# Who would make a worse president than George Bush? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499 "2004-11-02T04:38:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Israfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/87869e/32.png) [@Israfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Israfel)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/21 "2004-11-02T06:35:39Z")
Well, Cheney cursed Leahy at one point- but I believe he was regarded as mean before that incident as well. It seems to me the main reason some people call him mean is because they think he “looks” mean- and that’s pretty much all there is to it. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/22 "2004-11-02T06:48:08Z")
John Edwards. Particulary since he’s already the Biggest Douche in the Universe. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/23 "2004-11-02T07:08:13Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > The kid from _Deliverance_. > Anne Heche- “I have decided to balance the budget by making up new numbers in my own language… if it’s Tuesday I must be lesbian” I kind of like the idea of an Anne Heche/Sean Young ticket. With Margot Kidder as Secretary of State. I’d actually vote for them over Bush/Cheney. Mike Tyson would be worse. But George Foreman would probably be better. Tom Greene would be worse. Any of the guys from Jackass. O.J. Simpson. Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, or Jesse Helms. Ted Nugent. Ted Kaczynski. I think the Olsen twins would be better though. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/24 "2004-11-02T07:11:50Z")
> [@Israfel](#): > > It seems to me the main reason some people call him mean is because they think he “looks” mean- and that’s pretty much all there is to it. Thanks. That’s pretty much my take on it, too. So, we have a whole cadre of people out there who hate Cheney because he’s “mean,” and who deride Bush accordingly for selecting such a mean and disagreeable person to be vice-president, when in reality they’re just misinterpreting his face. I’m glad we have this site, which is dedicated to fighting ignorance, in which to combat this injustice. So, who’s with me? Let’s get the word out: “Cheney’s really a nice guy!” Any takers? Anyone there? Helloo? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/25 "2004-11-02T08:10:45Z")
David Duke. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/26 "2004-11-02T08:14:53Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > Pardon the slight hijack, but can anyone tell me just exactly what Cheney has done to earn the reputation as “mean?” You’re missing the obvious, **Starvers** , unable to see the wood for the trees, gripped as you are by election fever, and having quaffed one too many tumblers of port. Why do you think Mary turned lesbian? Now answer that. If you can. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/27 "2004-11-02T08:17:08Z")
I think George is a mix between Attila the Hun and Lucy Ricardo… So I’ll say he’s better than one and worse than the other. I’m just not sure which. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/28 "2004-11-02T08:47:14Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > You’re missing the obvious, **Starvers** , unable to see the wood for the trees, gripped as you are by election fever, and having quaffed one too many tumblers of port… _Tumblers_ of port? I’m afraid to even _contemplate_ that! If you drink port by the tumblerfull, you’re a better (but not necessarily wiser) man than I. I loves me some port, but _damn!_ If I drank it by the tumblerfull, I’d be on the road to ruination for sure! 😃😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/29 "2004-11-02T08:51:45Z")
Not tumblers full, but tumblers nonetheless. There, in the garret, night by night. The smock, the palette, the Gitanes. And the cheap tumbler, smudged with paint, from which you sip the lees of the cheap tawny port. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/30 "2004-11-02T09:07:13Z")
No, no, no…not tawny, not ruby. Just pure, delicious, straight-on Porto…courtesy of Sandeman, thank you very much. Would that we could share a glass! Oh, what a pleasure t’would be! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ShockingAlberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@ShockingAlberto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShockingAlberto)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/31 "2004-11-02T09:51:32Z")
Ashlee Simpson. She won’t write her own speeches, the press has to give her questions before hand, she’d flub around like an idiot when speaking publicly, and if something goes wrong, why, I’d bet she’d just sit there in stunned silence. … …you know, she might not be that bad. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/32 "2004-11-02T10:06:03Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > John Edwards. > > Particulary since he’s already the Biggest Douche in the Universe. Maybe I’m being whooshed, but that’s John _Edward_. John Edwards is the VP candidate. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/33 "2004-11-02T13:30:17Z")
Carter. As in Jimmy. I’d take Ted Nugent over a second Carter term… ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/34 "2004-11-02T13:53:28Z")
Arnold Schwarzenegger ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/35 "2004-11-02T14:00:14Z")
Jeb Bush Neil Bush Barbara Bush Barbara Bush Jenna Bush Hmmmmmmmmmm ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/36 "2004-11-02T14:05:07Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Jeb Bush > Neil Bush > Barbara Bush > Barbara Bush > Jenna Bush > > Hmmmmmmmmmm Don’t forget the Hispanic cousin , George P. Bush. Put him on the list too. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/37 "2004-11-02T15:45:19Z")
Barbara Bush would make a great dictator, I think. **Starving Artist** , I don’t think Dick Cheney is evil because he “looks mean.” I think he’s evil because of his policies, his modus operandi, the fact that he’s callously duped the American people into putting cash into his pockets while getting a large number of them killed, and because he keeps what’s left of his black shrivelled heart in a jar in the safe in the Oval Office. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/38 "2004-11-02T17:05:56Z")
Bush sends a clear message about what he believes and he sticks to his position no matter what. For example, to paraphrase him from memory, “I’m not somebody who’s spent hours thinking about foriegn policy. I am who I am.” In this sense he is much like my 5 year old granddaughter. Of course, she can’t pronounce “k” or “r” yet, and has a very limited vocabulary and misuses words frequently, while Bush can pronounce both “k” and “r”. So the similarity only goes so far. I’d have to say that Bush is worse than she would be as President, because he is clearly much more effective than she would be. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/39 "2004-11-02T17:07:06Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > Barbara Bush would make a great dictator, I think. > > **Starving Artist** , I don’t think Dick Cheney is evil because he “looks mean.” I think he’s evil because of his policies, his modus operandi, the fact that he’s callously duped the American people into putting cash into his pockets while getting a large number of them killed, and because he keeps what’s left of his black shrivelled heart in a jar in the safe in the Oval Office. Plus that whole business with cursing out his opponent on the Senate floor. And his granddaughter’s _adorable_ Halloween costume. And-- oh, hell, just listen to him talk. The man is evil, I tell you! Eeeeeevil! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499/40 "2004-11-02T18:21:51Z")
Let’s see, who would be worse…? Mayor McCheese Rip Torn Brian Bosworth Foo from the movie The Golden Child Stone Cold Steve Austin Conkey the robot from Pee Wee’s Playhouse Howie Mandell Crispin Glover Snuffleupagus Toucan Sam (although he sounds vaguely British, so he may be ineligible) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-make-a-worse-president-than-george-bush/272499.md?page=3)