Comments on: Baby Bush: The Worst President in History?

By: republican party | Big Government | Conservative Health Care Reform Failure

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:43:15 +0000

[...] But that is objectively true of almost all presidents since at least Lincoln. (See Baby Bush: The Worst President in History? for the full list of errors, stupidities, and outright crimes that brought down the [...]

By: wunsacon

wunsacon — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:43:54 +0000

Wow, what a range of opinion. What did or will we learn? Probably just what Jeremy Grantham expects.

By: CTB

CTB — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:33:56 +0000

I have nothing to add here, other than people should spend 2x as much time listening as talking, not the other way around.

By: taf

taf — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:37:21 +0000

I am not fan of W Bush, but blaming him from all the problems that are afflicting our country only shows that extreme myopia and selective memory is prevalent in the political intelligentsia. This great country of ours is supposed to have checks and balances to avoid the abuse of powers. Consequently, there are plenty of accomplices in Congress, Republican and Democrats, for some of the disasters pointed out by Mr. Casey. The worst of the accomplices are those who thought that the laws and edicts were flawed but kept quite for political expediency.

By: Two of the best critiques of Bush I’ve read | One Utah

Two of the best critiques of Bush I’ve read | One Utah — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:08:59 +0000

[...] he highlights many of the same policies that liberals dislike about Bush but from a very different perspective: Is it possible that Bush was actually the worst president ever? I’d say he’s a strong [...]

By: GeorgeMB

GeorgeMB — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:27:34 +0000

I’m no Bushie, never was, but Doug Casey is swimming in neurotically obsessive irony by first admitting that after bashing him for years, he “wouldn’t mention Bush again with his departure having made him irrelevant”, and now 3/4 of a year later, while the rest of us are dealing with the crisis-rich present, he proceeds to burn over 1300 perfectly good words informing us that Bush isn’t even good enough to be called a bad president and carefully tabulates an evidence list of all the things that Doug feels Bush was personally responsible for. Like Sarbanes-Oxley!?

Doug needs to give it up already. Even Tina Fey has finally figured out that she can’t make a career out of spoofing Sarah Palin.

By: george.b

george.b — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:10:01 +0000

I’m no Bushie, never was, but does anyone else see Doug Casey’s neurotically obsessive irony in first admitting that after bashing him for years, he “wouldn’t mention Bush again, his departure having made him irrelevant”, and now 3/4 of a year later, when the rest of us are dealing with the present, he proceeds to burn over 1300 perfectly good words telling us that Bush isn’t even good enough to be called a bad president in the company of other historic presidents and carefully tabulates a list of all the things that Casey apparently feels Bush was personally responsible for. Like Sarbanes-Oxley?!

Give it up already Doug. Even Tina Fey has finally figured out that she can’t make a career out of spoofing Sarah Palin.

By: jaysan

jaysan — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:03:18 +0000

“Casey’s conservative critique of the last president is a calm, cogent, rational analysis …”

SURELY YOU’RE JOKING, MR. RITHOLZ! IF NOT, I’VE LOST MUCH RESPECT FOR YOU.

By: Eric Davis

Eric Davis — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:46:39 +0000

This is crazy stuff, get medicated now Doug!!

By: dennism

dennism — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:44:53 +0000

Thank you Doug for writing this, and thank you Barry for posting it.