Was Bush the worst President ever?

[Harry Dresden]

The worst thing W did was to be replaced by Obabble.

Actually, Bush laid the groundwork for a string of Democratic Presidents to come

you may be right RW.....but Obama just might be laying the groundwork for a third party guy....because he is just as bad of a leader as Bush was....and this Country needs a leader....and we need one now....

 

[rightwinger]

The worst thing W did was to be replaced by Obabble.

Actually, Bush laid the groundwork for a string of Democratic Presidents to come

Fortunately Obama has fucked things up so bad even the 47% will reject Hillary...and Hillary is all the libs have.

Didn't you guys try to sell that crap in the 2012 election?

Didn't work then, won't work in 2016

 

[Mr. Peepers]

Besides Obama?

Obama didn't crash the world's economy. He wasn't even in office yet. You right wingers are either stupid or willfully ignorant.

 

[ClosedCaption]

No he was great! Don't all great presidents get snubbed from their Parties Convention?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Any historian who would rate a President of just 5 years ago, the worst in history - isn't worth his weight in spoiled milk and should be shunned as a historian for the rest of their career.
Until top secret documents are released, until the full result of policies are felt - which can be a decade or more. It is not only presumptuous to make the claim, but it points a neon flashing arrow to the word "bias".

 

[PredFan]

Actually, Bush laid the groundwork for a string of Democratic Presidents to come

Fortunately Obama has fucked things up so bad even the 47% will reject Hillary...and Hillary is all the libs have.

Didn't you guys try to sell that crap in the 2012 election?

Didn't work then, won't work in 2016

Of course it won't work. It won't work because the average American voter is an idiot and they are getting dumber and dumber all the time.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

Only an absolute moron would claim that Bush crashed the US economy, let alone the world economy.

No one said he did, but it did happen on his watch. This is what happens when you turn a blind eye to banks becoming unregulated casinos.

 

[PredFan]

Besides Obama?

Obama didn't crash the world's economy. He wasn't even in office yet. You right wingers are either stupid or willfully ignorant.

If you think Bush crashed the US economy or the word economy then you aren't smart enough to even be in the conversation.

 

[Warrior102]

I feel so safe with Obama in command.

 

[auditor0007]

Was George W. Bush the worst president ever? - The Week

Former White House press secretary Ari Fleisher told NBC News: "I'm increasingly doubtful, just because I think the lens of history is not changing. A lot of us used to say President Bush will look good and he'll be vindicated in the public eye. But realistically speaking, I don't see a lot of the people who write history all of a sudden changing their mind about George W. Bush."

As Jill Lawrence points out, the polling of historians seems to back this up.

Nearly 60 percent of the historians and political scientists in a 2006 Siena College survey rated Bush's presidency a failure and two-thirds said he did not have a realistic chance of improving his standing.

Bush took us into two wars that we should not have been involved with. The cost of those wars has been considerable but not absolutely devastating. Not paying for them was a much bigger problem than getting involved with them. As for the crash of our economy, I think Alan Greenspan deserves as much if not more credit than Bush or Congress. Greenspan keeping interest rates unreasonably low along with all his deregulation played the biggest part in the financial bust. While he seemed like a God as he kept the economy humming along, much of it was based on overinflated real estate values that existed in great part because of the very low interest rates. When those interest rates were combined with so much deregulation, we know what happened.

If people want to throw darts at someone, Greenspan would be at the top of my list.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Only an absolute moron would claim that Bush crashed the US economy, let alone the world economy.

No one said he did, but it did happen on his watch. This is what happens when you turn a blind eye to banks becoming unregulated casinos.

Mmm...mmm...so go ahead and tell me they still aren't today aye?
So when this market collapses, and it will...what will you say tothe $85,000,000,000 a month this administration approved to continue bailing these casinos out EVERY MONTH??

Sheep

 

[PredFan]

Only an absolute moron would claim that Bush crashed the US economy, let alone the world economy.

No one said he did, but it did happen on his watch. This is what happens when you turn a blind eye to banks becoming unregulated casinos.

You're full of bull shit.

Fact: Truthmatters said in this thread that Bush crashed the world economy.

Fact: Bush warned of the coming economic crisis and asked the Democrat congress 5 times to do something about it and they refused.

You know nothing...but you're a democrat so that goes without saying.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

I posted a fact:

Obama didn't crash the world's economy. He wasn't even in office yet. You right wingers are either stupid or willfully ignorant.

And here's the message I got from Warrior:

"Take a chill pill, ya assfucking little Goddamned beaaaaaaaatch"

LOL

 

[Mr. Peepers]

If you think Bush crashed the US economy or the word economy then you aren't smart enough to even be in the conversation.

I never said he did. But his administration was in charge during the lead-up and the collapse.

 

[The Rabbi]

Was George W. Bush the worst president ever? - The Week

Former White House press secretary Ari Fleisher told NBC News: "I'm increasingly doubtful, just because I think the lens of history is not changing. A lot of us used to say President Bush will look good and he'll be vindicated in the public eye. But realistically speaking, I don't see a lot of the people who write history all of a sudden changing their mind about George W. Bush."

As Jill Lawrence points out, the polling of historians seems to back this up.

Nearly 60 percent of the historians and political scientists in a 2006 Siena College survey rated Bush's presidency a failure and two-thirds said he did not have a realistic chance of improving his standing.

Truman left office with about a 30% approval rate.

Bush: low inflation, low unemployment, debt to GDP within manageable limits.
Obama: high unemployment, low job growth, exploding debt, first downgrade of debt ever.

Yeah, Obama is a better president. Sure.

 

[whitehall]

how many presidents crashed the entire world economy?

Ask the former chairperson of the House Banking Committee why he told America that Fannie Mae was doing fine when it was on the eve of destruction and he was charged with monitoring Fannie Mae? The economy collapsed while democrats held the majority in congress and dumb ass Harry Reid was diddling around with pompous hearings about steroid use in baseball.

 

[Dugdale_Jukes]

The worst thing W did was to be replaced by Obabble.

Disclaimer: No Obama fan here. My politics are fiscal reactionary, individual rights focused social liberal. Moving on...

Blame the degenerate scum who voted for Bush in 2004 for Obama. Had a decent human won in 2004, policies would have changed, results would have differed, and the United States of America would have had different choices in 2008.

Those white trash scum deserve every bit of the fucking Obama is giving them today. Even better, he appears to enjoy that aspect of his work.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Each one is worse than the one before. Been that way since Wilson.

 

[The Rabbi]

Each one is worse than the one before. Been that way since Wilson.

Reagan was worse than Carter?

 

[Mr. Peepers]

Fact: Bush warned of the coming economic crisis and asked the Democrat congress 5 times to do something about it and they refused.

You know nothing...but you're a democrat so that goes without saying.

He did absolutely nothing to stop it - the democrats had a slight lead from Nov. 7 2006 on - and supermajority for what, all of a month? You really think the corporatist right wingers were going to let the dems reign in their idols on Wall Street? LOL!!! The repubs had the reigns for 6 YEARS. And I'm not a democrat. I'm a registered Independent.