Clinton. BTTT.
Details of the "poll" are here (the comments may be of interest as well). It's embarassingly unscientific to say the least, unconclusive and inconsequential. Nor does it look like much thought went into the survey.
Historians don't seem to be able to view the present in historical perspective. To judge by McElvaine's (the fellow who did the poll) own response, it looks like he basically accepts and sticks together everything bad he's heard about about Bush, rather than look critically at such accusations.
What's missing are objective criteria for judgment, and the perspective that only time can bring. Every political or financial scandal, every setback in war or diplomacy looks like the worst when one is living through it (especially if the other party is in power).
For whatever it's worth, Buchanan and Pierce were our worst Presidents. You can't do much worse than let the country slide into civil war.
Unwinnable war? Using politically correct tactics, I agree. Alienate friend and foe alike? Why the hell should any nation care what others think if national sovereignty and national security is priority #1?
He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;
Social spending is growing so fast that it will bankrupt the nation! The rich are getting screwed more and more in our tax system. It is the non taxpayers who are being sucked up to.
He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;
National security is priority #1. Who cares?
He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;
Scumbag over eight years pulled wool over the eyes of the press and the leftist clueless faggish historians said nothing about it.
He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign (Iraq and the battle against al-Qaeda);
New Orleans? Not his job.
Iraq? I agree he has screwed up by not taking the battle to nations that harbor and aid in the war against America--e.g., Iran and Syria.
He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;
What morons! Productivity is FAR more important than employment. The higher the productivity, the better the economy and the standard of living. Only slugs who do not want to educate themselves are victims of unemployment over the long run.
He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;
Possibly. I wonder what goes on in meetings over the ABM system, anti-bioweapon research, etc. I don't know Bush's interest or passion, and neither do these idiot commie, limp-wristed historians.
He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime.
Welfare cheating dwarfs corporate cheating. The commie historians here need to check their facts.
Doesn't this idiot know anything about sampling theory, normal distributions, chi-square tests, etc.? Why in the world would anybody believe that smelly, bearded, be-speckled, pot smoking, torn blue jean wearing, ignorant of real world, socialist "historians" be a fair sample for any study?
You may ask why clintoon didn't make my rankings???
I never considered that thing a president, so I cannot provide a rank.
Kennedy is in the top 2