If one looks only at what did not go well, of course Bush looks bad, but that is dishonest.

If you look at both what he did wrong and what he did right, he is certainly not the worst President.

Friend of USA – well said.

Jimmy Carter was the worst president in U.S. history.

sorry… s/b stink-fingered republican morons

HP: I find his most offensive statement to be the one about our being “addicted to oil”. What bullshit!

I do rate Clinton as the worst, because he enabled the growth of AQ into a worldwide terrorist organization. Had he acted after the ‘93 WTC bombing, he could have exterminated them.

You’re right about that too. He most certainly hesitated and lost bin laden, didn’t he. He didn’t even know to pull the trigger when the target was in sight.

No, he’s not. He’s the worst President ever.

Watch his legacy turn to sh*t when this economic meltdown gets rolling.

[Retired Army Major General Jerry R.] Curry has said on that matter (Iraqi WMD’s] history will judge differently because US operatives found a large stockpile of concentrated natural uranium (550 tons) in the heart of Bagdad. This is known as “yellowcake” and is evidence that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear program designed to make weapons of mass destruction. US operatives had to sit on the information lest terrorists found out about it and tried to acquire the uranium. Ambassador Joseph Wilson denied Bush’s claim that Hussein wanted to buy “yellowcake” from Niger. Wilson had been told otherwise by a former Prime Minister of Niger, Assane Mayaki. Wilson did not give the report any credibility and insisted that there was no evidence that Iraq wanted to purchase yellowcake. British intelligence insisted Iraq did not seek yellowcake from Niger. Bush chose to ignore Wilson and cited British intelligence on the issue, and Wilson and his CIA wife, Valerie Plame, who sent him to Niger, were outraged. The media picked up on this story and Bush has paid dearly ever since. Bush could have had the last laugh with his critics when the yellowcake was discovered. Instead he has not said a word while the yellowcake was extracted from Iraq and passed through two continents before it safely reached Canada.
Bush has not acknowledged this transaction but the Associated Press has. General Curry said Bush put his country above his personal reputation. He said we can thank God Bush did what he did. Curry said Bush wanted to keep the information quiet because terrorists are still around Iraq. Curry went on to tell the whole story of Wilson and Plame, who pushed the line that Bush lied. They insisted that it was Karl Rove who outed her as a CIA operative and should go to jail for doing so. The leak, it turned out, came from Richard Armitage, another Bush opponent.
- From an article by Paul Weyrich http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulWeyrich/2008/12/04/iraqi_uranium_and_a_false_charge_against_president_bush

Dino pretty much nails it.

Big Al ~ that was excellent! You gave great examples to why many people call the libs traitorous … they actually stand in the way of progress and achievement. As you pointed out, the “distractors,” instead of calling Bush “calm” or describing him as able to maintain his cool while in front of young school children, weren’t long in criticizing him. I suppose he was supposed to jump up and scream, “Holy Shit, the United States is under attack!” ?

Katrina blew away what was left along with the Gulf Coast. Bush was blamed, as if manipulating the weather was a Presidential purgative.

Katrina is an issue which absolutely burns me up. I blame NAGIN and then Blanco. The way I see it, RESPONSIBILITY first begins with the INDIVIDUAL, but allowing that some people honestly did not have the means to evacuate, then it radiates out to the next responsible entity, Nagin. HE is THE reason for most of the debacle. And, if he couldn’t have handled things, then call the governor. They had DAYS of forewarning. They had DECADES to prepare for a hurricane of that level – they KNEW what would happen – Nagin didn’t even apply for Federal matching funds to maintain or improve those levees. The Federal government should the the last resort. No one cried, “It’s Bush’s fault” when Galveston was hit in 1900. FEMA didn’t exist and people had to BE responsible.

Bush’s approval rating for handling the economy: only about 36 percent. That can only be described as baffling. Either that, or the public is being conned by those that oppose him.

Yes, and that is how Obama got elected. The public being conned by those who oppose Bush. I know people who became millionaires under Bush … people EXACTLY LIKE Joe the Plumber. People who started out blue collar, working on their hands and knees, getting dirty … people who worked hard, had the incentive of financial reward for working hard and thrived because they were able to keep some of their own money for themselves and their families.
And, don’t even get me started about how OBAMA and BIDEN demeaned, belittled, excoriated and made fun of a private American citizen because “the one” was exposed for the socialist that he is. That God Himself didn’t come down and thump Obama’s puny little head off for such abrasive, derisive, condescending, absolutely UN-noble and certainly UNPRESIDENTIAL behavior is surprising.

I don’t know where Bush ranks, I think it’s too early to tell.

I’d say that we know that neither Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter deserve to be in the top 41.

Everybody cries about 6.5% unemployment, and uses it to call Bush the worst President ever. Yet we had 7% under Clinton, 10% under Reagan, 17% under Carter, 25% under FDR and Hoover.

Unpopular wars? Ford and Bush Sr. both badly mismanaged Iraq, leading to millions dead. Carter bungled the Iran situation and replaced one of our best allies with one of our worst enemies. Reagan embroiled us in conflicts all around the world, spending far more than we have spent on Iraq.

Bush’s social programs were not as bad as teh great society or the New Deal.

Worst President? Hardly.

…and big surpluses to spend!

Creative Clinton accounting, sourced in gutting our military and intel. We paid for that, big time.
Other than that, BA, a fine piece!

If Martha Stewart was JAILED for what she did, BOTH
CLINTONS should be sitting in jail for all that they’ve done.

True that! I do rate Clinton as the worst, because he enabled the growth of AQ into a worldwide terrorist organization. Had he acted after the ’93 WTC bombing, he could have exterminated them.

He saved us from the Clinton-enabled 9/11-style terrorism, freed millions in Iraq from a murdering totalitarian, and established a beachhead of modernity in the heart of the ME.
Those are great accomplishments, despite the volume of leftie lying in their practice of the politics of personal destruction.

Maybe Clinton was worse than Carter.

I just remembered how American nuke and missle technology was given to the Chinese in exchange for political contirbutions.

That simple act was worse than Whitewater, troopergate, Monicagate, Watergate, Chapaquidick, and Taminy Hall combined. It was also enough to make him the worst president ever.

I’m a bit conflicted on where FDR would be on this list.

Positive:

He managed to lead us through WWII.

Negatives:

His administration was packed with Soviet spies who handed Eastern Europe to the Russians.

Other appointments of his sided with the communists over the nationalists in China, ultimately costing us China (and resulted in the Korean War).

Altogether….Rosevelt was mediocre.

I’m going to let history decide.

In my book of History he was a pretty GOOD president.

Better than Clinton, worse than Reagan. Better than his dad.

A lot like LBJ in war handling.

I have watched the Charlie Gibson interviews. He will have several.

This is a really GOOD man.

I hope for all the best for him.

His place in history will be much better than any of us think.

If Carter hadn’t BETRAYED the Shah of Iran, etc. we wouldn’t have what’s happening right now.

And, “after being told over and over by President Jimmy Carter that America’s ability to influence world events was “very limited,” the Soviet Union believed him and invaded Afghanistan. And al-Qaida was born.”

Read this: http://ibdeditorials.com/Special3.aspx

And, what about this:

U.S. official: Iraqis told me WMDs sent to Syria
Former head of prisons says incarcerated ex-Saddam forces disclosed move

Posted: July 30, 2008
11:20 pm Eastern

By Ryan Mauro
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

A former American overseer of Iraqi prisons says several dozen inmates who were members of Saddam Hussein’s military and intelligence forces boasted of helping transport weapons of mass destruction to Syria and Lebanon in the three months prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Don Bordenkircher — who served two years as national director of prison and jail operations in Iraq– told WND that about 40 prisoners he spoke with “boasted of being involved in the transport of WMD warheads to Syria.

A smaller number of prisoners, he said, claimed “they knew the locations of the missile hulls buried in Iraq.”

Some of the inmates, Bordenkircher said, “wanted to trade their information for a release from prison and were amenable to showing the locations.”

The prisoners were members of the Iraqi military or civilians assigned to the Iraqi military, often stationed at munitions facilities, according to Bordenkircher. He said he was told the WMDs were shipped by truck into Syria, and some ended up in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.

Other Iraqi military personnel, including former top Saddam associates, have made the same claim.

In early 2006, Saddam’s No. 2 Air Force officer, Georges Sada, told the New York Sun Iraq’s WMDs were moved into Syria six weeks before the war started.

WND also reported in 2006 a former general and friend of Saddam who defected alleged WMDs were hidden in Syria and said the regime supported al-Qaida with intelligence, finances and munitions. Ali Ibrahim Al-Tikriti, the southern regional commander for Saddam’s militia in the late 1980s, said the regime had contingency plans established as far back as the 1980s in the event either Baghdad or Damascus was taken over.

Saddam knew the U.S. eventually would come for the weapons, Al-Tikriti said at the time, and had “wanted since he took power to embarrass the West, and this was the perfect opportunity to do so.” So he denied they existed and made sure they were moved into hiding, the former general said.

Among other claims, WND also reported a former U.S. federal agent and counter-terrorism specialist deployed to Iraq before the war said he waged a three-year, unsuccessful battle to get officials to search four sites where he believed the former Saddam regime buried weapons of mass destruction.

Bordenkircher said four of the Iraqi prisoners who separately offered to speak to the “right” people about Saddam’s alleged transport of WMD later became involved with U.S. and Iraqi intelligence agencies.

Some prisoners said the drivers, upon return from transporting the WMDs out of Iraq, discussed the movement. They said, according to Bordenkircher, the materials shipped out would return once Iraq got “a clean bill of health from the U.N., and then the program could be kick-started easily.”

Four of the prisoners — civilians attached to the Iraqi military — said they worked at the al-Muthana Chemical Industries site. They said the cargo included nitrogen mustard gas warheads for Tariq I and II missiles.

Bordenkircher said the stories of the military personnel and the civilians matched and did not contradict one another.

Bordenkircher also said prisoners confirmed al-Qaida had a presence in Iraq before Operation Iraqi Freedom began, specifically in Mosul and Kirkuk.
Iraqis under the command of Uday Hussein, one of Saddam Hussein’s sons, supported the al-Qaida elements in the country with training and providing safe harbor, they said.

Bordenkircher also was a senior adviser to South Vietnam’s correctional system during the war in Southeast Asia, from 1967-72. His task was to improve conditions for 80,000 civilian prisoners. The U.S. Department of Justice asked him to play a similar role in Iraq, sending him first to Baghdad’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad in March 2006 to shut it down.

Bordenkircher previously served as Marshall County sheriff of Moundsville, W.Va., and police chief and warden of the state penitentiary at Moundsville.

After AQ bombed the WTC in ’93, Clinton hid in fear from them, enabling them to grow in strength and power, until they had the resources to bring down the WTC with hijacked airliners on 9/11; and have now become, courtesy of Clinton’s cowardice, a worldwide terrorist organization. Clinton was a criminal. If he had any decency, he would have resigned. He failed to either uphold and protect the Constitution, and to protect the American people from our enemies, foreign and domestic. He is a disgrace.

I have to agree with QueenZel, Jimmy Carter has this title sowed up.

17% unemployment, 21% interest rate, gas lines, hostages in Iran, gifting Iran to the mullahs, giving Panama Canal away.

Bush was average and certainly no conservative. He spent like a democrat and managed like liberal, but he was far from the worst.
911 was a kick in the teeth and Clinton could have done a better job on security if he had been paying attention instead of covering up rape. The war in Afghanistan and Iraq was inevitable. There is plenty of data to make a fair assessment that the soviets and Syria were involved in cleaning up evidence prior to the invasion. Plus the Democrats should get credit for being totally uncooperative for the past 8 years. Outside of this last year, the economy was healthy enough to surpass Clinton’s previous growth record and considering that we had two wars and 911 that is good news to take into account.

Responsible, intelligent people didn’t suffer under Bush but under Carter everyone was miserable. Progressives will always suffer from some sort of mental ailment like BDS, that’s life.

Republican politicians do not
utter the B word.

That’s how bad.

If Carter hadn’t BETRAYED the Shah of Iran, etc. we wouldn’t have what’s happening right now.

Go back to ’53. That’s where the major problems began with us and Iran. The idea that keeping a puppet gov’t in there for longer would make things nicer for us now is silly.