When Bush makes decisions based on the overall interest of the U.S. Do you feel he's making those decisions based on a honest and true care for America & it's Citizens? Or do you feel he is Partisan to those that serve his own interests??
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What do you think?  He's got cronies all over the oilfield, and they're all getting richer at the expense of our soldiers, and those of the U.N.
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Yes, it's still very true! I've also heard somewhere that people deserve the kind of president they elect (not that Bush was actually democratically elected, or anything). If people are willing to sit idly by and let their country turn into a dictatorship, they deserve whatever they get!
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How fickle people are, these polls out today are a joke. I would like to see this question posed...what don't you like about Bush, factually, not just off the cuff running your mouth...give me facts.\n\nIsn't it interesting that some 96% of the US population approved of the war in Iraq 4 years ago?  Yet, they don't approve now, sorry folks, you don't just change your mind about war in midstream.  It doesn't work that way.  We didn't have it easy during many wars, and didn't give up and pull out, eventually the tables turned and we were very successful.  I think of the Revolutionary war, WW1 and  WWII.  People seem to forget that we activly fought WWII for 4 years (after it was already in progress for 3 years).  It was awful, it was tough, but we got dragged into it by Japan, just like the terrorists draged us into this one.\n\nSo why is Bush great?  Number one, he has named his priorities and goals and stuck with them.  The economy is very strong, growing so fast the Feds can't raise interest rates fast enough.  I can't see what it is that Americans can blame Bush for when it comes to the economy, most of the damage was done by the terrorists on 9/11.  Bush said he belived in tax cuts, he didn't want new taxes and he wanted Americans to have more money in their pockets so they spent more.  All of the above happened.  I didn't see anyone complaining when they got their $300.00 a few years ago.  The democrats are dying to use taxes to lower the deficit...okay, that means our money folks, you okay with that?\nThere is a time a place for everything, raising taxes during war is not the way to go.\n\nWe have not had another attack on American soil.  If you want to keep the terrorists from attacking innocent Americans, send the military to the terrorists, keep them occupied and kick their asses somewhere else.  The men in the military are all for being out there kicking terrorism in the butt.  That is their job, they signed up for it and trained for it.  They don't just want Americans support they want success, that means letting them finish the job.  Some of these men and women are on their 4th and 5th tours, and wanting to go back for more.\n\nBush tells it like it is.  If he screws up he acknowledges it.  He doesn't mess around with anything.  He gets to the point and moves on.  You can tell how much he learned from his dad and President Regan.  Sometimes he so reminds me of Regan it's astonishing.  \n\nI'm sorry but when Hurricane Katrina came and Bush got the report on the dykes a few days before landfall..what was he going to do about them?  Send peple out to dump dirt on them?  It was too late to rebuild, it was not feasable to get everyone out of the City, hell that shouldn't even be the governments job to do that.  We have been through 3 direct Hurricane landfalls in 2 years where I live in Ft. Pierce, FL (not to mention the 4 indirect storms and depressions) and we took care of ourselves.  This is the land of the elderly.  If we had waited for the government we would have been standing in waist deep water for weeks.   Bush came and saw us, he gave us support, it's more emotional than anything else.  That is what we needed, when you dont' have TV, radio, phone, you feel very isolated.  Having your President come to see you is a great moral booster.  He is very good at that.\n\nBush has reached the point where he really doesn't care what everyone thinks about him.  He is out for doing what he thinks is best for America, not whats best for the social circle.  So if the other countries don't like it well, I'm sorry, but that is the way it is.  As soon as everyone begins to wake up and realize that we are all targets, we will be better off as a nation and a world.  If your President doesn't look after you first, then what good is he?  It's like having a dead beat dad...no thanks, I'll take GW!
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You're right about it not meaning 60% approval for Democrats.  That is very true and people need to remember that.\n\nYou have to remember, though, that the rating Bush has right now is bad and it shows that the majority of hte country DOESN'T approve of him, right?\n\nDemocrats have lots of problems but their problems (for the most part) aren't hindering Bush.  His choices are his own and therefore his rating is his own too.  He's earned all this that he's caused.  The question is, have our soldiers?\n\nIn all truth, if what Bush said was 100% true all the time then of course I'd get behind him.  We'd already have gotten Bin Laden and stabalized Iraq, but they've miscalculated and mistakes happened.  I know all presidents do it, but it doesn't mean we can forget Bush's failures.\n\nDon't worry, it's not like I like Clinton either.  You can't support a leader 100% all the time.  That's just not American.
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Quite frankly,its not an everyday Republican or a Democrat that is always in the headlines.Its people like Bible thumpers on the right and hippies so stoned out of their minds to know what they are protesting that get the headlines.I am a Republican.Not because I am ultra conservative,but I see them as a class of action and ideas.They are proclaimed as the group who listens to nobody but really all they do is listen and actually act upon it.I am a firm beleiver in the powers that be work for us,not us for them.So when something is wrong.It seems the right is more of the party not afraid to get some dirt on the hands to help while others sit there still trying to find something wrong with what my side is doing.Im not all for my side.Alot of bad people in it and I know that.The President is not one of them to my notion.It is his staff in which he trust too much and have got him into alot of thick water.All political areas have their own agendas,but it just seems the Republicans are actually more in line with what matters rather than what gets you the most face time on CNN or Fox news.
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I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY!!! It's about time that someone had the guts to speak up and say it like it is.\n\nGeorge W. Bush...is by far one of the best presidents that we have had the honor of having in office for a very very long time. Yes, he has made some mistakes but what we need to look at is the % of what he's done right vs. what he has goofed on. \n\nI beleive that we did the right thing by going to the Middle East. The TERRORISTS are destroying this country, it's up to us...American citizens. To stand behind our president and give him the much needed support that he deserves. \n\nGOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!! & GOD BLESS GEORGE W. BUSH!!!!!
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LOL Please, only people who think he's a good president are hard core republicans.\n\nDont get be wrong, Im solidly middle of the road on most issues, i support our millitary 100%. I think Bush needs beter advisers, cause I dont think he's got the right stuff to be the Top man. Partly politics is bad for this country, that goes for Democrates, Commies, Libratarians or what ever. \n\nI'm all for some of the things George W has done, I just think he did a poor job on almost everything he's got involved in.
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Hathaway, I am disappointed.  When was dissent un American? \nIf this administration was more ethical, do you think there would be this great a degree of resentment?  I am guessing if the Republicans were ethical, they probably would not have been " elected " . \n\nI think what you are confusing here is how I and some others like me support the Constitution and the Republic.  We just don't associate these things with the Bush administration. \n\nThis administration has more in common with Julius Caeser's power grab than being our elected representatives.\nThis is what comes of a culture that values winning above all else - or thinks that the ends justify the means. \n\nBesides, the Taliban take too long to get back to you after you send in a resume and cover letter.  I never liked the benefits or the commute and Al Quada is mostly about outsourcing and defending weak products.
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You said we don't have to agree, right?  Well, we seem to agree that Bush is deceitful and foolish, and this is something I have believed since a long time ago.  But I do no longer feel quite as threatened by Bush's tenure as I used to feel.  His first four years in office were atrocious, and it is only now that people are realizing it.  On the other hand, his second administration--save for the tragedy of the Alito nomination to the Supreme Court--has been and is likely to continue to be substantially better (not to say it will be good, ever!).   This second Bush administration is learning to navigate the difficult waters of international diplomacy, and since it is less powerful, it can do less harm.  So I'm not concerned with Bush.  I'm far more concerned with the Republican party, which is--in my humble opinion--orders of magnitude worse than Bush.
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I have problems With President Bush, but I believe that he has gotten some bad advice and has surrounded himself with people who don't have the nation's best interest at heart.  I voted for him simply because I didn't want Kerry to become leader of the free world.  As for my vote, who knows, it might count, it might not.  I still vote with high hopes and low expectations.
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Honestly, no president can be trusted.  I feel that Bush definitely has questionable tendencies and does not have the interest of the country in mind, but there have been former presidents who did the same thing.\n\nPresidents are figureheads.  They are not to be treated as if all-knowing and all-wise.  Most were lawyers before, they became congressman, and we all know what's up with lawyers!  They do what's best for their clients.\n\nDon't think that other countries are that different either.  They run in a similar corrupt fashion.
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First and foremost, I am "for" the United States.  I am sick and tired of the partisan bickering.  I support our President wholeheartedly, which doesn't necessarily mean I agree with absolutely everything he does, but he has my respect and support.  Bush is a decent man. Kerry, on the other hand, is an egg sucking dog.
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whose against Clinton.  I love clinton in a political way of course.  If you could love a person in a political way.  Clinton tbanks for caring about every American even the conservatives.  Unlike Bush.
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It is just another move in a long line of them that highlights Bush's penchant for self-righteousness.  To him, it matters not that the majority of the American people don't approve of him, his tactics, or his job performance.  Right after the mid-terms he was all welcoming and talking about working together with the Democrats.  I hoped for once he was being forthright and truthful, but lately I've realized that a leopard really doesn't change its spots.  The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior and there you have it.  For the next two years it's going to be a battle in Washington D.C.  I was stunned by his declaration that civil war is not happening in Iraq.  That man has the worst case of tunnel vision I have ever seen in a President.  It's a sure sign of egomania when someone is unable to ever admit they are wrong about anything.  Honestly, this man is the worst President I have ever witnessed in office, and I've been alive long enough to remember Nixon like it was yesterday.
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You sound like a sentimental Democrat.\n\nI'm sorry, you'll never figure out anything while you're in that mood.  Specifically, the whole line of reasoning that politicians make decisions based on who they like and who they hate is ragingly improbable.  The human mind is "locked" and doesn't love or hate anyone when it is in the middle of putting on an act.  The Greeks had this right, their word for "actor" was "hypocrite."\n\nThe strings that pay for Bush tug on him and urge him to prattle about open immigration and "guest workers."  So he does.\n\n"W" doesn't love or hate the Mexicans.  He looks upon fellow Americans as cannon fodder.  He loves PRESTIGE, the God his mother taught him to worship.  He thinks prestige as a puppet is better than being a commoner.  He'd rather destroy the country than abandon this precious notion of his.\n\nAs for whether Bush is mentally ill, I'm not a psychiatrist.  I'm just a retired bookkeeper.  But let me say I have very deep suspicions about his mental stability.  And since we are borrowing $2 billion a day from overseas, I know that he can't f*cking count or do arithmetic such as single entry bookkeeping.
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Yes I would. I honestly believe that he is one of the few who actually do care about our country. He had the unfortunate opportunity to be the president who had to deal with 9/11. We should have just bombed them like we did the Japanese after Pearl Harbor and get it over with. Don't criticize him for following his heart in what he thought was the right thing to do. If you don't want to fight in a war, don't sign up in the military. It kills me how many complain, but they signed up. Do they expect to be in the military for an education? If so, go to college, not the military. These people have dedicated their lives to protecting the rights and freedoms of the citizens of this country and if that is not why they signed up, then they made a huge error in judgment in what they thought the military stands for.
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Bush is crazy, when he thinks God wanted him to be President. That's la la land for sure, so what makes you think any of his decisions were sane at all? I personally think he is acting like an alcoholic more everyday now. It's really sad America has such poor leadership during troubled times as these with the Oil Companies raping America.