TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: BEST & WORST US PRESIDENTS

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

BEST & WORST US PRESIDENTS

I got the following from TimesOnline:

10 Worst Presidents:
James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, Martin Van Buren, William Harrison, Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding, James Garfield, Millard Fillmore

10 Best Presidents:
Abraham Lincoln,George Washington, Franklin d. Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt,Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan,James Polk, Woodrow Wilson

Here are some thoughts running through my head today. This election is the most important I've ever participated in. The US is and has been in a terrible situation for years now. Even the perception of the rest of the world toward the US has been very negative. I don't know what the election outcome will be; polls indicate Obama will win and I pray that he does, but it has occurred to me that the people who had voted Bush into power, TWICE, owe the rest of us an apology. After all Bush and the damage he has caused the US and world happened because of their support for him.

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.