Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Worst. President. Ever?

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Right now, how can Historians rate anything about Bush, history has not finished the tale.

 

Additionally, the very people who are voting on these things are voting for Presidents that follow their ideologies. Of course Bush is going to be voted bad when a bunch of liberals are doing the voting. That is the problem with these polls, the criteria for ranking the President is not clear, and even if it is, it will take more than 10 years to see how the policies of the President have shaped his legacy.

 

Take Nixon for instance, in 1974, a ranking poll might have very well placed Nixon at the bottom of the list. In fact on Wikipedia, a 1982 Sienna poll placed Nixon as the 28th worse President out of 39 possible on the list. That very same poll in 1994 put Nixon in at 23. Why in 12 years did Nixon raise 5 spots?

 

FDR is another example. Its funny how he is ranked so high, but I think I understand why. He was the president after all that gets credit for pulling the United States out of the great depression, though I think there is enough evidence in hind sight to say that his economic policies were not as instrumental at pulling us out of the depression as was World War 2.

 

 

 

 

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

Worst. President. Ever?

The results are in:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/04/worst-president-ever-3/

So, out of 109 historians, only 2 would place the Bush presidency in the upper two-thirds of US presidencies.  You can see the questions here:

http://hnn.us/articles/47918.html

Amazingly, 61% ranked GW Bush as dead last -- the worst US President ever and at least two more historians said that he was the second to worst. Bush thinks that "history takes a long time for us to reach":

  "As far as history goes and all of these quotes about people trying to
  guess what the history of the Bush administration is going to be, you
  know, I take great comfort in knowing that they dont know what they are
  talking about, because history takes a long time for us to reach."
    --George W. Bush, Fox News Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008


Mike

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