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2005-12-06 Home Front: Politix

IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT -- EVER?

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Posted by tu3031 2005-12-06 16:37|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I bet results would have been similar for Reagan during his tenure.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-12-06 17:29|| 2005-12-06 17:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Xbalanke: I suspect this guy would certainly have come to the same conclusion.

Posted by DoDo 2005-12-06 17:42|| 2005-12-06 17:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Richard Reeves??? I thought that old NY Times Socialist was long dead and buried. I demand a check for signs of voodoo. So what's with the Paris byline. Is he reduced to scribbling for L'Humanite?

Posted by ed 2005-12-06 18:09|| 2005-12-06 18:09|| Front Page Top

#4 JUST STFU!!!!

Posted by 49 pan">49 pan 2005-12-06 18:12|| 2005-12-06 18:12|| Front Page Top

#5 By this article Historians seem ill equiped to judge current events.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-12-06 18:18|| 2005-12-06 18:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Rememer that the number who thought him sucessful were 154% of those who thought him the worst ever. (For every 100 who rated him worst, 154 picked succeding).

And this tripe is considered NEWS? Merde.

Posted by Bobby 2005-12-06 19:19|| 2005-12-06 19:19|| Front Page Top

#7 A bit of perspective, from Wikipedia:

Reeves' opinions generally have a liberal bent--he opposed the war to topple Saddam Hussein as "stupid and unnecessary" (column, March 19, 2003)--but shuns "extreme" leftist positions. He pays close attention to happenings overseas and often fills his columns with explanations of current trends based on history. Many of his columns focus on the world's reaction to the United States' political actions.

Posted by Bobby 2005-12-06 19:23|| 2005-12-06 19:23|| Front Page Top

#8 If I were looking for perspective, Wikipedia is the last place I'd go, as the quote amply demonstrates.

Posted by Thrang Pheamble7791 2005-12-06 19:28|| 2005-12-06 19:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Most history departments don't focus on 'old' style history and went left a long time ago.

Well you aught to read what they wrote about Lincoln during the war. Now we have a quasi-temple in Washington, one of four at Rushmore, and on the fiver and penny. Would never have expected it had you asked in 1864.

Posted by Snuting Thoting7559 2005-12-06 19:31|| 2005-12-06 19:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Well put. Back during the Civil War the Democrats constantly referred to Lincoln as a cretinous warmonger who looked like an ape. Sound familiar?

The character of this president will be justified, not vilified, by historians long after Clintonâs legacy has gone the way of Hardingâs. A hundred years from now his encyclopedia entry will read something like âA controversial president, W. Bush was nevertheless respected by many for his international promotion of democracy and conservative personal qualities, which most Americans of the period found a welcome relief after the excesses of the wild 90's. His memorial in the Kurdish city of Mosul is still carefully maintained nearly 70 years after....â

You get the picture. The leftists know this, too, which is why they hate him so much: just like they did Regan.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-12-06 19:47|| 2005-12-06 19:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Never in my life has the rhetoric been so vitriol towards an acting president. The left is in a tailspin, and they are taking everyone down with them that they can. G.W. seems to be pretty middle of the road to me. God help the arabs if I ever get elected.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-12-06 20:29|| 2005-12-06 20:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Hah! Dubya is Washington, Lincoln, Albert Einstein and Julius Caesar all rolled into one! He has replaced Richard the Lionheart as standard Muslim bogeyman! He could whip Rommel's Afrika Korps singlehanded! Genghis Khan would fall on his knees and beg mercy at the very sight of him! He can eat a side of beef in one sitting and down two barrels of moonshine at lunch. He can take on 100 interns in a session! He craps like an elephant and pisses napalm! He can fly the Space Shuttle and the Airbus 380 blindfolded, at the same time! He can outride a Scythian warlord! He can build a B-2 out of an old trash can and a roll of duct tape in one afternoon! He can take on 100 left over interns in one session!

There, an exercise in hyperbole deserves an equivalent response.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-12-06 20:33|| 2005-12-06 20:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Never in my life has the rhetoric been so vitriol towards an acting president. The left is in a tailspin, and they are taking everyone down with them that they can.

Very true. For one thing, the liberals (communists) see the end of Roe vs Wade, a womans right to snuff. They hate Bush for it. They hate him because he believes in something besides himself, a higher calling, being, whatever. They simply cannot abide it. They are self-absorbed, Godless communists and proud of it.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-12-06 20:37|| 2005-12-06 20:37|| Front Page Top

#14 We have a President with the guts to attempt to reform the butt-crack of the world and of course, the LLLs hate him. Either Islam reforms from within or the West will eventually be forced to do it from without, by means which make the Iraq war appear pale, see Wretchard's Three Conjectures.
I hope that we knock over Ahmanijhad and the Mad Mullahs so W can notch another 60,000,000 liberated on his gun! In 20 years W will be lauded for his stunning accomplishment of knocking the Islamic world into sensibility. Clinton will be a sad side note, best known for the stained dress. And G*d help us if we elect the Hildebeast in '08.

Posted by Slomogum Spavise8242 2005-12-06 21:48|| 2005-12-06 21:48|| Front Page Top

#15 His memorial in the Kurdish city of Mosul is still carefully maintained nearly 70 years after....â

SM, I think you nailed it.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2005-12-06 22:23|| 2005-12-06 22:23|| Front Page Top

#16 A.C. LOL! Don't forget he can shoot lighting out of his ass and his -em- 'gas' can raise the dead.

The Liberals hate Bush because he has Character. He cares about advancing even the littel guy. That is a real threat to those who want to enslave the little guy with dependancy on government handouts.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-12-06 22:38|| 2005-12-06 22:38|| Front Page Top

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