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Well, most of that will be forgotten by everyone except the history buffs. Also, most presidents are judged by their overall favorability, which isn't great for Obama unless it picks up. Like it or not, Bush had many accomplishments to, but with favorability numbers neding his term like Truman, he is viewed with similar disdain.
My opinion is that we give far too much credit to the president both in terms of perceived successes and failures.
Disagree
What accomplishments did Bush have ? Turning a budget surplus into a trillion dollar deficit ?Doubling the national debt after inheriting a budget surplus ? starting a major war under false pretenses that caused over 35,000 American injuries and deaths and over 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths ?Allowing the biggest terrorist attack in this countrys history with the deaths of over 3,000 Americans after being warned that such an attack was coming ? Turning a decent economy to the worse since the great depression ? Taking away multiple liberties and massively growing the government etc etc etc
Historians have already started ranking the 2
Bush 36
http://www.usnews.com/news/history/...ans-rank-george-w-bush-among-worst-presidents
Historians Rank George W. Bush Among Worst Presidents
President George W. Bush is near the bottom of the heap in the latest survey of historians on presidential leadership.
Bush received an overall ranking of 36 out of 42 former presidentsâin the bottom 10.
Ronald Reagan was rated 10th best, up from 11th in a similar survey taken in 2000; Bill Clinton was rated 15, up from 21 in 2000. George H.W. Bush went to 18 from 20.
The five best presidents, according to the historians, were Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, in that order. Rounding out the top 10 were John F. Kennedy at six, Thomas Jefferson, Dwight Eisenhower, Woodrow Wilson, and Reagan.
Bush 39
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20009531-503544.html
This year, Mr. Bush was ranked 39th after receiving poor ratings in communication, foreign policy, intelligence, the economy and his ability to compromise. Mr. Bush's best ranking came in the category of "luck," for which he was rated the 18th best president.
The four presidents who were ranked more poorly than Mr. Bush were Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin Pierce.
Obama
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20009531-503544.html
Scholars Rank Obama the 15th Best President
A group of presidential scholars has ranked President Obama as the 15th best U.S. president of all time, a new survey shows, while his predecessor, President George W. Bush, is relegated to the bottom five.
Mr. Obama also has an advantage in the rankings over President Ronald Reagan, who came in 18th, but President Bill Clinton beats them both in 13th place.
The Siena College Research Institute's Survey of U.S. Presidents, which has been conducted five times since 1982, asked 238 presidential scholars to rank the 43 U.S. presidents on a number of characteristics.
The presidents were given rankings for six personal attributes (background, imagination, integrity, intelligence, luck and willingness to take risks), five forms of ability (compromising, executive, leadership, communication and overall), and eight areas of accomplishment (economic, other domestic affairs, working with Congress, party leadership, Supreme Court appointments, executive branch appointments, avoiding mistakes and foreign policy).
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was ranked the best president ever, followed by Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
While he has only been in office a year and a half, Mr. Obama was rated highly in areas such as imagination, communication and intelligence.
By comparison, Mr. Bush was ranked 23rd when the survey was conducted in 2002, after his first year in office. This year, Mr. Bush was ranked 39th after receiving poor ratings in communication, foreign policy, intelligence, the economy and his ability to compromise. Mr. Bush's best ranking came in the category of "luck," for which he was rated the 18th best president.
The four presidents who were ranked more poorly than Mr. Bush were Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin Pierce.
