Re: Is GW Bush the Worst President Ever?
 

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Perhaps we should restrict the question to "Is GW Bush the worst president of the 20th/21st centuries"...

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Overall faithful attempt at a presidency, he must be better than at least Harding and a couple others. If we judge by how bad a president hurts our country, well...........time will tell. The way it looks now, as a result of Bush policy, terrorism will be a much greater threat to the USA and allies will be much harder to find by the time he's done. On the other hand, he disposed of a crazy, genocidal dictator and gave Iraq both a democracy and a war-torn country, with tens of thousands dead. Was it worth it guys?

PS. We also got a tax cut and plunged deeper into the economic abyss of dept. Nice!

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PS. We also got a tax cut and plunged deeper into the economic abyss of dept. Nice!

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Don't forget the $2 trillion-dollar prescription drug plan. That's a huge recurring expense that we will get to pay every year from now until our deaths.

Re: Is GW Bush the Worst President Ever?
 

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Perhaps we should restrict the question to "Is GW Bush the worst president of the 20th/21st centuries"...

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No

Re: Is GW Bush the Worst President Ever?
 

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gave Iraq both a democracy and ...

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He did?

Re: Is GW Bush the Worst President Ever?
 

No to both questions.

Both Coolidge and Johnson were, in their own ways, horrific.

Re: Is GW Bush the Worst President Ever?
 

What was so bad about Silent Cal?

Re: Is GW Bush the Worst President Ever?
 

Well...I picked him out of the three rather ineffectual Presidents between Wilson and FDR...but really, take your pick on those guys.

Re: Is GW Bush the Worst President Ever?
 

Let's compare:

90s/Clinton: robust economy, low poverty, low unemployment, booming stock market, no major wars, military operations led to nearly no casualties, budget surplus, tax cuts for middle class, relatively effective congress that got some good work done, low crime, etc.

Yes, he committed adultery. No question there.

00s/Bush: worst terrorist attack in history of our country (after reading a memo that specifically warned of it), horrible economy, monster national debt, lowest approval ratings for a President in decades, seriously divided nation, ineffective tax cuts, cutthroat politics (smearing John McCain? Unconscionable), criminal Chief of Staff, ineffective war entered into under false pretenses, rising oil prices (before Katrina), etc. Also, Kanye West said it best "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

Frankly, I am truly amazed when seemingly rational people think that GWB is a good president. He may be a man of good character and a nice guy, Broken Glass Can, but he is, taking all the evidence objectively, unquestionably one of the worst presidents in the history of this nation.

Thread over.

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Shouldn't presidents be judged by the quality of years after their presidency, not during? BTW Bush is a sh.it eater.

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The appointments of John Ashcroft, Condi Rice, Michael Brown and Chertoff tells us Bush ain't a very good judge of competency.