This 30-second short won the "funniest ad" category in MoveOn's "Obama in 30 Seconds" contest....

Historian Robert McElvaine reported on April Fools' Day that the percentage of historians who rate George W. Bush as the worst U.S. president ever in an informal poll has soared in the past four years from 12% to 61%, with 98% of them agreeing that his presidency has been "a failure."[1]  --  “No individual president can compare to the second Bush,” said one historian.  --  “Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill.  In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large.”  --  McElvaine concurred in the consensus, notint that "Mr. Bush inherited a sizable budget surplus and a thriving economy.  By pushing through huge tax cuts for the rich while increasing federal spending at a rapid rate, Bush transformed the surplus into a massive deficit.  The tax cuts and other policies accelerated the concentration of wealth and income among the very richest Americans.  These policies combined with unwavering opposition to necessary government regulations have produced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.  Then there is the incredible shrinking dollar, the appointment of incompetent cronies, the totally inexcusable failure to react properly to the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, the blatant disregard for the Constitution — and on and on." ...