Worst President Ever

Helen Thomas, the veteran White House correspondent who sparred with Ari a few weeks ago, is profiled in the Californian Daily Breeze. She has some choice words for Dubya.

[Thomas] seemed to have sympathy and affection for every [President] but George W. Bush, a man who she said is rising on a wave of 9-11 fear — fear of looking unpatriotic, fear of asking questions, just fear. “We have,” she said, “lost our way.”

Thomas believes we have chosen to promote democracy with bombs instead of largess while Congress “defaults,” Democrats cower and a president controls all three branches of government in the name of corporations and the religious right.

As she signed my program, I joked, “You sound worried.”

“This is the worst president ever,” she said. “He is the worst president in all of American history.”

The woman who has known eight of them wasn’t joking.