The Year of Living Stupidly

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The American fish is rotting from the head down. Seattle-based History News Network took an informal poll of some 400 historians, and 80 percent of them dubbed George W. Bush's presidency a failure thus far. They ranked him among the worst presidents: Richard Nixon, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan.

Being ranked with Buchanan is a particularly ignominious prize. Here was a man who, when faced with a national crisis, made every wrong step. He surrounded himself with cronies and yes-men and looked after the rich. He clung to strict constitutional constructionism that protected the slave-holding class, though only when it suited him. He rattled the saber of manifest destiny with an unprecedented jingoistic gusto: He sent the U.S. Navy to attack Paraguay, which is landlocked. Instead of preserving the Union, he tore it apart. Sound like any president you know?

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0550/051214_news_mossback.php

[NMDemDist2]

1. K & N n/t

[Deja Q]

2. And I thought S & M was bad enough...

:scared:

[shenmue]

3. Somebody as dumb as him?

Wow. I didn't think it could have been done.

Sending the Navy to attack a landlocked country--that is uniquely stupid.

:dunce:

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

4. Do you have black people here too?

Question from W to president of Brazil

[electropop]

5. I hadn't heard the Paraguay story before. Love it!

Sounds like Bush!

[robbedvoter]

6. "He sent the U.S. Navy to attack Paraguay, which is landlocked"

See, I feel better now, that we are in deja vu. How stupid does this make me?

[ananda]

7. Which of course means..

Living Dangerously.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. "Sweden doesn't have an army."

Can't distinguish between Sweden and Switzerland? Switzerland = landlocked, surrounded by mountains (hence no need for army), famous for chocolate and cuckoo clocks; Sweden = fractal-like coastline with many fjords, hence famous for sailors and shipbuilders.

You think ** wouldn't send the Navy to Paraguay?