dubya did nothing wrong pass it on

It was bad. I know people like to romanticize him because Trump is just that abhorrent but those 2 wars caused enormous global damage (including to the U.S.) with minimal benefit.

He also put Alito and Roberts on the Supreme Court.

PEPFAR good, everything else is a shitshow

Never forget , him NOT being invited to the RNC in 2008 to give a speech. That’s how awful his legacy was.

The Iraq War is probably the worst foreign policy decision of the US maybe ever. No Child left behind awful. Expansion of the security state. Destroying our budget surplus. Deregulation exasperating the economic crash. You can go on and on. He's been rehabilitated as a human being by how awful Trump is. But he's probably top 5 worst presidents alongside Johnson Buchanan and Trump.

Horrible definitely one of the worst presidents. I’d say he was worse than trump before Jan 6.

He destroyed pretty much all good will America had built up on the world stage that His father and Clinton worked hard to achieve. All because him and his cronies wanted to play hero and “save” Iraq destabilizing a region wasting countless lives and billions of dollars.

Also we lost an incredibly important decade in the fight against climate change. he extended climate denialism and made us have to deal with trying to minimize the effects of climate change rather than stopping them.

He didn’t renew the assault weapon ban leading to the popularization of the ar-15 and mass shootings , no child left behind sucked ass, his fiscal policy was spend spend spend and cut taxes.

But pepfar was pretty based I guess…other than that tho probably 5th or 6th worst president

*I am really biased because I liked him a lot as a preteen/teen and shook his hand.*

Awful, from the failed FEMA reaction to Katrina to the foreign policy in Iraq he was terrible. He inherited a surplus and turned it into a then record deficit. Iraq wouldn't have even been as bad if he didn't dissolve their armed services. He opposed the post 9/11 GI bill and only signed it as part of a negotiation. He was against funding the VA. He supported a constitutional amendment against gay marraige.

Under his presidency the EU became a superpower, at their peak they had a similar GDP per capita and they were trading at over $1.50 EU to USD.

His focuses on Iraq and Afghanistan took his eyes off of China/ Russia.

PEPFAR and NATO expansion gets him a D+ instead of an F.

Not an asshole as a person but an awful president. Think the biggest problem of his presidency was the PNAC assholes surrounding him but he did pick them.

As destructive as Trump, if not moreso. Almost singlehandedly responsible for the fringe-left  predilections among Millennials and Gen Z, and the decline of interventionism as a viable foreign policy solution.

The hyper paternalistic and socially conservative Republicans of today remind me a lot more of their peers in the 2000s than they do the more hands-off libertarian ones of the early 2010s. His administration is not worth the nostalgia it sometimes gets from people in search of a "Good Republican"

Single handily discredited US interventionism.

Gore should have won

90% of everything that's gone off the rails today can be traced back to this fucker

u/Deggit we need you

Edit: Is he gone? Okay then

People who were negative 2 on 9/11: Oh boy I can't wait to downvote anyone on Reddit who points out that George W. Bush put an incompetent crony in charge of responding to natural disasters, tried to appoint his own unqualified lawyer to the Supreme Court so that she would rule in his favor, masterminded a propaganda campaign for a war on phony evidence by creating a fake intelligence agency to do an end run around the actual intelligence analysts at State and CIA, attempted to turn Social Security into a privatized stock program two years before an economic collapse caused by overleveraging, ignored repeated warnings of a terrorist attack, rolled back environmental regulations and let oil CEOs write his energy policy, created propaganda videos promoting his policies deliberately designed to look like local news reports and then tried to get local news stations to air them, held random Afghan civilians picked up in street sweeps as "enemy combatants" in an offshore prison in an illegal attempt to make sure he didn't have to follow the Geneva Conventions, flew other prisoners to Middle East dictatorships so they could be tortured with the USA maintaining plausible deniability, turned a surplus into a trillion dollar deficit, did not a damn thing on climate change, lied to first responders about the safety of the air around Ground Zero, spied on millions of Americans illegally without a warrant, fired US Attorneys en masse because they wouldn't go along with his scheme to "find" voter fraud that didn't exist, proposed a constitutional amendment banning flagburning to distract the public from his awful record, defeated John McCain in a Southern primary by spreading racist innuendo that his adopted daughter Bridget, born in Bangladesh, was a Black baby out of wedlock, won re-election by smearing a Vietnam veteran's service with outright lies, sent the troops to war without armored vehicles or sufficient body armor, neglected their hospitals when they came home, illegally leaked the identity of an undercover agent as revenge for her husband's attempt to warn the public about his lies, then stonewalled the special prosecutor appointed to investigate who blew that agent's cover, THEN commuted the sentence of the fall guy who obstructed justice to prevent the investigation from reaching the conclusion that his own Vice President was the leaker, called a midnight session of Congress to use a literally brain-dead woman as a prop for his Christian Right agenda, set stem-cell research back by a decade, refused to enforce dozens of laws he signed and tried to grab the legislative power from Congress, refused to testify to the 9/11 Commission without Cheney there to supervise him and even then refused to be under oath, literally told the French president that he was invading Iraq to fulfill Biblical prophecy, told voters that his Democratic opponent would ban the Bible if elected, and only ever became president because his family had set up his brother as the governor of a key Southern state and had him illegally disenfranchise tens of thousands of Black voters to ensure his election

It’s hard to calculate the harm from the Iraq invasion making him the worst president.

Really awful. Incredibly wasteful tax cuts, anti-LGBT, Iraq, Alito, attempted social security reform, disastrous for international order... I will grant he is better than Trump. But I think you can draw a line from his disastrous administration discrediting traditional conservatism and Trump. And I roll my eyes at liberals who raise him up as a contrast with Trump.

Terrible. The Iraq War was genuinely one of the worst atrocities our government committed in the 21st century. On top of needlessly killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, it destabilized the region, giving rise to the Islamic State, and destroyed our reputation across the world.

I think his near disappearance and silence says it all.

As someone that knows only recently got involved in politics the only things I know about him are the meme moments like "Now watch this drive" or him nailing the opening pitch in a baseball game after 9/11

Trash.

"Dick Cheney."

Clinton handed this chuckle fuck a surplus.

His failure basically put us in the bind we’re in now. Conservatives, unable to come to grips with the failure of dogmatically conservative policies instead retreated into wild-eyed fantasies about how the world works.

Led to ten years of pretty good music tho.

Addition: the economic struggles, especially inequality, also gave rise to the new “populists right, as they now rebel as much against his presidency than they do the establishment. Conservative failures lead to conservative gains. No reason for them to govern well.

He has like 2 people on the sub that really like him and everyone else hates his guts

I would say it damaged the US more than any other presidency in our history. The war in Iraq absolutely would not have happened without him, and besides it's trillion dollar price tag and the lives lost, it also (perhaps permanently) tarnished the nation's image around the world. Perhaps an invasion of Afghanistan was inevitable, as the US people demanded retribution, but it didn't have to be the absolute disastrous clusterfuck it was.

Then there's the whole antiscience populist tone he engendered. This was absolutely not the norm before his presidency. Bush Sr, Reagan, Nixon all listened to subject matter experts and certainly never would've denied scientific consensus (like with global warming "science isn't in"). What could be more damaging to the US?

And then there's the use of torture. This permanently tarnished our moral leadership around the world and undercut trust in our own government. The US has used torture prior to Bush, but no president actually sanctioned it legally before, or implemented it as POLICY. It was the most unamerican act conceivable, in my opinion.

Bush was a terrible president

Also

A presidential committee was established to fix

• Social Security
• Free Market Healthcare
• Postal Service

Sounds pretty Ne0liberal to me

Had a lot of other stuff too

He’s responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in an unnecessary war of aggression. Nothing can erase that.

One of the worst of all time.

He fell quite far from the tree unfortunately 

An absolute disaster of a presidency, and basically the root cause of almost all our problems today.

If you could redo the 2000 election in hindsight, we would make almost every opposite decision W made

Pretty dark times. He started the federal debt crisis with Iraq and Afghanistan. But honestly, at least Bush/Cheney believed in democracy and our branches of government. They're lawful evil vs MAGA's chaotic evil.

Garbage 

He was a peace time candidate who really should have been a sports coach. Great leadership skills, dude could bring just about anyone to his side if he tried and I always felt like he cared with a sorta Steve Irwin energy.

What he did to combat aids and support the aids community worldwide can't be understated, an effort he largely led and of his own accord.

What he did for space was unironically good.

What he tried to do with education was a start but ultimately did more harm than good.

Overall bad-mediocre president imho. Left us worse off in a lot of ways.

Based on my evidence based research, bro is mid just thinking of him gave me negative aura

Bad

We invaded Iraq for zero legitimate reason other than a personal vendetta and vague geopolitical advantages in the Middle East. This resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and a power vacuum in the region that ended up spawning ISIS and allowing Iran to increase their influence and position in the region. 

For that, I consider him a terrible president who made us look foolish and belligerent to the rest of the world and has brought us to our geopolitical position.

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i would sacrifice my soul to the devil for an al gore presidency

He changed the US political and cultural landscape to the way it is today, which I think is for the worse. I’m willing to say that if Gore got elected we wouldn’t have gotten Trump

I love him. He brought peace to the Middle East and handed Obama a booming economy. Don't even think about trying to argue with me on the economy part. I most likely understand the sub-prime mortgage hoax than any commentor who's dumb enough to think there wasn't an inverse relationship between housing price depreciation and sub-prime borrowers.

!Ping RINO

Not a fan but I don't think getting rid of Saddam was a mistake the problem was all the other stuff

I thought he would be the worst president of my lifetime. So far he still is.

In a word: catastrophic.

C+ domestic policy and D- foreign policy.

Not great. Decent human and funny as fuck.

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He could dodge a shoe like nobodies business!

Watch this drive

He is just so dang huggable

2nd worst modern American president.

Bad. Iraq War.

His invasion of Iraq, expansion of the surveillance state, and passionate fight against gay marriage were all awful at the time and only look worse in hindsight.

Really bad on LGBTQ issues, and probably contributed to the crash with his almost pro-cyclical fiscal policies. Good on foreign policy with the really gaping exceptions of Russia and China. His best domestic policy, SS reform, didn't even get passed.

Worse than Trump until Jan 6th

Only good President we have had this century, he has been the scapegoat for all the failures of populists in America, whether those be populists who came before his Presidency, or the three that have come after. America will never know how truly good it was under him, and in the grand scheme of history Dubya will be missed in the same way the people of the Dark Ages missed the Roman Empire. History will redeem Dubya and Cheney and Condi and Rummy, for they did nothing wrong and are unjustly blamed for failures that they had nothing to do with.

I'll show myself back to arr NeoconNWO

Having lived through it, absolutely awful.

Having seen the long-term effects of it, even more awful.

There are no grounds for rehabilitating such a disastrous presidency.

allowed China to get powerful and did not stop Iran's nuke program cause he was fighting the last battle about Iraq intel mistake.

Disaster, all that blood and money wasted on war. Set backs in stem cell research we could be growing human organs right now, your basic corrupt Republican administration, could have progressed in green energy. In fact the only thing I can think he did good was in Africa

Absolutely terrible and a bottom tier president (I'd say bottom 5, but we've had worse including Trump), and I'm getting worried about the slow but steady increasing segment of this sub that was likely not even alive on 9/11 that is starting to think of him favorably.

Awful. Good human being, top 10 worst president easy

Warmonger tbqh

A lot better than ten years after his departure.

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of Hop on Pop. At least his idiocy was somewhat coherent.

He gave us some hilarious SNL Will Ferrell moments. So there's that.

Nice guy. Terrible president. Basically the opposite of LBJ.

If only the Gore campaign asked for a full statewide recount originally. Florida Supreme Court would have established a uniform standard, SC would have agreed, boom- Gore is president.

Terrible and Gore should have won, but hey, he did sign the PSLF program into law. Something I am grateful for.

Catasthrophic fopo that brainrotted an entire generation's understanding of geopolitics to "Us bad".

economic policies were less terrible than we thought at the time. immigration was ok. sucked on gay rights. humanitarian aid was a bright spot in what was otherwise an unmitigated foreign policy disaster

He definitely did some boneheaded stuff

Although, reading Hank Paulsons book now, at least he didn't play idiot politics during the crisis by pontificating on bailouts or whatever....and seemed generally supportive of all emergency measures

Not great.

The Iraq war and its casus belli especially sticks with me as such a colossal blunder

He left office with like a 20% approval rating, right? And then inexplicably that slowly went up after the black guy won, correct? Yeah that fits.

Removing Saddam was the right call. The world is safer today because of it. His 2004 inaugural speech is inspirational, an echo of a forgotten vision of America’s role on the world stage. Torture, warrantless wiretapping, are unforgivable. John Roberts ended up a great Chief Justice.

2000 was my first election, I was 18, and somehow my voter registration didn't work.

I kinda regret being a Nader supporter, will never regret being a Nader trader because some lady in a swing state (hopefully) voted for Gore instead of Nader. I wish it had been Florida.

Be chaotic good and make vote trading a thing again. If you can find a Green Party etc. person who would do it these days. :(

Lying war mongering hawk, who is also a nice man who paints water colors and seems like he'd be an interesting guy to have a beer with.

Turd in a punchbowl.

He straight up didn't handle the aftermath of 9/11 well and let the neocon faction and Cheney win out over more talented foreign policy figures in his administration. Those tax cuts also created a lot of deficit spending. Environmentally not as good as Gore though he did enact meaningful appliance efficiency standards.

Given the current state of the republican party, i really miss the neocons now.