Will George W. Bush end up being a TOP 5 President?

Question

1. Lincoln - Kept the country together/ Freed the Slaves.

2. Washington - Could have been King. Chose Democracy

3. Reagan – The Great Communicator Brought the Soviet Union to it's knees. Created 20 million new jobs.

4. Teddy Roosevelt - the first real free trader and environmentalist.

5. GWB – The Great Liberator Kept America safe from Terrorists Attacks after 9/11. Liberated 50 million hopeless Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq (Soon to be Iran). Brought Honor & Dignity back to the White House. Unemployment a VERY low 4.5%


Bottom 5

1. Woodrow Wilson - WWI was a horrible choice.

2. Andrew Johnson - Impeached

3. Carter – ONE TERMER unlike GWB. Soviets marching everywhere, hostages being taken, long gas lines, high interest rates and unemployment. Basically the worst parts of the Bible.

4. Clinton – The Great Fornicator Brought a 19 year old Chubby Intern to her knees, lied about it and was IMPEACHED. Then he was disbarred.

5. Millard Fillmore

FDR - Gave us the Nanny State. This is Bad

Nixon - Opened up China and was strong on Civil Rights.

Answer 1

Like harry Truman, W will be long gone before people realize that he did a good job on most of what he did. I still have a problem with the Ramos/Compeone/Fernandez thing and the way W screwed the pooch on the borders, but other than that, I think he's been good for the Country.

Answer 2

Holy Moses. You're serious, aren't you?

You're a joke, and a paid person from a PAC. I'm going to believe anything you say?

That's a hoot.

Is it just me, or are your Top 5 all Republicans and your Bottom 5 all Democrats? What are the odds of that if you were truly being objective? You're obviously not, but I just thought I would point that out.

How's about some rebuttal, dimwit?

1. Lincoln - politically interested in keeping the Union together by any means necessary. Slave freedom was an afterthought and not even one of his rationales for the Civil War.

2. Washington? Should be #1 in any poll, but that's just because he was a decent honorable man. He was, however, a lousy military leader. It was Franklin that won the Revolutionary War.

3. Reagan: narcoleptic pinhead. Posterboy for the Moral Majority. Bankrupted the nation trying to overproduce a country militarily that would have collapsed on it's own a few years after it did anyway. Closed down mental hospitals and has the worst record of removing social programs that helped underpriveleged people so that he could create this military behemoth. One of the worst presidents in history.

4. TR: I actually liked him for some things, particularly the way he stomped the railroad and oil barons and brought in the first series of anti-monopoly legislations. Free markets, indeed.

5. GWB? You need medication. He's a complete moron. Failed every business venture he ever had. Bailed out constantly by his dad. Never accomplished anything on his own. You can call that a leader, but I would call it a Presider. My 2 year old niece can do that. Ignored the true threat to the US by invading a country that didn't need invading in order to secure it's natural resources for our own uses by force. Free market, INDEED.

Your bottom 5? Also laughable.

1. WW? He sucked for sure, especially the way he allowed the government troops to be used against unions. He was the forerunner of the UN, though, and that was pretty forward thinking.

2. Andrew Johnson? He was better than GWB.

3. Carter? Say what you want about the man, but he was the one who created the idea that human rights was important in geopolitical terms and NO other President had ever done that. Not to mention he brought back some intelligence and decency to the Oval Office. We haven't had much since.

4. Clinton? Presided over the best economic growth this nation has ever seen. He was impeached but found not guilty of all charges. HAHAHAHAHA. Nixon avoided it by leaving. If the nation wasn't as right wing as it is now, this President would already have BEEN impeached, and you know it.

5. Fillmore? Who cares?

Answer 3

Comments on your choices:
I would replace GWB with James Monroe, as he was the only President in history who was so popular that the opposition party basically fell apart at the seams, and unlike the Whigs who evolved into the G.O.P., spawned no successor party. The other four are pretty good choices.
As far as the worst Wilson is a good choice for the worst. He was basically responsible for implementing policies that led to most of the problems this country faced in the 20th century including the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan (he was quoted 5 times in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation). He was the one who started the trend that the left hypocritically complains about Bush doing, IE centralizing federal power in the executive branch. Clinton was not that bad a President. He had a far more conservative record on domestic spending than GWB did. I'd move Carter into the number 2 spot and remove Andrew Johnson from this list. Johnson never really had a chance as President, as he faced a Congress that was openly hostile to him from day one, very much like the left's irrational hatred of GWB. James Buchanan would take the number 3 spot. The number 4 spot goes to the current President's father, who just didn't get the values thing, was too close to the worst parts of the Washington establishment. Because of his total lack of understanding of what Reagan was all about, he almost blew Reagan's legacy Clinton actually did a better job of keeping Reagan's legacy alive than GHW Bush did.
As for satar032, you are the one who needs to read the history book. Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House, like Clinton, and like Clinton he was not convicted (it failed by one vote and the Senator who cast that vote was defeated for re-election that same year)

Answer 4

Oh, you ASSURE us. Great, let's take your word for it. Well, if we're going to have an intellectual discussion on unfounded assurances, let me say this. I assure you that the President has not committed an impeachable offense. Do you think that the raving, Bush-hating, mouth-foaming liberals in Congress would not bang the drums incessantly for impeachment if they had even one tiny hint of an impeachable action?! There is no impeachable offense because the President used military action against Iraq only after over a dozen U.N. resolutions that said disarm or face consequences. Eventually, you gotta face the consequences. As to WMD, the President relied on a myriad of intelligence. If the intelligence was faulty, that's not a lie and that's not an impeachable offense. And not finding the WMD doesn't mean they didn't exist. If I can't find my car keys, does that mean they never existed? So, would you like to detail all the evidences that you assured us of?

Answer 5

If you support changing the US into a fascist corporate dictatorship like the whole Bush family has been intent on since Prescott Bush then i suppose the answer is yes.
Your only problem then is how long will it take for the likes of you to be driven into poverty and slave labour. If you are part of the top 1% earners (which i doubt you are if you are posting questions on here) then it Will take a few years yet, but i suspect you are more likely to be an ill-informed brainwashed from birth bigoted false christian minion who thinks it is best that you spend your time listening to the likes of Ann Coulter and parroting the talking points of the extreme right. Make hay while you can because it is more than likely you will have very very bad afterlife and a deserved one at that.

Answer 6

Realistically, probably not. By the time the GWB administration can objectively be assessed (75-100 years from now), we will have 50-60 former presidents.

And honestly, GWB's last two years of being unable to keep the Republicans together and get his agenda moving will take him out of the top 10%.

And, personally, he's a jerk.

Answer 7

Actually, for his administration being so secretive about possible corruption and his disregard for law and the Constitution, he will go down as one of the worst president's ever. He has raised the national deficit to a level never seen in American history where your kids and grandkids are going to have to suffer for it. The Iraq war has become simply a quagmire, with no progress being made. No one knows the definition of victory to this day. Do you find these characteristics of success? I think you need to re-evaluate your standards. Plus how can a President have an approval rating of 27%-30% and be considered one of the greatest. Your logic is flawed.

Answer 8

Please pick up a history book and read it! Andrew Johnson, was NOT impeached! And for GW Bush to be regarded as one of the top (5) there would have to be a NEW category created. he is not one to listen to anyone but that pal Dick Cheney. Neither has anything to lose by fighting a war. Time will show how wrong they were. But they will never admit anything.

Answer 9

Of course.
Top 6: Richard Nixon. Helped by McArthy he stopped arising comunism in USA

Answer 10

FDR .. only one elected to four terms

Kennedy is widely regarded as he most popular of all time.. not that popularity alone should be considered greatness

Clinton- Too soon to say for sure.. but it looks like History will remember him favorably.

Bush jr. - Way too soon to say for sure.. all I can say is that it doesn't look good now.

Answer 11

your top 5/bottom 5 is completely subjective

so yes, no matter what happens, he will probably be on both top and bottom 5 lists in the future

and it will be of no importance, just like your ranking

by the way, there is a glaring absence of Nixon on your bottom 5 list, what does this say about you?