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The First Draft of History Looks a Bit Rough on Bush
U.S. News and World Report ^ | Posted April 11, 2008 | By Kenneth T. Walsh

Posted on 04/14/2008 12:04:11 PM PDT by meandog

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To: E. Cartman

But better than Alley Cat Clinton


21 posted on 04/14/2008 12:16:45 PM PDT by unkus
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To: clamper1797
Rough on Bush ...
I won't say it ...
I won't say it ...
I must not say it

Ward, are you being hard on the beaver again?

22 posted on 04/14/2008 12:17:05 PM PDT by Pharmer (How am I supposed to rule the world when I surrounded by freakin liberal idiots!)
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To: meandog

1. Kept America in a war for years.
2. Gave the taxpayers a break by using tariffs to finance the government.
3. Warned the nation against foreign entanglements, whether the foreigners liked us or not.

Guess they think that other George was a failure, too.


23 posted on 04/14/2008 12:17:53 PM PDT by Free State Four
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To: Brilliant
Interesting that they didn't hold to a uniform opinion.

I tell you the Liberal Dems are coming undone ~ nearly in a state of total collapse.

It's this Hildabeast/Obamasama thing isn't it!

24 posted on 04/14/2008 12:18:01 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: meandog
...more than 61 percent of the historians say the current presidency is the worst in American history...

???

Herbert Hoover???

Ronald Reagan???

Millard Fillmore???

What were the other 39% or so thinking? Were they sleeping through the past 7 years of political cronyism, government sponsored torture, war, jobs depression, and stock market stagnation?

25 posted on 04/14/2008 12:20:13 PM PDT by MurryMom
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To: Brilliant

Rick Shenkman the editor has a history degree from Vassar.


26 posted on 04/14/2008 12:20:52 PM PDT by wordsofearnest (Hunter-Thompson not Hunter S. Thompson)
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To: meandog
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.

Thereby proving that 98% of professional historians are also professional liberals.

As if we had any doubt...

27 posted on 04/14/2008 12:20:52 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: meandog
So he can't be pleased with an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted by the History News Network.

Corrected:

So he doesn't give a rat's ass about an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted by the History News Network

28 posted on 04/14/2008 12:20:54 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (This is an Obama-nation!)
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To: meandog

“Not only that, more than 61 percent of the historians say the current presidency is the worst in American history.”

Apparently, all of them were born after 1980.


29 posted on 04/14/2008 12:22:50 PM PDT by Tex Pete (Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions!)
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To: Brilliant

Well I think history will smile on Bush. I will miss him.


30 posted on 04/14/2008 12:23:19 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: MurryMom

stock market stagnation? What the hell is that? Is that when it neither goes up or down? Did you go to school with these delusional history professors... or are you bitter from PA?


31 posted on 04/14/2008 12:23:32 PM PDT by rhombus
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To: meandog
informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted by the History News Network.

LOL, so Hollywood owns history?
32 posted on 04/14/2008 12:24:21 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: MurryMom
Were they sleeping through the past 7 years of political cronyism, government sponsored torture, war, jobs depression, and stock market stagnation?

Sorry to hear that the last seven years have been so tough on you, MM.

Bet you had a tough time in the eighties, too...

33 posted on 04/14/2008 12:24:56 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: meandog
"Among the reasons given for his low ratings: invading Iraq, "tax breaks for the rich," and alienating many nations around the world. Bush supporters counter that professional historians today tend to be liberal and that it's too early to assess how his policies will turn out."

Historians are supposed to BE impartial, not SAY they're impartial, not be left wingnuts.

34 posted on 04/14/2008 12:25:10 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: meandog
109 professional historians

Show me the specific list of names and their professional affiliations and personal political contributions. That would shed some much needed honesty on this issue.

35 posted on 04/14/2008 12:26:56 PM PDT by Obadiah (I dream of the day when chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned!)
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To: Brilliant
"Or more precisely, 109 liberal Democratic professors."

...with a consensus that mankind causes climate change...

36 posted on 04/14/2008 12:27:20 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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invading Iraq, “tax breaks for the rich,” and alienating many nations around the world

Two of the three reasons are canards cribbed from the DNC. Citing “Invading of Iraq” begs the question. If in the future that proves to have been a mistake Bush will look bad if not he will look good.

The failure to mention protecting Americans from another 9-11 as a significant positive achievement, even if you disagree with everything else about the President, is a clear bias.

A president that was a complete failure does not get reelected, also.

37 posted on 04/14/2008 12:27:20 PM PDT by Jonah Johansen ("Coming soon to a neighborhood near you")
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To: meandog

Most of the current crop of historians grew up during the sixties and are marxists. The next generation will be a bit less devoted to karl.

Which is why I exited my hoped-for-career as a Professor of History.


38 posted on 04/14/2008 12:30:50 PM PDT by TexanToTheCore (If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
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To: meandog

Woodrow Wilson was the worst, no one else is close . He gave us the Federal Reserve and, after being re-elected on a “He kept us out of war” platform, got the U.S. into WWI . A war we had no stake in yet cost us 210,000 American lives .


39 posted on 04/14/2008 12:30:51 PM PDT by Freak Flag
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61 percent of historians think ...

An unpopular war with 5,000 deaths is worse than a civil war with 6 to 700,000 deaths - any real historian would rank James Buchanan below George W. Bush.

5.1 percent unemployment is worse than 36 percent undemployment during the Great Depression - any real historian would rank Herbert Hoover below George W. Bush.

Having an aide to the Vice President convicted for misleading a grand jury about a matter that did not involve an underlying crime is worse than being forced to resign from office for covering-up a break-in on the opporing political party’s headquarters - any real historian would rank Richard M. Nixon below George W. Bush.

The fact that the majority of a survey of so-called professional historians ranked G.W. Bush last proves that they’re (A) ignorant of history, (B) emotionally disturbed, and/or (C) tenured professors.


40 posted on 04/14/2008 12:34:17 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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