This is just my opinion and I realize that Bush has been handed a difficult set of circumstances, but the lack of his administration to handle crisis has made me think of none other than our worst President ever, Mr. Calvin Coolidge. After a slow reaction to 9/11 and now to hurricane Katrina, I don't know what other President to compare him to then to the roaring 20's man himself. For those of you that don't know who Coolidge is, he lead the administration that lead our country into the Great Depression. Here are some excerpts that I read from a website on Coolidge. There are some subtle and some obvious similarities: ---Clinton's actions in office ring a bell anyone?---- ---Bush doesn't seem to care for world politics either--- ---This one is the kicker. Has Bush been photographed chopping wood lately?--- Can we learn from history or is it too late?
Calvin Coolidge the worst president in history? Can't be. Without him we wouldn't have the "Coolidge Effect": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolidge_effect In biology, the term Coolidge effect describes the re-arousal of a male animal by the introduction of a new female. Some researchers think that exposure to the pheromones of a new female is a significant factor in this phenomenon. The term comes from an old joke according to which President Calvin Coolidge and his wife visited a government farm one day and were taken around on separate tours. Mrs. Coolidge, passing the chicken pens, inquired of a supervisor whether the roosters copulated more than once a day. "Yes," the man said. "Dozens of times." "Tell that," Mrs. Coolidge replied, "to the President!" Some time later the President, passing the same pens, was told about the roosters - and about his wife's remark. "Same hen every time?" he asked. "Oh, no, a different one each time," the supervisor replied. "Tell that," Coolidge said with a sly nod, "to Mrs. Coolidge." The Coolidge effect has sometimes been mentioned as an explanation of why pornographic images (of the female) are exciting to the male.
Coolidge wasn't a stellar President by any means but I don't think he was the worst one we ever had. Andrew Johnson, US Grant, and James Buchanan all come to my mind before Coolidge.
I knew there was a reason I liked Bush. Coolidge was my favorite president ever. When told by a woman at a White House gathering that she had bet she could make him say more than two words, President Coolidge replied, "You lose."
