There must be a mistake. W couldn’t possibly rank that high. The guy is soaring!

Well I feel bad for the Fillmore and Harrison estates. After all the latter only served 30 days. He died before he could fuck anything up beyond his inaugural address.

Lest we forget – George W. Bush is descended from Franklin Pierce, through the matrilineal line. Ineptitute and venality would seem to have some genetic component to them….

The “esteemed” survey participants named W only the seventh worst. They must be inhaling their “esteem”. Better than Millard Fillmore? Take another hit, guys.

Heh, if I wasn’t outside at the time Attaturk posted it, I’d have gotten the zed…! ;-)

I’m here all nite…!

Let’s hear it for Socialists and Che…! ;-)

I thought Andrew Johnson was the worst for his abysmal Reconstruction… I find it ironic that Slick Willie did better than Pappy Bush, but, disappointed that Ford was ranked higher than Carter…!

The International Socialist Organization has branches across the country. Our members are involved in helping to build a number of struggles: the movement to stop the war on Iraq, fights against racism and anti-immigrant scapegoating, the struggle for women’s rights like the right to choose abortion, opposing anti-gay bigotry, and standing up for workers’ rights. We are committed to building a left alternative to a world of war, racism and poverty.

http://www.internationalsocialist.org/index.html

Sounds crazy, huh?

I’ve got some problems with this group and Socialism as a theory, but I’d much rather they be influencing American policy instead of Billy Kristolnacht and the Pod People.

Of course, as with most every single one of the problems America is facing, if we had an actual Press informing the electorate instead of being the Repub advertising agency, Congress would be filled with a bunch of Alan Graysons and Donna Edwardses and many of the problems would be solved. And yes, “Whee, the people!” would be choosing a society much more like the Scandinavian countries if they were more informed.

Bush’s highest ranking was in “pursuit of justice for all”

Which tells you something about not about Bush, but about how bad his predecessors were.

Although maybe these historians should have had a chance to read Scott Horton’s latest peice first.

http://www.harpers.org/archive…..c-90004409

Good morning, pups. It’s Cohen and Krugman today. Roger Cohen, writing from Tehran, gives us “The Magic Mountain.” He says for young Iranians, the Alborz mountains are a physical escape from the city where jobs are elusive, but also a mental one — freedom from censorship. Mr. Krugman, in “Decade at Bernie’s,” says like the duped investors who believed in Bernard Madoff’s scheme, America has thought it was rich in the first decade of the 21st century.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. How did it get to be Monday already? Did I miss a weekend? It seems like I just got home from work last Friday… Have a great day.

Perfect case in point when I had a rare occasion to watch “Face the Schieffer” and “Meet the Gregory” yesterday.

Bob Scheepherder is simply comical to watch now. His condescension toward Robert Gibbs, and anything Democratic, has been on full display for the last couple of years now. Scheepherd just could not get off the “Executive Pay” limits that Dems put in the Stimulus, and multiple times wanted Gibbs to commit to taking that out, which Gibbs wouldn’t do. Bob acts exasperated on moves onto the next completely worthless topic to grill Gibbs about.

Then cub reporter Gregory, David asks basically the exact same question Scheepherd asked in his first few question to Axelrod. Literally word for word. Exec pay was there and the “Will Unemployment hit 10% this year?!?! Answer the question, jerk!” Got news for these two advertising directors…we’re already well over 10% according to anyone who studies the real numbers. And where does this magical 10% come from anyway?

Oh and, blue collar folks, the overwhelming majority of America, could NOT care less about Exec Pay restrictions.

Keep it up boyz, you’re nailing yer own coffins shut, and those of your BigMoney stringpullers. Give ya credit for your consistency, and you still might be able to hang on, but I’m thinking the public has reached the tipping point and flood gates are open on your your bullshit. Even Ron Brownnosestein on “Meet the David” gets it as he has all of sudden become an Obama defender. Next time though, ya might wanna have the make-up person pay more attention…the brown mark on Ron’s nose was little obvious.

Who was is last week that gave the big lecture here on how happy the Iranians are?

I must have missed that particular lecture. Maybe it was during the later morning when I was at work?

I don’t agree with the polls criteria, it actually has reagan in the top ten and that’s obsurd

my poll has reagan bottom five and bush in the bottom half of the bottom two

really, this poll has reagan as a top ten president and it definately loses credibility with that placement

the same Republican goofs simultaneously are describing themselves as insurgents, only they chose the Taliban.

At last, John Walker Lindh has someone to keep him company.
I would hope that Republican congressman who proclaimed
his man-love for the Taliban is already under FBI and NSA surveillance. As if.

Attaturk, I love your posts first thing in the morning.

KayInMaine, that’s why he’s “Podiatrist to the Stars”. Ain’t no one better with mornin’ coffee.

no president’s day holiday?

*blushes and coquettishly twirls foot toware Kay & Stony*

Aw, twernt nothin’

LOL Attaturk! I’m serious. After reading your posts, I’m either laughing until tears stream down my face or sitting here with the biggest dumbest smile on my face in the history of smiles on faces.

OMG, I just love him….foot massaging and all! ;-)

Morning everyone. The ranking is a surprise to me. I’m in the ‘worst ever’ camp.

So, I was out of the loop yesterday. Traveling etc. I see Lindsay mentioned that nationalizing the banks should be considered. Hmmmm….is that Obama’s attempt at bipartisanship? Let Lindsay mention it first so that when it happens, the repubs can say it was their idea?

Hell, no! We get the “big” holidays, Labor Day, Memorial Day, July 4, etc. And seeing as the whole town basically comes to a standstill the docs close the practice on St. Patrick’s day and do surgery all day.

I just like the t-shirt.

i’m sorry. :(

That’s alright, Marion, I’m pulling an overniter and I’ll sleep away a chunk of Prez’s day…! ;-)

I can’t complain — I love the job, it pays well by Savannah standards, and I get about 4½ weeks’ vacation a year…

Let’s hope the republicans take credit for nationalizing the banks! We’ll use it in every mid-term election across this nation come 2010. ;-)

Bet you won’t hear him calling it “The Swedish Solution” though… too commie sounding. Everybody see my hero Lewis Llapham’s piece on Obama’s econ entourage this month in Harper’s? Sheer bliss, Lewis always nails it. I really loves me some Lewis.

http://harpers.org/media/pages…..082408.pdf

Seems to me (from reading others, not from personal understanding) that nationalizing the banks is our best option. So, if the goal is to save our economy as opposed to political strategy, nationalizing is the way to go. That’s why I was surprised to read that Graham was the first politician to say it out loud. At the same time, Schumer was saying no way. I find this odd. This made me think that Obama is working with Graham and let him be the first to propose it.
I really am just trying to put 2 and 2 together here and may be coming up with 5. But, it’s very odd.

Scheifer and Gregory are trully awful yet there they are every Sunday serving as platforms for Republican spin and the corporate perspective. Until they are exposed for the tools that they are a majority of the people will continue to think these guys are really “in the know.” It’s long past time to debunk their “intergrity” and “objectivity.” Letter writing campaigns, sponsor boycotts, street demonstrations at CBS and NBC corporate headquarters? There really needs to be a comprehensive and coordinated campaign to send these clowns into retirement.

I am excited at the prospect of doing my banking at the new ‘Federal US Bank of America’ as we can purchase stamps at the ‘Federal US Postal Service’ at the same time..seriously!

Isn’t Pat Buchanan related to James Buchanan?

Unfair to James Buchanan

Buchanan had to wait for history to prove him wrong, whereas Dubya was obviously wrong on any terms, including his own terms, while still in office.

Buchanan catches grief for opining, in the face of Southern secession, that while it was unclear whether or not secession was unconstitutional, he was certain that using federal troops to reverse it was unconstitutional. Art IV, sec 4 may be a dead letter now, and the 2d Amendment may have long since been reimagined and repurposed as a shield for individual gun ownership, but in Buchanan’s day many understood these provisions as the Founder’s way of writing a “right of revolution”, as long as it was states doing the revolting, into the Constitution.

Buchanan also seems to have been motivated in his reluctance to unleash the Civil War by a much more realistic estimate of the ensuing carnage than Lincoln entertained. The new Republican administration convinced itself that secession was just political grandstanding, a PR gambit by the slavocrats, without deep support among the people of the South, and that the whole enterprise would fall apart at the first show of federal force. Buchanan was influenced by the views of Winfield Scott, the General-in-Chief of the Army, who recognized that it would take a long war of attrition and economic strangulation to defeat secession.

I wouldn’t disagree that it was fortunate that a unionist majority in the North dismissed the “right of revolution”, and failed to appreciate the true cost of the Civil War at its outset. The majority probably would have been in favor of just letting the South secede, had they all been as “moderate” and “sensible” in their “centrism” as Buchanan, and there is no guarantee that emancipation might not have come at even greater cost, and resulted in even worse citizenship status for the freed slaves, had the nation simply walked away from the irrepressible conflict in 1861. Emancipation would definitely have come later than it did in the actual event. And thank goodness the “right of revolution” nonsense the Founders saddled us with has been practically disposed of. However great that cost, who knows what worse damage this “right” might have caused had it not been refuted when it was, but remained available to be asserted at a worse time, with even worse effects, by perhaps more powerful disunionists.

But it seems to me that Buchanan’s mistake at least had some honorable rationale behind it. Someone reluctant to start an arguably necessary war, out of a perhaps excessive respect for a deeply misguided Constitutional principle, seems to me a lot more defensible than a president who tramples on clear and vital Constitutional principles to start a clearly unnecessary war.