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IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT -- EVER?
By Richard Reeves
Fri Dec 2, 8:13 PM ET
PARIS -- President John F. Kennedy was considered a historian because of his book "Profiles in Courage," so he received periodic requests to rate the presidents, those lists that usually begin "1. Lincoln, 2. Washington ..."
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But after he actually became president himself, he stopped filling them out.
"No one knows what it's like in this office," he said after being in the job. "Even with poor James Buchanan, you can't understand what he did and why without sitting in his place, looking at the papers that passed on his desk, knowing the people he talked with."
Poor James Buchanan, the 15th president, is generally considered the worst president in history. Ironically, the Pennsylvania Democrat, elected in 1856, was one of the most qualified of the 43 men who have served in the highest office. A lawyer, a self-made man, Buchanan served with some distinction in the House, served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and secretary of state under President James K. Polk. He had a great deal to do with the United States becoming a continental nation -- "Manifest Destiny," war with Mexico, and all that. He was also ambassador to Great Britain and was offered a seat on the Supreme Court three separate times.
But he was a confused, indecisive president, who may have made the Civil War inevitable by trying to appease or negotiate with the South. His most recent biographer, Jean Clark, writing for the prestigious American Presidents Series, concluded this year that his actions probably constituted treason. It also did not help that his administration was as corrupt as any in history, and he was widely believed to be homosexual.
Whatever his sexual preferences, his real failures were in refusing to move after South Carolina announced secession from the Union and attacked Fort Sumter, and in supporting both the legality of the pro-slavery constitution of Kansas and the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott class declaring that escaped slaves were not people but property.
He was the guy who in 1861 passed on the mess to the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. Buchanan set the standard, a tough record to beat. But there are serious people who believe that George W. Bush will prove to do that, be worse than Buchanan. I have talked with three significant historians in the past few months who would not say it in public, but who are saying privately that Bush will be remembered as the worst of the presidents.
There are some numbers. The History News Network at George Mason University has just polled historians informally on the Bush record. Four hundred and fifteen, about a third of those contacted, answered -- maybe they were all crazed liberals -- making the project as unofficial as it was interesting. These were the results: 338 said they believed Bush was failing, while 77 said he was succeeding. Fifty said they thought he was the worst president ever. Worse than Buchanan.
This is what those historians said -- and it should be noted that some of the criticism about deficit spending and misuse of the military came from self-identified conservatives -- about the Bush record:
He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process;
He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;
He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;
He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;
He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign ( Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida);
He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;
He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;
He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime.
Quite an indictment. It is, of course, too early to evaluate a president. That, historically, takes decades, and views change over times as results and impact become more obvious. Besides, many of the historians note that however bad Bush seems, they have indeed since worse men around the White House. Some say Buchanan. Many say Vice President Dick Cheney
Doppelhaken, Draco, Richard H, ToddinFl, Augustus Sutter, Chain, Subrosa, Jarl, White Will, whose next?
Posted : 07/12/2005 4:00 am
On December 7, a Day that Will Live in Infamy, I name FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT as the worst president ever.
Through his infamous DAY OF DECEIT, he lured our nation into war against the best hope the White race had in centuries, ADOLPH HITLER, in order to advance the social and commercial interests of Anglo-Jewry, and to pull Stalin's evil chestnuts out of the fire.
A close second would be, Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Texan who betrayed the South and Texas and the White race by his aggressive dismantling of segregation and his unconstitutional support for the unconstititional socalled "Civil Rights Laws" that have done nothing good, and only serve to deprive all Americans especially Whites, the right to associate freely and to exercise their free speech rights in the context of employment and real estate transactions.
Posted : 07/12/2005 8:04 am
On December 7, a Day that Will Live in Infamy, I name FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT as the worst president ever.
Through his infamous DAY OF DECEIT, he lured our nation into war against the best hope the White race had in centuries, ADOLPH HITLER, in order to advance the social and commercial interests of Anglo-Jewry, and to pull Stalin's evil chestnuts out of the fire.
A close second would be, Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Texan who betrayed the South and Texas and the White race by his aggressive dismantling of segregation and his unconstitutional support for the unconstititional socalled "Civil Rights Laws" that have done nothing good, and only serve to deprive all Americans especially Whites, the right to associate freely and to exercise their free speech rights in the context of employment and real estate transactions.
Yeah, I mean Bush sucks, he sucks really bad. But those two are a tough act to follow for worst ever.
Posted : 07/12/2005 8:09 am
I quickly voted yes, but after some introspection, I think no. He is the fourth worst president.
1. A. Lincoln
2. F. D. R.
3. W. Wilson
4. The Chimp
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Posted : 07/12/2005 8:19 am
George Bush is terrible, but I think he is more a reflection of how tightly ZOG's grip is wrapped around this country. FDR is the worst president in my book. He was a despicable tyrant and murderer who set the stage for much of what is happening today.
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Posted : 07/12/2005 1:02 pm
Who put out the welcome mat for the jew in the first place?
http://www.ashbrook.org/library/18/washington/hebrewcongregation.html
"Letter from George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport
. . . May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants—while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid.
G. Washington"
Posted : 07/12/2005 3:24 pm
James Buchanan gets a bad rap but he was far from the worst president that we ever had. He was a realist and knew that the consequences of a civil war would be catastrophic. It would have been far better to let the south secede. The 550,000 dead soldiers of both sides, the massive destruction of the south and the disastrous emancipation of the Negro would have been avoided.
Buchanan was no homosexual. His fiancee died before they were married and he chose to live the rest of his life celibate. Today's male would consider such an act of devotion to a dead woman to be absurd (hence the charge of homosexuality), but a virtuous man of that era would consider celibacy to be a reverential tribute to his lost love.
The real homosexual was old Abe Lincoln himself. Did you ever wonder why the leading homosexual Republican group is called the "Log Cabin" Republicans?
Historians of the future will pass judgment on whether Bush 43 is the worst president. He is the certainly the dumbest president in my memory.
Posted : 07/12/2005 5:32 pm
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Didn’t ya’ll forget to mention John Fitzgerald Kennedy? Vietnam, civil rights he rates right up there as well.
Doppelhaken, Draco, Richard H, ToddinFl, Augustus Sutter, Chain, Subrosa, Jarl, White Will, whose next?
Posted : 07/12/2005 5:52 pm
I don't know guys,we have had some REAL ASSHOLES, for presidents, in this country.
I personally think Johnson was the worst, for the civil rights. This gave any nigger the right to vote, because they reasoned that being illiterate, was discriminatory. This opened the door, for the even the dumbest blubberlipped asshole, to have a say in this countries politics.
That was pretty major for me. This country has been going down the shithole ever since, and it's goin down fast. Johnson was actually dumb enough, to think niggers, are human, and smart.(over 90% of jews, and niggers vote democrat)
I hate Bush too, but that's a tough one. Bush has some real competition on that one. Hillary Clinton was a shitty president too.
Niggers aren't human. Humans don't behave that way.
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Posted : 07/12/2005 10:24 pm
It's hard to beat FDR.His VP Truman should be right up there too.He's the idiot who gave away Eastern Europe and China to the commies after WWII.Those were smart moves. 
Posted : 08/12/2005 12:11 am
Lincoln, FDR, Wilson, LBJ and Bushbaby are in a league of their own. It's interesting that all five of them are probably jewish.
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Posted : 08/12/2005 10:48 am
1. FDR
2. Lincoln
3. Wilson
4. Truman
5. toss up between Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower and Bush II
Posted : 08/12/2005 10:51 am
I'm putting up FDR as the worst with Johnson a close second.
Bush is definately one of the worse presidents... but I think it's too early to tell just how bad he was.
Posted : 08/12/2005 10:57 am
bush isent that bad u a rilly bad pres lock at ford or Isenhower now that was a bad pressident. :box: 
Posted : 08/12/2005 1:34 pm
Bill O'Reilly is the worst president we've ever had.
Posted : 08/12/2005 7:47 pm
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