re: Was W bush the worse president we’ve ever had?

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i have 65 years of historical perspective, how many do you have?

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I think you are referring to age, in which you have me by one year. Now, one year might not seem like much, but I have made a career of poking fun at my wife for being one month older, so I’d be inconsistent if I didn’t defer to your year.

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there wasn't a dimes worth of difference in terms of policy preferences between those four presidents.

congratulations boy you're an idiot.

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Well, there goes the name-calling. A neutral observer might cringe at your assumption that my accusation of no historical perspective meant an inability to distinguish differences among Presidents spanning about three recent decades.

What I actually meant was that there were much worse presidents farther back in history. Jimmy Carter, for one. Your exclusion of anything more distant than 1988 reinforces my point that you have no historical perspective.

I think that W would have been an adequate (though unspectacular) president in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War. His presidency wasn’t a cake walk, and anyone would have made inevitable, consequential mistakes during the early 2000s. And lest we forget, every major mistake that happened during his presidency had Democrat backing, from the Iraq War to the recession in 2008. Even his response to Katrina looked even worse because of inept Democrats and Democratic policies at the state and local level.

That said, he was a bad president for his times. He made a lot of bad judgment calls, and ultimately left the country in much worse shape than when he inherited it. If that is the standard by which presidents are ultimately judged, then he was a failure.

I don't think he was the worst, and I bought into the war after 9/11, but looking back after I've been red-pilled on CIA/FBI/Govt/Contractors/Corps work together....he was bad.
Instead of a govt trying to get a handle on Social Security which was a hot topic, we end up going to war to blow a hole in budgets, create massive deficits, etc.
Ok I'm started to think he may have been the worst.

Most Dems and Dem-Soc (Soetoro and Biden) worse than W.

Jimmy Carter hands down. Bush 2 a distant second. Obama? Rich mens toy.

I’ll enjoy revisiting this thread after we start rationing diesel

When you learn of Precott, George Sr, and the Bush family lineage. Where their loyalties lie, why they were ever placed in the positions they were, by Skull and Bones, CIA, Puppet Masters, etc..

You fully understand they didn't fail, but yet fully accomplished their roles, and in the matriculation of that One World Order they wholeheartedly serve.

Obama had 12 years to fundamentally change the country. He succeeded for the worst.

Biden, Carter, Obama all hurt the country more than GW Bush.