IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT -- EVER?

[HawkerHurricane]

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 ..."

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.

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[Oceansaway]

1. no doubt in my mind

[NVMojo]

2. he's a pathelogical liar, self-serving, corrupt, idiot chimp son of rich

parents. Feck him!

[5X]

3. absofrigginlutely. n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Not according to the morbidly comatose reich wing. nt.

[bammertheblue]

5. almost

wasn't there one guy in the 19th century who died like a week into his term?

[Xithras]

6. #2, I still rank Hoover as the worst.

Yep, another Republican. While American's were starving in the streets and being thrown out of their homes in far greater numbers than Bush has seen, Hoover gave his business buddies tax cuts and government money to line their pockets. When people began complaining that the government should help those who were cold and starving, he defiantly replied that caring for the homeless was a local and OPTIONAL responsibility. When WWI vetrans marched on DC demanding help, Hoover called out the Army and FIRED on them! Internationally, Hoover was an isolationist who severed every diplomatic tie the country had...their problems were their problem in his book, and the US could go it alone. Even after getting thrown out of office in the early 1930's, he still continued to rail against the New Deal in the press and paint Roosevelt as an evil figure.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Here's a meme to circulate...post a pic of Eisenhower, with the caption...

The last HONEST Republican President

[Kierkegaard]

8. WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER.

No question about it.

[greenisin]

9. Which George Bush?

In my book they're #1 and #2.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Great delivery on that rhetorical statement.

[thereismore]

11. No

He still hasn't started a war on his own people like Lincoln did. The 600,000+ casualties are on Lincoln, who decided to ignore the States' right to secede. I hate to say it but * has not gone quite as far. Nevertheless, I am willing to bet that he is the dumbest president ever. The worst president since the Civil War, how is that?

[rsdsharp]

13. Lincoln started the war? Tell me again. I forget.

Who was it that fired the first shot at Ft. Sumter?

[thereismore]

14. There's no question about who fired the first shot.

That fort was on sovereign Confederate territory, yet Lincoln refused to pull out. Instead, he sent supply ships with food and ammo so that the fort could be held by USA indefinitely.
The Confederacy fired and had the fort emptied. By the way, that skirmish had no human casualties. Only one horse was killed. It is Lincoln's refusal to accept the legal secession of States that caused the war. In that sense it is his responsibility. Yes, the Confederates killed a horse...

[rsdsharp]

15. Nonesense.

They didn't have the fort emptied. They had the fort occupied; a fort neither the Confederacy nor the State had built. If it was on Soverneign Confederate property, something I dispute, it was property which didn't exist when the fort was built. They took Federal property by force, starting a war they ultimately lost, after reneging on an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America, against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to obey the orders of those above them. Southern "honor" in a nutshell.

[thereismore]

16. Whatever.

[Emillereid]

12. Hands down he is the worst criminal to ever occupy the WH!

[VaYallaDawg]

17. He gets my vote for it, no question.

[Joey Liberal]

18. Bush is absolutely the worst President ever

And by far the dumbest.