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iknowaguy .. perceptions of Bush ..

Presidential scholars: Bush is the worst president of the modern era, bottom five of all time.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67306961 ..

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The Worst President in History? .. One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush .. entree ..

Now, though, George W. Bush is in serious contention for the title of worst ever. In early 2004, an informal survey of 415 historians conducted by the nonpartisan History News Network found that eighty-one percent considered the Bush administration a "failure." Among those who called Bush a success, many gave the president high marks only for his ability to mobilize public support and get Congress to go along with what one historian called the administration's "pursuit of disastrous policies." In fact, roughly one in ten of those who called Bush a success was being facetious, rating him only as the best president since Bill Clinton -- a category in which Bush is the only contestant. .. much more .. http://www.skeptically.org/bw/id13.html

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Rank and bile

G.I.'s speaking out, angry vets signing petitions, generals attacking
him. George Bush's once-rosy relationship with the military is turning sour.

[...]

But in recent months, the GOP and the Bush White House have suddenly faced a new, increasingly chilly reception from men and women in uniform. There are the growing ranks of retired generals who have turned Bush critics, like Gen. Anthony Zinni, former head of the U.S. Central Command and a special envoy to the Middle East. Zinni endorsed Bush in 2000, but recently during a particularly scathing public critique compared Iraq war strategy to a “brain fart” emitted from a Bush “policy wonk.”... http://www.salon.com/2003/10/02/military_12/

For mine, on Bush's watch, the most successful attack ever by a foreign enemy on American soil, and his reaction to it
leading to him becoming Bin Laden's top recruiter, his failure to get Bin Laden, the antipathy toward Americans
he created in the Muslim world, and last but surely not the least, his dismal job creation record, makes Bush
jnr., ala SHRUB, (though many little bushes are really nice) the worst president of the modern era.