I've often pondered, seriously pondered in a forehead on fist kinda way, whether once historians have considered the question in retrospect, George W. Bush will be judged to have been very worst American president to ever hold the office. Well now via Matt Gross comes an informal George Mason University survey that found that of 415 historians responding, 50 judge that, yes, George W. Bush is in fact WPE. Annecdotal to the point of uselessness, yes, but a good reminded that this will be compelling question to consider down the road.
Unrelatedly, in the Yahoo News article that Matt links to as the source on the study numbers by liberal-seeming columnist Richard Reeve, a few lines on James Buchanan (our heretofore WPE) struck me:
You see, even if he was gay, it was when he stumbled into a civil war that pit brother against brother that he really screwed up. Being a homo was just one of his more minor failings. Got it.
Unrelatedly, in the Yahoo News article that Matt links to as the source on the study numbers by liberal-seeming columnist Richard Reeve, a few lines on James Buchanan (our heretofore WPE) struck me:
[H]e was a confused, indecisive president, who may have made the Civil War inevitable by trying to appease or negotiate with the South. ... It also did not help that his administration was as corrupt as any in history, and he was widely believed to be homosexual. Whatever his sexual preferences, his real failures were in refusing to move after South Carolina announced secession from the Union..."
You see, even if he was gay, it was when he stumbled into a civil war that pit brother against brother that he really screwed up. Being a homo was just one of his more minor failings. Got it.
