Is there a worse president than Bush jr. in american history?

Question

and I'm speaking in terms of :

a) war planning and spending, success (or lack thereof, in any case)

b) domestic infrastructure. Jobs, middle class, health issues like abortion and medical research

c) foreign relations

d) internal corruption

e) IQ

Answer 1

No.

Only the truly deluded cannot see it.

But they will get their reward, in heaven, from the Easter Bunny and Elvis.

Answer 2

a) Kennedy gave us Vietnam - I'd say his planning was worse.

b) Hoover gave us the Depression, while Carter gave us the misery index (not to mention the fact that Carter revealed to Iranians that terrorism is an effective method against the US). Abortion is not a health issue so I'll disregard that. As far as medical research, that is done in the private sector and driven by our capitalist system...has nothing to do with the exectutive branch..

c) Again Carter gave the world the impression that the US was a weak nation.

d) I'm not sure what GW's IQ is; but, I do know that he has a Bachelors and a Masters from Yale and Havard, respectively. Therefore I assume his IQ is high (despite all of the propaganda that you have fallen victim to)

Answer 3

He is definitely the worst in our lifetimes. I'm sure there's a brain in his head somewhere, so I wouldn't say yes to the IQ part, as high intelligence is no guarantee of doing well in politics anyway, but he is the worst because he's an entirely deluded narcissist who hasn't the least perspective on the damage he's done to the country. I don't care about conservative, liberal, republican, democrat or any allegiances people have that too often cause the cessation of thought in deference to dogma: his actions speak for themselves.

Each of us must choose to do the right thing by other people by using our native intelligence and attempting to be as consistent as possible. Take, for example, one of his many hypocrisies: he claims to be pro-life, but is responsible for thousands of deaths to American servicemen, Iraqi civilians, and executions in Texas as governor.

Nor am I suggesting that any of these things is wrong in itself, only that it's brazenly inconsistent with his stated principles.

War should be a last resort. Afghanistan is a just war because we were hunting those responsible for an act of war against us. Iraq is not a just war because there was no valid, immediate reason to violate the sovereignty of another country, for reasons we're all familiar with now.

As a former Marine, honorably discharged, I find his evasion or soft-time of military service and his presumption that he's qualified to be commander in chief to be offensive. Other recent presidents haven't had military experience, and that was fine because none of them were warmongers like this one. This president has squandered all of the international good will and national solidarity we'd suddenly acquired after 9-11. This was unfortunate political capital that could have been used to continue a serious hunt for terrorist operatives, further humanitarian missions, improve trade imbalances, and more. He deserves to be reviled by all thoughtful and compassionate people.

Answer 4

Will taken one at a time.

A) Lack of spending falls on Kerry's and other liberal Senators and Congress men who refuse to pass war spending bills or just delay them, either way, how is it Bush's fault?

B) 4.5% unemployment is awesome! Clinton had the same 4.5 at this point of his presendency, no libs complained then, why now is it not good enough? This is called hypocracy! Healthcare.. well, the Dems talked about doing something but never did. It Was Bush that passed a presciption drug coverage and though against it, funded embryotic cell research. Abortion? WTF are you talking about? I don't remember Dems supporting to end it.

c) Foreign relations- are you one of those who feels we should have gotten approval from the UN to defend our country? Why do you care what everyone else thinks? France and Germany sold us out of the "Oil for food" program with Sadam. Who are you worried about?

D) Internal corruption- Explain.. Much less than the previous occupier of the oval office.

E) IQ- Every Republican in history is accused of having a low IQ by libs. Even though Bush has a higher GPA then Kerry and Gore. Granted, he isn't the most elequint speaker, but thats no idication of intellect. If so, Liberal Barney Frank would be considered retarted!

The worst in History? probably Carter or Clinton who was impeached!

Answer 5

Basing your answer on the statements provided: Nixon was obviously worse on the war planning and spending. If our infrastructure has outlived is usefulness (40 year mark power) why on earth would it be a presidents fault, ever hear of free enterprise? Jobs, middle class and health issues should be address by your local representatives.... They have failed! What executive office structure doesn't have internal corruption, again Nixon was probably the worse... Probably because he got caught.
IQ says much about your understanding of government and who is responsible. Remember, the next time you vote both major parties got us where we are.

Answer 6

This is not the place to ask that question there are too many dumbasses who support bush for you to ask that question. Our lifetime the answer is yes but Andrew Johnson was a very bad president as well on the following issues you listed. I am sure there are at least a dozen of stupid answers above mine like Bush rules and liberals suck. This site is a crappy place to talk politics.

Answer 7

Carter comes to mind.

A) Desert One. If that isn't a classical case of military failure, I don't know what is.

B) Domestic? Gas price controls? Welfare starting to grow at an exponential rate?

C) While he did get Egypt and Israel together, he did squat towards the Soviet Union. Remember the Iran hostages?

D) Carter's administration had just as much corruption as Bush's...that is to say, as much as any president's administration.

E) IQ? Any president that would come out and say "I have lusted in my heart" to the nation doesn't strike me as particularly friggin' bright.

Answer 8

Bush certainly takes the cake. But the stupidity should be shared by the people that voted for him. Others have been as bad, but were not as blatant about it.

Answer 9

He's been pretty damn incompetent...almost as bad as that lying sack of sh*t who preceded him.

He's only done two things well, in my opinion:

1. He cut taxes...personally, I don't think anyone should ever have to pay more than 25%.

2. He appointed two good justices to the Supreme Court...judges who will rule based on what the law clearly SAYS, and not on what some WISH it said.

Other than that, he's been pretty miserable. Defended Rumsfeld's incompetent bungling of both Afghanistan and Iraq...and tried to sell the country out with that damn immigration charade.

You have to lump him in with people like Carter, Nixon, and Clinton as far as worst Presidents go.

Answer 10

Why yes! Yes there was! You may remember him as slick Willy! Here's why I believe so:

a) Lack of planning for the coming war, lack of understanding of the entire terrorist threat, lack of action when all the heavy hitters of the terrorist world, Bin Laden namely, were exposed and still preparing for war, the best way to defeat an enemy is to hit them before they hit you, and yes, the intelligence was there to support it, ask Ollie North. Lack of spine to follow through when steps were taken to curtail genocide in Africa, he had ample support, strength, and allies to rid Somalia once and for all of a vast majority of the areas terrorists and stablize the area, now it's fallen into the laps of the Ethiopians who could really use our help. Lack of action in Venezuala before Hugo Chavez had a chance to get voted in because the Clinton crew chose the path of least resistance rather than stepping up and doing what was right by helping the Venezualen people. Bill Clinton's foreign policy was one of the most cowardly and dismal failures of all time due to pure inaction and fear, fear that a firm stance might be unpopular with some of the more spineless voters in this once great country. Turning a blind eye was the same as signing the death warrent for all the thousands who died on 9/11 and all the soldiers dying in the middle east now. You want to talk about internal corruption? Well Willie had that in spades! Everything from Hillary shredding documents that could have implicated them in numerous crimes to the highly dubious "suicide" of Vince Foster. Lack of ethics demonstrated by his constant and on going sexual escapades that stripped the presidential office of any creditility and only succeeded in impressing Hue Hefner.
b) Bill Clinton was impeached, yes, impeached. Not even Richard Nixon stuck around after he was impeached. He knew his credibility was shot and staying would only cause further harm to the office. Not 'ol Bill! Heck, he hung out longer than uninvited relatives and became just as annoying with all his "plausible deniability". He even had a staff that was to "manage" all the bad press he got everytime he failed to keep it in his pants!
c) Bill Clinton opened the doors of Americas nuclear secrets to the Chinese, the North Koreans, and to Iran. Several instances of questionable government personnel being allowed access to secret facilities and documents that suddenly popped up in, later to be, not so friendly countries.
d) Bill Clinton is highly intelligent, to be sure, but that isn't always a good thing. Common sense is a wonderful quality that is sorely lacking in government, Bill had little. Case in point; Bill was so busted when he decided to play hide the cigar with Monica, yet he continued to deny it. If he would have used some common sense he would have admitted his transgression begged for forgiveness from all involved including the American people, hell, he works for us, we pay his wages, he owed all of us that! Yet when it came, it was full of psudo denials and so forths. Not very convincing. I will follow a leader that has more common sense and strong character beliefs way before I follow a highly intelligent person who lacks either of the previous qualities. Einstein was extremely intelligent, his leadership qualities were horrific though.
All in all, I believe GW Bush is doing what he feels is best, he refuses to back down from a fight, he's doing what he told all of us was going to do, he warned us that Iraq could last quite some time, just because a persons does what he says and sticks with it, doesn't make him less intelligent just because the fickle public's views that have been slowly side tracked by the media have changed. His mission from the start was to fight terrorism non stop until it was not a threat and then finish it off. He is attempting it. His methods may be questionable but it's not like anyone but the Isrealis have any real experience at fighting this kind of enemy. Besides, our military has been so infiltrated by non warriors who have wormed their way into the highest ranks for pure prestige and power, it has effected it's ability to fight. We have the warriors, we have the equipment, we have the means, we just lack the leadership that is needed. We should have been preparing for this fight,which is a fight for our very existense whether you believe it or not, years ago.

Answer 11

James Buchanan, Jimmy Carter, Warren Harding, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce. Open a damn history book.