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And traditionally the pre civil war presidents were voted some of the worst. It will be interesting to see if Bush trumps them or stays just in the bottom 10.
Good point. We probably won't know for another 50 years how history ultimately views Bush. Some pre-civil war Presidents, specifically Buchannan, are among the worst. I am going to go out on a limb and say history will judge Bush as the worst of the post-WWII era and among the top 3 worst in all history.
and then we can throw in some of those pesky historians
"In an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted over a three-week period through the History News Network, 98.2 percent assessed the presidency of Mr. Bush to be a failure while 1.8 percent classified it as a success.
Amazing how that percentage of historians almost exactly matches the percentage of academic historians who are self-declared leftist Democrats and who support the Democrat party and all its policies with their time, money and teachings.
Worst president in history was Woodrow Wilson (D, NJ).
• Started the war on drugs (Harrison act of 1914). Before that any American could walk into any corner pharmacy and legally purchase opium, coca, or marihuana. Wilson laid the foundation of the modern nanny state with such progressive initiatives as the war on prostitution and prohibition, which he nominally opposed, but failed to stop.
•Started the concept of US as world police by getting the US into WWI even though it was not our concern. And WWI of course set the stage for WWII.
•Created the federal income tax and thus vouchsafed the dominance of Washington DC and leviathan centralized government.
•Was an overt racist who re-segregated the federal work force and military after it had been desegregated by the Republicans.
Quite a job by our only PhD president, whose program marches on 100 years later under Pres. Barack Obama.
Wilson was very bad, FDR was very bad, Carter was very bad, Obama is very bad. Pretty hard to pick the worst out of that bunch.
Wilson was very bad, FDR was very bad, Carter was very bad, Obama is very bad. Pretty hard to pick the worst out of that bunch.
ACA, DACA, recess appts, firearms,plus, we are still hovering over the middle east. He's got plenty of time to do further damage. I think it's an easy win.
ACA, DACA, recess appts, firearms,plus, we are still hovering over the middle east. He's got plenty of time to do further damage. I think it's an easy win.
Could be but I know that the damage Wilson and FDR did is still plaguing us today. Carter set us up for many of the problems we're facing now. I don't know for sure what the long term effect of Obama is going to be.
Wilson was very bad, FDR was very bad, Carter was very bad, Obama is very bad. Pretty hard to pick the worst out of that bunch.
FDR is in the top three from historical ratings according to Wikipedia. When looking at what happened to the rest of the world during that time, I think we have a lot to be thankful for with FDR, even if some of his policies were carried out beyond there time.
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Good point. We probably won't know for another 50 years how history ultimately views Bush. Some pre-civil war Presidents, specifically Buchannan, are among the worst. I am going to go out on a limb and say history will judge Bush as the worst of the post-WWII era and among the top 3 worst in all history.
That I can agree with. The post WWII presidents are within peoples timeframe of memory, so they are the ones most compared to, while few take into account presidents like Rutherford B Hayes into the mix.
The verdict is in - liberals are still out of touch with reality and refuse to accept anything that is contrary to their skewed world view.
The same can be said of die-hard Republicans. Those people who deperately cling to either side of the political fence, talk about how great your side is, and constantly villify the other side, are all idiots.
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