..teddy..jimmy
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Few people will mourn the departure of the 43rd president

https://media.economist.com/images/20090117/0309FB1.jpg

economist wrote:

HE LEAVES the White House as one of the least popular and most divisive presidents in American history. At home, his approval rating has been stuck in the 20s for months; abroad, George Bush has presided over the most catastrophic collapse in America’s reputation since the second world war. The American economy is in deep recession, brought on by a crisis that forced Mr Bush to preside over huge and unpopular bail-outs.

America is embroiled in two wars, one of which Mr Bush launched against the tide of world opinion. The Bush family name, once among the most illustrious in American political life, is now so tainted that Jeb, George’s younger brother, recently decided not to run for the Senate from Florida. A Bush relative describes family gatherings as “funeral wakes”.
A pretty decent article summing up the Bush era.

Rest of the article: http://www.economist.com/world/unitedst … d=12931660
CameronPoe
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Read it. They're too fucking kind to him on his underhand misuse of the American military - but I guess that's because they fucking endorsed it when he did it...
FEOS
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50 years later...

Wiki wrote:

When he left office in 1953, Truman was one of the most unpopular chief executives in history. His job approval rating of 22 percent in the Gallup Poll as of February 1952 was actually lower than Richard Nixon's was in August 1974 at 24 percent, the month that Nixon resigned. Public feeling toward Truman grew steadily warmer with the passing years, however, and the period shortly after his death consolidated a partial rehabilitation among both historians and members of the general public. Since leaving office, Truman has fared well in polls ranking the presidents. He has never been listed lower than ninth, and most recently was seventh in a Wall Street Journal poll in 2005. He has also had his critics. After a review of information available to Truman on the presence of espionage activities in the U.S. government, Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan concluded that Truman was "almost willfully obtuse" concerning the danger of American communism.[165]
Perspective. That's all I'm saying.
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Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
FatherTed
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Personally, i think GWB was ok.

he was right in going after the Taliban in Afghan, Iraq was too far. The economic issues were seperate from him though.

Plus he fell off a fucking sedgeway
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Mutantbear
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Question for D&ST regulars:

How can you stand going into so many threads exactly like this and say your opinions. I never feel like posting in these topics because its always the same, im not saying anything new so why bother.

I'll say it was a good article
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Don't think history is going to be too kind to Duhbya.
There is more to come out yet.
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loubot
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When his daddy left office, Bush senior job approval was low due to focusing more on foreign affairs than the issue going on in the U.S. Ironic because I believe it was low employment and a mini-recession.

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