Posted on 01/25/2016 2:20:09 PM PST by Maceman
Americans of all stripes love to debate which president was best or worst. This is a subject that is too important to rely on opinion polls, which are skewed by individual bias and political views. While It's difficult to rate how good or bad any president may have been in comparison to another, a careful look at the facts shows one president failed in virtually every aspect of the job to a degree unrivaled by any other.
When you review the facts below and consider his impact on our economy, foreign policy, and domestic policy, by almost any standard, itâs difficult to find any president who did more harm and left the country in worse shape than George W. Bush.
At the same time that Bush was leaving office with a 28% job approval rating, 61% of historians rated George W. Bush's presidency as the worst in history. In another, informal survey of 109 professional historians, 98.2% judged the Bush presidency as a failure while a mere 1.8% classified it as a success.
Below you can find all the reasons that George Bush deserves the title of Worst President in US History. I encourage you to do your own research and verify the facts stated in this article.
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Wherever Bush is ranked, Clinton deserves equal billing.
Both ignored 9/11 warning signs.
Both gave us a growth economy, but left us with a Recession (Clinton’s officially started about 6 weeks after he vandalized the White House and left town). Bush’s recession was made worse by Obama’s failures; Bush helped get us out of Clinton’s, with tax cuts.
Both helped lead us to the housing bust.
Main differences are atrocious, but apples-oranges:
Clinton: impeachment
Bush: Iraq
I am not suggesting Obama isn’t the worst, but if Bush had leveled Afghanistan and stopped hard on Saddam there would have been no Iraq invasion, no Libya, no Benghazi, no Egypt, and no mess in Syria.
BJ is our Harding; Gore would never have been Coolidge, but he didn't get the chance. W is our Hoover. BHO thinks he is FDR; he is everything that was wrong with FDR, with nothing that was right, and that is another reason Obama deserves the prize.
I should have added that HRC thinks she is Eleanor.
W is like Nixon. A guy that liberals hated while in office, but years later will praise for all of the liberal stuff they did.
“I believe Bush was mislead by the NWO cabal and their bogus âSadamâs WMD yellowcakeâ nonsense.”
So you’re saying that he was mislead by his father and his father’s buddies?
The GOPe has brought all of this upon our country, and this explains why it is hated so much and why it must be destroyed if true conservatism is to have an opportunity to succeed.”
So with his total lack or success, it's easy to see why he's not out on the campaign trail with Jebbito. With Jebbito down to 1% after spending more than $60 million on adverts, the thinking probably is that W coming on the scene at this juncture would have Little Jebbie approaching zero % as an asymptote!
I would say your corrupt, leftist media gave you Obama.
History is not defined by current reflection of academicians but by the passage of time. I have said it before, George W Bush will be treated very kindly by history much like Harry Truman.
So Huma is her Lorena Hickok?
I'm inclined to agree. But it took many years for Calvin Coolidge and Hebert...uh, Hoobert Heever...uh, that guy...to be "rehabilitated" in the eyes of popular history. Taft may be along. Nothing that happened in his administration was any sleazier than what has happened in the current one and his offending Secretary went to prison.
Is this settled history?
I hadn't thought of that, but chances are you would be right...
We have a lot of undercover liberals here at FR. They say just enough to keep their identity secret but they love to stir the pot. I've noticed a lot more suspects lately.
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a larger state. In other words, a butterfly flapping its wings in Texas can cause later a typhoon in the Japanese Sea.
Think about it, in mid-20th Century America an 18 year old pot smoking hippie freshman slut in a Honolulu college has sex with an older Kenyan politician on a student visa, who has a wife and child back in Africa, and from this “roll in the hay” comes the collapse and dissolution of America in the 21st Century.
Interesting isn’t it, and it makes you a firm believer in the “butterfly effect.”
Kinda depressing to think I’ve lived in 4 of the 5 worst presidencies in the modern era.
It depends on whether you are willing to consider Obama on that list. As far as I’m concerned, the usurper doesn’t get a rank in the “president” category, although he is the worst occupant of our White House in history.
I think you’re right.
I don’t suppose they can run Obama’s numbers for this “verdict” because he’s still in office. When he is gone they will change the way the numbers are put together, no doubt, and find a way to make it GeeDubya or some other Republican.
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