Treatment of Bush has been a disgrace

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by 33girl

People forget how HORRIBLY Truman was treated - and it didn't stop at him, it extended to his family as well. Most of it was because he didn't choose to suck Douglas MacArthur's pole and, oh, open the door for WWIII. The problem was the Dems had been in power for 20 years at that point and any time one party is in power for too long you get a backlash - just as with any celebrity who gets too big.

I don't know that I'd put W on the same level though. He has done some of the things he did for different reasons than Truman did.

Exactly - Truman was hated by a large portion of the country upon leaving office. It has only been in recent years that his reputation has been rehabilitated.

That's not to say that Bush will end up ranked as highly as Truman, but as you mentioned, it gives a good example that Bush isn't the first, and won't be the last, President to leave with low popularity rankings.