08/19/09 Vancouver, British Columbia
I recognize that I’ve antagonized many of my subscribers over the years with “Bush Bashing.” In January, just after OBAMA!’s election, I said I wouldn’t mention Bush again, his departure having made him irrelevant. I only feel bad that he and his minions will apparently get away scot-free with their crimes; better they had all been brought up before a tribunal and tried for crimes against humanity in general and the US Constitution in particular. But that is objectively true of almost all presidents since at least Lincoln.
Most of our subscribers to The Casey Report appear to be libertarians or classical liberals – i.e., people who believe in a maximum of both social and economic freedom for the individual. The next largest group are “conservatives.” It’s a bit harder to define a conservative. Is it someone who atavistically just wants to conserve the existing order of things (either now, or perhaps as they perceived them 50, or 100, or 200, or however many years ago)? Or is a conservative someone who believes in limiting social freedoms (generally that means suppressing things like sex, drugs, outré clothing and customs, and bad-mouthing the government) while claiming to support economic freedoms (although with considerable caveats and exceptions)? It’s unclear to me what, if any, philosophical foundation conservatism, by whatever definition, rests on.
Which leads me to the question: Why do conservatives seem to have this warm and fuzzy feeling for George W. Bush? I can only speculate it’s because Bush liked to talk a lot about freedom and traditional American values, and did so in such an ungrammatical way that it made him seem sincere. Bush’s tendency to fumble words and concepts contrasted to Clinton’s eloquence, which made him look “slick.”
I’m forced to the conclusion that what “conservatives” like about Bush is his style, such as it was. Because the only good thing I can recall that Bush ever did was to shepherd through some tax cuts. But even these were targeted and piecemeal, tossing bones to favored interests, rather than any principled abolition of any levies or a wholesale cut in rates.
Is it possible that Bush was actually the worst president ever? I’d say he’s a strong contender. He started out with a gigantic lie – that he would cut the size of government, reduce taxes, and stay out of foreign wars – and things got much worse from there. Let’s look at just some of the highpoints in the catalog of disasters the Bush regime created.
- No Child Left Behind. Forget about abolishing the Department of Education. Bush made the federal government a much more intrusive and costly part of local schools.
- Project Safe Neighborhoods. A draconian law that further guts the 2nd Amendment, like 20,000 other unconstitutional gun laws before it.
- Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. This the largest expansion of the welfare state since LBJ and will cost the already bankrupt Medicare system trillions more.
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Possibly the most expensive and restrictive change to the securities laws since the ’30s. A major reason why companies will either stay private or go public outside the US.
- Katrina. A total disaster of bureaucratic mismanagement, featuring martial law.
- Ownership Society. The immediate root of the current financial crisis lies in Bush’s encouragement of easy credit to everybody and inflating the housing market.
- Nationalizations and Bailouts. In response to the crisis he created, he nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and passed by far the largest bailouts in US history (until OBAMA!).
- Free-Speech Zones. Originally a device for keeping war protesters away when Bush appeared on camera, they’re now used to herd.
- The Patriot Act. This 132-page bill, presented for passage only 45 days after 9/11 (how is it possible to write something of that size and complexity in only 45 days?) basically allows the government to do whatever it wishes with its subjects. Warrantless searches. All kinds of communications monitoring. Greatly expanded asset forfeiture provisions.
- The War on Terror. The scope of the War on Drugs (which Bush also expanded) is exceeded only by the war on nobody in particular but on a tactic. It’s become a cause of mass hysteria and an excuse for the government doing anything.
- Invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush started two completely pointless, counterproductive, and immensely expensive wars, neither of which has any prospect of ending anytime soon.
- Dept. of Homeland Security. This is the largest and most dangerous of all agencies, now with its own gigantic campus in Washington, DC. It will never go away and centralizes the functions of a police state.
- Guantanamo. Hundreds of individuals, most of them (like the Uighurs recently in the news) guilty only of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, are incarcerated for years. A precedent is set for anyone who is accused of being an “enemy combatant” to be completely deprived of any rights at all.
- Abu Ghraib and Torture. After imprisoning scores of thousands of foreign nationals, Bush made it a US policy to use torture to extract information, based on a suspicion or nothing but a guard’s whim. This is certainly one of the most damaging things to the reputation of the US ever. It says to the world, “We stand for nothing.”
- The No-Fly List. His administration has placed the names of over a million people on this list, and it’s still growing at about 20,000 a month. I promise it will be used for other purposes in the future…
- The TSA. Somehow the Bush cabal found 50,000 middle-aged people who were willing to go through their fellow citizens’ dirty laundry and take themselves quite seriously. God forbid you’re not polite to them…
- Farm Subsidies. Farm subsidies are the antithesis of the free market. Rather than trying to abolish or cut them back, Bush signed a record $190 billion farm bill.
- Legislative Free Ride. And he vetoed less of what Congress did than any other president in history.
The only reason I can imagine why a person who is not “evil” (to use a word he favored), completely uninformed, or thoughtless would favor Bush is because he wasn’t a Democrat. Not that there’s any real difference between the two parties anymore…
As disastrous as he was, I rather hate to put him in competition for “worst president” in the company of Lincoln, McKinley, Wilson, the two Roosevelts, Truman, Johnson, and Nixon. He is simply too small a character – psychologically aberrant, ignorant, unintelligent, shallow, duplicitous, small-minded – to merit inclusion in any list. On second thought, looking over that list of his personal characteristics, he’s probably most like FDR, except he lacked FDR’s polish and rhetorical skills. I suspect he’ll just fade away as a non-entity, recognized as an embarrassment. Not even worth the trouble of hanging by his heels from a lamppost, although Americans aren’t (yet) accustomed to doing that to their leaders. Those who once supported him will, at least if they have any circumspection and intellectual honesty, feel shame at how dim they were to have been duped by a nobody.
The worst shame of Bush – worse than the spending, the new agencies, the torture, or the wars – is that he used so much pro-liberty and pro-free-market rhetoric in the very process of destroying those institutions. That makes his actions ten times worse than if an avowed socialist had done the same thing. People will blame the full suite of disasters Bush caused on the free market simply because Bush constantly said he believed in it.
And he’s left OBAMA! with a fantastic starting point for what I expect to be even greater intrusions into your life and finances. Eventually, the Bush era will look like The Good Old Days. But only in the way that the Romans looked back with nostalgia on Tiberius and Claudius after they got Caligula. And then Nero. And then the first of many imperial coups and civil wars.
Regards,
Doug Casey
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sucks to be u with such a twisted frame of reference as the hick from Arkansas
I agree completely. I would just note that Bush was conservative in the same way that Kennedy (John) was liberal.
It seems to much to ask of the American population to actually pay attention to what the policies proposed are…and O, maybe that 2 plus 2 isn’t 12, or a zillion.
Really, really good essay. Mr. Casey does a service by showing the ambiguous nature of the term “conservative.” This has been a thorn in my side for years.
the author is displaying vapid ignorance to claim that he doesn’t know what a conservative is in the same breath that he claims to know what a liberal is….his summation of liberalism is no more sophisticated than agitprop from mother earth news…casey is a 3d rate intellect through and through….
on the other hand, i find myself in agreement with the 3d rate intellect on many deficiencies of baby bush who was doing the bidding of the bush crime syndicate which explains in part his tortured grammar – a sign of enormous mental stress and lying….
fdr (liberal, mr casey) was by far the worst president, followed by wilson, baby bush, johnson, nixon
the only thing which casey did not nail bush for was the destruction of the world trade centers which is too bad because that is bush’s primary legacy – the controlled demolition of the wtc with military grade explosive nanothermite….
The only paragraph of substance in this rant was the last paragraph.
“Eventually, the Bush era will look like The Good Old Days. But only in the way that the Romans looked back with nostalgia on Tiberius and Claudius after they got Caligula. And then Nero. And then the first of many imperial coups and civil wars.”
Mr. Casey should move on. He states Bush’s departure made him irrelevant. Point taken. It would be better to use his energy to expose our new collectivist in chief who will be much worse for our Constitutional Republic going forward than any of his predecessors. Who needs a Nero when you have an Obama?
Mr Bonn is a conspiracy idiot. The author of the article sounds like a typical Bush hater (not that I’m here to sing his praises)…. why are we delving into this in the Reckoning pages anyway? If I wanted to read/listen to this crap, I’d watch MSNBC.
The comments here are quite interesting. I can’t see why we would include the Roosevelts, Lincoln and McKinley among the ranks of the worst presidents ever. I would agree that Bush will probably be forgotten by history. I also agree that I am a bit unclear as to the so called conservative philosophy: why do these tea party people get so angry that a kid might get a reduced price school lunch or a Burger King worker might get health insurance, but, at the same time, they aren’t infuriated about the handouts to the banks and Wall Street? Why do they advocate a return to the values of the constitution but support the War on Terror and hate the ACLU? But, I guess, I could say the same of liberals. How can they stand behind Obama after his secret deal with pharma lobbyists, his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, his continuation of the Patriot Act and Guantanamo? It seems our two party/one party system has reached its dramatic final act.
Mr Casey, you seem to have missed the fundamental law on Presidents. Namely that every president is worse than the one before. Bill Clinton was worse than George Bush Snr, G.W. Bush was worse than Clinton, and now Obama is worse than than baby Bush. The one fundamental thing you can count on in politics.
The reason he points this out is so idiot Republicans can learn that their party is no better then Democrats. In some ways I find Republicans even worse as they tend to be govt spending hypocrites. Until America wakes up to this fact we will continue this blame game distraction.
boring
“It seems our two party/one party system has reached its dramatic final act.”
Indeed it has. Both parties are two sides to the same bad coin. Neither uphold the US Constitution and are only concerned about retaining their power over the subjects and forcing us all to become economic serfs to the government with the help of those traitorous bastards at the Federal Reserve. The current crop of Congress critters is an absolute disgrace to the founding fathers of this nation and a stain on the hollowed institution that we allow them to work in. It is imperative that they be fired in 2010/2012.
You forgot the fact that he failed to ensure a real investigation into 9/11. And was probably involved in it.
I, after long revisiting, concluded I am a conservative liberal.
That means general I’m a liberal, willing to question everything and not afraid of change. However, I will not ignore histories lessons when evaluating possible changes and give into wishful thinking instead of hard facts or “it’s different this time” swipes, like most self-named “liberals” do nowadays.
Great article by the way.
Wow. So FDR, who won WWII, and arguably salvaged American existence during the great Depression, is a “terrible” president?
And Lincoln, who preserved our nation during the Civil War, and is recognized by serious historians as one of our greatest presidents rivaled only by George Washington, is in GWB’s company as “worst”?
This is the first article I’ve read by Mr. Casey. I hope it’s the last.
“Preserved our nation?” hahaha if anything he destroyed the Union. When he made membership in the Union compulsory it was no longer a union. He got the ball rolling for the erosion of states sovereignty. He single-handedly, and for egotistical reasons, destroyed the Founding Fathers’ vision for America.
History Lover,
I don’t know how much I buy into your name “History Lover.” If you don’t recognize that FDR and Lincoln were two of our worst Presidents, it would suggest one of two things. Either:
(a) You really don’t know your history
or
(b) You like the destruction of personal freedom and those who use crises to forward their own personal anti-Constitutional agendas
Why go on to knock Obama, when he inherited eight years of damage to the nation, mindless muck and international GWB-Disaster?
A conservative supports individual freedom and responsibility, limited government, free markets, lowest possible taxation, and a literal interpretation of the Constitution. What is so hard to understand about that?
No doubt Bush was as fault. But to omit the Senate and House from this article is stupid. Checks and balances. They all, we all, or at least should, be help accoutnable, down here in the USA. Worst president, senate and house, bottom line.
Sorry about the spelling. In a hurry.
To discover what a conservative is, Mssr. Casey needs only to read Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin. It will become crystal clear…..
What a fantastic article by Doug Casey. This sums up the Bush years perfectly. People need to wake up and realize that the government is not here to help, and like Doug says, the 2 parties are pretty much the same anyway. Voting doesn’t work, so we have to reject government itself at all costs. You think Bush was bad? Just give Obama a chance. You think Obama is bad? Just give the next guy a chance to be even worse.
Keep up the good work on getting the truth out DC!
Mr Casy makes a very compelling case. I voted for Bush twice, as I did Nixon. Maybe my right to vote should be rescinded. Like most people, just busy making a living, I have allowed politicians to push my emotional buttons, rather than pay attention to what exactly are they doing.
“Why do conservatives seem to have this warm and fuzzy feeling for George W. Bush?”
ARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!! This liberal mantra drivel is really getting old. Conservatives NEVER felt warm & fuzzy about W. He was the lesser of two evils: Gore & Kerry
Obviously Casey is truly ignorant about conservative philosophy. That says a lot about the quality of education at Georgetown.
if we keep up this stupid liberal vs. conservative bipolar approach it will be replaced with a new bipolar: armed vs. unarmed, or more specifically quick vs. dead. At least then we will have a decisive winner. I suggest we stop blaming people, even if they deserve it, and instead seek to work together to repair our nation if possible. Short of that prepare to survive and attempt remain on the side of the “quick”. Get with it!
The Bush haters will remain so. Congress was mostly democrat and shares the responsibility equally. Comments are mostly gibberish. Comparisons with other presidents are irrelevant. Improper use of the Language, who cares? I understood what he said. Obama is the height of obfusication(sp)!!
For Bush’s first six years he had a Republican House and Senate and never used one veto. Yet somehow people think that blame should be shared? Share it with Rush Limbaugh and the other enablers who made possible this sorry piece of American history.
You epitomize , you are the ultimate example of why america is ending its time as a world leader and becoming a 4th world country .A detailed explanation is a waist of time because LIBERALS like you are unable to understand freedom ,personal responsibility and reality .You people live in some parallel universe where you can create a new reality any moment you wish .Of course this all translates into profound ignorance from which you cannot recover .I suspect that the fundamental reason liberals are such is a genetic mutation which actually reverses evolution and sends humans back toward living in trees .
We need To finally admit that we are past the ability of one person to handle the decisions of the President. Though I would hate to open the can of worms of a constitutional convention, we need to have more of a benevolent dictator approach with a reasonable committee that plans solutions to long term problems of our world, our country, and matters that affect my family. Eventhough I believe in small government, small taxes, and a strong dollar, some communal matters require sounder logic than what our executive, judicial, and congressional branches have shown me in the last 60+ years.
all of this blame game is part of the problem, NOT part of the solution(s). we need large numbers of experts (non elected-qualified experts} to untangle the pile of waste that has been created by politicians that are nothing more than unqualified amateurs (dinosaurs) that have re-election funding (aka Lobbyist) as their main goal. maybe we need a”keep your Job” Panel to evaluate whether politicians are a drag to our economy ?
Dougy, agreed, Bush was an inept scumbag, second only to Jimmy Carter as a national disgrace. You, I hasten to add, are a pathetic stock analyst and a wannabe progressive, drowning in a sea of your own vomit.
I agree with Mr Casey on each point. The only thing he left out is that neither the President, the Congress,or the Judiciary are in charge. The whole country is run by Wall Street and the Pentagon.
Interesting, reading the contra-Casey comments here, ripe with vicious personal attacks while being void of substance or intelligent debate.
It’s not much of a stretch to imagine Thomas Jefferson, were he alive today, being a strong Casey advocate.
Is this the same Doug Casey who many years ago sent financial advisary letters to his customers for a pricey cost? Most, if not all of his advice, was off the track and useless.
After many months of subscribing I finally cancelled. I can’t understand why this man with such a track record is still in the business. W.
All these amazing insights……! Now I’m totally confused…..
They Are Not Conservatives!!!
The reason many self proclaimed conservatives love Baby Doc Bush is because niether they not Baby Doc are conservatives. True conservatives believe in things like the Constitution, separation of powers, individual rights,a balanced (and preferably modest) budget, the rights of towns and states to run their own affairs, etc.
Bush paid lip service to all these and did the exact opposite. he presided over the biggest expansion of govt. since WWII, ran deficits of 480,000,000,000 a year, doubled the national debt, shredded the Constitution, etc ad nauseum. He isnt a Conservative, he is a Fascist, as Mussolini defined Fascism. Ina nutshell Fascism is an authoritarian and imperialististic form of Crony Capitolism, and Crony Capitolism is what the Bush dynasty and its equally corrupt pals have allways been about. Read up on Granpa Prescott sometime-he was in bed with the Nazis, and put Saddam Hussien in power.
I disagree with Mr Casey. The worst president I can remember is Jimmy Carter.
And Lincoln was bad ’cause…….???
Seems to me an “oxymoronic” list of presidents, Mr Casey
To describe Lincoln, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt as “bad presidents” because they seized “personal liberty”, supposedly contrary to the Founders of the Constitution, indicates that Mr. Casey picks and chooses the parts of the Constitution he likes, and discards the rest. Conservatives love to cite parts of the Bill of Rights and Amendments that suit their purpose, but the founders established a central government, a congress with inherent powers, and a judiciary to resolve disputes between various states, entities, and citizens. The Constitution was ratified by the people and is still intact. The secession by South Carolina, even Lincoln patiently hoped that the South would come to its senses, was lost when rebel forces bombarded Fort Sumter, a Federal military facility. In any country, that isn’t freedom, it’s called insurrection or rebellion. Perhaps Mr. Casey thinks that the Whiskey Rebellion, quelled by Washington, was American fascism. If so, his concept of the United States permits open definance of laws already discerned as constitutional, simply because they interfere with his personal concept of “freedom”. Few countries permit such a wide-ranging latitude on personal actions and mobility and wealth accumulation as the United States. Perhaps he has bank accounts at UBS?
Christopher Hahin
“The secession by South Carolina, even Lincoln patiently hoped that the South would come to its senses, was lost when rebel forces bombarded Fort Sumter, a Federal military facility. In any country, that isn’t freedom, it’s called insurrection or rebellion.”
To paraphrase George C. Scott in Patton,
You know as much about the Constitution as you do about fornication.
The states created the federal government!
The states had every Constitutional right to leave the federal government.
Disagree? Enlighten us. Where in the Constitution do the states surrender their independence to the federal government? Where is secession outlawed?
To JMR Coy Lewis:
Your comment about fornication shows where your mind plays upon. That aside, where in the Constitution does it permit a state to attack the United States of which it is a part of? By being part of the United States, it adheres to the Constitution. Only Amendment X states that “powers not delegated to the United States, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, or to the people.” Apparently it is the argument of Southerners like yourself that insurrection and secession, because they are not specifically cited, are permissible. However, read Article IV, Section 3, which states that “Congress shall have Power to dispose and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States…” Fort Sumter was the property of the United States, not South Carolina; so also were the many military and Federal facilities seized by the Confederates during the Civil War. Read Article III Section 3: “Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them…” If succession is not mentioned in the Constitution, how can it be a “right”? The actions of the South in their aim to preserve the decaying tradition of slavery brought upon the worst conflict in American history, and people like yourself are still trying to justify it.
Mr Hahin,
A nice overall piece of demagogery.
You write, “if succession is not mentioned in the Constitution, how can it be a “right”?
Using that logic the “right” to privacy is not mentioned in the Constitution nor, the “right” to abortion. Would you deny these “rights”?
To “Live Free or Die”, “privacy” is defined in Amendment IV of the Constitution, whereby “The right of the people to be secure in their houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches, shall not be violated…” With respect to abortion, you are correct that there is no direct citation. However, if the woman’s life is in jeopardy, she is protected by Amendment V where no person shall “…be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law;…” Therefore if a State like South Dakota, which is planning to forbid any abortion, and makes the surgical procedure a crime, its law is unconstitutional, because in certain cases, the unavailability of abortion could endanger the life of the woman. If she was raped, her life and liberty is also protected by this fundamental right.
Themadblacksmith is entirely correct (IMHO). Bush has more or less destroyed the notion of conservatives. It is now associated with redneck “morans” more than with the desire for a smaller government. Unfortunately, Bush was corrupted by the neocons, led by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Rice, into adopting their fascist ideals. How ironic is it that The Patriot Act is the most repressive piece of legislation ever passed in the US, yet is called the Patriot Act? George Orwell would love it. It denies basic freedoms and provides big government massive powers against individuals. And it was passed by a president commonly referred to as a “conservative”. And yet the morans protest Obama as a “socialist” because he wants every American to have the right to see a doctor when they are sick.
Where were the morans when Bush was revoking their rights to privacy? To listen to private communications without a court order? The Patriot Act is the greatest repeal of rights since the Constitution was written, and yet there was not a peep of protest from the morans.
Bush is widely regarded as the worst president in history, and rightly so. How many others lied the US into war? Polk…. and Bush! How many others lowered taxes for the richest 1% during wartime? None! How many others passed such repressive legislation as the Patriot Act? How many others were asleep at the wheel for the greatest act of terrorism the world has ever seen? How many others have so alienated every other country in the world as to make travel for Americans abroad more dangerous than it has ever been in history? Bush stands alone.
Hahin you are a moron.
First and foremost because you think Lincoln was a great President, and secondly because you actually think the Civil War was over slavery.
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Liberal Idiot casey. IMPEACH obama
The worst president in history?
The *very* worst of all time? The baddest of the bad? Really?
Yeah, it’s fair. Obama’s pretty bad, but Bush couldn’t have done more damage had he funded a seven hundred billion dollar study on how to do more damage. Oh wait. He did.
“Free-Speech Zones”: The one factual error in this article. These first made their appearance during the Clinton administration, so let’s not let Slick Willie off so easily either. Bush people just kept and expanded the scope of what these zones could do.
Mk: You’re seriously calling Doug Casey a liberal? I’m guessing you landed here from Mars. Casey’s a badass conservative libertarian, and I am pleased beyond words that he’s just as anti-Obama as he was anti-Bush. Although you have to admit, Bush really was worse.
Yea, you guys were right on just equal to the idiot who wrote this garbage. He was probably right on Bush, but you Obama haters have real insight. Lets see, he bailed out main st. and stopped a global economic melt down, Did away with the Bush failed policies, hunted and killed Osama, now he finished Libya’s problem without even putting a soldier on the ground, and today he ended the Iraq war! This jerk who writes and his fans,need to find an island.We don’t need or even like you. Your problem was you could not accept a black man-your racism is showing.
What did you do with mine? Didn’t you get your stimulus package on time? To not publish truth when it is spoken or written because you don’t agree with certain facts or words offend you is the first sign of censorship, the enemy of a democratic people to express themselves on an open forum is exactly how Hitler started his attack on freedom, but we won that war.
I just noticed that I was posting to an Article that was first posted in 2009. It is no wonder! Nobody likes old garbage-but you all seem to be used to it. That leads me to believe that hardly anyone buys this rag because you people are incapable of making it current or interesting-this means that you really ought to look for jobs now, as the market for hacks is drying out.
True, true, true. Those were terrible presidents. Bush won’t be forgotten though, due mainly to his stupidity. New revelations will surface about Bush which will reach new depths of stupidity
Im a conservative and i too think Bush pushed the NWO crap too far but shouldnt you liberals be loving that? I mean its the same thing you pushing for now.
This 132-page bill, presented for passage only 45 days after 9/11 (how is it possible to write something of that size and complexity in only 45 days?)
This could only have been written prior to the Obama disaster.
As far as the Patriot Act being so bad, no one seems to mention the Echelon Program under Clinton that was much more intrusive.
This type of article and all the name calling is nothing more than libs showing that they cannot argue the issues; they have to misdirect and simply lie about things to be able to “rant”.
A few facts about Bush:
-53 months of uninterrupted growth
-stock market over 15,000
-unemployment under 5%
-44% increase in tax revenue due to the evil Bush tax cuts
-all which disappeared when the Dems took control of Congress in 2006
FACTS: a lib’s worst nightmare!
First I must note that Bush was/is not a conservative, nor was his father.
As for his status amongst Preidents, he isn’t even the worst President in my lifetime [Carter and Obama win that in a landslide].
Mr. Casey confuses policies that he disagrees with with bad policies. Since he is apparently delusional, he really can not be the judge of the soundness of policy.
Lastly, it appears that Mr. Casey is Canadian. Canada is a great neighbor and a strong allie, but sometimes its individual citizens are a bit off the ranch.
Suggestion to Mr.Casey,
Stick to critiques of Canadian Bacon and Canada geese. We don’t badmouth Canadian politicians, so don’t bash ours based on a lot of uncorroborated innuendos.
I totally agree with the assessment of GWB. To me, he was a dangerous man…even if Cheney had not really been driving the bus. I voted for him twice because the Dems offered absolute bozos in opposition.
Unfortunately, my vote for Zerobama proved equally bad. His absolute failure to lead a recovery with a focus on jobs during his first (honeymoon?) year led to the rise of the Tea Party faction and a Republican House that has no vision of governance.
Having a “community organizer” follow an idiot into office has made the idiot look much better than he deserved.
did you forget about a little something called 9/11. in office less than a year and we’re attacked due to the previous prez not doing his job. read dereliction of duty first. then take in 9/11. then tell me how you feel.
10/28/2011
It doesn’t matter if Mr.Casey is right or wrong we have a country that we deserve.
Either because we voted or didn’t!
Rather sad, Mr. Casey-GW was “hardly” the worst president; look what we have now- – a nazi muslim!! You also “ignore” the fact that GW was “outgunned” by the radical/progressive dimwitcrap congress, from 2006 onward! So tell us another one of your own “lamestream media fabrications”, or else do some “history homework”!
At first I thought you were referring to Obama as Baby bush as Mr O is actually the worst president ever!! and lies to boot and thinks we are all so stupid and don’t see through his lying maneuvers. Send him back to Acorn and Chicago where he belongs.
OBAMA IS THE WORST PRES THAS EVERY BEN KNOW
Knowing, as I do, how 911 was an inside job that led to two bankrupting wars and millions dead, as well as the loss of Constitutional liberties, George W. Bush is a hands down winner, with his father, “Poppy” (as in Afghan opium poppy) Bush coming in a close second.
May they both burn on Dante’s bottom rung of Hell.
OMG If you can’t even spell, or have some semblance of correct use of the English language, keep your mouth shut.
Your ignorance hardly lends credence to your accusations.
Obama a Nazi Muslim? Then your my friend are an ignorant racist pig. Get back under your rock. Nothing he has done, or has tried to do can be construed as even remotely resembling Nazi tactics. If he were a Muslim (which he is not) what would be the big deal, I still believe we have relgious freedom in this country, or do you want to take away those rights also? I remember when “you” people were denouncing JFK for being a Catholic.
The man and his wife are trying to do the best job they possibly can; you can see how his care and concern for ALL of us and his country have caused him to prematurely age. When is the last time you lost a nights sleep worrying about anything other than your own sorry ass?
Whether your a Democrat, Republican, Tea Partier, wahtever, he is our President and he deserves our respect and support. You may not always agree with what he does, or the way in which it is done, but at least he is trying; you know anyone who could do any better?
You really have to be kidding me! Lincoln was the BEST president. Without out his leadership, the United States of America would now be the Northern states, the southern states, Texas, the state of Deseret, and the country of California. It would be a balkinized conglomeration of counties constantly a war with one another. In others words, this country would not even exist without Mr. Lincoln
I have read many articles that lack any real thought but this bemuses me. I have to laugh at you liberals that just cannot seem to live in the real world. Take a look at every city run by Democrats for any length of time such as for example Detroit. They lie in ruins and yet you libs want to blame every one else. Lets get our facts straight , if not for the likes of those like yourself ,this would still be a nation of self reliance and prosperity. Americans are awake now and soon you will be back in your basements with all the other socialists talking about the good old days when you almost destroyed america. Oh for the record. Obama is the worst president that has ever or ever will be. He cannot even manage to put out a budget that is required by law. please!!! lol
Lincoln was not a good president… He was directly responsible for the death of 600,000 Americans… He was responsible for our current federal income tax system… He might not be the worst president, but he comes close…
All that can be said for Bush is that he was better than the alternative… But the worst president ever? Nawh, there have been worse… Jimmy Carter, for example… Now, if Bama-Boy had been legally qualified to be president by being a natural born citizen, I would call him the worst president ever… As it is, he’s the worst occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave… I don’t know WHO is legally president right now, but I know for a fact that it isn’t Bama-Boy.