Is Bush “The Worst President Ever?”
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Before Obama: How Bush Became “The Worst President Ever”
By Nico Isaac - Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:45:00 ET
In the wake of Democratic senator Barack Obama’s historic rise to the ranks of United States President, it’s difficult not to acknowledge his predecessor George W. Bush’s precipitous fall from that very position.
Fact is, public opinion of Bush has undergone one of the most radical about faces in recent memory: From first-term “Cowboy” with the highest approval rating in the Gallup Poll’s entire 70-year history — TO — second-term whipping boy with a record-low approval rating of 27%.
In the words of one November 5, 2008 Wall Street Journal: “It seems no matter what Mr. Bush does, he is blamed for everything.” And, according to the experts, “W″ will undoubtedly go down in the book as the “Worst President Ever.”
Contrary to popular belief(s), according to socionomics – the new science of history and social prediction based on the Elliott Wave Principle – the REAL reason behind Bush’s fall from grace is not “policy” (say the leftists), “scapegoating″ (say the rightists), or a “breakdown of bipartisanship” (say the middle-ists). It is: A downturn in mass social mood, as reflected by the bear market decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.