Yeah, and maybe the Detroit Lions don't suck this season.

They'll try like hell to spin it that way anyway.

keep hope alive, freepmitter!

I really don't see Iraq becoming a democracy and an ally of the U.S. after what's happened. What's more likely is that the strongest man standing in Iraq (Al Sadr) will become the leader and be, most likely, very Saddam-like.

The recession probably won't go the depression way, so I don't see him filling the Hoover role either. One thing the article writer didn't mention is if BOTH things fail, if a depression hits and if Iraq doesn't form a democracy.

I still say, regardless, this guy is the worst president of my lifetime. I say this right now, not holding for later confirmation of historical events. I'll let those decide if he is the worst ever.

History, not current opinion, will be the final arbiter. Rabid Bush haters may be disappointed.

His record is impressive no matter how you look at it. He's gone from a 90% approval rating to "maybe not the worst evar"

He's not the worst "of all time" if you include the future.

/Jenna Bush '2020

Eddie Adams from Torrance: His record is impressive no matter how you look at it. He's gone from a 90% approval rating to "maybe not the worst evar"

One thing is for certain...he got everything he ever asked for...except SS reform. Seriously, name one thing he tried to accomplish and didn't? Congress bent over for him. The population elected him twice. He got 2 wars. He passed every initiative he ever wanted.

Worst/best...who cares.
Most effective at governing his way...most definitely.

Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is a Bloomberg News columnist. He was an adviser to Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona in the 2008 presidential election.

So, we have a member of a neocon think tank who was also on the McCain campaign team claiming that GWB wasn't really all that bad. Mind if I get my opinion from someone a little less biased?

bearsfolks History, not current opinion, will be the final arbiter. Rabid Bush haters may be disappointed.


History, not current opinion, will be the final arbiter. Rabid Bush lovers may be disappointed.

/I can play that game too.
//History is written by the victors. I'm not sure Bush has won much lately.
///I won't be too disappointed if he only ends up 3rd or 4th worst in history.

Shoe, Dubya. Just shoe!

I_C_Weener: Congress bent over for him. The population elected him twice. He got 2 wars. He passed every initiative he ever wanted.

to be fair, he had a republican congress for most of his term.

and the fact that he "got everything he ever wanted" is WHY he will be regarded as the worst of all time. virtually every single one of his policies, with the possible exception of his AIDS policy in africa, has been detrimental to the united states. every single one.

under his watch, the EPA has been eviscerated, the SEC has been defanged, the justice dept has become a laughingstock, science has been under religious attack, terrorism has increased worldwide (including the worst attack on US soil ever), the economy has plummeted, torture has been advocated, the constitution has been shredded, and our world standing is near zero.

basically, everything the man has touched has turned to shiat. he is, without a doubt, the worst president of all time.

His spin seems to be on overdrive his last month in office.

"I wrote letters to the families of every dead serviceman!"

Yeah, they wouldn't be dead if it wasn't for your bullsh*t lies that sent them over there dumbass.

Anyone want to play "About the Author"?

sigdiamond2000: Anyone want to play "About the Author"?

FTA;

Hassett is coauthor with James K. Glassman, of Dow 36,000.

credibility = 0

No. He's not only the worst president ever, he is the biggest traitor to this country in history, surpassing even the treason of his grandfather.

FlashHarry: and the fact that he "got everything he ever wanted" is WHY he will be regarded as the worst of all time. virtually every single one of his policies, with the possible exception of his AIDS policy in africa, has been detrimental to the united states. every single one.

Why are we proclaiming Bush's AIDS policy in Africa to be a success? I mean, yeah he spent a bunch of money there, but the programs themselves are seriously flawed. Abstinence only!

Bush is good like Judas is good. If Judas hadn't betrayed Jesus, Jesus wouldn't be able to save Christians from their sins. If Bush hadn't been such a lousy President, Obama wouldn't be able to save Americans.

The more you know.

bearsfolks: History, not current opinion, will be the final arbiter. Rabid Bush haters may be disappointed.

Yup 90% of the world is wrong and the fringe right wing neo con group is correct...

You guys need to know when to throw in the towel, call it a day, pull out, etc

bearsfolks: History, not current opinion, will be the final arbiter. Rabid Bush haters may be disappointed.

Yes. I agree, rabid Bush haters will be disappointed that no matter WHAT history says, there will still be blind bush supporters crying about how the whole world was against them every step of the way.

The 26% of Americans just understand something the 74% don't I guess....

and if you don't get the worst case of herpes ever, but it's still a bad case, are you supposed to feel good about that too?

Well... to be fair, lets look at the worst three Presidents of all time and see how he stacks up against them on the fail-o-meter.

Andrew Johnson: One of only two Presidents to ever be impeached. He was a white supremacist who sided with the old Confederate leadership after Lincoln's assassination in an attempt to torpedo the racial reconciliation of Reconstruction after the Civil War.

James Buchanan: His policies increased the division between the North and South and led to the secession of the South and the Civil War. Then rather than place pressure on those states not to secede, he simply threw up his hands and said, "there ain't nothing I can do to stop them."

Warren Harding: First he couldn't keep his dick in his pants (and had a couple of illegitimate children with the wives of other men). Many of the women that he had been with were sent out of the country and paid huge amounts of money to keep quiet. Most notably though, Harding appointed a bunch of cronies to the White House a couple of whom were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal (still the largest corruption case in US history when adjusted for inflation).

Dubya has some serious competition if he wants to race these three to the bottom.

LarryDan43: Bush is good like Judas is good. If Judas hadn't betrayed Jesus, Jesus wouldn't be able to save Christians from their sins. If Bush hadn't been such a lousy President, Obama wouldn't be able to save Americans.

The more you know.

actually, this is a good point. it is likely that bush's only positive legacy will be obama's election.

The only thing that worries me about how history will remember Bush is how history remembered Jackson or Wilson.

Russky: bearsfolks: History, not current opinion, will be the final arbiter. Rabid Bush haters may be disappointed.

Yup 90% of the world is wrong and the fringe right wing neo con group is correct...

You guys need to know when to throw in the towel, call it a day, pull out, etc

I'm pretty sure they're against the pulling out part... Oh, you mean ceasing an argument.

It's almost as if you Republicans think that if you say it over and over and over again, it'll come true.

that's why they call it Revisionist History. the rewriting of History by those who own the printing presses. it won't work this time because of a new kid on the block that has no owners: the Internet.

or as bush would say: Internets.

have a nice day!

Code_Archeologist:

Dubya has some serious competition if he wants to race these three to the bottom.

true - but those guys were grossly negligent in only one or two or three specific areas. dubya has been criminally deficient in virtually every single aspect of his presidency.

Milkbeer: I must say, democrats are really just cavalier about going full retard.

And, yet Republicans elected one . . . twice.

Andrew Johnson: One of only two Presidents to ever be impeached. He was a white supremacist who sided with the old Confederate leadership after Lincoln's assassination in an attempt to torpedo the racial reconciliation of Reconstruction after the Civil War.

Shenanigans! Johnson tempered the Reconstruction, preventing the wholesale rape and pillage of the Southern states. He also brought about reconciliation and healing by pardoning Confederate soldiers, much like Carter when he pardoned the conscientious objectors to Vietnam.

Revisionist history is revisionist.

Bush's Legacy May End Up Better Than You Think:

Anybody remember the long and bloody occupation of the Philippines? What president started that? I'll bet Filipinos know.

Even if Iraq turns into a wonderland where their future prime minister has a shoe fetish, Bush is a narrative of screw ups.

"Ending up better" in this context means quietly marginalized -- as to not remind Americans we do screw up badly sometimes -- relegated to college level history lessons -- where they can't up stage our cherry-tree-chopppin'-can-not-tell-a-lie-born-in-a-log-cabin mythology that permeates our formative years.

Ender's: Yeah, and maybe the Detroit Lions don't suck this season.

OH ICE BURN!!!

Yeah give it up guys, he's the lamest of ducks and no amount of historical edits can change that fact. (See: Everything he's doing on his way out of office)

Nope. No objectivity from the liberal machine that is Fark.

Now there's a shocker.

I'm looking forward to see how history treats the crook you just elected.

So he didnt create the iceberg he just steered at it, nice.

Milkbeer: Well, considering he inherited a recession, a huge chain of corporate scandels, the dot.com bust, and was attacked on the most devestating blow on United States soil in history, barney frank........

I must say, democrats are really just cavalier about going full retard.

Yes. Nothing was Bush's fault, you damn dirty libs. Get a brain! People like Milkbeer have been telling us for 8 years that everything that's happening now is happening because of what Clinton did in the 90s!

Does that mean if bad things happen during Obama's presidency they're all Bush's fault, or if he manages the recession he has inherited, the huge chain of corporate scandals, the housing bust, and (god forbid) a terrorist attack well that it was only because Bush set the good karma in motion?

Nice try simple Jack.

George W. Bush presided over the beginning of the end of the American Empire

He pulled the handle that started the toilet flushing.

George Bush and Cheney,Inc. are traitors. and most of his Cabinet are traitors too.

have a nice day!

qorkfiend: It's almost as if you Republicans think that if you say it over and over and over again, it'll come true.

Irving Kristol

"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.

purple helmet: Nope. No objectivity from the liberal machine that is Fark.

Now there's a shocker.

I'm looking forward to see how history treats the crook you just elected.

ROTFLMAO

0/10

purple helmet: Nope. No objectivity from the liberal machine that is Fark.

Now there's a shocker.

I'm looking forward to see how history treats the crook you just elected.

What color is the sky in your twisted reality?... it's blue here.

did you expect the spin machine to all of a sudden stop?

/and there are wmds in iraq

petcat2469: Andrew Johnson: One of only two Presidents to ever be impeached. He was a white supremacist who sided with the old Confederate leadership after Lincoln's assassination in an attempt to torpedo the racial reconciliation of Reconstruction after the Civil War.

Shenanigans! Johnson tempered the Reconstruction, preventing the wholesale rape and pillage of the Southern states. He also brought about reconciliation and healing by pardoning Confederate soldiers, much like Carter when he pardoned the conscientious objectors to Vietnam.

Revisionist history is revisionist.

Bah. After living in the south I am of the firm oppinion that the worst thing that could have happened did. Integration should have been compulsory and strictly enforced. The BS that occured for the one hundred fifty years following the civil war could have been avoided. As it is many of these people are some of the most backwards and racist that I have ever known.

nah, his great great great great great great great grandaddy franklin pierce was probably just as bad as him, only he is the only president to not get his parties nomination for a second term.

as bad as bush was, he had/has powerful backers. i think his actions were careful, deliberate, and calculated. the idea that bush is stupid is exactly what was needed in order to enact such a radical agenda. after all, thinking back 8 years, who would have thought such an obvious dumbass could get so much of his agenda accomplished?

Bush will become a shining example of the idiocy of the American people during the panic of a declining empire.

Milkbeer: Well, considering he inherited a recession, a huge chain of corporate scandels, the dot.com bust, and was attacked on the most devestating blow on United States soil in history, barney frank........

I must say, democrats are really just cavalier about going full retard.

A victim of circumstance -- the true path to glory. This is part of Bush's problem too. Half of his time in office is complaining about how someone or something is out to get him.

Republicans have painted themselves as resentful victims for so long, they forgot to govern.

Sarah Palin likes this strategy too. Good luck with that.

William Henry Harrison