Is Bush the worst President in history?

hudsmack

Shared on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 16:42

...or at least in recent memory? There was a topic going in the forums, but well, you know how that goes. In the interest of full disclosure, I voted for George Bush, and I would like to extend my most sincere apologies to all the citizens of our great nation for doing so.

For your consideration:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history

"...George W. Bush is in serious contention for the title of worst ever. In early 2004, an informal survey of 415 historians conducted by the nonpartisan History News Network found that eighty-one percent considered the Bush administration a "failure." Among those who called Bush a success, many gave the president high marks only for his ability to mobilize public support and get Congress to go along with what one historian called the administration's "pursuit of disastrous policies." In fact, roughly one in ten of those who called Bush a success was being facetious, rating him only as the best president since Bill Clinton -- a category in which Bush is the only contestant."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101509.html

"Historians are loath to predict the future. It is impossible to say with certainty how Bush will be ranked in, say, 2050. But somehow, in his first six years in office he has managed to combine the lapses of leadership, misguided policies and abuse of power of his failed predecessors. I think there is no alternative but to rank him as the worst president in U.S. history."

He is even loathed internationally:

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0708-27.htm

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22360058-5001028,00.html

Oh yeah, and there's that matter of his approval rating here in the good ol' US of A:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/bush.poll/

"Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon [22 percent and 24 percent, respectively], but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s," Holland said. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 67 percent disapproval in January 1952."

Whoever we get in November will likely be an improvement. Whether it's Barack's inexperience, McCain's disturbingly similar policies, or....forget about it (I was going to throw a nod to one of the ancillary candidates, but the likelihood of that happening in my lifetime is pretty much nil).

Comments

YEM's picture
Submitted by YEM on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 12:48
The thumbs down are most likely because it is a political blog not because they are bush supporters
hudsmack's picture
Submitted by hudsmack on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 13:06
It's not a political blog. It's a blog where I talk about whatever the hell I want to talk about, which sometimes happens to be politics.
TANK's picture
Submitted by TANK on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 17:31
His approval rating is as high as 28% now? I would have thought it would be down around 5% now. I think people are just giving him a break because they know the pain will be over soon.
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Submitted by TANK on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 17:33
Ya, he's been lower than 28%, his lowest looks like 23/24%. Still not as low as Truman but close. http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm
TANK's picture
Submitted by TANK on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 17:36
This poll (more recent) graph shows his disapproval % being as low as 21% http://americanresearchgroup.com/economy/ So it depends what you read but no matter what you read, he's certainly the bottom of the barrel.
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Submitted by hudsmack on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 17:37
Wow, someone is giving me thumbs down because they don't agree with me. I still don't see how people can put blind faith in this guy. Like I said, I voted for him, what the hell was I thinking?!?
MikeTheKnife's picture
Submitted by MikeTheKnife on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 18:08
You seriously expected not to get thumbed down for this?
Automan21k's picture
Submitted by Automan21k on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 15:00
sorry, anything from Rolling Stone Magazine is not politics.
hudsmack's picture
Submitted by hudsmack on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 18:40
I rate blogs on content and how well it was thought out, not necessarily whether I agree with the comment or not. But whatever, if people want to keep spending money on a senseless war we were led in to on a lie, or have our freedoms violated in the name of fear and terrorism, so be it. I'll post a pro-Bush article next time and get thumbed-down by all the Obama-bots.
LuxDevil67's picture
Submitted by LuxDevil67 on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 18:50
i mentioned in one of my blogs that bush may be the worst president in american history. that was the seed that generated the instant-multiple-thumbs-down in all my blogs!
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Submitted by hudsmack on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 16:08
Right, because only ultra conservatives are entitled to their opinion.

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