[MeanFreePath]

"When all the evidence is in, I think historians will agree with Princeton’s Sean Wilentz, who wrote a carefully argued article judging Bush to have been the worst president in American history."

Unfortunately, this line came at the end of the article - otherwise it would have saved me the trouble of reading this garbage. Bush is not close to being the worst president even out of the last two...

I am so sick of defeatists.

[Dawnsblood]

I agree entirely. Carter is easily the worst.

[rockinqsranch]

My sentiments as well.

I was about halfway through this tedium, eyes glazing over when I decided to scroll to the bottom to see if there was anything of value in closing.

Certainly a lot of words to say very little other than Bush is a lousey President.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"When all the evidence is in, I think historians will agree with Princeton’s Sean Wilentz, who wrote a carefully argued article judging Bush to have been the worst president in American history."

• Truman lost China, having a State Department that wanted the Communists to win it. Without Communist China it's hard to see how there would even have been a Korean War.

• Kennedy had the Bay of Pigs and the assassination of Diem which committed the US to Vietnam.

• Johnson had the (political) loss of the Vietnam War on top of the disasterous great government (he called it "Great Society," but he meant great government) program. Which wasted a trillion dollars, at a time when a trillion dollars was real money.

• Carter had the loss of Iran and stagflation.

• Clinton had Black Hawk Down and the genie of Islamism, plus Filegate, Coffeegate, "the meaning of 'is'" - and so on and so forth and so on.

Bush undoubtedly could have done some things better - but it's pretty hard to seriously nominate him as a contender for the title of "worst POTUS in history". The competition for that "honor" is actually pretty stiff.