Has Bush Done More To Harm The USA Than Any Other Person?

[ThomWV]

Since our Declaration of Independence, the start-up moment, the birth of our nation, has any single citizen be he President or not, done more harm to our nation than George W. Bush.

[HamdenRice]

1. I think Jefferson Davis trumps even Bush nt

[Warpy]

5. Nah, he pales in comparison

He didn't make the US a pariah in the world, he didn't set out to bankrupt the country. He only presided over a ruinous war that was fought for cause, by the south's reasoning.

Other presidents have had preemptive wars. Other presidents have dropped the ball on crises. Other presidents have been profligate spenders.

Stupid is the worst of every hideous character this country has been cursed with in government.

[AndyA]

2. George W. Bush has done more to harm the USA than Osama bin Laden!

NO?

He's responsible for the deaths of more American troops than the people killed on 9/11. (The Republican-Iraq war is based on lies Bush told Congress in order to get authorization to start the war.)

He did nothing while hundreds of Gulf Coast residents died in the streets in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

George W. Bush is our enemy, not the "terrorists."

IMPEACH THE SOB ALREADY!

[pepperbear]

3. correction: he did 1 thing during Katrina...

He got jiggy with the guitar!

[Warpy]

8. The guy in the background looks like he's thinking

"I hope this fool gets bored before he breaks it. I paid good money for that instrument!"

[juno jones]

4. Whichever SOB on the supreme court

ruled that corporations are individuals with the rights of individuals. We've been screwn ever since...

[Warpy]

9. It sure wasn't a Justice

it was a clerk making notations.

The whole corporate personhood scam is as constitutionally flimsy as the drug war is.

Both should be abolished as concepts.

[tech3149]

17. Don't forget that clerk was previously a railroad company executive n/t

[Iwasthere]

6. He has set us back so many years in soooo many ways...

Sick man! What is sicker is that many of us have forgotten ALL the crimes by this administration. Try tallying up the last 6 years worth. Someone at DU should go through all the old posts and remind us all of the many sick and twisted BS polital deeds this admistration has committed. It would be a very, VERY long list.

[LeftishBrit]

7. I didn't vote, not being a citizen of the USA myself

But it would seem to me that Bush's puppet-master Cheney should get some credit here.

Also Joe McCarthy did quite a lot of harm. And in the 19th century, the diehard supporters of slavery.

[BringEmOn]

10. If the truth ever came out, I'd have to vote for George H.W. Bush

for his criminal CIA activities since the 50's...and his sperm created George W. Bush...

[rasputin1952]

11. There are a few Americans that have done worse than bush...

but not many.

John Wilkes Booth
Jefferson Davis
The guy who fired the first cannon at Ft. Sumter
I'd like to say Reagan, but he was pretty well daft by the end of his presidency
The first guy to put on hood as a KKK member

These and other actions changed the course of the entire country. I cannot think of anything worse than the assassination of Lincoln after the CW. Reconstruction went well into the 20th Century, the South suffered for several generations. If Lincoln would have survived, I believe the nation would have healed much quicker, and with a LOT less bloodshed and terror.

bush, on the other hand, has done so much to denigrate this nation and put us at the mercy of debt collectors across the globe. bush has singlehandedly taken this nation to new depths, and it will take years to climb out of this, if we even can in our generation.

[WI_DEM]

12. I would say perhaps John Wilkes Booth. Why?

Reconstruction would have been very different under Lincoln than it was under Andrew Johnson. Johnson vetoed Civil Rights Acts in 1866 and 1867 which I don't think Lincoln would have. Had Lincoln lived it is possible that African Americans would have attained more rights sooner than later. Jim Crow might not have dominated as it did for 100 years after the civil war.

Similarly I think Chief Justice Taney and the majority of his court did a great harm to our nation with the Dred Scott decision which sanctioned the so-called "seperate but equal" equation until the Brown decision in 1954. Of course it was always seperate but never equal.

Bush is one of the worst presidents we have ever had, perhaps even the worst--he's right there with James Buchanan.

[ThomWV]

13. Lincoln's Assignation Did Not Provoke Further War

And so Booth fails as worse for the nation. The worst act a nation can engage in is war and Booth's assignation of Lincoln did not lead to war.

[WI_DEM]

16. I disagree

I think that Jim Crow and discrimination produced probably many more deaths for Americans than has Iraq. We had a further 100 years of people struggling to attain their rights, discrimiation in work places, housing, public facilities, voting rights. Juries which allowed white men to get away with murder and lynchings. Sorry, as bad as Bush is there are other people in history who are just as bad or worse, imo.

While were at it, what about Lee Harvey Oswald? or for those who believe in a conspiracy theory the people behind the assassination of President Kennedy? Some people argue that if JFK had lived we wouldn't have escalated the way we did in Vietnam in 1965? look at the many thousands of deaths that war caused.

[ThomWV]

18. Good points

However I don't thank that the assination of Lincoln had much do do with Jim Crow laws or the condition of the south after our Civil War. I think it was the inevidible result of the war and that the blame for it lies in the Presidents of the roughly 100 years from the end of the Civil War until until slight improvement was seen under Kennedy and Johnson.

[Cha]

14. bushit...how many years is

it going to take to unravel the bushit onslaught of America?

[Swamp Rat]

15. Yes.

We have yet to feel the full effect of his reign.

[hogwyld]

19. Lee Harvey Oswald

With Kennedy out of the way, the corporations were free to put their imprint on the world.

[damntexdem]

20. I can't think of anyone else who approaches his damage.

Not even in the Civil War era.

[90-percent]

21. worse than GWB????

If you could combine Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Pol Pot and Idi Amin into one person, that new hybred person has probably done more damage to the USA than GWB.

GWB is definately worse than any three on the list put together.

-85% Jimmy