Howdju — Statements Related to “Bush II was the worst president since Warren Harding died in office in 1923”

Statements Related to Bush II was the worst president since Warren Harding died in office in 1923

President Obama has kept his campaign promises (4+/2- justifications)
President Obama has kept his three core promises (4+/0- justifications)
President Obama passed a recovery act that created millions of jobs, many for teachers, firefighters, and police officers (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama's actions spurred a 73% increase in lending to small businesses, creating new jobs (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama helped hundreds of thousands of Americans keep their homes (2+/0- justifications)
President Obama cut taxes for 95% of working families (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has been working to passing health reform that would significantly bolster job growth by getting health insurance costs under control and outlawing health insurance discrimination (e.g., pre-existing conditions, gender) (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has helped the middle class (6+/1- justifications)
President Obama has closed the executive revolving door, forbidding former administration employees from lobbying when they leave the white house (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has made government more transparent and accountable (5+/0- justifications)
President Obama has improved the United State's relationship with the rest of the world (3+/0- justifications)
President Obama is winding down the war in Iraq (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama is working thoughtfully and carefully to plan the United States' involvement in Afghanistan (1+/0- justifications)
Obama is outpacing Bush II in signing statements (1+/3- justifications)
Bush II issued over 1200 signing statements during his presidency (1+/0- justifications)
Bush II issued on average one signing statement every two days during his presidency (3+/0- justifications)
Bush II and Blair agreed in 2002 to conquer Iraq (2+/0- justifications)
Between 2000 and 2006 137,000 people died because they lacked health insurance (1+/0- justifications)
75% of all income gains during the Bush administration went to the 1% wealthiest (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has not kept his promise to limit farm subsidies (0+/0- justifications)
President Obama has not kept his promise to end federal grants to strictly religious organizations (1+/0- justifications)
The US did not experience a terrorist attack while Bush II was president (1+/2- justifications)
David Addington and Alberto Gonzales convinced John Yoo to make up a legal argument that the President could authorize illegal torture (4+/0- justifications)
President Bush claimed throughout his presidency that he would leave office with a balanced budget (1+/0- justifications)
Senate Republicans interfered with President Obama's appointee nominations in unprecedented ways (1+/0- justifications)
The Obama administration is in greater violation of Geneva than even the Bush-Cheney administration (1+/0- justifications)
Only 12% of americans believe President Obama has decreased taxes (1+/0- justifications)
President Clinton ordered military strikes against Iraq in 1998 because he believed they possessed WMDs (1+/0- justifications)
DEA is busting marijuana growers despite President Obama's promise that the federal government would not pursue those in compliance with state law (1+/0- justifications)
Senior officials in Bush II's administration (including Vice President Cheney) conspired to torture detainees (1+/0- justifications)
Vice President Dick Cheney is guilty of conspiring to torture, a US federal criminal offense punishable by life imprisonment or death (4+/0- justifications)
The rate of job loss has decreased since Obama took office (1+/0- justifications)
The President of the US is not liable for civil damages resulting from any official action while in office (1+/0- justifications)
US unemployment has stopped increasing and has stabilized since Barack Obama became president (1+/0- justifications)
Job loss may have reached its maximum because of job loss saturation regardless of President Obama's administration's actions (0+/0- justifications)
US officials were authorized to use illegal "enhanced interrogation techniques" by the "torture memos" written by Jay Bybee, John Yoo, and other Office of Legal Counsel attorneys (0+/0- justifications)
Pakistan has been more cooperative with the Obama administration than the Bush administration in hunting leaders of Afghan Taliban (1+/0- justifications)
George W. Bush tried to hide US income inequality (1+/0- justifications)
Several Bush II executives conspired to commit torture (1+/0- justifications)
Colin Powell declined running for president due to fears of assassination by white supremacists (1+/0- justifications)
The Catholic church relocated child-molesting priests to the Alaskan bush in order to hide their ongoing abuse of children from attention (1+/0- justifications)
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld purposefully kept hundreds of innocent people in Guantanamo because it would have harmed their careers to admit their mistake (1+/0- justifications)
Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that slavery was the chief cause of secession in his "Cornerstone Speech" given shortly before the war (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has an unprecendented number of officials (czars) (2+/0- justifications)
Sarah Palin engages in fearmongering against president Obama (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama is capable of leading the United States military. (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has taken the harshest stance of any president in prosecuting unauthorized leaks of information by executive employees (1+/0- justifications)
General McChrystal warned President Bush II's advisors to avoid discussing the cause of Pat Tillman's death in order to avoid revealing the truth that he had died of friendly fire (1+/0- justifications)
As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy Geithner supervised Citibank's actions that lead to the largest bailout of any company (1+/0- justifications)
The Bush II tax cuts cost $1.8 trillion between 2001 and 2008 (3+/0- justifications)
In 2004 Germany hosted a BBQ for then U.S. president George W. Bush that cost €8.7M ($11M as of 2010) and hired 12K police officers for security (1+/0- justifications)
Sarah Palin will announce her candidacy for U.S. president on Sep. 11, 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska, at the Den'aina Center, with Glenn Beck (1+/0- justifications)
Fred Koch might have believed that a black president indicated a communistic takeover of the U.S. government (1+/0- justifications)
Barack Obama has increased the national debt by $2.7T in 1.5 years in order to recover from the worst economic crisis since the great depression (3+/0- justifications)
George W. Bush increased the national debt by $5.1T in 8 years to fund the invasion of two countries that were unrelated to the 911 attacks and to fund tax cuts for the wealthy (1+/0- justifications)
The U.S. national debt was $10.7T in December 2008 when George W. Bush left office (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama's primary mission for NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is reaching out to Muslim nations and helping them to feel good about themselves (1+/0- justifications)
A democratic house member called for accrual accounting of the U.S. budget during Bush's presidency (1+/0- justifications)
The Bush II administration illegally used white house resources to support Republican candidates (1+/0- justifications)
Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy is a liar (5+/0- justifications)
U.S. patents' presumption of validity stems from a respect the administrative and scientific expertise of the Patent and Trademark Office (1+/1- justifications)