Some Historians Label Bush Worst President Ever
It’s too early to tell but some historians are saying that George W. Bush is the worst president our country has ever seen.
This is what those historians said — and it should be noted that some of the criticism about deficit spending and misuse of the military came from self-identified conservatives — about the Bush record:
# He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process;
# He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;
# He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;
# He has repeatedly “misled,” to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;
# He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign (
Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida);# He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;
# He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;
# He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic’s oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime.
According to the article, before President Bush James Buchanan is considered by many to be the worst president.
But [Buchanan] was a confused, indecisive president, who may have made the Civil War inevitable by trying to appease or negotiate with the South. His most recent biographer, Jean Clark, writing for the prestigious American Presidents Series, concluded this year that his actions probably constituted treason. It also did not help that his administration was as corrupt as any in history, and he was widely believed to be homosexual.
Whatever his sexual preferences, his real failures were in refusing to move after South Carolina announced secession from the Union and attacked Fort Sumter, and in supporting both the legality of the pro-slavery constitution of Kansas and the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott class declaring that escaped slaves were not people but property.
They’re saying that Bush could possibly be worse than a man who was the worst president but also a homosexual? Ouch!
No wonder Bush is hitting the bottle again.
This is what Wikipedia says about Buchanan’s sexual orientation:
In 1819 Buchanan was engaged to Ann Caroline Coleman, the daughter of wealthy iron manufacturer. However she abruptly broke off their engagement and died of mysterious causes several days later. After his fiancée’s death Buchanan vowed he would never marry. He would live with Alabama senator William Rufus King for sixteen years in Washington, D.C., but King died four years before Buchanan became president. Rumors and speculation circulated that the two had a homosexual relationship, with references to Buchanan’s “wife” and “better half”, and former President Andrew Jackson referred to King as “Miss Nancy”. On occasion, Buchanan even referred to King as “Aunt Nancy”. The difficulty in determining if someone was a homosexual, especially in the mid-19th century, means Buchanan’s sexual orientation remains uncertain.
Miss Nancy?
Did they have tabloids back in Buchanan’s day?
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