In about 9 months from now, the President of the United States will be leaving office, so now is a good time to assess his presidency.

Some people love him, some people hate him. You never really hear from the ones that love him, though. Somehow he's always been associated with hatred. I got to thinking about it a few days ago, watching the Washington National's (my home baseball team) home opener in their new stadium, where Bush himself had come to throw the first pitch. But when he came out, the crowd reaction was hardly positive- plenty of people applauded, but a lot of it was drowned out by the spiteful booing. That made me really sad. I mean, besides the disrespect for the president of their own country, what are these people teaching the kids who were watching? We tell them not to act out of hatred, but apparently that doesn't apply to the President of the U.S.A.?

I recently saw a poll that showed his approval ratings at an all-time low: about 31%. Still, this was higher than the ratings of Hoover, Truman, Johnson, Nixon, and Carter, so I hardly see where all this worst-president-ever stuff is coming from. He's made mistakes, and overall he hasn't shown very much intelligence, but I don't think he's anywhere near as bad as some people make him out to be.


So, worst president ever? Or great and underrated? Ultimately, only the Americans of the future will be able to decide this.

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