Is Bush the Worst President in American History?

An opinion column in today's Los Angeles Times has declared that George W. Bush is the worst President in American history. Columnist Jonathan Chait wrote in part:

“I used to think U.S. history had many bad presidents. Now, my 'bad' category consists entirely of George W. Bush, with every previous president redefined as 'good.'

"There's also the fact that, on a personal level, I despise him with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. What I'm saying is, advocating Bush is kind of tricky." But "what I'll argue instead is that his very awfulness is the reason he deserves reelection. Begin with the premise that a second-term Bush administration is unlikely to make things a whole lot worse." Bush's presidency "is a great mass of contradictions. There's an enormous gap between his purported values - fiscal discipline, toughness against terrorists, a commitment to social conservatism - and his true record.

"Sure, it would be emotionally satisfying to see Bush rejected by the voters once again. But maybe, for this president, defeat is too kind a fate."

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My, my, my. Such rage.

So let me get this straight…this character is willing to put aside old liberal arguments against other Presidents to denounce the current President? What about George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, who presided over wholesale slaughters of Native American tribes? By their own arguments, liberals have pushed new interpretations of history into the schools that say these men allowed genocide against a race of human beings to occur. So, by liberal standards…Bush is worse than them? For the record, George Washington was a great President, and I wouldn't compare "W" to George Washington at all.

Let’s look at some other Presidents: James Polk, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and George H.W. Bush engaged in wars of aggression against weaker opponents. Kennedy’s and Johnson’s Administrations got us heavily involved in Vietnam, a war that cost 58,000+ American lives. Bush is worse than that?

Remember the Gulf of Tonkin lie that Johnson used to escalate the war in Vietnam, which led to tens of thousands of American deaths and millions of Vietnamese deaths? Bush is worse than that?

I think this joker needs to read some more books, and not liberal history books, which are subject to the whim of popular opinion. From how he describes his hatred of Bush, it sounds like he has some anger management problems, so he should take a pill, or do whatever to control himself.