the fantasy of being able to judge without a crystal ball.
The measure of who was (or) was not a good modern day president, belongs to future generations ...
NOT to us.
If I
WERE to make a judgement, I am
NOT positive that I could keep my personal negative feelings against the present President of the United States out of the balance scale. As far as I am concerned, he is a criminal (not because he sent soldiers into harms way), but because he has conspired to break our laws (my opinion).
I know that
NOT everyone feels as I do ... that
IS the problem with you or I trying to judge where present Presidents stand in the scales of the judgement of their presidencies.
When MM posted "If you really want to measure the worst, that would be Bush (all of the below). Followed by Buchanan (allowed the Civil War to occur), Harding (Corrupt), Hoover (obsolete, ideologue and ineffective). Dishonourable mentions: Carter (ineffective), Wilson (dishonest), A.Johnson (coddled the confederacy, killed reconstruction), Reagan (ineffective, obsolete, dishonest) and Jackson (a plethora of bad ideas)" ..............
If he had left Bush, Carter and Reagan out if his arguments ... I could probably agree with him.
When you are too close to the tree, it is difficult to know whether the forest is a large one (or) whether you are standing too close to the only tree standing. That is the same thing with judging modern day presidents ... we can
NOT see the long term consequences of their presidencies.
That can
ONLY be done from the perspective of the passage of time.
By the way ... Mr Johnson (author of the article), seems to be a liberal and Democrat hating member of one of our fringe elements who hates anything to do with Liberalism or the Democratic Party (that is ALSO my opinion).
This is the same FrontPageMag where one of their columnists was convicted of libel
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/9324928.html