Seward was at the time mocked by the public calling the purchase “Seward's Folly” or Seward's Ice box”.
Who among us today would mock Seward?
Carter's folly, giving away our Panama to the South American drug dealers, who have subsequently leased the our Panama Canal to the Communist Chinese. The only Democratic President that is on course to take the Guinness Book of Records for the worst president of the Twenty First Century is our current Democratic President Barak Obama