Historians rate, and remark about, The Bush Record

[Rose Siding]

The results of a recent poll conducted by The History News Network at George Mason University found that 338 out of 415 responding historians believed that Bush was failing. 50 rated him as the "worst president ever". Some of these remarks are from self-identified, conservative historians:

He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process;

He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;

He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;

He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;

He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign ( Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida);

He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;

He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;

He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime.

The Worst

[Straight Shooter]

1. "ignorantly hostile"

That sums it up. He is "ignorantly hostile" to everything, actually, except his own self-serving agenda.

W stands for "Worst."

[MarianJack]

3. I'm Going to Steal That Term!

It sums the idiot-in-chief up SOOOOO well!

[Inland]

5. dupe

[Inland]

6. Or is it "hostilely ignorant"? It's a chicken/egg problem. nt

[MarianJack]

2. A Short, Sweet & Oft Used Phrase Here!

WORST! PRESIDENT! EVER!

[Binka]

4. Holy Fuck That Is 81.5% ABJECT MF FAILURE!!!

[Arkansas Granny]

7. I totally agree with your assessment.

[Coastie for Truth]

8. How deep is his cumulation of failures?

So deep that we will not be able to catch up economically, scientifically, technologically, medically, in "quality of life" (separation of church and state), quality of "workplace life" (pensions, economic security).

Forget "militarily" - that's what got us into this downward spiral as we fell off of the end of the slippery slope.