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

[TexanToTheCore]

President Bush will be considered to be one of our better Presidents, on par with Truman.

This war in the middle east could have become a World War, but he broke it up early and thoroughly.

[Merta]

I also remember hearing in history class how the Press poo-poohed his Gettysburg Address as being provincial, narrow-minded, embarrassing to our foreign allies and some such. The more I learned about Lincoln in that class, the more I started comparing him to Bush. They are basically the same two people, just of different times.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

The “rich” - the wealthiest Americans - are actually paying HIGHER taxes under Bush.

The upper income groups are carrying the load. These “historians” remind me of the Code Pink wack jobs in Berkeley.

[cake_crumb]

Militarily, we’re winning the war. That hardly makes him a failure. When the media were crucifying President Reagan, over 60% of the country wasn’t forming opinions on current events from the statements and humor of David Letterman, Ophra Winfrey, MTV or Comedy Central. He’s bad ad communicating, but not THAT bad.

[LZ_Bayonet]

What a crock! Today’s “professional historians” are mostly draft dodgers from the Vietnam Era. The same people who have been teaching in colleges for the last 40 years. They are even more biased than the MSM.

[org.whodat]

Had he stuck to conservative principles, Bush might have been as great as Ronald Reagan. But, when he decided instead to embrace the pseudo-con agenda, he ensured that his legacy would lie somewhere between Jimmy Carter's and Warren G. Harding's.

BTTT

[SevenofNine]

I think Bush would go as most visonary President ever hey give guys props he try bring democracy to part of the world that still stuck in 12th Century Sharia laws

HELLO

[Tallguy]

Lemme guess? Sean Willenz & 85 of his close friends & associates swamped the poll?

I don’t think Bush has much to worry about. The multi-culti historians are writing the books nobody reads.

[x]

If you go to hnn.us, you'll see that almost all the comments on this are from Bush-haters. There are a handful of defenders and a few who say that it's too soon to tell, but the rest are pretty venomous. they're writing more out of political passion than out of any considered judgement.

I'm not a fan of President Bush any more, but it's way too early to tell how he'll be rated. A lot depends on how things turn out in the Middle East. As things go now, I'd say he's a bit below average. Failure is too strong a word in any case. It's hard to see how Bush comes out worse than Buchanan or Pierce or Carter or Hoover.

James Madison is an interesting example. The Capitol and White House were burned down by the British when Madison was in office, yet historians don't think of Madison as a failure today. Paradoxically, the country came out of the War of 1812 stronger than it was when the war began.

[goodnesswins]

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

The PROPAGANDA Machine is running smoothly I see.

[goodnesswins]

MurryMom....where have you been hiding? You obviously know NOTHING about the stock market, or anything else for that matter, because you’ve been in hiding.

[mimaw]

Someone should tell that fool Walsh he’ll be six feet under before the true history is written and I’m sure the line on President Bush will be much better than on any of their democrat puke presidents.

[longtermmemmory]

as long as they are not counting Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or other “outlyers”.

This is just the google search manipulation game again.

[arthurus]

Reagan had the same situation early on. It isn’t like that for him now.

[MurryMom]

Here in Texas unemployment is at 3.9%. You should move if you're depressed.

My income is much lower now than in the halcyon days of Clinton-Gore, but I'm not that hard up. After suffering through 2 skin cancer surgeries in the past 5 years I don't want to invite another one by moving to the Lone Star state.

[Eva]

You need to use a better sun screen.

[MurryMom]

stock market stagnation?

Stock market stagnation is when it is impossible for average investors to make $ in the market unlike the 8 Clinton-Gore years when most Americans enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and the economy grew to the tune of 23 million new jobs.

Just look at the prices of AA, GM, F, INTC, MSFT, and other once-great U.S. companies over the past 7 years. From 1993-2001 a monkey throwing darts at a board could make $ in the market. Not any more.

[Eva]

Have you considered the possibility that all that sun may have affected your ability to think rationally?

[Enchante]

ha ha, you must tbe the other kind of ‘bitter’ resident of PA..... the kind of delusional drooling leftist ranter who hates all those small town folks that Snob-ama sneers at......

[rhombus]

Those were the days, Archie. ;-)