Failed Presidency Talk Draws White House Shrugs
There's been a huge outpouring of reaction to the report in my last column about historians' rock-bottom assessment of President Bush. The piece sparked a lively conversation on usnews.com. For example, one reader wrote, "Considering the shape the country is in right now, only someone with their head buried deep in the sand would be proud of anything that President Bush has done." On the other side, another poster said, "I support Bush. No terrorist plane flying episodes since 9/11."
What caused the ruckus was a poll of 109 professional historians conducted by History News Network in which 98 percent judged Bush's presidency a failure and 2 percent classified it a success. I asked White House Press Secretary Dana Perino what Bush made of it all. "He believes it takes a very long time for a president to be judged fairly," she says. "He believes he will be dead when that happens." And future historians will have their say.
Reader Comments
Bush's failed presidency
On what would he be judged positively?
No attacks since 9-11? Big deal. There were no attacks between 1993 and 2001; that's also 8 years. He has already criticized the Clinton presidency for not doing enough to combat terrorism, but in an equal amount of time, he's done only the same - failed to catch Bin Laden. At least Clinton did it without spying on American citizens, starting and bungling an illegal war, and using torture as SOP. What a hypocrite, a laughingstock, and all who voted for him should be ashamed.
A failed presidency
I agree, Bush is a totaly failed president. Yes worse than Jimmy Carter. Carter was just weak and incompetant, but his heart was in the right place. Bush is to put it plain, a criminal, and would love to see him tried in an Internation tribunal for crimes against humanity violating borders of soveign nations to start with. He is an enemy of the constitution. I guess one explanation is that his brain is feeling the after affects of being soaked in booze for so many years.
Well at least regime change is coming, and to that I say Adieu to Mr Bush, the most miserable cretin to walk the earth.
The Failed Presidency of G. W. Bush
As a deaf lover of History where I had majored in this very subject
for my B. A. degree from Gallaudet University ( deaf liberal college in Washington, D. C.), I have looked at and read many articles about this President , G. W. Bush.
I have decided that, because of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars to the
Enron Mess to the now simmering , hot issue of the " Economical
Bail - out " Plan today, all these different crises along during the awful eight years of his Presidency , WILL RANK him as the LOWEST and LEAST successful President in Modern American History, period. I think America made a mistake in electing this guy to run this country; he put his head in the sand like an ostrich, cried "wolf" about the M W D business in Iraq only to find " dud " missiles without the required chemistry or bio-weaponry; had spent wasted billions of dollars for these two wars continuing now against terrorism which are a pretty vague plan to begin with the
in - famous hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Oh by the way, where the hell is Osama Bin Laden ! ?
George W. Bush will rank on the bottom of the totem pole where
his name will be ONLY above the name of the Civil War ex - general
Ulysses S. Grant. Both these men have received the grade of an " F "
because they did not how to run the business of this country and
had depended on the advices of so many lousy advisers who knew
nothing of what they were talking about the economics. These policies of economics were failures. No wonder many greedy bankers
had practiced many bad business ethics; and therefore, are responsible for the horrible Enron and Wall Street messes.
No wonder the American people ARE suffering now where there are
not enough money LEFT to support the Social Security program, to
support the elderly and disabled people, and to support the
hard working class of Americans on the farms and factories.
Too many jobs are being out-sourced in foreign countries, instead of
creating American jobs HERE ! Plus the issue of the immigrant aliens
are creating economic difficulties because they are using OUR
support systems where WE DO really need them ! IF I were President,
I would have put back on the traditional economic American policies
with good American nonsensical and really good common sense and
really good business ethics ! ! That is why President Bush is really
a failure !
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