Well, if it isn’t the single most idiotic piece of drivel on the entire Internet, it’s only because the competition is so very, very fierce. I get the feeling these people grew up in a country called America, on a small blue world orbiting a familiar star that we call Rigel 7.

I’ve always kind of liked Harding. Oddly enough, I think there are a lot of similarities between Harding and Gee Dubya. Harding was an activist president who accomplished quite a lot during his brief time in office: He ended Mitchell Palmer’s anti-Red witch-hunt (much worse than McCarthy’s), brought the postwar recession under control, and reined in federal spending. I believe he was even the first president to meet with leaders of the black community in the White House (probably just his way of arranging a covert family get-together).

He shared two significant characteristics with Bush: the poor man was none too articulate, and he had little or no use for the self-styled intellectual elite that had gathered around Wilson. As a result, they utterly loathed the man. Had he lived, Teapot Dome would have been a blip in what was shaping up to be an impressive administration; instead, the Democrats saw to it that Harding's name was hopelessly linked to a scandal he knew nothing about, gained no profit from, and was trying to put right.

So keep your eye on the MSM, people. If they have their way, eighty years from now you’ll be able to ask a student what they know about George W. Bush, and they’ll immediately say, “Halliburton. That’s why he was our worst president ever.”