Is George W. Bush the worst President in the history of the U.S.?
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In my opinion, yes. He has gotten a dangerous reductions  in our freedoms and has encouraged evil acts such as torture.\nWhen He was elected I was not that concerned because I thought that the checks and balances  in our system would limit the damage he could do. I was wrong. This President has done more to destroy and dismantle the values, environment,laws and Rights of the people of this Nation than the  worst declared enemy could ever have done.
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IT'S VERY EASY TO KNOW THAT GEORGE. W. BUSH IS THE WORST EVER.  ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO KNOW IT IS BE CONSCIOUS.
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Ever is a big word.  Hayes was known as a bad president.  Garfield, too, I think.  My mother recalls Hoover with venom.  Nixon was tried for impeachment and branded a crook, but he had a few triumphs that washed him in the history books.  I cannot say Bush is the worst president ever, but I will say he is absolutely, the worst to surface in my 42 years of life.
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Many historians think that he's the worst in SOME AREAS.  For instance, his handling of the environment has been deemed the worst, and that even George Washington had more regard for the environment.  His tax policies that benefit mostly the rich are also extreme, in that they make Nixon look like a flaming liberal.  I think he has mis-handled the war in Iraq, but we also had Vietnam in recent history.  It is all a matter of opinion, and my opinion is that he definitely isn't the BEST president we've ever had.  And one can truly make the argument that he was put there by his peers so they (Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney, etc) could run the country.  I actually feel pretty sorry for him, because I think he's just a simple guy that got in too deep.
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Of course not...bush is a horrible president.
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Bush, very interesting article here about it.  http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history
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Yes, Bush is a very bad president, and what he is doing is hurting the image of America in others eyes.
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He is the Worse president ever~! \nHere is 25 reasons for ya. \n\n25 REASONS TO FEEL BAD ABOUT BUSH\n\nEconomic Indicators\n\n1. The unemployment rate averaged 4.1 percent in 2000 and reached a 30 year low of 3.9 percent in October 2000. Today, the unemployment rate has increased to 5.7 percent. There are presently 8.1 million unemployed Americans, an increase of 2.5 million compared to 2000\n\n2. The number of Americans experiencing long-term unemployment-over 27 weeks-has almost doubled in the last year.\n\n3. Job creation has reversed. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the economy created 1.7 million new jobs. This trend has been reversed, and the economy has lost almost 1.5 million jobs since President Bush took office in January 2001.\n\n4. Poverty is increasing. After decreasing for eight straight years and reaching its lowest level in 25 years, the poverty rate increased from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 11.7 percent in 2001. In the first year of the Bush administration, 1.3 million Americans slipped back into poverty, with a total of 32.9 million Americans living in poverty in 2001.\n\n5. Incomes are falling. After increasing every year since 1991, and reaching an all time high in 2000, median household income in the United States fell 2.2 percent in 2001. Median incomes fell for households in every income group in the country except for those earning over $150,000.\n\n6. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are filing for bankruptcy. Almost 800,000 Americans filed for bankruptcy in the first half of 2002. In the second quarter of 2002, over 400,000 bankruptcies were filed in the United States, an all-time record.\n\n7. Mortgage foreclosures are at record highs. In the second quarter of 2002, 1.23 percent of home loans were in the foreclosure process, a record level. Over this same time period, almost 5 percent of mortgage loans were delinquent, up almost 20 percent from the average delinquency rate in 2000.\n\n8. The federal budget deficit is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, showed a surplus of $86.6 billion. The most recent figures from the Congressional Budget Office indicate that for FY 2002, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, will show a deficit of $314 billion.\n\n9. This represents the largest budget decline in U.S. history, and it is the third-largest on-budget deficit in history, exceeded in size only by the deficits of 1991 and 1992 under the first President Bush. Health Care Indicators\n\n10.The number of Americans without health insurance is increasing. Between 1999 and 2000, the number of uninsured Americans fell by 600,000.\n\n11. But this trend has reversed itself and in 2001 the number of uninsured Americans increased by 1.4 million.\n\n12. Over 41 million Americans — 14.6 percent of the population — had no health insurance coverage in 2001.\n\n13. The percentage of small businesses offering insurance to their employees fell by 10 percent between 2000 and 2002.\n\n14. Insurance costs increased by 12.7 percent in 2002, the second consecutive year of double-digit increases and the largest annual increase in costs since 1990.\n\n15. Prescription drug prices increased by almost twice the rate of inflation in 2001.\n\n16. For seniors, who use the most prescription drugs, cost increases were even higher. The cost of the 50 most popular drugs for seniors increased by 7.8 percent in 2001, over three times the rate of inflation. The price of Prilosec, the most popular drug for seniors, increased at over four times the rate of inflation.\n\nCrime and Drug Use Indicators\n\n17.The crime rate is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the crime rate reached its lowest level since 1972. This represented the culmination of a 22 percent decrease in crime during the 1990s.\n\n18. But in 2001, the crime rate increased by 2.2 percent. The murder rate increased by 3.1 percent, the robbery rat
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George W Bush is arguably the most hostile president in the history of the USA.\n\nHis foreign policy hostilities have alienated the USA from several European countries.  At least his father was wise enough to actually build a multilateral force against Saddam Hussein when Iraq tried to take over Sudan.\n\nHis poorly planned, self serving war on Saddam Hussien (disguised as a war on terror) has painted a target on the backs of all Americans, Canadians and Australians (as well as their soldiers).\n\nHe doesn't know how to come up with a well-conceived plan.  His "no child left behind" plan was a great idea in theory.  It would be awesome to have our schools do whatever is possible to make sure that all children of all ethniticities and socio-economical backgrounds have a good change at going to school and doing well.  The only problem is that George W decided that all the states should pay for his plan - at the expense of essential jobs such as police and firemen.  George's law says that sending students to school is significantly more important than having enough policemen and firemen protecting the public.   His poorly conceived plan did not include federal funding - not HIS problem.\n\nHe lies so often that he has no credibility.  After the first election where the Florida Hanging Chads (who were not 21 years old and not registered to vote) placed him in office, he promised to reach out to the Democrats.  If American held their breaths waiting for that promise to be delivered - we would all be dead.\n\nHe is unable to separate Church and State siding with the Religious Right more often than he sides with the American public he swore to serve.\n\nThe unfortunate thing is that  years down the road, some people may hail him for freeing Iraq and setting up a democracy there.   They will ignore all the harm he has done and how poorly he has run his administrations.\n\nI have the utmost respect for the office of The President of the United States of America.  I have absolutely no respect for the cold, callous, insensitive person who is abusing that office right now.  Fortunately, due to our well conceived constitution, this too shall pass.
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Yes Bush is very bad, sure Nixon was involved in planning a robbery, but both of these men are not the worst.  Andrew Jackson was the worst President in our history, after all his policy of genoside against the American Indians solidifies his standing as the worst.  Of modern Presidents Humphrey did enable the Great Depression, sure his conservative fiscal policy plunged the world into a depression, but you still think Bush is the worst!\n\nI am a hard line liberal, I can't stand Bush, but I will give him credit for not being the worst of all time, the worst in the last 70 years, still no thanks to trick Dick.  So Bush gets forth worst over all.  You never know, we could get stuck with Pataki, who just might do nothing at all and lull the country to death.
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He's an EMBARASSMENT to the United States of America.\nBy far the WORST PRESIDENT in U.S. History/\n\nMy grandfather is 80 years old, and swears that if he was given 2 days to live, he'd march his a*s  over to the white house, and shoot Bush's face off. Heh, he really dislikes Bush.\n\nBARRACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!
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George Washington - founding father who fought and won against the British\n\nAbraham Lincoln - reluctantly freed many slaves\n\nFranklin Delano Roosevelt - mostly for his work during the Great Depression ("New Deal", Welfare State), but also for his WWII successes, and the initiation of the Manhattan Project\n\nGeorge W. Bush - worst president to date, no clue as to what the legacy he will leave our children in decades to come will be, taken US international name to new low standards, created the largest deficit in US history, president who took the most vacation while in office (and he's not done yet), started an illegal war in Iraq, broken many laws, no respect for the Constitution, etc. I could go on but I don't really need to...
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George Bush is probably one of the worst presidents in history, his blunders are well documented and bears out in his approval ratings, I didn't vote for him twice and his daddy twice, both of them are in politics to serve their own self interest. Dubue was appointed to a first term and I think he cheated on his second so was never really elected. As for why not the list gets long starting with his appointment, the Iraqi war, Katrina, his supply side economics. When you go to the gas pump just be sure and thank George Bush. His policy's are the one that is responsible for the high prices, his policy's on illegal immigrants, and on and on and on.
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Bush is the WORST President in US history! He is a liar, he is incompetent, he can't speak English, he dodged his military duties, he's an arrogant jerk, and he has screwed American workers to satisfy the greedy corporate execs that pay the Republican party! Do you need more reasons - it could take a looooooonnnnngggg ttttiiiimmmmeeee.......
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Jimmy Carter was the worst president of the second half of the century, he nearly ruined America with an energy crisis sham, and staggflation. Not to mention his unrealistic emmision standards set back the American autimotive industry so far that it has yet to completly recover. He may have been a good man, but he was a very bad wizard.
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How much I hate the president of the united states
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Yes, he's a bad president.  Obviously a tool of big business and frankly an idiot.