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Posted by: msaleem 1 year, 9 months agoEver since 1948, when Harvard professor Arthur Schlesinger Sr. asked 55 historians to rank U.S. presidents on a scale from "great" to "failure," such polls have been a favorite pastime for those of us who study the American past.
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Aidenag
Dec. 3, 2006, 1:32 p.m.This is just one of 5 Op-eds the WashingtonPost did sunday asking the question of, or flat out saying bush is the worst president ever.
Man i love that paper :) lol
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earthlingerer
Dec. 3, 2006, 1:52 p.m.This is the same rag that invented that "Watergate" theory and conspiracy, isn't it?
At least Nixon tried to be somewhat secretive and cunning in his own stupidity.
I keep waiting, hoping for that moment where Bush somehow sacrifices everything to be a hero, changing the minds of all those who've condemned him.
The problem is I can't even fathom the situation in which that would occur.
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Twistoflex
Dec. 3, 2006, 10:24 p.m.Stop dreaming. He doesn't have it in him. First of all, he's a poltroon. He's delusional. He's a cowardly, spoiled, spoonfed fratboy who failed in every venture but was bailed out through Daddy's connections (including by the bin Laden's) and was either handed his wealth or acquired it through illegal insider trading. All of this is documented.
He was repackaged and sold like cornflakes. He doesn't give a squat about the American People, American sovereignty or the Constitution. He serves only his corporate masters ... and he'll tell any lie and commit any treason to advance the interests of these elitists.
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geographer47
Dec. 3, 2006, 5:40 p.m.The Washington Post isn't alone. Recently aol.com pointed out that Bush's ratings have reached a new low.
http://politics.netscape.com/story/2006/11/12/bush
Ironically, the highest Presidential job approval ratings were recorded for Bush immediately following 9/11. No one has else fallen as much in public favor.
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geographer47
Dec. 3, 2006, 5:42 p.m.http://politics.netscape.com/story/2006/11/12/bush
The link is not copying correctly. The title of the post is Bush Approval Rating Hits All-Time Low.
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Twistoflex
Dec. 3, 2006, 10:33 p.m.That was the whole point of the false flag attacks: to rally the nation around a failed and illegitimate regime so it could pursue an agenda for its transnational corporate overlords: serial wars for oil.
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dennisj
Dec. 3, 2006, 6:35 p.m.less acomplisments than william Henry Harrison more corruption than Harding More misplaced arragence than coolige. Its hard to get out iof the bottom of the heam
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disraeli
Dec. 3, 2006, 9 p.m.And it accurately sums up what passes for political debate in much of the US - if they don't agree with me well I'll just poll down my pants and pi$$ on them.
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ADAGUY
Dec. 3, 2006, 8:13 p.m.What amazes me the most is the fact that 30% of those polled still say they think he is doing a good job?
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Illuminate
Dec. 3, 2006, 8:38 p.m.Did they ask every American??? Was it a Blue state or a Red State?, were a majority of the repsondents (do they) have servicepeople overseas or not?, are they Anti bush (no matter what) or pro Bush (I'm still Pro Bush- even though I think hes done a bunch wrong)
Polls are about as truthful and scientific as an Clintons explanation of his 'IS'
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brihug
Dec. 3, 2006, 8:30 p.m.i am not a good enough historian to say about worst ever. However, I am certain he is the worst in my lifetime. And, much as I am loathe to admit it, that's over 50 years. So, I have been alive for Ike, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush (1), Clinton and Bush(II). He is BY FAR the worst. Lied about the need for the war, violated the constitution, destroyed the bill of rights. I thought these were the things we were to fight FOR.
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chevydog
Dec. 3, 2006, 10:40 p.m.I tend to agree as well. Seems to me that Bush II has an overabundance of characteristics that were grevious personal shortcomings in Nixon (paranoia) and Johnson (egotism). Kennedy's probably overrated. My guess is that Reagan and Carter will move in up the future. Though he wasn't my cup of tea (too doctrinaire), I have to give Reagan a plus for being the best presidential communicator I've ever heard. Clinton was an excellent politician (in the perjorative sense of the word). In that area, Bush II is completely tone deaf.
Personally, I started out cool to Bush II--it's easy for anyone from the mid-Atlantic to be suspicious of anyone connected to Texas oil. Gave him the benefit of the doubt on 9/11, which was pretty horrific. But he lost me completely on Iraq. Premptive wars were not part of the America I was raised to believe in.
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longjaafar
Dec. 3, 2006, 9:39 p.m.I agree that he's the worst. The irony is that he is a two term president! So, if he is so bad, those who voted him in (after such a dismal performance) must take some of the "credit".
LJ
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ningyo
Dec. 3, 2006, 9:43 p.m.yet another article slamming bush..worst president ever..but no alternative plans or real deisgn for going foward--as usual--the dems ran this nov on we're not bush and we hate bush and this is one more for the pile--ok now what you hate bush..what do you want to..whats the big dem plan for fixing the world..hating bush isnt a plan..its a talking point..and our enemies arent listening..they have their own plans..time to stop putting all your effort into hating bush and coming out with your plan to confront a growing enemy...oh right ..raise the minimum wage..that will take care of terrorism..and socialist..err universal health care..that puts iran and no korea to bed..right now san fran nan is 0 for 2 ..now what
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inaroundabout
Dec. 4, 2006, 12:36 a.m.Yes, this is an anti bush article by a HISTORIAN. If you want to dislike the dems, fine. If you want to bash them for running on "we're not Bush", fine. If you want to condemn them for not passing useful legislation, fine (if it happens). But to get on a HISTORIAN for writing a HISTORICAL article about good/bad presidents for not suggesting alternative plans isa bit out there and quite a ways off topic.
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DRK1
Dec. 3, 2006, 10:01 p.m.ningyo:
Great post.I hope you`re right about the Dems being able to persue their plans with no chance of presidential veto.I would like some clarification about your insightful reference to San Francisco.
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Matteu00
Dec. 3, 2006, 10:23 p.m.I agree these types of articles are more or less reasons for the faithful to rally in support of their chosen loser. Over the weekend the I was at a place where a bunch of 20 somethings were talking up how the president is right what he needs to do is lay waste to Iraq. I asked the obvious quesiton, "when do you sign up". I got the usual response from the Chicken Hawk Cowards.
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slate
Dec. 3, 2006, 10:37 p.m.Sorry if I came across too snarky
No not at all I wasn't telling you to be silent I was saying that the silence of no dem with a solution other than Bush is da worse
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saneInTexas
Dec. 3, 2006, 10:46 p.m.state- i don't believe that it was the dems that conjured up the lies that got us in to this mess, was it? The one's that voted for it were fed bogus information. I mean, who would have believed at the time that an American 'president' was lying?
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DRK1
Dec. 3, 2006, 10:56 p.m.Slate:
I`m generally not too dense but I have to say-I don`t understand your response to my post.Please clarify.
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slate
Dec. 3, 2006, 11:09 p.m.drk1 My silence statement was to 00's post about the Dems not having an answer,,, and the timing thing I think you thought it was too you, I was trying to clarify that but not well enough
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chevydog
Dec. 3, 2006, 11:14 p.m.One of the ironies about Bush II is that Repubs have for ages wished for a president that would run the country more "like a business." Then we finally get one trained in business (albeit more in the wheeling-dealing side than in operations), and he probably sets the party back by 30 years. I realize that all this is pretty subjective, but in my lifetime I can't remember any president that'so relentlessly screwed up everything he's touched. He seems to ask for and attract disrespect. Even Nixon, who was virulently disliked by many people, was respected by a portion of those who disliked him. The current situation aside, IMHO Bush II will be badly judged by history.
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Lurch
Dec. 4, 2006, 4:20 a.m.The kind of business Bush was trained in was the Ken Lay school of "what`s in it for me".
I`m socially liberal and fiscally conservative and I still see many ways in which the government could and should be run more as a business. Bush is the anti-free market/anti-competition president of choice.
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slate
Dec. 3, 2006, 11:20 p.m.Ya know Saneintx
We've been spoon fed that Bush lied so much that it has become accepted as a fact by many. The great lie theory does work. Bush used the best intelligence gathered from around the world to make his decision; the same sources that the Democrats used when they were doing their own saber clanking when Clinton was in office. You can believe he lied, or was doing it for oil or any number of theories that are bantered about on sites like these on a daily basis. There are always things we will never know, from this president to all that came before and will after him.
I suppose it all comes down to how you view them as a man or how cynically you view the world as a whole. I believe every president inherits a lot of problems from things left undone by those ahead of him, if any of the presidents from the 70's onward would have done something instead of passing the political hot potato we may not even had to have this debate now.
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saneInTexas
Dec. 3, 2006, 11:21 p.m.I was one of Nixon's most ardet haters- had an 'Impeach Nixon' sign in the fron yard, etc. But... he went to China, set up the EPA (which shrub and his ilk want to destroy), and other stuff that generally helped Americans. I can't say that about this guy. He has only helped the millionaires that contribute to the republican party.
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slate
Dec. 3, 2006, 11:31 p.m.Tax cuts... I got mine and I'm not rich
Strong econmy as a whole
Perscription Drugs for the elderly
There are a few,,, ir's kinda hard to do a lot after you have an attack on your country 2 years in and have your detractors hound your every move.
Every president does things people like and don't like,,, heck there are many things I dislike that Bysh has done, but in the end whether a President is Democrat or Republocan they are still the leader of the country and respect is due for that title IMO, whether anyone agrees with the job they due or not.
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Lurch
Dec. 4, 2006, 4:28 a.m.Tax cuts, I got my temp tax payment cut but I`ll be paying off the increased balance on George`s spending spree for the rest of my life.
Thanks to Bush spending habits my little household owes the equivalent of a downpayment on a house or a college education. And for what? So the terrorists could come back from the brink and get live fire training against US troops while Bush makes the world a much more dangerous place.
Somehow, I don`t appreciate the few hundred bucks a year in deferred taxes.
Prescription drugs that cost twice as much as even the Dems worst nightmare and gave away our governments right to negotiating volume purchase pricing even though our govt is one of the largest volume purchases in the world. Other countries have this right, but the Bush admin gave it away for free.
I respect a man who respects me. Bush insults my intelligence while stealing from my and my children.
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saneInTexas
Dec. 3, 2006, 11:42 p.m.Tax cuts- for who? I didn't get one. Ross Perot did.
Economy- most of the jobs in my field (high tech) are being shipped off shore.
Drugs for the elderly- talk to my Mother.
The people who attacked this country are getting away while we attack another country that had nothing to do with it.
shrubs thoughts:
Global warming- "junk science" (fed to him by the good folks at Exxon)
National Parks- sell them to Exxon
Wetlands- drain them
Govt response- prove that govt doesn't work by appointing morons to head the agencies that are suppose to respond
no bid contracts- let our friends win them
shall I go on
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Illuminate
Dec. 3, 2006, 11:59 p.m.I got mine
High Tech being shipped of 'cuz Amrican children sit in front of TV and video games - Not Bushes fault our kids and adults are uneducated or are lazy and stupid (not all or yours)
They are still looking in Afganistan (lasttime we checked our forces hadnt pulled out had they?
Global warming- National Parks- Wetland - depends on which paid for study (non objective one) read
Govt repsonse - THE GOVT needed states approv to enter a state and give fed aid (the idiots in Louisiana dropped the BALL FIRST- Is anyone still ragging on them NOOOO Why not) Yes the FEMA guy was an idiot but he cant go into a state UNTIL the state asked AND they DIDNT
I got a contract in Iraq (a small one but I got one so what???
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slate
Dec. 3, 2006, 11:48 p.m.Shrub? morons?
ahhhh i see where you are coming from,,, I make wellllllllllll under 100K a year and I got a tax cut,,,
But talking to you with your disdain of those there, nothing I could say would convince you so I won't waste my time
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inaroundabout
Dec. 4, 2006, 12:52 a.m.I could be wrong, but I believe most of the meaningful tax cuts have to do with investments (e.g. capital gains). Since someone must have income above the amount required to sustain themselves to invest these cuts do favor the wealthy than the poor.
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Confederate
Dec. 3, 2006, 11:52 p.m.The worst president, in my humble opinion, was: President Lyndon B. Johnson. I wished that he had run in 1968. He would have lost his a**!
Vietnam was his loadstone and albatross around his neck. What an idiot!
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spkguy
Dec. 4, 2006, 12:45 a.m.President Bush's aproval rating has set a new record!
He has now beat Lyndon Johnson all time low...
Way to go GWB, you now have your place in history!
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saneInTexas
Dec. 3, 2006, 11:53 p.m.brownie wasn't a moron? "you are doing a good job, brownie" quote from shrub a few days after Katrina struck New Orleans.
he was fired a few days later.
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Illuminate
Dec. 4, 2006, 12:05 a.m.He was but wheres the Lousiana and New Orlean (Politicains)HubBub (and people being irate) about THEM being Morons too (if not more so)- Its FEMA's, Its Bushes fault Katrina Aid was ****** up????
NO the Mayor and Governor ****** it up all by themselves (the Govt - over 50 yrs of not fixing levees (not just Bush) and the FEMA fiasco (which couldnt go into a State without its permission or asking which neither DID) exasberated the events
The people in NO live in a frigging hole 75 feet below sealevel--- MOVE quit your bitching- Its like the starving Ethiopian joke (Sam Kinison RIP) YOUR Starving WELL YOU LIVE IN A ****** DESERT!!!!!!
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