# Will Bush go down as one of the top five Presidents of the last 100 years? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2005, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143 "2005-02-03T07:39:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roland\_Deschain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@Roland\_Deschain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Deschain)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/1 "2005-02-03T07:39:41Z")
My ranking would go something like this: 1. FDR. 2. Ronald Reagan 3. Teddy Roosevelt 4. Ike 5. G. W. Bush 6. J.F.K. 7. Woodrow Wilson 8. Harry Truman ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/2 "2005-02-03T07:55:06Z")
He’ll certainly go down in history, though I fear it’ll be for being the President Who Bankrupt The Nation. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/3 "2005-02-03T07:58:26Z")
Well, so far he has a lock on “Worst President serving a full term this Century.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/4 "2005-02-03T07:58:43Z")
I think he’d be at the top of the list of “Presidents of whom the public’s opinions are the most polarized”. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/5 "2005-02-03T08:00:25Z")
I don’t have respect for any list of modern presidents that doesn’t have Warren G Harding in the top five. ---
**Author:** ![infamousmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@infamousmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infamousmom)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/6 "2005-02-03T08:08:43Z")
Oh, Bush will go down, all right. I just hope Larry Flynt has someone around around to take pictures. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/7 "2005-02-03T08:11:56Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t have respect for any list of modern presidents that doesn’t have Warren G Harding in the top five. If you sort all the presidents by first name in descending order, Harding is number 5. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/8 "2005-02-03T08:12:18Z")
Will there be a ‘Top five Best Interns that will go down in history’ thread soon? I got my money on the dark filly. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/9 "2005-02-03T08:17:36Z")
> [@Roland Deschain](#): > > My ranking would go something like this: > > 1. FDR. > > 2. Ronald Reagan > > 3. Teddy Roosevelt > > 4. Ike > > 5. G. W. Bush > > 6. J.F.K. > > 7. Woodrow Wilson > > 8. Harry Truman What’s the best way to clean vomit off a keyboard? ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/10 "2005-02-03T08:19:12Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > What’s the best way to clean vomit off a keyboard? Heh. At least he didn’t have Nixon on there. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/11 "2005-02-03T10:13:28Z")
There hasn’t been a decent American president since Herbert Hoover. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/12 "2005-02-03T10:28:16Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Well, so far he has a lock on “Worst President serving a full term this Century.” > > 😉 As he does in “Best President serving a full term this Century.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/13 "2005-02-03T10:31:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Will Bush go down as one of the top five Presidents of the last 100 years? Holy flurking schnitt, I hope not! I guess it depends if you consider destroying a country’s reputation, wreaking havoc across the world, and being an inarticulate boob as being ‘great’. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/14 "2005-02-03T11:09:26Z")
There’s a list people agree on somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/15 "2005-02-03T11:23:22Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > There hasn’t been a decent American president since Herbert Hoover. “Didn’t need no welfare state.” ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/16 "2005-02-03T11:39:33Z")
::Gag:: ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/17 "2005-02-03T11:45:48Z")
> [@Roland Deschain](#): > > My ranking would go something like this: My list would kick your list’s ass. I mean, if I was lonely and boring enough to actually _make_ a list of last century’s greatest presidents, that is. And if I did, I doubt I’d be able to make it up to five spots unless I was really fucked up on E or something. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/18 "2005-02-03T11:45:58Z")
Ain’t no way Bush is making any top 100 presidents list unless he can figure out a way to have a viable exit strategy from Iraq that doesn’t result in that country self-destructing; that No Child Left Behind leads to substantive improvement in public school education; and that his pie-in-the-sky Social Security “private investment” plan works without a) costing us a zillion dollars and b) forcing old people whose “private investments” go belly-up to live on dog food. Simply stated, Bush has made a royal mess of things. He’s got four years to clean it up. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/19 "2005-02-03T12:12:14Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Ain’t no way Bush is making any top 100 presidents list…\ Hey, I think he’s as much a miserable failure as you do, but surely he at least has to rank 43rd? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143/20 "2005-02-03T12:23:13Z")
> [@Legolamb](#): > > Hey, I think he’s as much a miserable failure as you do, but surely he at least has to rank 43rd? 😛 For the time being, I suppose. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-bush-go-down-as-one-of-the-top-five-presidents-of-the-last-100-years/288143.md?page=2)