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The New Yorker - The Coming Wars - http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/24/050124fa_fact
Author Seymour Hersh writes that with Bush's second term, more wars, neo-con expansion, and Pentagon clandestine activities are on the way. |
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American Research Group - Concerns over Economy Push George W. Bush's Overall Job Approval to New Low - http://americanresearchgroup.com/economy/
Lists poll results on Bush popularity, and finds in February 2008 Bush had an approval rating of just 19%, one of the lowest in American history. |
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Rolling Stone - The Worst President in History? - http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history
One of America's leading historians assesses Bush, and finds that among historians he is in serious contention for the title of worst president ever. |
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Washington Post - He's The Worst Ever - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101509.html
A Columbia University professor of history compares the Bush presidency with the lowest ranking previous U.S. presidents, as well as why, and concludes Bush is the absolute worst president in U.S. history. |
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Washington Post - Why I Believe Bush Must Go - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010404308.html?referrer=emailarticle
Former senator George McGovern says that while Nixon was bad, Bush and Cheney are worse, and explains why the only honorable course is impeachment. |
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Time - An Administration's Epic Collapse - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607243,00.html
Joe Klein finds 3 Bush stories of 2007 (the Iraq "surge", the scandalous treatment of wounded vets, and the firing of 8 U.S. Attorneys for tawdry political reasons) precisely illuminate the 3 qualities making the Bush Administration one of the worst in U.S. history - arrogance, incompetence and cynicism. |
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Counterpunch - Bush and Dry Drunk Syndrome - http://www.counterpunch.org/wormer1011.html
A professor of social work compares Bush's behavior and attitudes with that of the dry drunk, and finds several similarities. |
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The Guardian: 'War president' Bush has always been soft on terror - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1302097,00.html
Craig Unger states that despite his tough rhetoric, Bush has been blind to the forces behind terrorism, shielded its funders, diverted resources from battling it, and obstructed investigators. |
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The Nation: Fear of Flying - http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041011&s=baker
A source claims personal knowledge about why George W. Bush prematurely left his Texas National Guard unit: because nerves, fear, and a possible drinking problem were affecting his ability to fly. |
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Little India - Worst President In History? - http://www.littleindia.com/news/157/ARTICLE/1106/2006-06-28.html
Finds the Bush Presidency loaded with gross ineptitude, cronyism, and corruption, not to mention unconstitutional and criminal abuses. |
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Investigators find secret White House email accounts - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/19/whitehouse_cogr_emails/
Article on the use of RNC e-mail accounts by White House officials. The Register (UK). |
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The Observer: The Bush files - http://observer.guardian.co.uk/bush/
Numerous special reports that are generally critical of President George W. Bush. |
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Talking Points Memo - Bush Admin: What You Don't Know Can't Hurt Us, 2007 Version - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004766.php
Catalogs over three dozen incidents in 2007 when the Bush Administration squelched, censored, classified, and otherwise obstructed government information and statistics their ideology did not like. |
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Washington Post - Rage of Reason - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/08/AR2007110801810.html?nav=emailpage
Columnist Eugene Robinson writes on how George W. Bush has in polls attained the worst ratings ever, and the disaster he is leaving for his successor. |
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Bush Legacy - http://www.bushlegacy.org/
Views the Bush years as filled with presidential deceit, debt, and death. |
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Common Dreams - The Worst US President Ever? - http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0708-27.htm
A University of Vermont professor explains why Bush is quite likely the worst president in the 200-year history of the United States. |
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Salon - Right-Wingers Turn Against Bush - http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/09/right_backlash/
After Bush's 2006 State of the Union speech, conservative groups worry that the president has become just another free-spending, big-government politician. |
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The Guardian - Bush Payola Scandal Deepens as Third Columnist Admits Being Paid - http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1401211,00.html
The Bush administration was confronted with fresh evidence of a far-reaching clandestine campaign to influence public opinion after a third conservative commentator admitted receiving payments for championing its policies. |
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The Independent Institute - Not the Worst President Ever, But a Definite Contender - http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1766
Dr. Ivan Eland compares George W. Bush's performance to other post-Second World War presidents, and finds Bush is probably the most dangerous—and therefore the worst—president in the post-Second World War era. |
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Bush Scorecard of Evil - http://www.wage-slave.org/scorecard.html
Archive of news stories that are presented as evidence of evil in the Bush administration. |
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San Francisco Chronicle: Four Harsh Years - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/01/BUGMG8HJ9D1.DTL
David Lazarus says that Republicans neglect the state of the US economy, and caused major economic setbacks during Bush's term. |
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Guardian Unlimited: Christian Leader Faults Bush on Iraq Deaths - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1331925,00.html
The fundamentalist Christian Coalition's founder and Bush supporter Pat Robertson faults Bush for saying the Iraq invasion would create no casualties despite Robertson's warnings. |
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Mother Jones: Conversation with a Conservative: John Dean - http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/10/dean_intro.html
The former counsel to President Nixon and purported conservative says the way the Bush administration has governed has been worse than Watergate. |
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The Guardian: America the Horrible is now Turning into a Pariah - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,468276,00.html
Columnist Polly Toynbee censures President Bush for his abandonment of the Kyoto treaty on climate change. |
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Washington Post - He's Only Fifth Worst - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101475_pf.html
A senior fellow at the New America Foundation says it is unfair to claim that George W. Bush is the worst U.S. president of all time - he's merely the fifth worst. |