Via Atrios, USA Today founder Al Neuharth considers the worst president ever:
I remember every president since Herbert Hoover, when I was a grade school kid. He was one of the worst. I’ve personally met every president since Dwight Eisenhower. He was one of the best.
A year ago I criticized Hillary Clinton for saying “this (Bush) administration will go down in history as one of the worst.”
“She’s wrong,” I wrote. Then I rated these five presidents, in this order, as the worst: Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Ulysses Grant, Hoover and Richard Nixon. “It’s very unlikely Bush can crack that list,” I added.
Andrew Jackson? Really? Sure you didn’t mean Andrew Johnson?
I was wrong. This is my mea culpa. Not only has Bush cracked that list, but he is planted firmly at the top.
Hey, Bush still has almost two years to totally turn his administration around. He might turn out to be only the second or third worst president ever.
Spink Nogales | 17-Feb-07 at 9:51 pm | Permalink
Let’s just hope he doesn’t turn out to be the ‘last’ president ever.