Quote from eminitrader007:
The worst in my opinion was Nixon, and Reagan and Bush. Everyone knew that Nixon was terrible, we just found out how bad Reagan was with his "deficits don't matter" mantra and ...............everyting fell during Bush's term. Bush got a really bad hand dealt to him, and it was Reagan's fault. Now Bush seems to be a good person, he just got screwed by Reagan's neo-con team members that screwed up everything. At the end Bush realized that he was being played by the neo-cons and he did not grant a full pardon to Libby which is admirable.
Quote from trefoil:
<img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/jrvebp.jpg"/>
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Hoover was probably worse, though.
Quote from Ricter:
Based on any specific metrics? Comparing the same metrics? Or just overall "gut feeling"? Because if it's just gut feeling, I'll point out that every president since and including Nixon (about where I reached the age of reason) has been the "worst", and furthermore, they have all in their own way threatened some folks enough to believe America was doomed.
Decade after decade we muddle through.
Quote from trefoil:
<img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/jrvebp.jpg"/>
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Hoover was probably worse, though.
Quote from Mercor:
This chart shows the Bush tax cuts and post 9/11 "keep shopping" program created a bottom in 2003.
[ That was the Clinton miracle extension into the early Bush years]
Obama has failed to create a double bottom in 2009, because he is doing the opposite of Bush.
[ That is (or so I am told) the Bush fiasco extension into the first (last ?) Obama term]
Technically, blowing that double bottom has set up a whole different scenario for the next 5 years.
[ That is (or so I am told) a racially motivated analysis]