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

[ontap]

Among the reasons given for his low ratings: invading Iraq, "tax breaks for the rich," and alienating many nations around the world.

Notice they left out illegal immigration.

[cake_crumb]

"He does?"

I never heard him say it. His supporters do. It's ironic proof of the elitism of the left that the fact that the president himself has a degree in history. Yes folks, the president is an historian.

[ontap]

These ba4tards said the same thing about Ronald Reagan. See how well that turned out.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Professional historians.” That’s funny. I don’t care who you are. The state of “history” in this country is a liberal joke. The garbage found in the “history books” that are being used at our Federal indoctrination centers is nothing but sick, liberal fiction. History books these days are nothing more than the mindless ramblings of hate-filled, anti-American liberals.

[guinnessman]

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

I agree. I think history will vindicate him, just as it did Harry Truman.

[cake_crumb]

They did state why: they’re Saddmite code pinkos, they bought the Democrat propaganda of the Bush tax cuts being only for the rich (like they’re poor?) and lacking a “consensus” for getting rid of a terrorist kingpin that his father lacked the personal fortitude to get rid of in 1998. They probably think Jimmah Cahtah has “gravitas”.

[gusopol3]

for once I find myself almost agreeing with you— he’s the second worst President this century.

[LiteKeeper]

Two words are in need of definition:
"success"
"failure"

Without those definitions, this article is just so much hot air!

[hosepipe]

George Bush will go down as a hero of the democrat party..
Since he single handily fractured the republican party to smithereens..
No democrat could have done that..

He made/gave the RINO positions the majotity leverage in the republican party..
He made what was covert for a decade obvious among republicans..
BIG gov't republicans with a desire to make 30 million brand new democrats citizens..
Illegal aliens WILL BE voteing democrats 90 percent..
Actually many vote even NOT being citizens. already..

Bush and sycophants made a John McLaim Presidency possible..
Judgeing from the Bush Administration a McLaim presidency would be WORSE than Obama or Hillary.. Because of the VIOLENCE done to the republican party.. long term..

Bush will BECOME a hero of the democrat party, eventually..

[stuartcr]

How else could they base a future prediction?

[stuartcr]

I wonder if the Kaiser’s Europe would have been better than having WW2?

[dead]

This was a completely unscientific survey, where readers of the George Mason history website self-selected themselves for inclusion and were only asked to provide their name and "school of affiliation" to be included as "historians".

It was the equivalent of asking readers of this website to analyze the Clinton presidency. US News and World Report should be embarrassed that they reported this survey as "news."

[catman67]

Woodrow Wilson also gave us the Income Tax and was an overt racist!!

[PGR88]

Yeah, I called 109 professors at NYU and Brown Univ. And folks, seriously, this is the answer they gave me.....

[A message]

LOL !! You are a real work of stupidity.

I guess I missed the depression and I guess it was a fluke my 401 has grown 500% the past 5 years during this stock market stagflation.

If you liberal losers had any guts you would realize the bad guys want to kill us and yes we need to do more than say pretty please when dealing with terrorists.

Are you bitter today MurryMom?

[avacado]

If any of these 109 professional historians think Bush just gave tax breaks to the rich then they are not qualified to write on the subject of Bush’s history. When the entire federal income tax was reduced TWICE by Bush that gave everyone with a paycheck a huge tax cut. I now keep $4K more of my money than if I was taxed under the 2000 federal income tax rate.

[avacado]

Waterboarding isn't torture. Just ask the liberals who protest in front of the Whitehouse and take turns waterboarding each other for fun. As for a depression? Here in Texas unemployment is at 3.9%. You should move if you're depressed.

[cake_crumb]

We didn’t attack first, we were the country that was attacked. I remember when a 5.1 percent unemployment rate was considered full employment rather than “jobs depression”. I guess you prefer the ten percent unemployment rate we had during the Carter administration?

[Polybius]

So historians are basing their opinion on policies/wars that Bush has put forth that no doubt will take years to play out.

Regardless of the wisdom of his policies, Bush has been a failure as a war leader because of his atrocious communication skills.

Lincoln and Churchill were handed disastrous military defeats (First Bull Run, Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, the Battle of France) and verbally rallied their Home Fronts to final Victory.

Bush was handed military victories and verbally lost the Home Front to the point that the U.S. is one Presidential election away from unilaterally declaring defeat and turning tail to run. Before Obama self-destructed, the odds were that the war would be lost by 2009.

[SoCal Pubbie]

The worst unemployment during Hoover's tenure was 24.9%. The rate improved at a painfully slow pace under FDR, then got worse again in 1938 as the depression was made worse by his policies. Hoover gets all the blame but I would submit that Roosevelt was much worse for the economy. Furthermore, Hoover never imprisoned a whole segment of the citizenry like FDR did.