At Least They Didn't Mean Well....

[unhappycamper]

At Least They Didn't Mean Well....
Peter Mehlman|
Posted June 20, 2007


Boy, America has had a lot of shitty presidents. Just take a stroll down repressed memory land and look at that police line-up from November 22, 1963 through January 1992. Ford may come out looking the best of the bunch and he was widely acknowledged to be unable to walk and chew gum. (Wisely, his advisors encouraged him to sit while chewing).

And really, Clinton could have been a lot better too.

So now we're six and a half years into Bush and everyone from Helen Thomas on down is declaring him the worst president ever. What no one is saying is the one overarching reason he's the worst: the Bush administration is the first that doesn't even mean well.

With the possible exception of immigration reform -- and who knows what grotesque financial incentive underlies that -- try to pinpoint even one policy motivated by the desire to lessen human suffering, to improve the life of citizens. Nothing. There is nothing.

As much as Democrats loathed Nixon, there was no denying he had some noble goals. He tried for universal health care and... I'm pretty sure there were other things.

As much as Republicans loathed Clinton, they had to know he cared about people. Amazing how his "I feel your pain" quality became such a disdainful joke. That sounds like a good quality in a president.

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[babylonsister]

1. I agree with this writer; they don't mean well, and never have. They seem

heartless in everything they say or do.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Nixon was one of the best foreign policy president's ever.

And it was not Kissinger, Nixon set the policy.

[Solly Mack]

3. I've said it over and over again

Bush never intended to govern...he never intended to "mean well"

[CrispyQ]

4. I do not believe that bush is at 30-some percent approval.

I think they are padding the numbers & he is really in the mid-20s.