IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT -- EVER? - Yahoo! News

Over 80% of Historians Surveyed give Bush a Failing Grade.

Fifty out of 415 historians who responded to a George Mason University poll characterized George W. Bush as the worst president ever.

This is what those historians said -- and it should be noted that some of the criticism about deficit spending and misuse of the military came from self-identified conservatives -- about the Bush record:


He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process;


He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;


He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;


He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;


He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign ( Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida);


He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;


He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;


He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime.

IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT -- EVER? - Yahoo! News