Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a pretty big fan of history. What you might not have known, and what I didn’t necessarily know either, is that I’m a big fan of historians as well. These guys get it and here is living proof. The History News Network recently conducted a survey of 109 historians regarding the Bush II presidency and the results were astonishing (okay, not really but I had to get your attention). You should definitely read the whole thing but here are some highlights:
98.2% said they would classify the Bush II presidency as a failure
61% said that they would classify Bush II as the worst president in U.S. history
Another 35% consider him to be among the 10 worst (many said, give him time he’ll beat out James Buchanan yet)
Here’s a snippet of the article to wet your appetite:
"No individual president can compare to the second Bush," wrote one. "Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill. In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large."
The best quote of the article sums it all up nicely, "He is not a conservative, nor a Christian, just an immoral man . . . ."