Opinion of George W. Bush

[ElectionsGuy]

George Washington: 77.6% Approval
John Adams: 87.0% Approval
Thomas Jefferson: 70.4% Approval
James Madison: 81.0% Approval
James Monroe: 66.7% Approval
John Quincy Adams: 79.6% Approval
Andrew Jackson: 23.7% Approval
Martin Van Buren: 77.8% Approval
William Henry Harrison: 50.0% Approval
John Tyler: 23.3% Approval
James K. Polk: 64.3% Approval
Zachary Taylor: 80.0% Approval
Millard Fillmore: 12.5% Approval
Franklin Pierce: 16.1% Approval
James Buchanan: 6.3% Approval
Abraham Lincoln: 89.1% Approval
Andrew Johnson: 19.2% Approval
Ulysses S. Grant: 76.2% Approval
Rutherford B. Hayes: 35.3% Approval
James A. Garfield: 83.7% Approval
Chester A. Arthur: 80.8% Approval
Grover Cleveland: 54.8% Approval
Benjamin Harrison: 31.1% Approval
William McKinley: 44.7% Approval
Theodore Roosevelt: 67.7% Approval
William Howard Taft: 68.3% Approval
Woodrow Wilson: 38.9% Approval
Warren G. Harding: 31.1% Approval
Calvin Coolidge: 45.2% Approval
Herbert Hoover: 35.8% Approval
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 78.7% Approval
Harry S. Truman: 74.6% Approval
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 80.8% Approval
John F. Kennedy: 59.7% Approval
Lyndon B. Johnson: 50.5% Approval
Richard Nixon: 17.0% Approval
Gerald Ford: 73.4% Approval
Jimmy Carter: 70.1% Approval
Ronald Reagan: 33.3% Approval
George H.W. Bush: 42.5% Approval
Bill Clinton: 56.9% Approval

43rd President of the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush

Last one. Not doing an Obama poll as he is still governing and it would be unfair of us to judge him without all eight years in. I will do a summary thread of the series Friday.

Probably the president that has done some of the most damage to our country, heavy HP.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I voted HP, but I think he was Cheney's proxy President, so I give him leniency.

[Joshgreen]

Worse than Buchanan.

[RogueBeaver]

Decidedly mixed, major HP on domestic policy.

[Maxwell]

An abomination.

[morgieb]

Worst President in the last 100 years.

[windjammer]

An abomination.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

topkek

[Sasquatch]

HP

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Lol.

[SWE]

Terrible

[Oldiesfreak1854]

FF because I'm not a far-left hack.  (Insert nasty comment here.)

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

FF because I'm not a far-left hack.  (Insert nasty comment here.)

No, it's fact that Bush was terrible. Also, it's fitting that his poll was created on April Fools Day.

Everyone, let's get him to single digits!

[Zioneer]

Bush was one of the worst presidents we've ever had. Only Andrew Johnson and Buchanan were worse. He plunged us into debt, he started a war on false pretenses that was never paid for, and various other crappy things.

[Sec. of State Superique]

Bush is having more problems than Nixon

[Vosem]

Voted FF as a pushback to the ridiculous HP percentage for a basically well-intentioned person, but really he was far from ideal.

[Deus Naturae]

FF because I'm not a far-left hack.  (Insert nasty comment here.)

I dunno, massive deficit spending and expansion of the regulatory state sounds pretty far-left to me.

[Gass3268]

HP and one of the worse of all time.

[Goldwater]

Mixed, but I voted FF.

[Rooney]

Bush is in the top 5 worst presidents. I think the only good thing he did for the country was the Do Not Call List and one can easily argue it violates the principle of free enterprise. You'd have thought a president with an MBA would have been far more competent. 

[TDAS04]

Terrible President.  Massive HP.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Definite HP.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Bush is in the top 5 worst presidents. I think the only good thing he did for the country was the Do Not Call List and one can easily argue it violates the principle of free enterprise. You'd have thought a president with an MBA would have been far more competent. 

What about all that stuff he did for Africa?

[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

Bush is in the top 5 worst presidents. I think the only good thing he did for the country was the Do Not Call List and one can easily argue it violates the principle of free enterprise. You'd have thought a president with an MBA would have been far more competent. 

What about all that stuff he did for Africa?

AIDS was fizzing out on its own, so his contribution was minimal.

[AggregateDemand]

Doesn't seem right to call him an FF, considering the Patriot Act, but he certainly isn't an HP. He kept Putin in check. He effectively put Hussein in a hangman's noose. Bush admin and Fed Bank (Bernanke) forced China to start floating the yuan, which earned Bernanke a big promotion.

If Obama had half of Bush's executive talent, the recession would have been over in 2010.