Posted on 01/12/2009 7:57:45 AM PST by Cronos
When a group of pundits gathered for a recent Oxford-style debate, the proposition alone was provocative: "Bush 43 Is the Worst President of the Past 50 Years." But when you consider that one of the panelists defending President Bush's legacy was his longtime adviser Karl Rove, the night became even more interesting
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Before and after each debate, the audience is asked to vote on the motion. At the start of the evening, 65 percent of the audience was in favor of the proposition that George W. Bush is the worst American president of the past 50 years; 17 percent were against the motion; and 18 percent were undecided. By the end of the debate, 68 percent were for the motion; 27 percent were against it; and 5 percent were still undecided.
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Jimmy Carter was the worst and dummest President.
Jimmah Cahtah’s prize for worst president ever is safe for now...
Jimmah has that title for the moment ... but we have a new contender coming up fast ...
Sounds like 68% of the audience were die-hard Bush Haters at the get-go. What surprises me is that only 3% of these Haters took the trouble of lying at the beiginning and pretended to be “undecided” to begin with.
Carter was the worst, but Fauxbama is on track to make Carter look like a god.
He's certainly the reason we have a fool like Obama now.
A worse commentary on our society is that Bush, failed president that he is, was the best choice of the six that have run for the office since 2000.
Truly a hideous president.
Jimmah holds the dumbest nut in the white house award since the founding of the nation!
Was Carter a POTUS?
I’m sure if most of this same forum had voted, when our first President, George Washington had just left office, they would have voted him the worst President!
What a waste, a better choice would have been to vote for the best President!
Maybe we need to vote for the worst of forum panels of all times. I just might be them!
Are they on the taxpayers dole?
George could have been great, but I don’t know what happened. Maybe history will judge him differently in a few years. I still think Carter is the worst of the worst.
He is a POS.
“He’s certainly the reason we have a fool like Obama now.”
Bill Clinton lowered the bar for every president wannabe from 92 onward.
G.W. Bush was the best president in my lifetime and I can remember presidents back to LBJ.
And nope on Carter. The worst president of my lifetime was Clinton, who was worse than Nixon.
In fact if I ordered them it woudl probably be:
1. G.W. Bush
2. Reagan
3. G.H.W. Bush
4. Carter
5. Ford
6. LBJ
7. Nixon
8. Clinton
Well, I think the fact that Rove and Kristol managed to get a higher score at the end is a significant point and showed that many (me included) did not remember all the good Budsh had done.
No, the voters were members of the audience in the auditorium. This came on bbc world.
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