Bush is the worst president in history, yes or no?

Yes. George Bush President of the United States is a man without honor. He has spread shame on America, it's Constitution, and it's People. It is a highly embarrassing situation for every Good American. This Man has spun completely out of control and he needs to be stopped immediately. President Bush has reduced and discounted himself to nothing more than a mere "pedofile" and "War Criminal." Here is a list of just a "few" of the crimes President Bush has committed....

1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of hundereds of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.

2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.

3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.

4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.

5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.

6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnaping, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.

8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."

10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.

11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.

12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.

13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.

14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.

15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.

16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."

17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life.

18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.

19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.

20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court

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May God Bless America!

It's hard to rank recent presidents against historical ones. Personal political views tend to prevent people from looking at Bush's or Clinton's administration objectively while we would have no problem looking at Buchanan's or Lincoln's administration objectively.

The most conservative people I know support Bush with all their heart while the most liberal people I know think that he has done nothing right. As a moderate trying to be as objective as I can (which may not be that objective at all), I think the history will judge Bush poorly. Low approval ratings, multiple blunders in domestic and foreign policy, mishandling of multiple crises such as Katrina response and the search for Osama bin Laden will greatly overshadow the high points of his presidency. Even some things that now appear to be victories, like the Patriot Act, may end up being judged as low points by history.

Is he worse than harshly judged presidents like Harding or Buchanan? I'd say probably not. Will he end up in the bottom half when judged 50 years from now? Certainly.

I believe FDR's original quote and policy was to speak softly but carry a big stick. Bushism seems to think that because they have the biggest stick in the world, they can say just about anything they want. (but unfortunately, in the game of foot in mouth, they trail far behind old benny)

There is a word for this: arrogance. And we wonder why the rest of the world (except maybe Singapore) refuse to hero-worship us.

Having said this, what kind of objective standard can be used to measure the man's administration. Apart from public opinion polls, I'd say nothing really.

And based on his ratings, I am not sure he would qualify as the worst president ever. More likely, history could judge us as the most incompetent electorate ever to have voted him in for a second term.

But hey, this is about the presidency, not the people.

Yes Bush is the worst US president in history because :

1)he spreads out hatred around the world especially to muslims

2)he insulted other souverign nations such as Iraq and Aghanistan and suppressed its people

3)he has violated the human rights by attacking and bombing other countries where there were many innocent civilian victims

4)he failed to improve the domestic economy for the prosperity of american people

5)he failed to increase the opportunity of employment so unempl

oyment increased

6)he made a bigger deficit of the american spending due to his ambission for eliminating terrorist but infact he is a biggest terrorist and he made more enemies that are called terrorist too in the world

7)he made more burden to the american tax payers for war financing

No, while he has had both positives in his term, the economy being a huge one, and negatives, the lack lack of border security, Bush is neither a top President, nor close to the worst. Bush has had many events outside of his control that have created the situation we are in. There is a lot he could have handled better, but there is also a lot that he has handled well. Deciding to take a stand against the terrorists, who have been fighting a war against us for decades was the right decision. Taking out Saddam was the right decision. Our method of helping to rebuild Iraq has been off, he miscalculated on the Sectarian Violence. Not adjusting to the violence early was also a mistake.

One thing he has been is one of the most unjustly demonized Presidents in our history.

Yes he is, how an Idiot like that stole the title of President, will be one for the history books!

Let me put it this way: Buchanan, the guy who had a thousand different options to stop the civil war and didn't, is facing tough competition. History will decide, but he'll be rated lower end.

And Carter bashers here? What single US president did the most for peace in the middle east, his efforts eventually winning him a Nobel peace prize? thought you wouldn't' want to mention that.

And Clinton warned us about terrorism, Not Bush. Bush dismantled Clinton's entire anti- terrorism efforts when he came into office. Clinton Warned us. Republicans ridiculed him for it.

Yes, so far! I say "so far" because I thought Reagan was the worst, and then Bush Sr made him look good, and now W is making Bush senior look like a saint. I keep wondering how much worse it can get!

I'm not a big Bush fan but there have been several worse presidents in just my lifetime. That is what is really sad. Bush's father was one of them. Clinton, Carter, Nixon, LBJ. They were all some serious losers and hated as much as Bush by the end of their terms. Assuming the country doesn't blow up by 2012 we'll have somebody new to hate.

No.

He is only the worst President in the last 10,000 years.

There have been worst ..and at present there are worst presidents then Bush .. mind you Bush is no Angel