Poll: The Final Verdict on George W. Bush?s Presidency?

cobra_ky

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Mr Scott said:
ffxfriek said:
Id say bush did fairly well. Yes we have the credit crunch BUT! there havent been any terrorist attacks in america in 7 years...look at the good stuff common all
I couldn't recall the last "terrorist attack" before that however. School massacres and American bombers not withstanding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_Bombing

8 years before 9/11. and now it's been almost 8 years since.

as time passes, i'm sure we'll hear about any terrorist plots that would have occured if not for the bush administration's security policy. failing that, i think i was happier having my right to privacy.
 

Lord Beautiful

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DrunkenKitty said:
-Zen- said:
I had no idea that the only way to measure an economy's success was by national debt.
I never implied that.

I was about to explain why Bush did not "have good intentions" to you until I realized you were 9 years old when Bush was elected. Instead, I'll leave you with a quote:

An Evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland. -Adolf Hitler
(A good friend of Bush's dear ol' Nazi-loving grandfather, Prescott Bush.)

Does that sound familiar to anyone else?
Interesting, because Hitler came to his people in time of need to promote hope and change, not to mention that he was very socialistic and believed the government should provide aid to its citizens, that health care should be socialized and every man should be guarunteed a job by the government. Does that sound familiar?
 
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." ?Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
 

Arsen

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Anyone who thinks he is the worst president in US History needs to read instead of complaining about their "job outlook". Andrew Jackson did horrific things to the Native Americans, Grant was a drunkard who never got anything, Carter...didn't do anything.

There are PLENTY of other presidents that qualify as the "worst". Just because you generalize his entire presidency and jump on the whole "Weapons of Mass Destruction" argument without acknowledging that we have found hundreds of thousands of weapons caches...then that is just either naive or stupid.

Ask someone in the US military to gain a fairly accurate view of his work and good deeds.
 

Daymo

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Bush seemed like a nice person, he's just not the person that should lead a country. I said that he was overtaken by events. Bush would have been fine if he didn't need to do anything big but 9/11 and hurricane Katrina required action, and he proved that he wasn't quite capable of chosing the right one.
 

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I don't think he will be remembered by History. Iraq and Afganistan are just bushfire wars. In 100 years time, nobody would know who Bush is. How many people even knows who the American president was in 1914?
 

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DrunkenKitty said:
Infiniteloop said:
Unfortunately the sitting President gets blamed for everything even if his policies did not directly cause the event or situation. It tickles me when people say W. caused the financial crisis.

By and large, he was a pretty good President. At least if he said he was going to do something, he'd do it. I really don't have any complaints. For everyone bitching about big business, that isn't new. It has been and will continue to be around for a long time. One can only negotiate from a position of power. Remember that.
I apologize. I didn't realize you lived in Texas. I thought you were ignorant and delusional. Now I see you're just typical.
Where I am currently living has no bearing on my thought process. You have been reported for trolling.

I haven't lived anywhere longer then 3 years as part of a military family. I disagree with you on W's presidency. I fail to see how that gives you free reign for an unjustifiable attack that is unsubstantial.

goodman528 said:
I don't think he will be remembered by History. Iraq and Afganistan are just bushfire wars. In 100 years time, nobody would know who Bush is. How many people even knows who the American president was in 1914?
Woodrow Wilson. Everyone should know all of the Presidents.
 

WeedWorm

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He's another Lyndon Johnson. He had all there great ideas and whatnot, then 9/11 happened and the war went badly. If the war had gone the other way, he might have been remembered as a great President.
 

L.B. Jeffries

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He pretty much destroyed the constitution by claiming more powers than the Executive Branch should ever have. That's worse than Harding's corruption, that's destroying the very foundation of the country.
 

anti_strunt

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Other than "Other" (har), the least picked option is currently "Average". Bush certainly seems to inspire emotion, whether positive or negative...

So, who voted for "Other"?
 

Midnghtjade83

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Bush, to me, always seemed like a deer caught in headlights. He took office to a peaceful nation with a HUGE surplus. He struck me as the kind of guy that had coasted through school and life on the back of money. Then he actually had to DO STUFF. Well crap, no one told him being POTUS might involve work. Or make decisions. Or reading teleprompters.

So my vote is that he will go down in history, but for all the wrong reasons.

See kids, this is why we don't really want "one of the boys" to lead the country. Shit that sounds good when we're drinking doesn't work so well actually.
 

anti_strunt

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kdragon1010 said:
and I didn't pick an option
To quote the Gubernator: DO IT! DO IT NAU!
I need more input if this poll is to be scientifically valid. :(
(Yes, this poll is totally scientific.)

Trivun said:
anti_strunt said:
Well, I'm not actually American; I'm Swedish. However, I do believe the past century has been largely shaped by America, for good or ill. If you think the assumtions behind that particular option are flawed, you can always pick another one.
Fair enough, I just feel that Americans are very arrogant with the way they talk about their own nation (no offence to Americans, I went to Florida last year and found everyone there to be extremely pleasant people). That said, I'm not disputing the fact that America largely shaped the world in the past century, as that is undeniably true. I'm just disputing the fact that America is the greatest country in the world, which it obviously isn't. Other countries can be seen as greater, even if they weren't more influencial. Plus America did intefere a lot with other countries, for example the Iraq invasion (which I agreed with only to stop Saddam, after that UK and US forces should have left), and the Vietnam War.
So you voted...? (Yes, I have a one-track mind, sorry...)
 
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Midnghtjade83 said:
Bush, to me, always seemed like a deer caught in headlights. He took office to a peaceful nation with a HUGE surplus. He struck me as the kind of guy that had coasted through school and life on the back of money. Then he actually had to DO STUFF. Well crap, no one told him being POTUS might involve work. Or make decisions. Or reading teleprompters.

So my vote is that he will go down in history, but for all the wrong reasons.

See kids, this is why we don't really want "one of the boys" to lead the country. Shit that sounds good when we're drinking doesn't work so well actually.
Nailed it.
 

MiketheBassMan

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steeltrain said:
Not a lot of presidents came into a situation as bad as Bush Jr did. All things considered, I think he did all right.

Blame the democrats for his 2nd term. John Kerry, really?
He got a second term for the same reason Lincoln got a second term. "Don't change horses in the middle of a stream."
 

cuddly_tomato

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Midnghtjade83 said:
Bush, to me, always seemed like a deer caught in headlights. He took office to a peaceful nation with a HUGE surplus. He struck me as the kind of guy that had coasted through school and life on the back of money. Then he actually had to DO STUFF. Well crap, no one told him being POTUS might involve work. Or make decisions. Or reading teleprompters.

So my vote is that he will go down in history, but for all the wrong reasons.

See kids, this is why we don't really want "one of the boys" to lead the country. Shit that sounds good when we're drinking doesn't work so well actually.
I agree.

I think he has been a terrible president, one of the worst, but I don't think there was any intended malice or malignancy on his part (some of his sub-ordinates are another matter). I rather think this was a pretty much ordinary man given an extra-ordinary job and then completely fucking everything up. Let's face it - Bush would be out of his depth in a babies potty. Taking on leadership of the United States was waaaaaaay too much for him to handle.
 

Trivun

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To be honest, I actually voted 'worst president in US history' because of not knowing anything about US history before 1900, I only know of Richard Nixon being a worse president, and since he resigned and was an all-round bastard I decided not to count him. You guys are actually lucky, apart from Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher all of our Prime Ministers have been pretty much crap since the early 1900's.
 

Trivun

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Vice Presidents on the other hand, Dick Cheney seemed like an absolute COCK! 'Oh, sorry I thought you were a deer' cracked me up when I first heard about it. Family Guy had it right...

P.S. Sorry to double-post...
 

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Wouldukindly said:
fluffylandmine said:
ChristmasChild said:
He is one of the few presidents who was not a complete slimeball. He had values, principles, and intelligence. He was a victim of circumstance.
Sad how you could get in trouble where I live if you were to utter that.

Wouldukindly said:
I don't even think he's nuke the country, he'd just challenge the leader to a duel...in a couple weeks Sarkozy, Brown, and Harper would be gone for looking at him funny...
I'm positive that would make him popular with Canada, UK, and Russia.
Sarkozy is leader of France, did he do something to upset Russia? And maybe I should have put Dmitry Medvedev on my list...
I read it wrong, I was diving off a cafine high and my eyes were blurry at that point. My fault.