Is President Bush considered by historians to be the most incompetent president since Harding and Hoover?
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Since he is still in office, historians cannot make a complete judgement on his presidency or legacy.\n\n Followup: a lot of people let their personal hatred cloud their judgement and reasoning.
721635
Yes, History will show Bush to have been the ruination of our nation, the masturbatory greed and egotism will end up being the final blows to conservativism, and people everywhere will realize that corporations and big money tricked them and fooled them. Bush will be known as the president who was so bad he forced the population to realize that America had become at least an oligarchy instead of a democracy.\nBush will be known as the most evil president ever to get into office. He will go down in history as a prime example of what evil is, and what mistakes not to make, and how to identify such decay cycles. The Bush admin will be added to the decaying Roman civilization and other such civilizations as examples of how religion and politics and nationalism and propaganda and greed can cement the doom of a civilization, and, hopefully, we can prevent that doom for ourselves by backtracking against all of the evil things the Bush admin has done, once wwe impeach the lot of them.
487363
Bush the Decider is the worst President America has ever had. I thought nobody could out do Nixon, and Bush the Decider is the one.
951604
Bush will go done in history as the sorriest President ever. The way he callously mislead countless world leaders with his adolescent college attitude and "better than thou -privileged boy" world view — will have the world recovering from this wound forever.
556441
While I had my problems with Clinton, trade issues, especially, he was intelligent, capable, eloquent and cared about people. Bush has none of those qualities.\n\nClinton also reversed 12 years of deficit spending and created a 7 trillion dollar surplus. Bush wasted it in the space of about 2 years.
533706
Anybody who compares Bush to Hitler is stupid.
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Bush has had the fortitude to stand up to the world and to call Saddam's hand as well as expose the French, Germans and Russians as greedy cowards.\n\nNot one of the greatest, though.  No Reagan or Nixon.
682815
Not really, the made jokes about President Carter they called him the peanut farmer. \n\nThey also made fun of Harry S. Truman, they didn't think he was educated enough to become president after president Franklin Roosevelt died. As a matter of fact he was Franklin Roosevelt's Vice President and was not even told the United States was on the verge of the atomic bomb that is how much President Franklin thought of him. Gen Douglas MacArthur almost showed disdain for him. President Truman had to eventually relieve him of his duties.\n\nRichard Nixon had a lower approval rating than President Bush and was eventually disgraced, he left his office before being impeached.\n\nThey laughed at Calvin Coolidge and called him slow Cal.\n\nThey called Taft fat Taft as he was the largest President we have ever had in office as far as weight is concerned.\n\nSo you can see there have been many presidents that had unfavorable stances with the public. \n\nIn some instances we did not have rapid media news as we have today, so it took awhile for the news to reach certain parts of the country.\n\nI hope this has been of some use to you, good luck.\n\n"FIGHT ON"
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Rolling Stone mag just had an article by an historian\nwho considers him the worst president we ever had.\n The only consolation to that is that we've lived thru\nhistoric times.
363231
clinton is idiot. bush is moron.
760504
Nixon and Clinton .......... and none of these two president committed a worst crime than bush\n\nsorry ...... i sincerely apologise and admitted my mistake as an honorable liberal do ..... SORRY! should have studied my history
684390
You forgot....\n\nc) Worst President Ever!
63271
He didn't have the authority.  Bush is not a dictator.  If he were to seal records, that would do nothing but make more people interested in those records, and the next president would unseal them.
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YOU SHOULD START TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT BUSH AND HIS FAILURES, PLEASE READ!!!\nAccomplishments as president:\n\n    *\n\n      Attacked and took over two countries.\n    *\n\n      Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.\n    *\n\n      Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.\n    *\n\n      Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.\n    *\n\n      Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.\n    *\n\n      First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.\n    *\n\n      First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.\n    *\n\n      First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.\n    *\n\n      In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.\n    *\n\n      Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.\n    *\n\n      Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.\n    *\n\n      Signed more laws and executive orders circumventing the Constitution than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.\n    *\n\n      Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.\n    *\n\n      Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.\n    *\n\n      Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)\n    *\n\n      Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      My presidency is the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history.\n    *\n\n      Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleezza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).\n    *\n\n      Had more states to simultaneously go bankrupt than any president in the history of the United States.\n    *\n\n      Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.\n    *\n\n      Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.\n    *\n\n      Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.\n    *\n\n      First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board. \n    *\n\n      Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.\n    *\n\n      Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.\n    *\n\n      Withdrew from the World Court of Law.\n    *\n\n      Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.\n    *\n\n      First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).\n    *\n\n      All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.\n    *\n\n      My biggest life-time campaign contributor presi
545374
Best liar, worst president!
259713
History and time will tell.  It's too early to answer that question.  It's hard to point to one President who was the worst - there were many rather insignificant Presidents.  Ulysses Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, and Cleveland all served during one of the most corrupt eras in U.S. history - I would probably start with one of these men.
794006
Yes, Bush is the Sloppy one.