Worst President Ever?

[Ant]

More are begining to agree with that assertion....



http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history?rnd=1145468541266&has-player=true&version=6.0.8.1024


And an interesting fact:

"According to the Treasury Department, the forty-two presidents who held office between 1789 and 2000 borrowed a combined total of $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions. But between 2001 and 2005 alone, the Bush White House borrowed $1.05 trillion, more than all of the previous presidencies combined. "

[Kassem]

i don't think he makes all the decisions

[jeromechickenbone]

Not agreeing or disagreeing, cuz I don't know enough about past presidents.  I'll say this though - I have a subscription to RollingStone, however i'll probably not renew it.  It seems like that magazine spends too many pages dedicated to hating anything non left extreme.  I'd rather see them expose the bullshit politics in the music biz than our government.  I'm buying RollingStone, not Government's digest.  And it has nothing to do with GW - it could be anybody.  It just gets tiresome having to skip these articles bashing the government over and over and over and over and over. 

Then again, with the current state of music, it's probably difficult to find info on bands that people give half a fuck about.  Especially when it comes out bi-weekly.

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Short answer to your question. Yes.

William Henry Harrison was a better president.

[Real American]

Rolling Stone, that is a bastion of deep intellectual analysis. 

[King Tech Quadafi]

Rolling Stone, that is a bastion of deep intellectual analysis. 

u wouldnt recognize an intellectual analysis if it fucked u in ur loose polack ass

[Ant]

Rolling Stone, that is a bastion of deep intellectual analysis. 

The article was not written by a Rolling Stones journalist, but they featured a piece by Princeton Professor and editor of the New Republic named Sean Wilentz.  Why do you say so many ignorant things?  That's like saying calling an article on economics by Paul Sameulson worthless if just by chance it was published in Entertainment Weekly.  The mode of publication really matters little, what counts is the substance, the validity of the argument, and if reputation of the author.

More on the author of this piece: 

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/98/q4/wilentz-bio.htm

SEAN WILENTZ

Dayton-Stockon Professor of History
Director, Program in American Studies
Department of History
Dickinson Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
 

EMPLOYMENT

Professor
Department of History
Princeton University
1987 -

Contributing Editor
The New Republic
1994 -

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Yale University, 1980.
M. Phil., Yale University, 1976.
M.A., Yale University, 1975.
B.A., Balliol College, Oxford University, 1974.
BA., Columbia College, Columbia University, 1972.

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Yale, Oxford, Columbia, and now Princeton... yeah he is definitely intellectually challenged.  Either way, I don't agree with a person because of their degree, but feel free to read the piece.  I doubt you're actually capable of making it the whole way thru.

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Rolling Stone, that is a bastion of deep intellectual analysis. 

It's more intellectual then you, Bill O'Reilly, George Bush, and Bernard Goldberg combined.

[africas seed]

Short answer to your question. Yes.

a blind duckbill platypus wouldve been a better pick for a president.

[Diabolical]

Short answer to your question. Yes.

a blind duckbill platypus wouldve been a better pick for a president.

haha

[J Bananas]

lincoln was worse, roosevelt was worse, atleast bush hasnt detained thousands of war protesters yet... or does virtuoso have a special article on underground torture caves bush is running under delaware?

[LAKERS_FAN89]

bush is the worst president ever...........best president ever was bill clinton!!!!

fuck fuck BUSH!!!!!!

[Ant]

lincoln was worse, roosevelt was worse, atleast bush hasnt detained thousands of war protesters yet... or does virtuoso have a special article on underground torture caves bush is running under delaware?

Lincoln and Roosevelt are worse than Bush?  You have an odd system for presidential evaluations.

[King Tech Quadafi]

lincoln was worse, roosevelt was worse, atleast bush hasnt detained thousands of war protesters yet... or does virtuoso have a special article on underground torture caves bush is running under delaware?

 

[J Bananas]

ok since youre all so fucking smart you know that lincoln detained thousands of people in the north who spoke out against the civil war and what he stood for, so wow he realized slavery was evil, a real humanitarian. and roosevelt as we all know detained thousands of japanese AMERICANS because their "people" attacked pearl harbor. i havent seen any hippies or a-rabs being put in detention camps around here lately, those are two major human rights violations that bush wouldnt dream of committing. im not saying i liek the dude, but everyones so sensitive these days trying to take things to polar extremes. boo hoo!