'Nuff said.

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People stating and voting that Bush 43 is the worst of all time are either shortsighted and do not know their history or just horribly biased...or both.

In the grand scheme of presidents, GWB comes out roughly 5th worst, with the 4th, 3rd and 2nd being James Madison, Richard Nixon and Andrew Johnson, respectively.

The absolute worst president was James Buchanan. He was Lincoln's predecessor and was in office when Lincoln's election in 1860 triggered the secession of one Southern state after another. Instead of using his power as Commander In Chief to avert the Civil War, he literally sat and did nothing. By the time Lincoln was inagurated, seven states had seceded and the Confederate army had looted military stockpiles, arming themselves for the coming Civil War...a war that was unnecessary and cost more than half a MILLION American lives and ruined the South for generations.

After he left the White House, Buchanan explained that he did not stop secession for fear that hostile blacks would overrun the North.

Now, if you prove to me that GWB is worse that *that*, I'd love to see your proof.

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As of right before Bush's State of Union Address last week, his approval ratings were 33%. This amount is the lowest approval rating of any president besides Nixon AFTER the Watergate scandal. I agree that every president is going to have people who disagree with his actions, but this doesn't mean that people are automatically going to hate him after one disagreement. Only after multiple disagreements does one change their view on a president. That 33% approval rating means 2/3 of the country don't believe he is equally representing their views. The president, being the commander and chief, represents us to foreign countries, and if he can't even represent our views then how can he be an effective president? He's not, and seeing as he is the only president who has this low of an approval rating this without involvement in substantial criminal activities, he is obviously the worst president.

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So far...

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I'd argue the worst president is the one that noone remembers. People are always going to disagree with a President's actions - if nobody did then you're not doing anything important. Do I'd say the worst one is the one noone really remembers.

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It's the UNITED States of America. A president should not be this divisive to a country. Also, he lost the popular vote in the first election. And I feel he's made a lot more bad decisions than good ones.

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Monica had more president in her than Bush ever will!

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For all of you Bush fans of "worst president ever" you are clearly forgetting about that little war in the 70s called Vietnam that Johnson got us into.

Total Deaths in Iraq: 3500
Total Deaths in Vietnam: 185,000

The numbers speak for themselves.

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Yeah

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I think it's impossible to know just how significant his effect will be right away. Part of the reason I wasn't convinced by the argument saying that James Buchanan was the worst president is that, I believe pretty strongly that in similar circumstances Bush would have made similar decisions.

Rather than even failing to avert a civil war that (some historians would say) was inevitable, George W. Bush saw it fit to remove a mostly stable power structure and create a brand new one in Iraq.

I think we'll know better in 50 years just what has been done to our country under this president. I think we will look back and say that although we were already in decline as the world's sole super power (an instable state as it is), this president's spending policies sped up that decline. I think a large reason that the UK made a more or less painless transition to decline was because of their wealth and their relationship with the new super power (us). We're squandering that wealth. We're failing to invest in our young people. We're setting up immigration policies that are threatening our position as the main destination for scientists wanting to do research.

It may be short-sighted looking solely at the already visible results, but it's also short-sighted to think we can see all the ramifications already.

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Horrible decisions, Iraq, Afghanistan, so on..

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GWB is the worst President yet.

The 'suckiness' of a President can't be measured in terms of lives lost, the fortunes of war, or even personal morality. No, the worst Presidents are those who are given extraordinary opportunities and turn them into sh*t.

By this metric GWB is surely the worst of all times. He took a Hyperpower who stood astride the world, enjoyed the respect and admiration of much of the world, stood as a paragon of order and justice (with regrettable exceptions), with the wealth and power to shape the world order for generations to come, and flushed it down the toilet to pursue a sordid little war in the armpit of the ME.

He took the extraordinary level of public support which accrued to him after 9/11 brought America together, and used it to pursue an unsustainable and unpopular domestic and international agenda that has failed to address our worst problems at home, and brought us into contempt and instability around the world. Given an opening to settle some of the most intractable problems in the world, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he made them immeasurably worse.

Given the opportunity GWB was given out of tragedy, with the world united in grief with us, with nearly every nation standing read to follow our lead, GWB amazingly turned it all to utter sh*t.

There have been Presidents who have had worse outcomes, Buchanan is certainly at or near the top of that list, but none who faced such up-side opportunities who have managed to turn those opportunities into worse outcomes. Any President in Buchanan, or Johnson's position would have to have been inspired to do better. But only GWB and perhaps Nixon have managed to do so little with so much.

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George W. Bush is by far the worst President of the U.S.A. there has ever been. He has internationally embarrassed the United States through his stupidity, both on and off camera. He wasted months by taking vacation back in Texas rather than in the Oval Office; where he should have been. While he has been the President, he has caused so many problems including sending hundreds of thousands of troups in Iraq and Afghanistan just for them to be killed in the war, and ignoring the warnings of the 9/11 attacks.

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His stupendous failure in the White House basically guaranteed Republican hegemony through the 80s, 90s, and nulls. He handled the Iran hostage crisis and OPEC horribly.

Picking George W. Bush is too easy - I guarantee that most people will always say the current President is the worst President.

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i would say Andrew Johson, who was president after Lincoln, because he tarnshid the future of the Reconstruction, but then i thought about it and Johnson did not tarnish the Republicans as much as Grant did. Grant ruined the Republicans future by commiting and running a corrupt presidency. He made the Republicans the party of corruption.

Nixon is definitly not the worst presdint because he actaully did a fair job in the realm of Forgein policy, and yes he did have watergate, but that is not him being a bad president, it is just him being a bad person.

Bush Jr. cannot be called the worst president in history because his time isn't up yet and the repurcussins of his actions have not been seen yet. Some have, but not all.

Lyndon Johnson did not get the US into veitnam, he increased troops. He did a tremendous job on the econmy and on social reform, civil rights bill, with his great society.

Buchanan did not follow lincoln.

franklin peirce was pretty bad too.

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First I would like to point out that many of you will be choosing Bush becuase of our predicament today but this isnt the only time it has happened and that is why i bring to the table good old Truman.

Truman hold the lowest approval rating every for a active president during 1952 at 22% during the time of the Korean War and when he fired a WAR HERO:
1 of the 5, 5 STAR GENERALS, Douglas MacArthur

Why was his rating low? Because he put us into a dumb war jsut like bush did today and the Korean War ended right where it began the 38th Parallel, where the boundry for North and South Korea still lies today. So if you think Bush has put us into a pointless war look at Truman and the korean War as well.

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He invaded states that had lawfully seceded from the union. He sacrificed 360,000 union troops in an unnecessary war. He withheld news of the war from his own citizens for fear that would demand a stop to the war. He suspended habeas corpus, one of the most important human rights. And, most importantly, he served as the example which allowed the US to become an imperial state no better than King George's Great Britain.

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He broke into the DNC offices and stole all of their secrets. The republicans know every democrat's strategy until 2099.

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C'mon guys....the man got stuck in the bathtub....and the one they eventually installed for him could fit all of the men who installed it.

The man hated being president, his only goal was to be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court....

When asked about his time in office, he allegedly remarked, "I don't remember that I ever was President."

The man did nothing, hated his job, and got stuck in a bathtub....pretty clear to me.

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Wut you talkin' 'bout Willis?

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AND that includes the following:

-Space
-Time
-Truth
-Power

And out of all these things, everything is made. Even matter, people, places and things.

For instance Global Warming is important because it is made of space, time and power mainly while George W Bush is made of Space and Power with some time as well. What is odd is how he is not made of much truth at all.

For instance, you can put everything in the universe in a database and index it according to a tally of signifiance, and the most signifiance objects will correlate with the most powerful, truthful, timely and spatial. Does George W Bush correlate with any of that? No. Neither s test nor chi square can prove Bush is timely not spatially presidential.

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Did absolutely nothing to prevent the uber-destructive Civil War.

And do not call any incumbent the worst until long after his/her term. That's just stupid.

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He was drunk at his inauguration. Enough said.

...or maybe that's a reason he's the *best* president?

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shot down like the loser he was

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The only reason we are loosing the war in iraq is because the enemy gets so much coverege

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