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Because this is what the other poll should have been.
History will show Bush to be the worst President in American history
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kramerfan86
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He is certainly closer to this end of the spectrum then the other one.
My knowldege on early presidents is too limited to vote anything other than "I don't know".
Sims2789
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John Adams was worse.
CaptainF
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Not the worst ever, but probably the worst of the past 30 years.
Den Valdron
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What's wrong with FDR? Did the New Deal, created social security, saved America from the depression, neutralized communism and anarchism at home, saved Britain from Hitler, fought WWII, funded the Manhattan project, the TVA, a national highway system and the development of the computer. If not for FDR, America wouldn't be the worlds leading superpower... it would be a sort of giant endless version of Fellatio, Alabama.
No. There has been far greater damage done to this country in the past by some of our previous presidents.
Exactly. FDR is certainly in the top 5 best presidents. Bush if not the worst, is tied for the worst with Reagan. Carter in a nonety squarely in the middle of mediocrity.
Hey, take a close look at FDR. Forget any "socialist" arguments (though I could just go to town on those alone), look at his massive abuse of power. People accuse of Bush abusing Presidential authority, but FDR wrote the book on it.
Scheming to stack the Supreme Court
Brow-beating the press and forcing them to squash stories
More than two terms (if it wasn't so bad, why did an amendment get passed to ban it)
Scheming to stack the Supreme Court
Brow-beating the press and forcing them to squash stories
More than two terms (if it wasn't so bad, why did an amendment get passed to ban it)
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If that's the case, why aren't you condemning Lincoln, Wilson, and Nixon, all of whom were arguably worse on those particular issues than FDR.
He won't be the worst as things stand now but you forget we have 9 months left. If some corrupt apparatichuk he appointed misses something and Bush ignores CIA warnings while on vacation allowing NY to be nuked well then I think he would earn the title. His administration will get a lot more blame for missing 9/11 in the future I think.
He's not the best and he's not the worst. He is somewhere in between.
Although he might have a "Yogi Berra"-esque legacy as making the dumbest misquotes ever.
Although he might have a "Yogi Berra"-esque legacy as making the dumbest misquotes ever.
MobBoss
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You take him to task for FDR and yet you do the same thing with Reagan, who is also routinely placed in the top 5 best presidents of all time.
tsk. tsk.
Bush won't be considered the worst. Probably end up somewhere in the lower end of the middle of the pack.
Swedishguy
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There has to be some really bad president in the future to steal Bush's inofficial title.
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Middle to bottom of the middle third, but anybody who says Bush is the worst ever doesn't know squat about history. Interestingly, Clinton and Bush have been ranked roughly the same by presidential scholars, who I trust far more than random polls of a public that can't even name half of our presidents.
