Quote Originally Posted by BanginJimmy View Post
Bush will not be thought of as anywhere near the worst. That title is firmly implanted on the Carter name. Bush will go into a long line of presidents that were mediocre. He got 1 bad deal after another during his 8 years and still stayed his course. This country is FAR safter today than we were on 9/10 2001. As far as I'm concerned, he is in the same class as Eisenhower, Clinton, and Reagan. No one else is really worth mentioning in the last 60 years.


BTW, Truman had equally bad polling numbers when he left office and some still think of him as a good president.


BTW, since we are using an IA poll to decide a president's place in the pecking order. Obama is ALREADY far worse than Bush.
I disagree. You cannot put either Bush in the same league as Reagan or Eisenhower. They were clearly better.

I personally think that even Clinton was better than Bush on a large variety of issues, especially domestic. I feel Bush did better than Clinton on others, such as security.

Carter was terrible, but I wouldn't say that allows Bush to be put on a pedestal.

It is way too early to decide on Obama's legacy.