I was somewhat surprised to see that historians consider one former U.S. president to have been more stupid than George W. Bush (pdf). I knew Warren Harding was corrupt and disengaged, but I didn’t know he had the intellect of a doorknob. They also think that Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Harding, and Franklin Pierce were worse presidents than Dubya. Oh well, at least he beat Nixon. I don’t know why Harding gets such a bad rap. It’s not like the country devolved into civil war, endured an epic financial collapse, or invaded the wrong country on his watch. Maybe he really was as bad as the others, but I don’t see it.
Poor Dubya
