In fifty years where do you think historians will rank the Bush?

[WI_DEM]

Poll question: In fifty years where do you think historians will rank the Bush?

[Fresh_Start]

1. Can you add another choice..."Criminal"?

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Who cares? We'll most of us be dead by then. nt

[bryant69]

5. I hope not most of us - life expentency is going up

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[WI_DEM]

7. haha--Bush's arguement exactly.

[Sparkle]

3. Dead last. n/t

[MADem]

4. Unless we have another dunce in charge in the interim, I think he will top the list

as the very worst President we have EVER had, bar none. The ghosts of Pierce (his relative--blood will tell, eh?), Harding, and others will no doubt leap for joy at being bumped over a notch!

[GoneOffShore]

6. Criminal failure?

[SutaUvaca]

8. I agree with NYCALIZ and others..

..we need a choice for top ranked criminal.

[dkofos]

9. I hope that in 50 years only his kids remember him

[NEOBuckeye]

10. A Turning Point

The Bush Administration represents the ugliest of pro-coporatist policy, the ugliest of anti-environmentalism, the ugliest of anti-populism, the ugliest of reactionary religion, and the ugliest of the military-industrial complex.

Given the growing backlash, here and abroad to this administration, the administration to follow will most certainly be forced to address growing public concern about all of the issues that the Bushies have so gleefully swept under the rug, and all of the things they have done to wreak havoc on this planet.

[jschurchin]

11. Positively the WORST

President, ever. None even comes close. Don't forget his greatest moment as president was when he caught a 24" trout.

[rasputin1952]

12. I had to go for "anything lower...."

While I have no idea what the future holds, and there actually COULD be someone worse than bush, I figure he will go down as the worst, by far, than any previous president.

The good thing about this is, bush has destroyed the GOP for years to come...the neo-con movement has been dealt a death blow by this curiosity we call gw bush...

[baldguy]

13. Lower than Benedict Arnold.

[zbdent]

14. in the footnotes, on the article

"The 3 countries formerly known as Iraq" ... under the chapter on failed attempts for Democracy. Bush will be listed as the invader who set off the conflagration ...

[catmandu57]

15. Either someone is being funny

Which is entirely possible here, or we have two koolaid gulpers in love with the prez, which is also entirely possible here.

[Tesha]

23. The question asked is how *HISTORY* will view Bush

> Either someone is being funny, which is entirely possible here,
> or we have two koolaid gulpers in love with the prez, which is
> also entirely possible here.

The question asked is how *HISTORIANS* will view Bush,
not how *WE* view Bush.

If we lose the struggle, it is entirely possible that the
Official History Books will record Bush as a near-godlike
presence who saved The American Empire during some
very dark days, during the days of its birth, when it was
under attack from enemies both foreign and domestic.

And yes, those TAE historians would be referring to *US*
when they're speaking about the "domestic" enemies.

Tesha

[ComerPerro]

16. Great President. How could they rate him as anything else?

He showed on 9/11, and spearheaded the international war on terrorism while singlehandedly saving the middle class and pulling the US out of a dangerous recession that he inherited from Clinton.

Of course, that's what the history books will say in 50 years, at least. It doesn't matter if its true or not.

History is written by corporations and the media.

[On the Road]

17. That's a Nice J Curve There

and maybe it's a good measurement of the proportion of RWers trolling the board. Looks like about 1 in 10.

[riona]

18. Assuming that historians still exist....

I suspect his administration will be considered antediluvian in its approach to dealing with the issues of the modern world.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. He has managed the impossible - he is even worse than Reagan and Nixon.

An achievement only a complete idiot could accomplish.

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” - H.L. Mencken

[cgrindley]

20. He'll probably live on forever

in countless dissertations and theses. He's such stuff that tenure in political science or history is made on. The shitty politicians are infinitely more interesting than the dull ones or even the good ones. I haven't checked the literature, but I'm willing to bet that there's already more refereed poli sci articles about Bush jr than about Clinton and Clinton was an awesome president.

[jannyk]

21. Disaster is lower than failure - no? Disaster it is! nt

[Initech]

22. Somewhere between "worst president ever" and "complete and utter failure".

[Vinca]

24. The worst president in American history. nt

[PhilipShore]

25. No vote: The Apocalyptic Beast of nuclear war will have ended the world before then

[HughBeaumont]

26. Will they be able to bullshit his legacy the way they did Pope Ronnie's?

I honestly don't think they can and be taken seriously. The simple reason is that we have the internet now. All we knew about Reagan is what his corporate-controlled media reported (yet even then, there was a Dan Rather or two that kept them honest). There wasn't really a widespread underground media such as the world wide web like there is now. We knew of the Reagan Admin's misdeeds, but we were brushed off as "commie, leftie, democrat kookbag conspiracy theorists" by the droolers, which sadly enough was 3/4 of the country.

Let's call a duck a duck: the only people that really prospered under * were well-monied people and corporations. His elections were dubious at best, stolen by the corporate politburo at worst. Middle class people lost their jobs and those that were lucky enough to replace them did so with either a lower paying job or two lower paying jobs to make up the difference. The worst terrorist attack on American soil happened on his watch (and arguably, with his foreknowledge) and almost 6 years later STILL has not been avenged. There were two failed ego wars, both of which continue to kill their citizens and our soldiers daily. His administration is wrought with more scandal and corporate corruption than you can shake a stick at. He arguably is running this country the way he ran his business - with a drunken hand on the throttle, looking out for himself and his cronies first and screwing the people he's supposed to be serving. He's not done ONE THING RIGHT since the 2000 theft.

There's more of an open communication between real people worldwide that were affected by and still feel the affects of this administration's policies. No matter what political affiliation, we don't easily have the wool pulled over our eyes as we did in the 80s. While many people would have wholeheartedly rah-rah'd a cowboy war back then in the spirit of the country, nowadays this joke of a leader and his failures, most glaringly Vietraq, smell worse than a landfill in 100 degree weather.

You don't want to grave-piss, but seriously, how are historians going to retain their integrity dishing out a shimmering novella of supposed * accomplishments when everyone knew how things REALLY were? How silly would they look when it's obvious these times SUCK? The media can invent their own reality all they please, but history HAS to retain some kind of credibility.