The Pendragon's Hall

The Pendragon grows weary of the constant attacks on Bush's legacy. The Canadian magazine McClean ran a cover story this week asking the question, eventually answering in the affirmative, Is Bush the worst president in the last 100 years? The article pointed to 33% approval ratings and said Bush did not even have the achievements of a Truman or an LBJ to balance out the bad. The writer doubted he would ever be vindicated by history. For one thing, a plurality president accomplishing most of his program in his first term of office, then being re-elected with a majority is something no one has ever pulled off before. Putting two Islamic dictatorships on the fast track to democracy is something no one has ever tried before. Protecting a country the size of the US from terrorism for nearly five years, while supposedly "more well-liked Europe" has suffered dozens...that is something as well. But this has all been said before, principly by myself. But the whole question of the article is the most ridiculous thing. The last 100 years contained a resignation by a president, an impeachment of a president who could not even get a majority vote either time he took office, double-digit inflation, a diastrous war in Vietnam, near nuclear war over Cuba...and this magazine has the audacity to say that the Iraq War is the worst thing that has happened? Give me a break. Furthermore, if Bush is the worst president in the last 100 years, that makes him the worst president since...Theodore Roosevelt. I think we can live with that and perhaps the Canadian press can mind its own business.