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Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:00 AM

How bad is he?

Bush ran as a moderate, tacked right and governed ineffectually -- before 9/11. Since then he's become the most radical American president in history -- and arguably the worst.

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  • Tuesday, September 12, 2006 04:07 PM

    A correction to the text

    Forgive me for not reading the whole string of letters, to see if this has already been raised...

    A correction on the first page, regarding the popular vote losers/electoral vote winners--Benjamin Harrison did NOT decline to run again. He was defeated in his bid for reelection by Grover Cleveland in 1892, making Cleveland the only US President to date who served non-consecutive terms.

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