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Read About ‘The Worst President in History’

The Rolling Stone article that everyone has been waiting for is out. Read it in full here.

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George W. Bush’s presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And that may be the best-case scenario. Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.

From time to time, after hours, I kick back with my colleagues at Princeton to argue idly about which president really was the worst of them all. For years, these perennial debates have largely focused on the same handful of chief executives whom national polls of historians, from across the ideological and political spectrum, routinely cite as the bottom of the presidential barrel. Was the lousiest James Buchanan, who, confronted with Southern secession in 1860, dithered to a degree that, as his most recent biographer has said, probably amounted to disloyalty—and who handed to his successor, Abraham Lincoln, a nation already torn asunder? Was it Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, who actively sided with former Confederates and undermined Reconstruction? What about the amiably incompetent Warren G. Harding, whose administration was fabulously corrupt? Or, though he has his defenders, Herbert Hoover, who tried some reforms but remained imprisoned in his own outmoded individualist ethic and collapsed under the weight of the stock-market crash of 1929 and the Depression’s onset? The younger historians always put in a word for Richard M. Nixon, the only American president forced to resign from office.

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By Lori Ann in L.A., May 5, 2006 at 7:56 am Link to this comment
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The danger of what may be the democrats’ platform, “Throw the Bums Out,” is that the bums will be replaced by worse bums.

Americans are fed up with these so called Republicans. But they’re sure not interested in what the Democrat party has to offer.

The two party system is all but history. There are only a very small handful of Republicans that would be worth taking a chance on.

Americans and America has been hurt by globalist, disloyal politicians who fancy themselves as international leaders more than representatives of American. Even the elder Bush spoke with insane devotion to a “big idea” being a “New World Order.”

Americans are being drug into that so called “New” World by elitist scum. Americans don’t want to become third world slaves driven by cruel, police state taskmasters. Americans want their sovereignty!

America needs a man who doesn’t just sport an American flag on his lapel, but is American to the core -a man who loves the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in truth to vote for.

Americans need real choices.

Thank God for the uniquely American, homeschooling movement which may produce some of America’s best and brightest hope for the future.

America may well be on her way out. But not before she experieces her super nova.

And when she does, may the Lord be praised.

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By Gertruda, April 23, 2006 at 4:02 pm Link to this comment
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Too late folks, W will go, but his cronies are now firmly in place. Welcome to a totalitarian regime!

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By Paddy O'Shea, April 22, 2006 at 12:41 pm Link to this comment
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Let me ask what to me seems an obvious question -

Is anybody really surprised that Bush has failed so miserably?

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By Hilding Lindquist, April 22, 2006 at 6:06 am Link to this comment
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This is should be labeled a “must read” article.

Wow, Carl Bernstein’s piece in VANITY FAIR, now this. Ain’t we a great nation, or what?!

You know, our responsibility as citizens is to hold our elected leaders accountable to our principles and values. To do this we need to talk to one another, not just face forward and salute the person up front.

Musing: Sometimes I think our indoctrination in the public schools gets in our way of exercising democracy, and newcomers to our country who don’t have those hangups get it right—a la the recent immigration demonstrations ...

But we’re waking up and getting it together: 2006 is the year of the people. Let’s throw the bums out!

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