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ORIGINAL: GoddessManko Actually Bush has the top tier running for the gold medal of "Worst President in US History, that is Bush II, not Bush I; According to same article, Obama is # 15. http://www.usnews.com/news/history/features/the-10-worst-presidents According to the History News Network, 61% of historians deemed Bush II as the worst. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/48916 Back in 2004, before he was voted in AGAIN, (we just couldn't get enough), he was deemed a failure by 81% of historians. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/5019 Also Carter felt the backlash of NIXON'S decision to withdraw from the Bretton Woods, our dollar was no longer backed by gold and our investors panicked, so congrats. You get that ace in the hole too. Well partisans quickly and conveniently forget, it was Carter who was at least half if not the greater cause and reason 'we' won the cold war...having gotten the Pershing II's (short range, intermediate nuke missiles) deal to install them in Europe. Over his whole life, Carter is/was twice the man Reagan was who also suffered an inflationary oil embargo for being a friend of a despot installed by the neocon's CIA. By comparison, Reagan was nothing but a grade B actor, Keynesian fiscal butcher, tax raising, non-conservative deficit spender and neo-conservative enabler whose greed led him to leave the dems for and turn to...the repubs and them into the 'capitalist' party bent on not whether the country was better off but...where YOU better off. We found out about country over the next 8 years didn't we. While you have a point about Bretton Woods, Reagan was not a Keynesian. In fact, almost nothing you say about Reagan is correct. Carter deserves credit for deregulation and for being honest enough at the time, before senility and delusions set it later in his life, to realize his appeasement wasn't working and to reverse course, recognizing the Soviets for what they were. Carter, at the time, wasn't anti-American either. Unlike Obama. As for those who deal with the polls of historians, historians who are about 90-95% left, well, I wouldn't put much truck in what they say. In 20 years or fewer, Obama will easily make the top 5 worst presidents among all historians, and likely be named the worst among the great majority. No one is even close to Obama. Carter was positively Churchillian compared to Obama.
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