The Worst President In History

James Buchanan, the 15th president, is generally considered to be the worst president in American history. A recent informal poll of historians indicates that 338 believe Bush is failing, while 77 say he's succeeding. Fifty said they thought he was the worst president ever. Worse than Buchanan.I just had to highlight that. It gives me hope.

This is what those historians said -- and it should be noted that some of the criticism about deficit spending and misuse of the military came fromself-identified conservatives -- about the Bush record:

• He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process.
• He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich.
• He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state.
• He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign.
• He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign ( Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida).
• He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity.
• He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress.
• He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime.