61% of historians rate Bush the "worst ever president" in US history; 98% say failure

[book_worm]

http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html


History News Network’s poll of 109 historians found that 61 percent of them rank Bush as “worst ever” among U.S. presidents. Bush’s key competition comes from Buchanan, apparently, and a further 2 percent of the sample puts Bush right behind Buchanan as runner-up for “worst ever.” 96 percent of the respondents place the Bush presidency in the bottom tier of American presidencies. And was his presidency (it’s a bit wishful to speak of his presidency in the past tense–after all there are several more months left to go) a success or failure? On that score the numbers are still more resounding: 98 percent label it a “failure

[cynatnite]

1. The other 39% think that Nixon was misunderstood n/t

[LoZoccolo]

2. The bad part about this is that the conservative punditocracy is just going to...

...use this as another piece of "evidence" that academia is a "liberal establishment" or something. They seem to find ways to ignore the fact that really smart people are more often liberal, or turn the fact on its head and use it for their own propaganda.

[tool_of_the_people]

3. Man! I wonder who the 39% thought . . .

. . . was worse that B*SH?

[galaxy21]

4. I appreaciate Nixon more now....Bush has been so bad every president before him now looks terrific!

[HockeyMom]

8. Hands down Bush beats Nixon as worst President

Never thought I would live to see that.

[book_worm]

5. 98% think Bush is a failure

[RubyDuby in GA]

6. I have a degree in History, which makes me a historian too

I want to add my vote to the "worst ever" tally.

[rwork]

7. Uh, Ah, Uh,

Some times a president has to make tough decisions,Uh, you know,that the American people don't understand.Uh, I thought Saddam was a threat, Uh to the world. Besides he tryed to kill my Daddy.

[Rex]

9. Yep.

Only 98%? Must be the error factor.

[knight_of_the_star]

11. Well assuming there is an MOE

of say plus or minus 3% he at best has only 95% thinking he was a failure and at worst 101% thinking that.

[Rex]

12. I bet George believes it is possible to give 110%.

[lpbk2713]

10. They must be kind of slow to catch on.

Most of us at DU have been saying the same thing for years now.