98% of historians surveyed view Bush presidency as a failure

[kpete]

Monday, April 14, 2008
98% of historians surveyed view Bush presidency as a failure
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 4/14/2008 10:15:00 AM ET ·


98%:
President Bush often argues that history will vindicate him. So he can't be pleased with an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted by the History News Network. It found that 98 percent of them believe that Bush's presidency has been a failure, while only about 2 percent see it as a success. Not only that, more than 61 percent of the historians say the current presidency is the worst in American history.

98% of historians aren't wrong.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/04/98-of-historians-surveyed-view-bush.html

But the real fun is in some of the comments offered. Here are just a few of my favorites:

“No individual president can compare to the second Bush,” wrote one. “Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill. In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large.

Here's another:

“Bush does only two things well,” said one of the most distinguished historians. “He knows how to make the very rich very much richer, and he has an amazing talent for f**king up everything else he even approaches. His administration has been the most reckless, dangerous, irresponsible, mendacious, arrogant, self-righteous, incompetent, and deeply corrupt one in all of American history.”

Wow. Tell me how you really feel.

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

[marmar]

1. 2 % of historians are on the White House payroll.....

:dunce:

[joeybee12]

2. And they must be stupid n/t

[WillyToad]

3. Bush is a model for what Republicans want in a president....

Lucky, aren't we?


:sarcasm:

[stellanoir]

4. There was a couple other articles which I neglected to bookmark, that referenced

a similar survey that cited 61% of historians saying * had been the worst president ever and I thought that figure was astonishingly low.

This one makes a lot more sense given what's transpired.

Thanks for posting it.

[King Coal]

5. I'm sorry but you don't get it. Bush has been very successful.

To say otherwise is a severe injustice, and it makes me sick.

[Adsos Letter]

6. I'm not a real historian...

...but I do play one at school... add me to the 98% list. :D

[pansypoo53219]

7. did they mention the shitty presstitutes

that HELPED it happen???