Is George W. Bush the worst president ever?

[OCguy999]

I vote yes. He has absolutely destroyed the United States in his 8 years in office. Unnecessary war, financial collapse, lies, deception....
What do you think misc.?

[Team Punishment]

[StaticZ]

Who was worse?

[JoeHeat]

dubya>>>>>>>>>>>>yuo

[Rambo26]

Bad but not the worst

and the financial situation is not entirely his fault

[BangBrahs]

James Buchanan was pretty bad.

[XsongX]

stop blaming **** on other people (no bush support) (no anti-bush)

if you want **** to happen, do your own ****

****

seriously...

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[Ma1n3vnt]

^^

****...gotta agree with the **** he's saying

[AlphaBlack]

^^

****...gotta agree with the **** he's saying

**** is real

[gjohnson5]

Who was worse?

This is an interesting question.
Many people at the question but fail to name anyone worse

[darkblood]

Possibly Warren G. Harding, however I was not around then to verify.

[1veedo]

There was a president in the early 1900s I think who was pretty bad. He got elected because he was good looking or something.

[B_Master_Flash]

Who was worse?

James Buchanan
Millard Filmore
Franklin Pierce
Warren G Harding

You can hate him all you want, but if you think George W Bush is the worst US president of all time you could use a history book.

[JUSA]

No. He was truly awful and he was the worst President in my lifetime (previously that dishonor was held by Carter) but there are guys who are worse.

It's not a very popular sentiment, but I personally think Lincoln was one of the worst. He caused the deaths of many Americans in a War that should not have been fought. States should have the right to leave the Union if they don't like how things are going.. it's kind of one of the principles this country was founded on. He gets kudos for ending slavery, which was an abomination, but it would have eventually ended anyway and thousands of Americans wouldn't have died.

[B_Master_Flash]

Possibly Warren G. Harding, however I was not around then to verify.

How could anyone be voting on the "worst president ever" if we're supposed to have been around to verify?

[rea99]

Who was worse?

Carter

and where is the not the worst but very average choice?

[gjohnson5]

How could anyone be voting on the "worst president ever" if we're supposed to have been around to verify?

Yeah , you'd need to look at statistics of some sort

[djwolford]

Where's the option for "No, but he was only a mediocre president at best."?

A better question is "Is our current Congress the most corrupt that it's ever been?".

[pkirk330]

It amazes me how much the media can skew peoples perception of things. In this era, Id be willing to bet that probably NO president will be viewed as 'good'. They paint a picture of anybody the way they want it to look. And the majority of people will go with it.

Bush handled the situation that was placed on him the way he saw fit. Thats why we (halfway) elected him, to do what he saw fit as our president. There are a lot of things that bush did that are seen as bad, that in truth are not. The media just does not put those facts out there and it leads people to form opinions that are biased.

[darkblood]

How could anyone be voting on the "worst president ever" if we're supposed to have been around to verify?

I'm going from what I have experienced during their presidency, and since I have no firsthand experience with Warren G. Harding's presidency I cannot make a justified decision about him.

[iamlegend]

On a positive note. Prez-elect Obama is already getting high marks on his transition.

And Bush has left things so badily even small changes are going to look like progress is being made.

[bulletproofsoul]

...It's not a very popular sentiment, but I personally think Lincoln was one of the worst. He caused the deaths of many Americans in a War that should not have been fought. States should have the right to leave the Union if they don't like how things are going.. it's kind of one of the principles this country was founded on. He gets kudos for ending slavery, which was an abomination, but it would have eventually ended anyway and thousands of Americans wouldn't have died.

That's the most illogical, totally unconstitutional and worst post I've ever seen you make.

[gjohnson5]

It amazes me how much the media can skew peoples perception of things. In this era, Id be willing to bet that probably NO president will be viewed as 'good'. They paint a picture of anybody the way they want it to look. And the majority of people will go with it.

Bush handled the situation that was placed on him the way he saw fit. Thats why we (halfway) elected him, to do what he saw fit as our president. There are a lot of things that bush did that are seen as bad, that in truth are not. The media just does not put those facts out there and it leads people to form opinions that are biased.

The part in bold is good reason to nominate him the worst president ever. The "way he saw fit" was clearly broken and incompetant

[HoosierBoy]

This is an interesting question.
Many people at the question but fail to name anyone worse

Lincoln, Carter, Franklin Roosevelt for starters.

[gjohnson5]

That's the most illogical, totally unconstitutional and worst post I've ever seen you make.

Yeah I didn't agree with his post either
IMHO Ronald Reagen put us in a similar recession as we are in now in the 80's due to his economic philospohies. Reagen should get some mention as worse President ever due to his "Reaganomic" policies

[1veedo]

Bush, more than any other president, has helped destroy the ballance of powers we're supposed to have in our government. It's not his reaction to events like Katrina or 9/11 that makes him a bad president, it's his blatant disregard for the constitution. Things like his "constitution free zone" should be what signifies him a bad president.

[Streetbull]

Who was worse?

Buchanan sat on his hands while the country dissolved into Civil War.

Wilson let himself be manipulated by Colonel House into sending us into WWI.

FDR established the idea of BIG Brother government. He also forbade the use of gas warfare on Pacific Islands, which made our guys have to hunt guys hiding in caves.

Finally, our Founding Fathers did not expressly forbid the use of fiat currency in our Constitution, nor forbid the use of taxes to fund government. Now we are ruined.

See, there's lots of blame to go around.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/worstpresidents/

[Spuddy]

FDR was awful.. keeping entrepeneurs scared of opening businesses out of fear of the government going socialist and staking claim in your hard work, is NOT the way to run the country

bush wasn't great, but he was by no means the worst. CONGRESS, in my opinion, is at about the worst it's ever been, but bush and congress are two different entities. God help us all when our single-digit approval rating congress teams up with a president-elect who sees eye to eye with their socialist policies. if you think bush was bad, you've seen nothing yet.

[StartTheMachine]

Not the worst prez. ever, just...well let me explain this in terms of geometry, if you will.

Operating solely in quadrant I,
If the x-axis is how bad the president is (greater magnitude being worse president), and the y-axis is how bad the circumstances of his term(s) were, then the GWB triangle would have the hypotenuse of greatest magnitude.

But still...

[Dectra]

It's not a very popular sentiment, but I personally think Lincoln was one of the worst.........States should have the right to leave the Union if they don't like how things are going...

I totally agree. Slavery, (if you've actually looked beyond your high school history class) wasn't the crux of the conflict. It was due to the impostion of the FEDERAL government over the Rights of States. Which, is still one of the major sources of conflict in this country today.



p.s. Little known fact: The South was considering ending slavery long before Lincoln did. Jefferson Davis called in Feburary of 1865 for the "prompt abolution of slavery"

The slavery issue aside the misperceptions of Lincoln and his intentions, motivations and true philosophy of government are seldom discussed completely.

One of my favorate, although less well known quotes of Lincoln: "I agree with Judge Douglas that he [a black] is not my equal in many respects, certainly not in color ? perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments"