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Thread #99232 Message #1976021
Posted By: John Hardly
22-Feb-07 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Worst President Ever???...
Subject: RE: BS: Worst President Ever???...
I think that when historians look back at this era without the baggage of personal bias, I believe they'll look at both Reagan and Clinton as reasonably okay presidents who didn't get in the way of (and greatly benefitted from) the technological boom that created more widespread wealth than any other event or factor in history ever had).
But that tech boom has begun to level off -- the inflation that it naturally spurred has caused the real increase in income to finally mean little enought that it's no longer a factor.
But I can say, even as a guy who voted for him in the election that he lost (ha ha ha!!!), but not in the last election...I think George W. Bush will go down in history as one of the worst.
He certainly caused more damage. He almost single-handedly castrated the "conservative revolution" -- killing the Republican majority at the same time. Simultaneously, he infuriated the left to such an extent that they became more reflexively anti-american than at any time since the Viet Nam war.