Worst President (Since The Last Really Shitty President)

In this post, Dadahead references a lively debate. I sort of agree with him...it's a relatively frivolous deal, but if nothing else it's fun. The topic: Is Bush Jr. the worst president ever? I tend to doubt it...it's not like this place was a pacifist get-away until Bush came along. I know, lefties supposedly love Clinton, but that spineless bacon-addict supported as many corrupt dictators as anyone else. Also, I think it's worth pointing out: when you have as many intelligence agencies as we do, the relevance of presidential power is greatly diminished. It's not like he's the ultimate authority over our nation's military resources. Sure, the president gets a fancy title and a nice office, but the CIA has been continuously involved with one secret war after another for more than fifty years, over-throwing democratic regimes, supporting dozens upon dozens of terrorist organizations. When you get away from the sanitized version of America's national identity things get much more complicated and ugly. If the goal of this debate is to find the bottom of the barrel, a better question might be: what's the worst American institution ever? The presidency? Congress? One of the intelligence agencies? The Cub Scouts? The David Hasselhoff fan club?