome, John was described as a ‘monster of vice’ by his own monks. The charges against him include murder, drunkenness and incest. He is alleged to have turned the Papal palace into a brothel, castrated several rebellious cardinals, and gouged out the eyes of priests who protested at his excesses. His Holiness was eventually killed by the husband of a woman he had raped.

and XXIII

John XXIII (1410-1415)

Arguably the worst Pope ever, John XXIII — a brutal retired pirate — bought his cardinal’s hat with money raised by the sale of holy offices, and was elected pontiff in the hope that his military talents would save Rome from the clutches of rival Naples. Notoriously keen on women (his enemies charged that he had slept his way through 200 girls while Papal legate in Bologna, simultaneously running the city’s gambling and prostitution rackets), John XXIII was eventually deposed after five scandalous years on the throne of St Peter. The indictment brought against him ran to 72 articles and detailed every known vice and sin from simony to sodomy. Surely the most remarkable accusation levelled against the Holy Father, though, was the one charging him with atheism.

 

[Irish Caesar]

oops

my mistake

I included pope XIII twice once as XII and once as XIII, put it down to stupidity :/

Ah, typo then, as #23 made the poll.

Blessed Pope John XXIII (Latin: Ioannes PP. XXIII), (Italian: Giovanni XXIII), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (November 25, 1881 – June 3, 1963), was elected as the 261st Pope of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City on October 28, 1958. He called the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) but did not live to see it to completion, dying on June 3, 1963 two months after the completion of his final encyclical, Pacem in Terris. He was beatified on September 3, 2000, along with Pope Pius IX, the first popes since Pope St. Pius X to receive this honor. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest Popes of all time.

 

[Sidhe]

Ah okay forget about it, these things happen I'm well aware there were more great popes than idiots though Not meant to be a slight against Catholicism.

 

[Phlegmak]

It's simply too hard for me to choose. My immediate thought was the current American president but then I thought, "Is he really the worst of all time?", and the answer must be no. So I don't know who to choose. I'm guessing some old French monarch. Whoever lead his nation to ruin.

 

[Trajan12]

Vlad the Impaler wasn't as bad as he was...insane. I say Kim Jong Il.

 

[amadeus]

Well, if you compare the damage done vs. the situation before that leader came to power, Robert Mugabe takes the cake (literally.)

No other person in the last 500 years has been able to inherit such a successful, growing economy and turned it into one of the poorest nations on the planet. Nor has any leader been able to keep that nation in absolute poverty despite the fact that he has had so many bailouts by friendly neighbors and heavy support from emerging powers.

 

[JohnRM]

On that list? Without a doubt, Caligula. Other Roman Emperors may come close, like Nero.

 

[Technocactus]

Mugabe. He completely wrecked a Zimbabwe that seemed to be on the up.

 

[Tycoon101]

Louis XVI was weak on all issues, couldn't introduce needed tax reforms, and was a bad husband. He was the worst leader of all time, because he basically FORCED his country to revolt. The others united their citizens (or portions of their citizenry), Louis divided them all.

 

[CartesianFart]

Kofi Annan.He proved how legitimately that the UN is inept in regarding how permanent member-states can manipulate other nations.

 

[Brighteye]

How about George III? Raising taxes on innocent colonies for fun whilst Parliament warned him that this was unwise. How right they were.

 

[Sidhe]

How about George III? Raising taxes on innocent colonies for fun whilst Parliament warned him that this was unwise. How right they were.

Stupid man, but he was trying to fund wars, worried about the economy, the US didn't feel they should subsidise European agression, but as a King, even though he was eratic, he wasn't actually that bad, his son George the IV: now there was an inbred idiot.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

How about Catherine the Great's husband? I think his name was Peter III? Basically, he became Czar at a critical time during the Thirty Years' War, when Russia was really beating down on Prussia, to the point that Prussia was going to collapse completely. Well, Frederick was Peter's hero, his idol, so he pulled the Russian forces out of Germany, and saved his idol from absolute defeat. He also liked to play with toy soldiers, and was just wierd in general. Catherine had him killed by the Cossacks after a while.

My vote goes to him.

 

[Atlas14]

Worst leader in history? Philip d' Anjou, the French leader of the Third Crusade.