Worst presidential blunders

The University of Louisville's McConnell Center recently released the results of a survey done by presidential historians from across the United States.

The results of this survey were a ranking of the top 10 worst presidential blunders:

10. Bill Clinton's scandal with Monica Lewinsky.

9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua.

8: John F. Kennedy allowing the Bay of Pigs Invasion that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

7: Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807, a self-imposed prohibition on trade with Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.

6: James Madison's failure to keep the United States out of the War of 1812 with Britain.

5: Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up.

4: Woodrow Wilson's refusal to compromise on the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.

3: Lyndon Johnson for allowing the Vietnam War to intensify.

2: Andrew Johnson's decision just after the Civil War to side with Southern whites and oppose improvements in justice for Southern blacks beyond abolishing slavery.

1: President James Buchanan, for failing to avert the Civil War. Scholars who participated said Buchanan did not do enough to oppose efforts by Southern states to secede from the Union before the Civil War.

Now does anyone else think that it is absolutely ridiculous that Clinton lying about an affair ranked up there with mistakes that led to the Civil War, generations of continued oppression of blacks in the South, the Vietnam war, and the War of 1812?

I can think of blunders by our current (p)resident that are much worse than lying about an affair-- one of which got us into the war in Iraq.

Almost every single one of these either led to a war, a war to intensify, or military action. I'm sorry, but lying about oral sex with an intern comes nowhere close to any of those mistakes. And it sure as heck didn't lead to the deaths of thousands of Americans.