Great president or greatest president?
Writing for Rolling Stone, Sean Wilentz wonders if George W. Bush is the worst president ever.
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.
These are amusing, but I think Scalzi already closed the case on W not being the worst president ever.
April 24th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Yeah, I with Scalzi. I think the historians either lacked perspective due to current frustrations with the administration or were not being serious.
Frankly, we still need to wait another two years to even begin to think about making a call on this presidency. He still has two more years to incite civil war in the blue states. ;-)