George W. Bush worst president ever?

George W. Bush worst president ever?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 66.7%
  • No

    Votes: 2 22.2%
  • He is the best president ever

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • I dont care about the goverment

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    9
  • Poll closed .
Today's leader suggests that George Bush could go down as the worst president in the history of the United States. His foreign policy is under fire, especially after the publication of Iraq Study Group report, which found that "stability in Iraq remains elusive and the situation is deteriorating." From Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay, the strategies of his administration have divided opinion. Things are not looking good on the home front either; the Republicans' poor showing in the midterm elections, losing both Houses in the Capitol, was seen by most commentators as a judgment on the Bush White House.

Today, Bush is criticised as a matter of course, and every political move (and its consequence) is highly publicised. But George Bush is just one of the America's 43 presidents and is by no means the only one to have courted controversy. Are the misdemeanours and errors of judgment that pepper US presidential history any less shocking than the policies of George Bush? Andrew Johnson, who took office in 1865, was a white supremacist who vetoed Civil Rights laws which would have given freed slaves equal status. James Buchanan is often criticised for failing to prevent the American Civil War. Warren Harding was plagued by the corruption and scandal brought to his administration by the friends he appointed to high-profile positions. At the time, Harding's verbal gaffes were as much a target for ridicule as Bush's linguistic infelicities are today. Following his impeachment over the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the only American president to resign.
George W Bush may have some competition for the claim, then, but can we say now that he is the worst president in US history?
 

Dankdude

Well-Known Member
Although I voted Worse President ever, I do not think he is the worse ever (in my opinion Richard Milhouse Nixon was) but he is the worse one since Nixon.
 

Wavels

Well-Known Member
A truly honest, objective, and fair assessment can only be rendered by history.
Besides, in any event, it is a tad premature.
Wishful thinking can be a grand illusion
 

medicineman

New Member
Dear Mr. Wavels: If you think bush was a good president, it may be you whom is having illusions, take a few more tokes and a few swigs on your gimlet and think about his presidency, maybe a light will come on, but if you think at this point He is a good president, I think your vision is highly tainted!! You should watch at least one Lewis Black show, then decide!
 

Resinman

Well-Known Member
because of 9-11,,,,even though it was bush who allowed us to be attacked


The globalization of the world economys he will benifit from

he did not create and improve on it ,,,he will just benifit from it and will look favorable in the long run,,,the way the historians will brainwash yas on it

Signing only one veto so far is historical and should be made a central point on his quasi platform of small conservative goverment that never was

resinman
 

medicineman

New Member
Is Bush the worst President? Compared to Jimmy Carter ... I don't think so.

Vi
I must wonder what Jimmy did to you. You have him on your hit list and he is one sweet man. He is a minister and only wishes for good for mankind, WTF is your problem?
 

kronicsmurf

Well-Known Member
Is Bush the worst president in history? I don't know ask all the American soldiers killed in battle oh wait you can't because they're DEAD. seems pretty cut and dried to me. he is simply the worst butcher I've ever seen. I say ship his ass to Iraq and let him do a tour of duty.
 

medicineman

New Member
Is Bush the worst president in history? I don't know ask all the American soldiers killed in battle oh wait you can't because they're DEAD. seems pretty cut and dried to me. he is simply the worst butcher I've ever seen. I say ship his ass to Iraq and let him do a tour of duty.
Amen brother, Amen!
 

pokey

Well-Known Member
Ok, if that's your argument, try asking all the soldiers killed in any American war. With your argument, it means that they will all say that the current president at their time of death was the worst. I don't think Bush is great, I don't even think he's good, but it is far too early to tell if he is the worst. Plus, any declaration of "Worst President" will have to have the caveat of "So far" added to it. No one knows the future, and it is always possible that someone worse than any previous president might come along.
 

VTXDave

Well-Known Member
Ok, if that's your argument, try asking all the soldiers killed in any American war.
True dat...Now this is no endorsement of Bush but JFK, who happens to be a former POTUS held in high regard to this day, escalated Vietnam. How many soldiers died there? 60,000? 60,000 young men for what? To stem the tide of communism in some little backwater nation on the other side of the planet?
 

ViRedd

New Member
I must wonder what Jimmy did to you. You have him on your hit list and he is one sweet man. He is a minister and only wishes for good for mankind, WTF is your problem?

Did I say he wasn't a sweet man? Did I say he wasn't a minister? Did I say that he doesn't wish well for mankind? No, I didnt ... did I? I said he's was a terrible president. Totally ineffective, totally lacking in economic thought ... and a "well intentioned" socialist through and through. That's exactly why he left the country in such sorry economic shape when he left office. Good intentions run awry.

Vi
 

rollinupsweets

Active Member

pokey

Ok, if that's your argument, try asking all the soldiers killed in any American war. With your argument, it means that they will all say that the current president at their time of death was the worst. I don't think Bush is great, I don't even think he's good, but it is far too early to tell if he is the worst. Plus, any declaration of "Worst President" will have to have the caveat of "So far" added to it. No one knows the future, and it is always possible that someone worse than any previous president might come along.

..really??! its to early to even know if such a title could fit Bush ..so how long after hes out of office should we wait?? he is at the end of his presidency :) we see the number of soldiers killed everyday on the news,its almost like a fuckn lottery number.. im curious i wanna know the number, its on every night n its whole bunch of numbers. i repeat that sentence in my head alot, daaamn bush is fucked up..but then again it wouldnt be bush alone cuz when hes gone it CAN still be the same, it would be what bush stands for ..which is what McCAIN stands for and soo on..
 
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Allan Watts

Well-Known Member
The Iraq war is purely a war of choice-Dubyuh and Dick's Choice. They are personally profiting from it. It is a little early to call him the worst since things are still getting worse by the day. Every body LIMBO! How low will he go? Andrew Jackson was pretty bad for committing genocide on the Cherokees. They put him on the $20 any way though.
 

VTXDave

Well-Known Member
The Iraq war is purely a war of choice-Dubyuh and Dick's Choice.
Let's not forget Rumsfeld and Tenet...Gotta share the love ya know. :D

Here's a good book for anyone that'd like to know what went on behind closed doors during the build up to the Iraq invasion....
Amazon.com: Plan of Attack: Bob Woodward: Books
The 2003 American invasion of Iraq was contentious, not just in the arena of global public opinion, but within the tight-lipped world of the George W. Bush White House. As Bob Woodward reveals in Plan of Attack, Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were part of a group leading the charge to war while Secretary of State Colin Powell, General Tommy Franks, and others actively questioned the plan to invade a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks while war in Afghanistan was still being waged. Woodward gained extensive access to dozens of key figures and enjoyed hours of direct contact with the President himself (more time, seemingly, than former Bush administration officials Richard Clarke and Paul O'Neill claim to have had). As a result, he's able to cite the kind of gossip you won't find in a White House press release: Franks calls Pentagon official Douglas Feith "the f*cking stupidest guy on the face of the earth," Powell shares his alarm over how the cautious Cheney of the first Bush administration had transformed into a zealot, and Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar seems to enjoy significantly more entrée and influence than most anyone would have thought. Bush is shown as a man intent on toppling Saddam Hussein in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and never really wavering in his decision despite offering hints that non-military solutions could be achieved. Light is also shed on CIA director George Tenet, who insists that the evidence that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction was "a slam dunk" only to later admit that his intelligence was flawed when months of post-war searches turned up nothing. But the book's most interesting character is Powell. A former soldier himself, who finds himself increasingly at odds with the agenda of the administration, Powell rejects evidence on WMDs that he sees as spurious but ultimately endorses the invasion effort, apparently out of duty. Upon its publication, the Bush administration roundly denied many of the accounts in the book that demonstrated conflict within their circles, poor judgment, or lousy planning, but the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign nonetheless listed Plan of Attack as recommended reading. And it is. It shows alarming problems in the way the war was conceived and planned, but it also demonstrates the tremendous conviction and dedication of the people who decided to carry it out.
 
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