Bush's Place in History.

[mkemse]

just for the records James Buckanan is viewed as the worst President ever followed very closley by Warren G Harding and as many have said it is too early to pass real judgement og Bush
But Bush was able to take the $365 Billion Dollar Surplus let by Bill Clinton and turn it into a defect faster then any President in History,, and least we forget he had by far and away took more vacation time at camp David ect then any President ever has

[wmrs2]

just for the records James Buckanan is viewed as the worst President ever followed very closley by Warren G Harding and as many have said it is too early to pass real judgement og Bush
But Bush was able to take the $365 Billion Dollar Surplus let by Bill Clinton and turn it into a defect faster then any President in History,, and least we forget he had by far and away took more vacation time at camp David ect then any President ever has

Was not the so called surplus a projection only? It never accumulated did it?

[Belgarold]

Was not the so called surplus a projection only? It never accumulated did it?

There WAS a surplus.

[DuncanONeil]

Figures in the 2008 Federal Budget report that at the end of 2001 there was a surplus of $128.2 million. Followed by a deficit of $157.8 million in 2002.
The same study projects a surplus of $61 million by 2012. Now were I cynical does that not mean that President Obama's pledge to cut the deficit to $500 million mean that he will be taking a projected surplus of $61 million down to a deficit of $500 million, an increase of $561 million?

[DuncanONeil]

Various studies agree that Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson, were the worst. Only three studies include G. W. Bush. The rank him from a high of 18 and a low of 36, far from the worst.

One can not speak to surplus and deficit as a measure of Presidential effectiveness as it is a one year figure. People seem to want to discount that the country has been on a war footing since 2003.