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Originally Posted by WarChild
You're comparing how _YOU_ feel _NOW_ verus how _YOU_ feel about _THEN_ and don't see a problem there at all?
Here, I'll give you a little clue. There were people just as angry about Nixon then as you are about Bush now. Everyone figured he'd go down as the "worst president ever!". That softened over time.
You have no idea what will come in the next 50 years, and you will never write the history books which means your opinion now is completely unrelated to how future generations will see things. Are you still with me or do you need me to slow down?
What if three years from now, god forbid, NY city is wiped out in a nuclear terrorist attack and the economy has continued in a downward spiral. Obama is sweapt out of office and Republicans back in after one term. You think Bush is still going to be viewed as the worst president ever by those looking back?
Seriously man, get your head around some of this stuff, you'll be a better person for it.
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I wasn't around during the time of Nixon... but, Nixon's dislike by the American people was a completely different apple. He was the first president, ever, to have to resign. He was the first president, ever, to "break the hearts" of the American people. Previous to him, being a president had some moral level to it that hadn't been tarnished in a news-type eye.. EVER... The worst president previous to him would've been Hoover (who just had bad luck and bad friends and was about as stupid as Bush, but didn't start a war).... and Grant....
When you ask political scholars who the worst presidents were... Grant, Hoover, Reagan will be the top three answers. And I'm not talking political pundits. I'm talking the supposed to be neutral scholars.. who take a look at the Constitution and the Federalist papers and the state of foreign affairs and economy to compare successfulness...
Regardless of what happens in the future with more or less attacks.. Bush will be added to that list. Bush took the general disappointment that we felt for a man like Nixon... the general heartbreak... and he warped that disapproval and hatred into a wide eyed term of blatant greed and "good ol' boying" on a level we've never, ever seen.
He surrounded himself by people who could be 1000s of times worse than the "friends" that Hoover and Grant let run the whitehouse. Hoover and Grant's people were just raucous assholes. Childish frat boys. There was no raping of the middle east. There was no oil interest. There was no knowledge of all these "conspiracy" "tin foil hat" shit going on to fuel the hate.
The hate for Bush is a whole different brand than any other hate felt for any other president... and that is both by his blatant choices.. and by the media making the people aware of his choices.