Was George W Bush a good president?

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Bush has been out of office for about a year and a half now. Looking back, do you think he was a good president or a bad one?

No, still bad. Obama is basically a continuation and expansion of the Bush policies.

Bush was a terrible president, that goes without saying. But what does it say about my fellow Americans who elected that village idiot twice? I had lived in growing fear for that terrible eight year period, seeing intellectuals and artists labeled and derided as elitists, while the country seemed to enjoy wallowing in mediocrity, bigotry, and out and out stupidity, all in the name of "populism," and traditional values (meaning, God hates Gays). They never seemed to scream and holler that much as the insurance companies and Wall Street tycoons left the middle class a devastated thing of the past. When Obama was elected, I thought my anxiety level could go down. But lo and behold, the ghost of idiocy past was alive and kicking in the form of the tea baggers, and the insurance companies, and right-wing political hacks backing them. No, I don't think Obama is perfect - I never thought he was anything close to being a Messiah. But neither is he a communist - socialist - Nazi - Muslim terrorist - Anti-Christ, determined to destroy America.
My anxiety level is flying high these days whenever I flip on the news, and see those "populist" cretins with their racist anti-Obama signs, and threatening violence.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Bush was a terrible president, that goes without saying. But what does it say about my fellow Americans who elected that village idiot twice? I had lived in growing fear for that terrible eight year period, seeing intellectuals and artists labeled and derided as elitists, while the country seemed to enjoy wallowing in mediocrity, bigotry, and out and out stupidity, all in the name of "populism," and traditional values (meaning, God hates Gays). They never seemed to scream and holler that much as the insurance companies and Wall Street tycoons left the middle class a devastated thing of the past. When Obama was elected, I thought my anxiety level could go down. But lo and behold, the ghost of idiocy past was alive and kicking in the form of the tea baggers, and the insurance companies, and right-wing political hacks backing them. No, I don't think Obama is perfect - I never thought he was anything close to being a Messiah. But neither is he a communist - socialist - Nazi - Muslim terrorist - Anti-Christ, determined to destroy America.
My anxiety level is flying high these days whenever I flip on the news, and see those "populist" cretins with their racist anti-Obama signs, and threatening violence.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I'm sorry, i have no idea how my post got replicated. The powers that be of Wrong Planet have my permission to delete one of them.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

he was no worse than president palin will be.
oh, the horror

He got us into an unnecessary war, and then he and his buddies arranged to fight it badly. I cannot forgive that. But Dubya was far from the worst president. Jimmy Carter was much worse. He made the U.S. the laughing stock of the world. Lyndon Johnson was much worse than Dubya. The way he and his buddy Robert S. MacNamarra handled the Viet Nam war will go down in history as a travesty. Lyndon Johnson crucified this nation on a cross of guns and butter. He destroyed the U.S. economy and we still have not recovered. And then there was Richard Nixon. He was far worse than Dubya. Nixon had the gall to believe he was the elected King of America. Nixon's apparent motto was: I can do anything I wish, because I am President.

America's best president in the 20 th century was Calvin Coolidge.

ruveyn

2 words: BEST. PRESIDENT. EVER.