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Despite his overly-loud supporters, if there was ever one thing that George W. Bush excells at, it is failure. In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, a 54% majority recognized that Bush is a below-average or poor president, more than double the negative rating given any of his five most recent predecessors.
Just 19% expect him to be seen as outstanding or above-average, placing him last among the six. Bush, re-elected in 2004, now trails three presidents who were rejected by voters when they sought second or full terms, including his father, George H.W. Bush.
"The public sees this war in Iraq as a failure, and that's at the center of it," says Robert Dallek, a presidential biographer and author of Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents.
Damaged by controversies over the war and the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, Bush "has lost his credibility," Dallek says, "and you can't govern when people don't trust you."
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What is sad is that George had failed at many things prior to being selected president. The only greater failure was the fourth estate.
George was a failure of the electorate. Why haven't half the voters acknowledged their complicity in all this?
Heck, he couldn't govern when people did trust him...
Sometimes it comforts to think that so many Americans think that Bush is the worst president since WWII. Then I remember how many of them think that Reagan was the best.
Everytime he opens his mouth I think what a cowboy.