what do you think about are president?\nI personally don't like him very much does anyone have any other opinions, or resons why they don't?
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Here is 25 reasons for ya. \n\n25 REASONS TO FEEL BAD ABOUT BUSH\n\nEconomic Indicators\n\n1. The unemployment rate averaged 4.1 percent in 2000 and reached a 30 year low of 3.9 percent in October 2000. Today, the unemployment rate has increased to 5.7 percent. There are presently 8.1 million unemployed Americans, an increase of 2.5 million compared to 2000\n\n2. The number of Americans experiencing long-term unemployment-over 27 weeks-has almost doubled in the last year.\n\n3. Job creation has reversed. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the economy created 1.7 million new jobs. This trend has been reversed, and the economy has lost almost 1.5 million jobs since President Bush took office in January 2001.\n\n4. Poverty is increasing. After decreasing for eight straight years and reaching its lowest level in 25 years, the poverty rate increased from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 11.7 percent in 2001. In the first year of the Bush administration, 1.3 million Americans slipped back into poverty, with a total of 32.9 million Americans living in poverty in 2001.\n\n5. Incomes are falling. After increasing every year since 1991, and reaching an all time high in 2000, median household income in the United States fell 2.2 percent in 2001. Median incomes fell for households in every income group in the country except for those earning over $150,000.\n\n6. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are filing for bankruptcy. Almost 800,000 Americans filed for bankruptcy in the first half of 2002. In the second quarter of 2002, over 400,000 bankruptcies were filed in the United States, an all-time record.\n\n7. Mortgage foreclosures are at record highs. In the second quarter of 2002, 1.23 percent of home loans were in the foreclosure process, a record level. Over this same time period, almost 5 percent of mortgage loans were delinquent, up almost 20 percent from the average delinquency rate in 2000.\n\n8. The federal budget deficit is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, showed a surplus of $86.6 billion. The most recent figures from the Congressional Budget Office indicate that for FY 2002, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, will show a deficit of $314 billion.\n\n9. This represents the largest budget decline in U.S. history, and it is the third-largest on-budget deficit in history, exceeded in size only by the deficits of 1991 and 1992 under the first President Bush. Health Care Indicators\n\n10.The number of Americans without health insurance is increasing. Between 1999 and 2000, the number of uninsured Americans fell by 600,000.\n\n11. But this trend has reversed itself and in 2001 the number of uninsured Americans increased by 1.4 million.\n\n12. Over 41 million Americans — 14.6 percent of the population — had no health insurance coverage in 2001.\n\n13. The percentage of small businesses offering insurance to their employees fell by 10 percent between 2000 and 2002.\n\n14. Insurance costs increased by 12.7 percent in 2002, the second consecutive year of double-digit increases and the largest annual increase in costs since 1990.\n\n15. Prescription drug prices increased by almost twice the rate of inflation in 2001.\n\n16. For seniors, who use the most prescription drugs, cost increases were even higher. The cost of the 50 most popular drugs for seniors increased by 7.8 percent in 2001, over three times the rate of inflation. The price of Prilosec, the most popular drug for seniors, increased at over four times the rate of inflation.\n\nCrime and Drug Use Indicators\n\n17.The crime rate is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the crime rate reached its lowest level since 1972. This represented the culmination of a 22 percent decrease in crime during the 1990s.\n\n18. But in 2001, the crime rate increased by 2.2 percent. The murder rate increased by 3.1 percent, the robbery rate increased by 3.9 percent, and the
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Have you noticed every day on the news, headline is Bush DEFENDS this decision, Bush DEFENDS that decision, I am wondering the same thing. His approval rating is down to a point that he should take notice that he is not representing the majority of American people. Some of his decisions may even be dangerous to the American people. Examples are the ports deal and now that nuclear deal with India. To me the way it has been going lately I will breathe a sigh of relief when his term is over.
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What on earth does this have to do with his politics? Have you Americans run out of things to say about how rubbish he is as a President? Surely there are still things to say...\n\nOr is it that time in his presidency when you all start going on at him about his sex life a la Bill Clinton, or in this case the complete opposite of Bill Clinton?\n\nIf you can't ask a sensible question, don't ask one at all!
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We are praying for a new president, please join us, every little bit helps.\n\nAmerican citizens are actually good hearted people for the most part.
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Frankly, I support all Presidents.  Even the Presidents I didn't vote for.\n\nI may not like what they stand for or do.  But they were elected and deserve our support.\n\nBesides, they make decisions on information they get and we don't.  They are human and do the best job they can.
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Yes, I love that guy!  Well, not really LOVE him, but you know what I mean! LOL.  I really thought he was a great president myself.
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I am not against George Bush. He is a decent honest man. He cares about this country, both present and future. However, he is only one man and too many people want to blame him, or the government for their own stupid problems and lousy choices in life. How can anybody blame one person for all their problems. We have a huge government from local on up. On one hand people like you hate George Bush, on the other you act as if though he has the power of God. If everybody would accept responsibility for their own actions and not expect the government to solve all their problems, the country and the world would be a much better place. Why do hate him? If you live in the United States you have more opportunity than most people in the world. How is George Bush messing up your life? What are you doing to make life better in this country? I would like to hear it.
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People like John above me here need me to keep them in check and bring them back to reality a little.\n\n:-)\n\nOh, okay ... John makes me think quite a bit, too, and brings up good points often.\n\nRealistically, though, the ones we can do without are the people who scream shrill rhetoric without backing it up. I don't care if someone is liberal or conservative AS LONG AS THEY KNOW WHY. Too many people yell, "Impeach Bush!" because it is the cool thing to do. To many people back the administration without understanding WHY they do.\n\nThat's my two cents ...
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Quote: "Why do so many people still vote for him?"\n\nWell, Americans are like a flock of sheep, they all do what the other does.\nThey are just as dumb as well, because they still stick with this Potus even though they can see that he is fecking up their own and other countries as well.\nPlus they make all their decisions by television, if they see something or someone on the tele who says they will do something, they'll vote for him without even checking him out.\nLike Bush jr. \nIn my opinion they only voted him Potus just for the fact that he's a Bush.\nThey never even thought about what troubles he can start.\nLike these wars, Bush only started these because his daddy did that as well and he just had to show everybody that he can do it better than his old man.\nWell, take a good look again jr, you failed big time!\nAs for the freedom to have a gun, the biggest mistake they've ever made.\n\nNote: THIS IS ALL MY OWN OPINION.\nDon't burn me off for saying, please.
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wy {why} is are govement so stuped?{stupid}\n\n    It seams {seems}like everone {every one} in govement {government} is stuped {stupid}. Wy{Why} did thay{they} git {get}allected {elected}? im {I'm} sick of it!\n Hope this helps you out!
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I admit that I feel a bit used by our President. I voted for him, after a personal struggle of decision, because I opted for any chance at right to life issue passage. Yes, it seems he has not followed through as ardently as I would have hoped. But you, questioner, seem more upset than I am. It seems, though, that with any politician, from any state, red or blue, from any party, in the end must negotiate, and no voter seems to get exactly what he/she wants done. Such is life. \n\nCome, Lord Jesus, And right soon. \n\nGood question. \n\n<><
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Ya know, I'm no fan of Bush.\nI DO respect the office of president, but Bush is a joke.\nI will, however, give him credit for making light of his faults.\nIts just too bad that America is the butt of the joke, thanks to "W".\nAnd please - someone tell me the punch line to the rumor that Jeb Bush is considering a run for prez.
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I don't hate him.  Actually, I think he is just superior for the way he has handled all of these half-ass comments with no basis.  God bless the President of the United States!
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As a person maybe, as a president he is better than was the option but he leaves a lot to be desired. I am on his side for most issues but not all and I find him to at least be willing to do what he believes to be right. That is rare in politics. He will make the hard choices and stand behind them and that takes balls in his line of work.
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since you can not rate a president during his term , but after 15 to 20 years. we need to see where the middle east and terrorist power stand after his stance. Good economy more jobs more people starting their own business. sure he will be rated as a good president.
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I like President Bush and I think he is doing the best job possible during a period in history that is very difficult and dangerous. I think he will go down in history as one of the better presidents-- not necessarily well liked, but better. There's nothing that says he has to be liked, but he should do the best job that he can, and I think he is doing that.\n\nAs to why people dislike President Bush and slam him so, I think there are several reasons. One is the movie put out by the hatemonger Michael Moore. The man is so filled with bitterness, it is evident that he wants to blame somebody for what hapened, but he seems to be afraid of agreeing with the rest of the world that the perpetrators are the ones who have boasted that they did it.\n\nWhat is even more frightening is that he has convinced others to hate blindly-- all the while pretending that he is fair and unbiased-- so the people he has led into hatred also think they are being fair and unbiased!\n\nThe media have played their part. Good news does not sell newspapers, as an old saying goes, and this is also true of tv news. By selectively choosing polls and slanting questions, it is possible to make the popularity numbers imply almost anything. Once more, let us remember that this is not a popularity contest, but a serious job.\n\nI cringe when I hear people say, "If I was President I'd do this and I'd do that" when it is clear from what they say that they haven't any idea of what the President's powers and responsibilities are.\n\nI have already given several Answers on the topic of the war in Iraq and related subjects; for those who are interested in hearing what I have to say instead of blindly disagreeing with me, I welcome all to check them out instead of repeating myself here.\n\nI will limit my comments to two things. Saddam Hussein did have unconventinal weapons of mass effect; one of the most dangerous was counterfeiting of American currency on the grand scale, which was weakening the American economy. He was trying to do to us what we did to the Soviet Union with our 'Star Wars' spending years ago: cause incredible inflation and eventually bring down the national political system. It was a deliberate attack.\n\nSecondly, Saddam Hussein claimed and boasted of being involved with nuclear research, much as Iran is doing at this very instant. He wanted the entire world to believe that he had or was on the verge of getting nuclear technology. If at any point he wished to reassure the nations of the world, all he had to do was to allow the UN weapons inspections teams into Iraq and let them do their work. He refused. He wanted to control the rest of the world by means of fear.\n\nTo draw an analogy, when a man threatens a cop with a gun, the cop does not have to determine whether it is a real gun or a water pistol. That man is simply bought and paid for; his death is on his own head. If he did not want to take the risk of being shot, he should not have threatened the cop and has no right to complain.\n\nSaddam is an enormously swollen version of a schoolyard bully. He wanted to intimidate the rest of the world into giving in to him, or leaving him alone until he could become even more powerful. \n\nWell, he succeeded in intimidating the rest of the world. But we had a responsibility to see to it that he didn't retain that power, in addition to the ability to attack us economically. He has nobody but himself to blame for prompting us to attack him and remove him from his power base.\n\nIf anything, we should have taken Saddam down back at the time of the first Gulf War. President Bush is, unfortunately, reaping the consequences of the USA being a nation that acts with restraint and adheres to the doctrine of minimum use of force. That is not HIS fault.
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I'm a repulican and I don't think he will be considered a good president. I don't think he is a good president. When he was Governor of Texas, he was a very good Governor. He bult a lot of new roads (which we needed), he imporved education and was very good at reaching across the aisle to democrats. Our Lt. Governor was Bob Bullock(a democrat) and he endorsed Bush for Prez. I don't know what happened to him once he reached Washington.