The AP reported today that Abraham Lincoln has been ranked the best president by 65 historians in a survey conducted by C-SPAN. No surprise there; he has been voted #1 many times before.

There was one surprise, however. G. W. Bush has been ranked 24th in “pursuing equal justice for all.”

The Associated Press, according to MSNBC, reported today that Lincoln has been ranked the best president by 65 historians in a survey conducted by C-SPAN. No surprise there; he has been voted #1 many times before.

There was one surprise, however: not that G. W. Bush has been ranked 41st, but that he was ranked 24th in “pursuing equal justice for all.”

DO WHAT: ranked 24th in “pursuing equal justice for all?”

What in the hell were those “historians” smoking?

Pursuing equal justice for all? Have those “historians” ever read about Guantanamo Bay? Equal Justice! Jesus H. Christ!

Equal Justice to George W. Bush was:

• Renaming a class of people “Enemy Combatants” in order to illegally detain them for almost eight years without a trial or access to legal representation.

• Stifling any protest or dissension to any Bush policy – especially his private little wars.

• Waterboarding and other torture techniques which is violation of every principal, moral value, and policy that America has ever stood for while simultaneously condemning African and other third world countries for failing to respect human rights.

• Authorization of the reduction in government compliance with Freedom For Information Act.

• Authorizing the monitoring of attorney client conversations.

• Authorizing non-citizens to be tried by the military.

• Authorizing discrimination by barred non-citizens from working as airport scanners.

• Ordering state and local governments not to release names of people detained since 9-11.

• Spying on religious and political organizations without suspicion of criminal activity.

• The violation of due process in the Jose Padilla case.

• Initiating the TIPS Operation which deploys utility workers as government spies.

• Requiring the DOJ to fingerprint Muslim immigrants.

• Giving the DOJ gains power to deputize local and state police to enforce immigration laws.

• Passage of the Patriot Act which:
  
  o Expanded wiretap powers.
  
  o Gave law enforcement authority to detain non-citizens indefinitely for "suspicion" of terrorism.
  
  o Authorized searches and seizures without a warrant.
  
  o Authorized surveillance of "domestic terrorist" which is tantamount to surveillance of anyone he didn't like.

And these "historians" have ranked George W. Bush as the 24th best president in “pursuing equal justice for all!”

What a load of bull$*(!!

Source: Bush Administration vs the US Constitution Scorecard