How can you even say he is the worst when you were alive for the worst president of all time - Jimmy Carter? Well, maybe Hoover was worse.
I think you guys are way to hard on Bush - never mind he inherited a recession and gave us 6 years of good times - now things are slowing down a bit and everybody jumps on the poor dude - none of you in TV seem to be suffering much.

Here are the presidents I lived through and my grades-
Kennedy - way overated, but had good vision - ended up NOT getting us all killed, last of the conservative tax cutting dems - B

Johnson - Civil rights gives him a boost, plus a pretty solid economy - C+

Nixon - man, talk about a guy who go a raw deal, if he would have been a dem, would never have left office - good on foreign policy, not great on economics - remember price controls?? yikes - C-

Jimmy Carter - when you invent a new economic term, you are really doing bad - and his foreign policy was horrid - remember the daily count of Iran and the prisoners - almost destroyed this country single handedly - F-

Ronald Reagan - Thank God you came along, rest in peace. Anybody that even tries to argue that Reagan and Volker did not save this country from the abyss has absolutely no economics training (I do by the way, and teach economics as an adjunct at the local college). 30 years of prosperity and kids who don't really know what a bad economy even looks like, and won the cold war for a sideshow. The only blemish is not standing up to congress and getting a balanced budget - still give him an A - look at the competition.

Bush 1 - Raised taxes - stupid and ended up with a mild recession which cost him a second term. Wimpy too, and should have gone on to Baghdad back then - C

Clinton - First term - Democrat - F, Second Term - turned into a conservitive - NAFTA and welfare reform - I think the Republicans should have backed off on the impeachment, it was a wast of time, although he SHOULD have been impeached for the felony of lying under oath - if he had an R behind his name, he would have resigned in his 6th year..oh well - I still give him a B in his second term despite being asleep at the switch on terrorism - a C overall

Bush 2 - another Democrat with an R behind his name - the guy is more liberal than Clinton is some ways - Medicare Drugs???? No Child left behind?? That is liberalism with a capital L. Offset with an overall good economy(have to judge 8 years guys), no attacks after 9/11, good judge picks and tax cuts. More negatives is how the war went for far too long, and immigration - why can't we seal the darn borders? I give him a C also.


Pretty bad that in 44 years we have only had one guy that was a standout - and we may not have another in my lifetime at the rate we are going. I hope Johnny M is elected and proves me wrong, but we don't have a great track record do we....

The worst part is that Congress is WORSE....