Is George W. Bush really all that bad or did Bill Clinton just set the bar too high ?

Answer 1

Well, he did launch an unprovoked war on a sovereign country using lies and other deceptions to make his citizens believe that Irak was an imminent threat to the US and that Irak was involved with the 9-11 attacks (both have been proven to be false) Also, there were voices before the war who were warning Bush that there was no proof of weapons of mass destruction eg. the UN chief weapons inspector and a former weapons inspector in Irak named Scott Ritter? There are few, if any, examples of a democracy initiating a savage military attack on a Nation without proven provocation. What Bush did was akin to what dictatorships do when they want to invade another country (they fabricate reasons to justify their actions.) Only history will reveal the humane toll his actions will have inflicted.
So, I'd put G W Bush as somewhere lower than Richard Nixon and far below his father.

Answer 2

Yeah, you may be right. The economy started a downturn during Clinton's last year in office (look up the stats if you doubt it). Then the 9/11 attacks further put the economy into a funk.

In spite of all of that, look at the economy today. It robust everywhere except Michigan. The Bush tax cut stopped a depression from happening and the economy is now growing. Look it up.

I know the standard reply. The deficit is higher than it ever has been. But NOT as a % of GNP. In 1944, the deficit was a whopping 22.7% of GDP. Today, only 2.3% You can look it up. This one will be easy. The website is listed below, find page 30. That 2.3% is only .1% higher than in 1995. Who was President then?

And this is during two armed combat deployments, Iraq and Afghanistan. So really, Bush is doing fine, thank-you very much. The press just doesn't want to report it and people will give this a thumbs down, even though everything I type here has been supported with facts.

Answer 3

Clinton set the bar on the floor, and he still tripped over it several times. if Clinton was so great,worked so hard,cared so much, and set the bar so high, why is there still poverty in the US, and the world? why didn't he give us world peace? he did nothing to help with the aids epidemic,terrorism, or any number of things.
while bush is certainly not of the caliber of Reagan, he is infinitely better than Clinton could have ever hoped to be.

Answer 4

Neither.

Bush will go down as one of the top 12-18 Presidents we've ever had. Not as high as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, Truman, Eisenhower, or Reagan, but a little above his dad, Ford, L.B. Johnson, and Wilson.

Clinton will go down there with Harding, Coolidge, A. Johnson, Grant, Nixon, and Carter.

Answer 5

W is really bad.
Bill wasn't even that good

And with regard to Bill leaving Bush a mess to deal with per an answerer, what do you think Bush will leave the next President and future generations to deal with ( 9Tril$ deficit and a raided social security)

Social Security has sustained the operating budget since 1960s but not like it is now. Most of you are likely younger than I so you can forget collecting from it when you are old.

Good luck to all of you.

Answer 6

You are right. Clinton set the bar way too high.

Too high on immorality and malfeasance.

Clinton has been accused of having more affairs, committing more rapes, participating in more scandals than any other president in the history of the US and his robbing of our military has cost us dearly during this presidency, is costing our troops a lot to this day, along with his lack of action against bin Laden, along with his deferred spending, along with his Monica Lewinsky investigation - which he could have halted voluntarily at any point in time by being (devil forbid) honest.

Duplicity is the highest form of flattery and those are mistakes Bush has not cared to make.

Answer 7

Well I can't really support the idea that Clinton set the bar that high. It just appears that he looked better, because the republican majority opposed him doing the same thing Bush is doing while rubber stamping Bush proposals.

Answer 8

You could win a limbo contest going under any bars that Clinton may have set.

Answer 9

You have seen old Chimpy in his Presidency complete as* out of himself. He wasn't trying to do anything , because if you don't have any common sense, you don't have yourself nothing.
It takes common sense to read, write , spell , tie your shoes , learn how to ride a bike without training wheels., he has none.
Have you seen him lately he looks 25 years older ,his face is red and he dresses at first in that old green shirt with those old brown pants, The other day he had on a navy short sleeve shirt and navy pants. Then yesterday he had on that navy shirt and those old brown polyester pants , both times he had that old black silver bullet belt on with those old dirty boots.
All that money he has or rather money Arabia and Daddy gives him that he could hire valor to dress him , but no a person that has no common sense don't care. he is a complete idiot, he embarrasses me with his get ups.

Answer 10

i presumed Bush would be an undesirable president, in basic terms like his father. He incredibly handed my expectancies. He made his father appear like Lincoln and Jefferson mixed. as for Clinton, I spent 8 years criticizing him. yet, he grew to become into the excellent president in my lifetime.