He may not go down in history as the worst. But I’d be willing to bet he’ll go down as one of the worst. As George W. Bush held his final news conference today, various news organizations have begun looking back over the last 8 years and, well, I think Joe Gandelman over at The Moderate Voice put it best:
let’s just say that when they made their list of pluses and minuses they ended an extra page for the minuses . . .
The good news for George Bush: they are not (yet) calling him the worst President ever. The bad news: its clear he is considered one of the most unsuccessful Presidents in recent times and perhaps in history — and historians’ views over the past year have largely coincided with those emerging assessments.