{"id":2387,"date":"2008-04-07T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T12:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2008-04-07T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T12:33:43","slug":"worst-president-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2387","title":{"rendered":"Worst. President. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/archive\/2008\/04\/hbc-90002804\">Scott Horton (from Harper's Magazine)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>History News Network\u2019s poll of 109 historians found that 61 percent of them rank Bush as \u201cworst ever\u201d among U.S. presidents. Bush\u2019s key competition comes from Buchanan, apparently, and a further 2 percent of the sample puts Bush right behind Buchanan as runner-up for \u201cworst ever.\u201d 96 percent of the respondents place the Bush presidency in the bottom tier of American presidencies. And was his presidency (it\u2019s a bit wishful to speak of his presidency in the past tense\u2013after all there are several more months left to go) a success or failure? On that score the numbers are still more resounding: 98 percent label it a \u201cfailure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/media\/image\/blogs\/misc\/mcelvainepoll4-1-08-a.gif\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tee hee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Horton (from Harper's Magazine): History News Network\u2019s poll of 109 historians found that 61 percent of them rank Bush as \u201cworst ever\u201d among U.S. presidents. Bush\u2019s key competition comes from Buchanan, apparently, and a further 2 percent of the sample puts Bush right behind Buchanan as runner-up for \u201cworst ever.\u201d 96 percent of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}