On C-SPAN, Historians Rate W the 7th Worst President Ever

Worst in my lifetime, Bushed.

Hard to imagine anyone could possibly be worse than Bush …
What about the Cheney factor?
Bush-Cheney for sure has to be the worst combination ever!!!

Few presidents were as universally hated as Reagan, Bush being one of them. The corporate media has a different view of thing than the rest of us.

Carter is the worst in my lifetime.

What criteria exactly do they use to rank our presidents? Overall ineffectiveness? Their affect on the economy? Their affect on world peace? Their non-caring attitude toward the American people? Their disrespect of the Constitution? Hard to believe Bush wouldn’t be at the top of the list. OK, then, according to this list he’s still the worst president in MY lifetime, and I’m no spring chicken, so that’s saying a lot.

What an idiotic story. I personally didn’t like W’ and I think he was a horrible president, but how can he be judged against as one the 10 worst? What’s this based on? Public opinion? National debt? How can he be judged against presidents from a hundred years ago? We don’t have accurate records of most of those cats. Who are these historians anyway? Do they know things about the super secret W administration that we don’t know? Can we get some real news stories on here or just this fluff?

Reagan is much overrated, and Clinton underrated. Both men are too fresh in living memory for objectivity to play a role in the rankings, though. Nixon will always be the worst President, unless, God help us, we have another with such contempt for the Constitution as to form a squad of secret police.

The worst president in my voting lifetime was “W”. I didn’t judge him in 2000, for which he was fair game, but I came to this conclusion in 2006. I believe Barack will be better. However, judging him within the first 3 1/2 weeks as a “no go” is bit premature and immature. To those hoping the new President fails, they’ll hate even if he does well.

Pretty soon OBAMA will be ranked number one for the WORST president ever.!!!

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Oh CW, wouldn’t that be your lifelong dream? As a true American, I really hoped “W” would succeed. That the stolen election would somehow prove to be worthwhile. That maybe, we had it wrong and that the Republicans had to push the theft of the election through, so we could see just how wrong we were. Well, that didn’t happen. So now we have a new President. One that I voted for. And all I can do is hope that we got it right. You know, for the sake of our country, I really hope the BEST for its turn around. Cause that’s what true American’s do, WE hope for the best.

I always thought top 5 worst ever, so I wasn’t off by much. However……. I think things will change once we start getting an inside look at some of the idioic things Bush did. He’ll end up in the Top 5 worse yet.

“W” is the worst! I really don’t understand why those idiot people voted for him twice! (oh, the first one was stolen, i almost forgot).

Carter was the worst president in the lifetime of nearly everyone I’ve ever spoken to and that includes Democrats and Republicans.

Harding ended a depression and pardoned Eugene Debs. Unlike virtually all Presidents before and since, he came clean about his Administration scandals, which is why he was poisoned.
Since historians are apologists for the Regime, I’m not surprised they disdain Harding and praise the murderous imperialist Teddy.

What would W. Bush do if he was elected now. Just stop complaining and get together help eachother for sake of our country, our life.

Republicans hate this article because it proves to them how stupid they were for electing this man twice. It also shows their true colors on the blogs. Any person who wants the new president to fail just because he is a democrat is ANTI-AMERICAN.

Even IF Bush isn’t “the worst” (and he probably really was), he was really, really terrible–just as his party has been.

A democratic congress under W? REALLY? For his whole term? I guess republi”con”s can rewrite history, so their guys look better.

Bush has been the worst in our time…no doubt about it!!!

Bill, Dubyah could never abandon his party-boy mentality from his fraternity days. From the state of things in our nation and abroad, he obviously never had his mind on his job. His mind was in Crawford, Texas, where he stayed during much of his presidency.

A second 9-11 under Bush? One was enough.
Our country was attacked for the first time in over 100 years under Bush.
W=worst.

Your on an alternative web site and still the majority of you are talking as if9-11 was really carried out by Muslims! Please, please wake up folks! Stop being entertained by the boob tube and start paying attention to what is really going on around you. Investigate and study waht happened on 9-11 and 7-7!
Carter,Reagan, Bush, Clinton – They are all puppets even if they know it or not! There is a crime network that reaches into every part of our government as well as Britain’s and the home office is in the middle east and resides on land that was stolen from other people.

To be placed among the truly undistinguished presidents in American history will make it difficult for Bush to ever attain mediocrity in the ratings. He deserves the notoriety and it is likely that time will only make his presidency worse than it appears today.

I hardly think it fair to rank William Henry Harrison below W. since he died less than a month after he was inaugurated.

Note to Bill… Mr. Intelligent the democrats took over the Congress on 2006 – W. and the Republicans were the power idiots for 6 years.
My opinion as to the worst President, it has to be George W. Bush – if he had maintained the war in Afghanistan to find bin Laden, then perhaps history would have been kinder to him. Lies on top of lies is what history will remember about “W”.

60 years after his low popularity, Truman is now one of the best. Wait for another 50 to 60 years (after you and I all die), President GW Bush may be judged the same. So it is really insignificant what most people say about the 43rd today.

Bill said that our country “was attacked for the first time in over 100 years” under GWB leadership. Apparently Bill has never heard of the “day that will live in infamy” – the day Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Are any of the historians that judged this alive today? Did any of these better six presidents kill a million innocents? Did they plunge the world into an economic tailspin? Did they oversee the continued incarceration of two million countrymen while maintaining the highest violent crime rate globally? Did any of them break every promise America ever made?
I see, by historian, you meant press. That explains it.

I predict when the poll comes out in 4 years Obama will be ranked the worst.

Historians have not taken into account circumstances. The reality is simply that W means WORST, he was lazzy, did not have any interest in anything, no curiosity, no intelect, nobody can be worst than WBush.

WTH? What about Nixon? He should be up there as one of the worst?!! DUDE…Watergate…he lied to us and had to resign! If that doesn’t put him on the list I don’t know what does!

Was Abe really number 1? The guy was a religious fanatic, with a trophy money hungry wife. Abe moved to the hand of god. Didn’t Dubby also dance the dance of death to this very same, unseen blood for profits hand of god?
Think about it: Slavery was legal in America. Slave owners paid money for slaves, as they did for all classes of property.
What if Lincoln, instead of blockading the South, and withholding (Dubby did the asset freezing shtick – same difference) their assets in an attempt to force slave owners to relinquish their considerable investment in slaves, or, alternatively (hopefully?) react with extreme prejudice, without any expectation of fair compensation, had, instead, simply offered to buy the slaves from their owners?
There would never have been a civil war.
There would never have been millions of dead.
The lingering racism that still plagues America would never have been. The millions upon millions in blood and life the civil war cost America would never have been.
What would any of us do if the government told us we no longer owned what was ours? We’d get pretty PO’d, right?
The law is the law. And in Lincoln’s time, Slavery was legal. Period.
But the war industrialists – the blood money exchanges – the fee for blood merchants – would never have profited had old honest hard praying Abe done the right thing – the lawful thing – and avoided war.
The civil war made a lot of mass murderers rich. Lincoln was not el numero uno – he was just another vanity addict in the pockets of the Genocide Industries that pushed for the war. He was an accomplice to mass murder.
Why are we taught that presidents who kill are heroes? Is Charlie Manson a hero? Is Len Trotsky a hero (well – maybe – at least in one community)?
Think People – War is Mass Murder. Abe was no saint – he was a murderer!

Bush worst amen chorus is tiring…and says more about the historical myopia of the commenter than about Bush.
What most surprises me is Clinton’s move up. Survey puts him above mid-pack for such things as relations with Congress. WHAT?!! He was one of only 2 impeached presidents (the other was Andrew Johnson, who fully deserves his bottom fisher rating, since he tried to undo the Civil war). That takes an act of Congress.
He also doesn’t deserve having economic management above Reagan, since the economy during his term was a result of Reagan’s policies.
Just shows the leftist bent of most historians.
Aside, nice to see Calvin Coolidge and US Grant getting some respect. Harding should be next. As with Coolidge, he should be recognized for sound economic policies that led to the roaring 20s and not just pilloried (as Grant used to be) for the corruption of his administration.

Bush may be in the worst ten but Clinton is def up there with him. The last several presidents have raped this country of everything by selling off land, bridges, purging jobs, wars etc. Having said that Wilson signed the federal reserve act and FDR knew about the stock market crash confiscated peoples gold, imprisoned thousands of anti war protesters, knew pearl harbor was going to get attacked, so he seems pretty bad to me…then again Bush let the Mossad attack us on 9/11.. so take your pick.

Sorry, when it comes to being president, you can expect the media to scrutinize you and Mr. Clinton you were no exception. Your record gave reason for the media to scrutinize you. He was the absolute WORST president of the United States. George Bush was no saint and I must agree that he made his fair share of mistake, as any president would, but he was solid. He brought houour and integrity and respect back to the presidency, something Mr. Clinton threw out the door from day one.

Bush has been the best president we have ever had in my lifetime and I remember all of them quite well. he kept us safe, his morals above reproach and that is more than you can say for most of them. He had faith, faith in God, and I just read that Obama is a restless soul, well that is because he has no faith, faith keeps you humble, faith keeps you grounded and faith is not arrogant Obama needs some kind of fath but obviously he has none. President Bush we love you and history will prove us right, again and again.

Bush is more than worst, he is a war criminal.

1. “WORST” BUSH SR. 2. RONALD REGAN 3. BUSH JR. 4. CLINTON

Um…hello…again..NIXON?!! Anyone not care about all the cover ups and stuff he did and he basically got away with it cause Ford pardoned him? Come on, if that doesn’t make him at LEAST number 2 worst, I don’t know what does. Bush is immaculate next to him, imho.

Obama will be worst than Carter and Bush. He will not be re-elected after this stimulus bill fails.
If you think Bush ruined the country in the past 8 years, Obama will do it in less than two months. So scary.

I’ve concluded that the reason GWBush tops the list of the worst President on this blog and others is that most of the bloggers are too young and/or too ignorant of history to know the records of any President prior to Clinton.

Obama = F = Fantastic
Clinton = D- = Diplomatic
W.Bush = A+ = Absent minded

too young and/or too ignorant of history to know the records of any President prior to Clinton.
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Sorry Rob, you have 2 strikes for your answers, your credibility is now zero, Care to strike out?

I sure got a big laugh at the Clinton video. Everyone in his administration lied, and Clinton disgraced the office with his conduct. Clinton did not own up to the perjury he committed that resulted in losing his right to practice law. The poor Clintons. They just don’t get it.

I have one question for all of those saying G.W.Bush was the best POTUS of all time : WHAT PLANET ARE YOU ON?????

W= absolutely the Worst, whom 911 left the country more vulnerable and in chaos than anyone else in my life time.
followed by his Father, Read my lips, no new taxes… Bush SR… the proponent of trickle down economics…
It is beyond me, how people can be loyal to these two…

It always amazes me how boldly Republicans lie about Democratic Presidents. No, Carter didn’t have “double-digit unemployment.” The only President since WWII to have that is Reagan. Carter’s unemployment record was substantially better than that of his predecessor, Gerry Ford — oh, but we don’t mention that, because he was a Repbulican, right?

Alexk1952
You’re correct. Acutally it was the interest rates that hit 21%, and unemployment of 7.5% under carter. regardless, he is still a traitor and the worst president ever.
Also, your comment about Reagan having double- digit unemployment is false. I won’t say you are lying, as you were so quick to call me (gotta love those open-minded liberals).

W = worst. W = warmonger. W = witless. W = weakminded.
W = Wrong.

W= won the Iraq war
W= wrecked al queda
W= wonderful husband and father
W= worked hard to restore dignity to the Oval Office after clinton disgraced it.
Thank you George Bush for keeping us safe these past years!

Barry O (jimmy carter’s twin) will probably go down as the worst president in US history. He has rushed through an enormous “stimulus” package, which is really just a far-left payback for electing the socialist from chicago. Will someone please tell me how $$$ for global warming research and ACORN will stimulate our economy?
Barry is surrounded by people equally as shady as himself, and the media can only protect his administration for so long. Do I sense another democrat being impeached?

I wish I could figure out the historians rating chart? Dubya is the first president in American history to enter the White House by stopping legal votes from being counted. The hell with democracy – - and his 8 years of incompetence has destroyed more lives than any other president in American History.

are you people crazy obama is the 1# president

I’d agree with a lot of other people that George W. was the worst. He filled his administration with yes men, gave way too much power and influence to his vice-prez and the oil companies, made many appointments to vastly unqualified people, tried to bypass the Constitution, made decisions that defied logic and popular knowledge and spent our tax dollars so wildly he raised our national debt around 4.3 trillion dollars. And that’s not even counting waging war on Iraq by mistake.
It is a crying shame he was our president.

The article didn’t exactly go into any details as to why the ratings appeared that way. FDR, Lincoln, Washington, Truman, JKF. The beat Presidents (not in order). Nixon, Bush jr, Buchanan, some of the worst. Carter had morals and was ruined by that. Clinton was a man of the people, but he lost his path. Reagan was given many opportunities to succeed, but only managed to pass 2 tests of office. Bush Sr got out of office before he could ruin civil rights with his religious idealoge. Obama is trying to get both sides together, but he may find that a pipe dream so he may have to get tough and will be criticized for appearing to be too dictatorial.

So True that Liberals write history even in the case of Lincoln, JFK, etc… Lincolns republican party of the 1850′s and 1860′s was more comparable to the Democrats of today. Hence the Radical republicans I mentioned earlier. Buchanan may be blames in some view but he avoided an earlier breakout of war by providing some defense against the radicals ideals. Lincoln and JFK are two that are held so highly I feel as much in remembrance of brutal assassinations as they are for what they really accomplished. As far as the worst in history That’s hard to choose among so many “do-nothings” that have held the office. but Surely Bill Clinton is not one of those solely on his white house affair if that is his biggest flaw then why isn’t JFK in the same predicament.

Funny how people lack the basic knowledge of American history. Example, it was Eisenhower (repub) who first put troops in Vietnam – right after the French lost in Dien Bien Phu in 1954. JFK was not POTUS then. JFK gets credit for giving the nation hope and a cause, remember he started the challenge of putting a man on the moon? And don’t forget it was a German from WWII who did the work (Warner Von Braun). Yes Lincoln was the best, he held this country together. Cost lots of lives in doing so. Washington as the first POTUS, give it to him. The remaining 3 on the list are Democrats. And yes, there were attacks on the American mainland during WWII, U-boats sinking ships right off the Jersey and Texas coasts, Oregon was bombed, German agents and their bombings. So bush is not the first POTUS to deal with attacks on American mainland. Get a grip folks and admit that this country has had it best times, economically, fiscally and socially, under Democratic administrations. And don’t put religion into this, we are a secular country. You want a religious country then go to Iran.

Funny how people lack the basic knowledge of American history. Example, it was Eisenhower (repub) who first put troops in Vietnam – right after the French lost in Dien Bien Phu in 1954. JFK was not POTUS then. JFK gets credit for giving the nation hope and a cause, remember he started the challenge of putting a man on the moon? And don’t forget it was a German from WWII who did the work (Warner Von Braun). Yes Lincoln was the best, he held this country together. Cost lots of lives in doing so. Washington as the first POTUS, give it to him. The remaining 3 on the list are Democrats. And yes, there were attacks on the American mainland during WWII, U-boats sinking ships right off the Jersey and Texas coasts, Oregon was bombed, German agents and their bombings. So bush is not the first POTUS to deal with attacks on American mainland. Get a grip folks and admit that this country has had it best times, economically, fiscally and socially, under Democratic administrations. And don’t put religion into this, we are a secular country. You want a religious country then go to Iran.

My first presidential memories are of Kennedy’s funeral, then of President Johnson becoming President and drafting young men to go to Vietnam. I was a little kid, but I was horrified by the war in Vietnam. I remember Nixon, whom I hated because he kept us in Vietnam, and the Watergate hearings. I was shocked to think people at that level of government would actually break the law. The Nixon years turned me into a Democrat, but not before I voted for Ford, in my first election, because he reminded me of my Dad, I was only 18. I didn’t cotten to Jimmy Carter, at first, but he grew on me as I saw in him a moral and principled leader. He warned us we needed to conserve energy, and pursue peace in the Middle east, but Americans preferred Ronald Reagan because he was an optimist, and an old school, John Wayne type politician. I disliked Reagan because I disagreed with his policies, but I didn’t hate him. I didn’t support Bill Clinton in the primary but I did vote for him for President. By his second term I knew he was one of the best Presidents we ever had. Then the Bush years came, and I honestly debated moving to Canada, (I already live in Maine, pretty close.) Bush moved the country so far to the right I questioned whether I wanted to stay here. But then, miracle of miracles, we got Obama.
I think Obama combines the moral principle of Jimmy Carter with Bill Clinton’s political savvy. I feel good about my country again, because even if we are in a recession, we are once again a moral country.

In today’s $750 million+ media extravaganza that we call the Presidential election, Lincoln would lose. With his raspy voice and homely physical appearance he would have been a “non-starter”.

History is just that
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Dubya Bush THE PRESIDENT EVER. BY FAR

I think the verdict is still out on Richard Nixon. He did a lot of good things. While the Watergate coverup was unfortunate, we now know that other presidents have done the same kind of things.
I believe that he was one of the most intelligent presidents we ever had, and he was very good at, by God, getting things done.
He got us out of Vietnam. When The Soviet Union was considering moving in troops to the Middle East during 1973′s Yom Kippur war, Nixon put American armed forces on worldwide nuclear alert and Leonid Brezhnev backed down.
Nixon’s playing the China Card against the USSR was a master stroke of power politics and lead directly to Detente with Russia.
He actually did much for civil rights, for African Americans, while talking middle-of-the-road.
And I liked the man.
So overall while the jury is still out, I give him high marks in foreign and domestic policy.