Anyone missing George W. Bush?

[George II]

Hard to believe that he seems like an intelligent, capable president compared to the idiot-in-chief we have now.

Of course neither can hold a candle to President Barack Obama.

[Aristus]

1. Fuck no!

Not now. Not EVER.

Next question...

[a kennedy]

36. Damn right, FAWK no.....

NOT NOW, NOT EVER.

[Blue_Adept]

2. If I had to choose between the two?

I'd hate that the choices came down to that. But I'd certainly take Dubya over what Trump has done. Trump has decimated so many institutions so quickly in terms of personnel alone that it's going to take a long time to get things back to a functioning government.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. If there was no other choice I'd reluctantly take him over SCROTUS

but only if Dick Cheney didn't come with him.

[WinkyDink]

3. 9/11/01. Katrina. Iraq. Deficit. So that would be a "No."

[sandensea]

27. Hear, hear.

"Sometimes I feel this bad about what we did." "That much, huh?"

[shadowmayor]

39. Good Gawd NO!

STFU Donny is an incompetent clown pulling at the loose strings and helping himself and his cronies the best he can. Shrub ruined giant swaths of the world, murdered hundreds of thousands, if not more than a million, and brought suffering and strife and harm to countless peoples from Iraq to the USA. And Cheney and Rumsfeld were old Nixon hands who came out from under slimy rocks to steer the mindless idiot that Bush truly was.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I don't miss him a bit.

But I will admit that I made a big mistake when I said he was the worst possible president. Obviously he wasn't.

[MyOwnPeace]

43. Don't feel bad!

You can CYA by saying, "at the time" and then you have the right to update your thinking!

For what it's worth, I have a poster of "W" with his "monkey face" and captioned "WORST President EVER" that I'm having to take down - he's been outdone.

[liberalmuse]

5. I miss Pres Obama and Pres Clinton.

Although I have to admit, as horrible as he was, W was so much better than Trump. Even when he was Pres, I knew the Republicans hadn't yet scraped the bottom of the barrel and that they'd somehow come up with someone worse. I wish I had been wrong.

[cwydro]

6. No. He does not seem intelligent or capable.

But this shitstain is so bad he's off the charts.

[Ohiya]

7. That's like missing hemorrhoids...

... now that you have a migraine.

[suffragette]

9. No. Bad to worse still makes him bad.

[rock]

10. Well, admittedly

If you kept him in your trunk, he'd come in handy for proving traction if you got stuck in a ditch!

[edhopper]

11. As terrible as Trump is

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and as disastrous I believe he can be for this country,
he has not yet been able to damage this country as Bush did. Iraq,, Katrina, the Tax Cuts, the Financial Collapse.
Still the worst president.

Fortunately, Trump has no real "accomplishments" yet.

[groundloop]

28. 45* has already done plenty of damage, it's just that the consequences are yet to be seen

He's gutted the EPA, OSHA, mine safety, and on and on. He's certainly doing Putin's bidding to hobble the US.

[edhopper]

40. I think could end up worse than Bush

he just hasn't done the amount of damage yet.

So no, I don't miss GWB.

[jrthin]

12. NO!!!!!!!

[melman]

13. Fuck no

wft?

[GoCubsGo]

14. How can I miss him when I'm still paying for his time in office?

And, will likely never recover from it?

[bluestarone]

15. no

and no

[Golden Raisin]

16. No!

[Greybnk48]

17. Fuck no! n/t

[underpants]

18. The only people who missed W was the draft board

I do get your point.

[Optical.Catalyst]

19. No

[Motley13]

20. Yes, instead of doturd

at least he wasn't treasonous or racist. He got us into Iraq war, horrible! POS doturd, maggot , loser 45, will destroy us all out of stupidity.

[NastyRiffraff]

21. I don't miss him at all

but I reluctantly admit he was better than Dump. That, of course, is an extremely low bar.

[groundloop]

24. NO, not "better" but rather "not as bad"

[SummerSnow]

22. heck to the no! I miss Obama

[groundloop]

23. HELL NO!!!!!

Just because 45* actually manages to be worse doesn't mean that I have any kind of nostalgic feelings for shrub. It took President Obama many years to clean up the mess that shrub left us, I think some of the warm and fuzzy feelings for shrub may be the fact that people don't remember what a fucked up mess he left for us.

[Weekend Warrior]

25. No. Cheney will go down as one of, if not the, worst president in history. Nt

[lpbk2713]

26. He played a mean guitar.

[Voltaire2]

29. Nope not even close.

He was a mass murdering war criminal. Trump hasn't gotten there yet.

[guillaumeb]

32. He still does not seem that way to me.

And never will.

[joshcryer]

33. Trump, while detestable, has yet to do Bush level shit.

So far he's eating away at our democracy, as a willing puppet of Russia, but he can only do so much with executive orders.

If Gore was allowed the presidency, a lot would be different. The surplus would've continued, the country would've prospered, there would've been less war (9/11 may have still happened, but we would not have invaded Iraq).

As it stands now Trump is effectively a lame duck who can't get legislation passed, who is very divisive, and is likely to actually be impeached.

[moriah]

34. ... if this wasn't about a former President, there's a joke that could be made..

... but because I like not violating DU rules and not being on watch lists... methinks discretion is the better part of valor.

Still, this guy is the only one I know of who missed him:

[LuckyCharms]

37. That's like asking if you would rather stab yourself in the scrotum...

with a sharp knife, or with a dull fork.

[yankeepants]

38. Fucking fuck NO!

[GeorgeGist]

41. Double Fuck No.

God the idiocy is contagious.

[JHB]

42. No. Twice nothing is still nothing.

They are both direct products of the ongoing degeneracy of the Republican Party as the chosen tool of would-be oligarchs to turn us into their preferred form of government: a banana republic.

[LyndaG]

44. NO

He was popular for awhile, which was unbearable. But, that's when I discovered this board. It was nice to communicate with people who felt as I did.

[jalan48]

45. Fuck no. Poor little rich boy with connections.

[Drahthaardogs]

46. Fuck, I miss Cheney...

He was evil, but at least I did not worry he would start a nuclear war over penis size.

[yardwork]

47. Hell no. And I don't remember him positively at all.

[MoonRiver]

48. HELL NO

[ImpeachTheGOP]

49. I miss the idea that we couldn't do worse than him.

He can go piss up a rope.

[The_jackalope]

50. He makes a far better ex-president than he did a president.

Word has it that he's working hard with Obama and Bill Clinton on various things - not least of them being Puerto Rico and nailing Trump's ass to the wall. Maybe it's just a Hail Mary try for redemption, or maybe he does actually put the country;s interests ahead of the party's or his own. Only time will tell.

[VOX]

51. With Shrub you get Cheney, so...no.

[Beringia]

52. No, he was an idiot too

4000 died in Iraq and Afghanistan

[Mike Nelson]

53. No...

...but Crooked Donald will likely be worse.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

54. Suuuuuuuuuuure, I miss Bush!

Fortunately his administration's anti-women, anti-LGBT, anti-environment, anti-education, anti-voting rights, pro-animal cruelty, pro-fundy ass-kissing, pro-warmongering, pro-Putin, pro-local police militarization, etc. etc. etc. policies have been embraced and continued by Trump's!

Those feeling nostalgic for Bush because he isn't Trump needs to refresh their memories.

[SamKnause]

55. No.

Fuck no.

He ignored the warnings about the 9/11 attacks.

We are in debt because that idiot started wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The idiot gave tax cuts to the rich.

Thousands of Americans are dead because of the wars.

Thousands of Americans are crippled because of the wars.

Thousands of Americans have PTSD because of the wars.

Millions of dead Iraqis because of the war.

Hundreds of thousands of dead Afghanistan people.

Thousands are dead because of his handling of Katrina.

We have Homeland Security and the TSA because of that idiot.

Fuck Republican politicians !!!!!

Fuck all of them !!!!!!!!

They destroy everything they touch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rurallib]

56. like I'd miss a case of VD

fuck no, fuck no, fuck no

[Wolf Frankula]

57. As I have said, tRump has achieved the impossumbull three times

1: He has lost money running a casino.

2: He has brought Berke Breathed out of retirement.

3: He has made me miss W.

Wolf

[Lil Missy]

58. No.

[MFM008]

59. No BUT

To get rid of maggot I would drive Bush to the white house myself.....

[keithbvadu2]

60. Osama bin Laden misses Dubya

[mnmoderatedem]

61. W still worse but give it time

this is like having to choose between eating a bowl of snot soup or sucking on a dead man's nose with a straw until his face caves in.

Holding off judgement until everything transpires in the hopefully short (give 'em hell Mueller) Trump tenure, but at this point W is worse. With the caveat of the notion that even W would not be nutty enough to play a game of nuclear chicken with N Korea as if it's a skateboard contest challenge between two kids in the back alley. That's one thing that may tip the scales in favor of Trump being worse. But there's more than enough opportunity for him to lower the bar even further and I have no doubt he will.