Is it irony or is it insanity?  Sometimes it’s real hard to tell.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who apparently had a Chatty Cathy doll installed with his new heart, has made it very clear that Barack Obama is the worst president ever.   Okay, so he didn’t say “ever.”  He said “in my lifetime,” which is fundamentally ever.  Cheney will say that to anyone with earlobes.

Not so fast, Dick.

The History News Network conducted an informal poll on Thursday asking American historians from the nation’s top research universities and liberal arts colleges to grade the presidency of George W. Bush on an A-F scale, based on fourteen different metrics, ranging from foreign policy to the economy to transparency and accountability.

Wanna know how ole W did?

Sixty-four historians responded. Thirty-five — over half — rated his presidency an outright failure.

“Thank you, God, for this opportunity,” one professor, a faculty member at one of the service academies, wrote in a comment. “He was not qualified to be president and it showed for eight long years.”

You can read more here and see how historians think the same thing you do.

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.