America's worst president - ever

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Posted by Mike Scott on March 30, 2008 at 13:48:04

Glendora, CA 91741
March 30, 2008

Professor Joseph S. Nye Jr.
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 124
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Dear Professor Nye: Re: “Vision, luck and legacy”

Your Los Angeles Times article of today concludes that President Bush will “more likely be seen as a victim of his reckless judgment and self-created bad luck”. Although I’m neither a professor nor a historian, I’ll take bets that Mr. Bush will go down in history as this nation’s worst president, -ever. “Zero + zero = zero” is one concept that comes to mind. Another is “low grade ore”.

I’ve included the comments** of a former colleague, one of President Bush’s Harvard MBA professors, Yoshi Tsurmi. Professor Tsurmi nailed it when he said that Mr. Bush “lacks the character and intellect to lead the world's oldest and most powerful democracy”. Had Mr. Bush been president during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world would now be a dead planet.

Max Lerner stated just after the Chappaquiddick incident, “The whole point of the Presidential office in a crisis era is that it is bound to be a succession of crisis moments, each of them requiring that the president stretch himself to the outmost limit of his strength, judgment and humanity. That is how it must be, whether for Republican or Democrat. The office measures and stretches the man to the breaking point, not the man the office.” By this realistic norm, George W. Bush is relegated to the bottom rung of all American presidents.

It’s my hope that President Bush’s floundering tenure will serve as a wakeup call in all future presidential elections about the awful consequences of electing the infirmed.

Sincerely,


Michael Scott

**http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/16/tsurumi/index.html?sour



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