Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Worst. President. Ever.

Kelvin Wade wrote an article called, "The worst president?" and what I want to know is, why the question mark? Here's how he gets started:

George W. Bush's approval rating in an Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted for CNN this week is 32 percent. Meanwhile, Rolling Stone magazine has an excellent article on Bush by Princeton professor Sean Wilentz titled "The Worst President in History?"

Comedian Jeff Foxworthy has a famous routine listing things that indicate you might be a redneck. Well, there are things that may indicate whether Bush is the worst president in history.

If you put on blinders, cherry-pick intelligence and Pinocchio the country into war, you might be the worst president in history.

If you treat the worst terrorist attack in the history of the nation as the best thing that's happened for you politically, you just might be the worst president.

If after Sept. 11, 2001, the ports are as easily accessible as Paula Abdul by an American Idol contestant and the borders look like the Pamplona bull run, you might be the worst president.

If your toilet paper has the Kyoto Treaty, Geneva Convention and the U.S. Constitution imprinted on it, you might be the worst president in history.

If your administration blows the cover of one of our CIA agents like Moe getting back at Larry for accidentally hitting him with a two-by-four, you could qualify for the worst president in history.

If your prisoner interrogation methods look like something out of the "Saw" movies and you're franchising secret prisons around the world, you might be the worst president.

If you can turn the largest surpluses in American history into the largest deficits faster than MC Hammer and never once veto a Congressional spending binge, you might be the worst president.


There's more, needless to say. Just in case you need convincing (if you're reading this, you probably don't) you could always click on through and check out the rest of the list. Of course, most of us could add to it.

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