It’s frankly impossible to assign relative levels of beastliness to the "Worst" contenders. Everyone named here is the ‘Worst Person in the World’ in my humble opinion, but for the sake of simplicity, we’ll retain the rating system as set down by Keith Olbermann. After all, we know who the real winners in this pageant are, even without a tiara to set them above, or – rather, below the rest.
Worst: Greyhound Transportation and Driver Donald Ainsworth. One would think that having paid their fare, having no choice but to ride the dirty dawg would be penance enough for the Occupy protestors – or The Occupy 13 as they’ll be known in history books. You know of course, that it was only the beginning. An immovable force (Ainsworth, the driver) came between the 13 and Washington D.C., their destination. I vote for hitchhiking as the safer and more prudent mode of transpiration on their next low-budget outing cross-country.
Worser: Mitt Romney, The Ice Man. His stiff frozen appearance is no optical illusion. In 2007 Romney was approached by an emaciated man, desperately ill with Muscular Dystrophy. The man requested an answer to but one simple question which meant all of the difference to his life. Much in the way a squid ejects an inky fluid to blind predators, in a flash, Squid Mitt blew a cloud of evasion and condescension which covered his sharp turn and slithery escape. It’s so easy to brush them off when they can’t get up from their wheel chairs and chase you down to demand an answer. In this case, the man should have received a considered answer from Romney, and Squid Mitt should have received a punch in the nose.
Worse, Despicable and Reprehensible too! Mike O’Neal Speaker of the Kansas State House: O’Neal is the fun bag who sent out the ‘Yo Mama Obama’ Christmas greetings, with a comparison of the First Lady as The Grinch. Those who think it was good partisan fun might want to take a look at the following. "Free At last," O’Neal wrote in an email he received and passed to colleagues about Psalm 109, "I can honestly voice a Biblical prayer for our president."
"Let his days be few; and let another take his office…May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow…May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes…May a creditor seize all he has/ may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor…May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children…"
If I didn’t know that he was from the party of morality, I’d suspect there was some hatred lurking. Late minute update, O’Neal has been asked to step down. In short, he replied that likes it just fine where he is.
RJ Adds: Any book that would promote such hateful swill should
be discarded into the ash bin of History. It is the literal belief in
that book that generates most of the intolerance, bigotry, racism,
hatred and violence in the world past and present.