A foggy and chilly Saturday morning on California’s north coast — normal as the word ‘standard.’

Last week, as anyone paying just a gist-amount of attention would know, results from a Quinnipiac University National Poll showed President Obama the worse US president since WWII, and also included this question to respondents: How much of the time do you think you can trust the government in Washington to do what is right; almost all of the time, most of the time, only some of the time, or hardly ever?
Nearly half (49 percent) went with “some of the time,” while a big chunk (37 percent) opined with “hardly ever.”

(Illustration found here).

And in my nit-wit, non-polled view, a ludicrous survey of a mutant peoples. In a weird situation where the government is despised, the guy in charge looks bad, no matter. Obama has turned out to be a failure due mostly to him being a humongous disappointment — Obama in 2008 is as different to the one in 2014, it’s actually also ludicrous. Of course, no president has ever faced such a crowd as the current GOP — as this opening line yesterday from a piece at The Hill: President Obama has gone from “yes we can” to “so sue me.”
Which pretty-much sums up the action. Do remember, however, one of Obama’s first actions as president-elect was to appoint Tim Geithner and Larry Summers into his circle of jerks — indication right there assholes still mandate.

So anyway, back to that Quinnipiac poll on the best/worse presidents since 1945 and how anyone could put anyone above George Jr. as most-horrible chief executive is beyond the mental pale of an amnesiac mind. People do have shit for brains.
Another good, current look yesterday from Gail Collins in the New York Times on that stupendous poll, but through the eyes of the life and times of Warren Harding — who?

Opinions about presidents change. I am pointing this out mainly because it gives me an opening to bring up Warren Harding.
July is going to be Warren Harding’s month.
It’s really exciting, given the fact that Harding hasn’t had a month, or even a day, since around 1928.
“Warren Harding is best known as America’s worst president,” wrote John Dean at the beginning of his Harding biography.
Yes! This is the same John Dean who was White House counsel in the Nixon administration.
He knows about terrible presidents, and he is totally on Harding’s side.
Later this month the Library of Congress is going to open up a huge cache of love letters that Harding wrote to one of his neighbors in Marion, Ohio.
The Times Magazine will be publishing some of the most interesting missives next week.
They were sent to Carrie Phillips, who was his wife’s best friend and might conceivably have been a German spy.
If that’s not enough of a draw, I will feel forced to reveal that Harding refers to his most private part as “Jerry.”
“He was a very funny guy. Just a nice sense of humor,” said James Robenalt, who discovered copies of the letters and wrote about them in “The Harding Affair.”
Robenalt, like Dean, thinks Harding is a vastly underestimated president.

Collins details some of Harding’s achievements bordered with historical reality — interesting stuff, but the keystroke on the poll and our current worse president in US history came near the end:

Nothing nearly that interesting appears to be going on in the current White House.
Maybe the public is just bored.
“The sixth year is tough for everybody,” said Tim Malloy, a spokesman for the Quinnipiac University poll, which recently announced that it had surveyed 1,446 registered voters, about a third of whom thought Obama is the worst president since 1945.
George W. Bush came in second at 28 percent.
This isn’t all that wide a margin, until you ask yourself who was running the show when the economy crashed and Iraq got invaded.

How can anyone forget that? And so fucking fast?