Do you think Historians will view Bush as one of the greatest American Presidents?

Question

In terms of Bush's place in history, I think he'll be remembered along the greatest leaders such as Washington, Jefferson, Reagan, & a fellow Republican by the name of Abraham Lincoln. Now, it's impossible for me to list ALL Bush accomplishments with such a short amount of space, but I'll list a few.

1) Bush has reestablished Christian Values in the White House, & America at large (Lord knows we needed it after the Clinton administration).

2) Bush has made us safe from terrorists through his audacious military efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

3) Bush has continuously fought for Middle Class Americans by cutting taxes. A move that also saved the Economy!

4) Bush has raised educational standards for our kids by starting the "no child left behind" program.

I can go on and on with Bush's accomplishments. But there are too many of them to mention because he's one of the greatest leaders America has ever had. My opinion anyway.

What is your opinion? Do you agree?

Answer 1

I don't see him being listed as one of the greatest, but he's somewhere in the top third of the list. I do believe he will be noted for his conscience and doing what he thought was right, not just following the pack.

While bashed for not having a domestic agenda he deserves credit for the economy not going into the toilet. Sure debt is up, but it beats a recession or even a depression. The debt can be addressed when the economy recovers. Keeping people in their houses and in jobs is the priority and it is working.

Answer 2

AGREE!!!!!!! You forgot to mention he hit the ground running. He was not president for a year when he had a crisis to deal with. A major crisis.People may stand and condemn but would they have had the backbone to stand. The worst of the whole thing he doesn't even have the support of the people that he tries to protect. I wonder if these same people would have been happier if he would have done nothing. I wonder if they would have been happier if he would have cowered in the White House and let the terror attacks continue. This seems to be the case since President Clinton did this very thing when the explosives was detonated in the world trade center the first time. Maybe by now we could all be studying Arabic and the Koran. Atheists and Christians could have been beheaded together. Sound like fun.

Answer 3

Absolutely not.
1) Christian Values in the white house means going to war unprovoked?
2) America isn't any safer today than it was September 10, 2001.
3) Tax cuts have not helped the middle class, they have only made the rich richer.
4) No child left behind is the worst educational policy ever implemented in American history.

Also Lincoln was a Republican from the old Republican party which was quite different than the current one.

Answer 4

Bush made us safe from terrorists? Well, maybe if you don't count that big hole where the World Trade Center used to be.

Bush is an idiot. He's been a worthless loser all his life. If he hadn't had a famous daddy to help him out, he'd be asking "do you want fries with that?" in the Crawford McDonald's.

And by the way - President Clinton CAUGHT the people who bombed the WTC on HIS watch and put them in the slammer. I also love that the moron who praises Bush for "hitting the ground running" because he'd been President for less than a year totally ignores the fact that Clinton had been in office just over a month when the WTC was bombed in 1993.

Answer 5

I don't think he will be remembered as one of the greatest (in the same company as Washington and Lincoln) but he will be remembered favorably (perhaps in the same company as Reagan)...

Our economy is plodding upward.
Pres. Bush stood up to the terrorists with military might.

These two things alone should be enough. No one will remember the "no child left behind" program in 50 years. How many children has it helped nationally?

There is still a lot of time left for this administration. If Bush fumbles (like Carter did), he will be remembered for having the lowest approval rating of any modern president and for failing to affect any groundbreaking domestic policy, despite having control of both houses of Congress. Let's hope this doesn't happen.

I'm a lifelong Republican, and I voted for him both times.

Answer 6

sure see only the positive. if u had actually living in thsi world u would see that is is one of the worst things that has happened to the states. let me list

1) he sent troops to the middle east because of 911 which was caused by bin ladin and guess what oops he caught saddan instead and where is bin laden now?

2) too many americans have dies for a useless cause in the middle east and too many innocent ppl too. i dont know how any one can support that

3) the states has a problem with education although every child can go to school , school r not equipt or not enough teachers for the kids. the school buildings r in a bad condition. if u dont believe me log on to oprah.com. she did a hour on this same issue

4) he has funded a war which we dont need because of which oil prices have gone up and the middle class is the one suffering

shall i go on abt katrina and the support and money he sent there ( which was almost nothing compared to what he is spending in the war)

Answer 7

ur so clueless. ur only looking at the surface of those topics. 1 there should be a seperation between church and state. what about all the ppl like me that arent religious and have to follow all that bs. of course u dont care cuz its not u. 2 even though bush clearly knew of the terrorist attacks way before they happened he didnt do anything. so u can say that he waited too long and allowed u.s. citizens to be killed. also afghanistan and iraq were pointless. thousands and thousands of civilians being killed for no good reason. 4 everybody knows no child left behind is horrible. ask any teacher. some kids just dont want to learn no matter what even after there parents and teachers talk to them. but guess who gets punished? the teacher. standardized state tests have put prepping for the test ahead of learning other subjects. trust me on that one. 5 r u an idiot? id have to say yesss!

Answer 8

I would have to disagree my thoughts on #2 is that he has been the one that has established the whole terror problems to begin with prior to getting into the white house. Don’t you think that it’s weird that his father’s partners are the bin-laden family in the oil market? As well in question #3 he has lowered interest rates yes. But in turn what has happened for example is that people then take out mortgage's and then act as if they have money therefore buying auto’s, going out and so forth. What happens is when this administration leaves and the real-estate market goes back down which it has already begun. No house's will sell therefore if someone lose's there job they will have to sell there house but now they can’t because interest rates have gone back up and the homes don’t sell because no one has money.
So that market is shot, as far as oil the prices are so high because again the president’s family owns a huge market of oil. Do they own stake in the oil being sold no. But there friends in the oil business that do give them a nice chunk behind closed doors Just like the Enron company president that bush was friends with. Bush gave him all the contracts while the president was governor in Texas. Who do you think got a huge stake in that deal while Enron was huge?
As far as the education value it sucks. I work as a therapist and see children all the time getting passed to higher grades because simply put there is no room to keep them back. Funding is so short that kids no longer are able to bring books home to read at night as we did as children. They have to sign out there books and share with the kids next to them sometimes.
Im sorry if I have gone on to long or rambled a little but im in a hurry,
Will President Bush be one of our greatest remembered leaders? HELL NO. His rating currently is already 22% and that is the seniors that are being rated. The rest of us don’t care for him.
They wanted to impeach Clinton for sleeping around. While we have bush in the Whitehouse now sitting there doing all these things.
Clinton was doing wrong yes but to do what many men do on a daily base please. Get rid of bush and stop the wars of Christianity. If you notice we always take the side of Jerusalem but why not any Muslim countries like Korea, Philippines, China, Iraq, Iran, Afghan, ETC.
Because we want our thoughts and practices to be honored but no one else's but guess what the Muslim religion is bigger than that of ours. And that is what we should worry about.
Impeach Him not Praise him.
LOL let me know your thoughts

Answer 9

Read some history yourself. Watch some other channel than
FOX news.

He won't even be thought of as a good conservative.
(largest debt in this country's history ... ever).

He won't be thought of as good with foreign policy.
OK, Afghanastan I understand. Iraq?

He will thought of as having brought much religious strife
to this country (trying to bring Christianty to a country
that has done as well as it has by NOT promoting one
religion over another).

Cutting taxes for the upper 5% of the population while
the effective income for the majority of the population has
decreased.

Thereby destroying many good social programs while
not effectively cutting any waist in what remains.

He decreased personal liberties without actually increasing
the safety of anyone in this country.

The crime rate is soaring.

Oh yeah, he's a true find.

Answer 10

I have a different perspective. I think Bush took as much power as he could get. Broke laws, used torture, took us in to a wrong war in Iraq, violated our Constitution and will be viewed as a poor president in about the same way Nixon is viewed. ( I happen to like Nixon, at least he was an honest crook)

If we are able to survive this administration and get out of debt again, not wind up in a REAL world war, we will be lucky! Our nation is a very young nation, with no secure future.

Answer 11

If we become a theocracy in the future then, yes, Bush will become the greatest president ever.

Inevitably there has been alot of longterm harm done to this nation through the administrations policies, and I wouldn't be surprised if this nation doesn't exist in a hundred years because of the damage. This is just my opinion.