Sooo......... What do you guys think of Bush and what he is doing in Presidency?
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I have mixed feelings.  I definately think that the Iraq situation is totally out of control.  But, I think he handled 9/11 pretty well.  No matter how much he tries to connect the two, in my mind they are totally separate things.  I don't think he is to blame for New Orleans (like some people out there do).  I'm glad that Saddam Hussein is out of power, but, sometimes I wonder if the cost of bringing him to justice is too high.  \n\np.s.  I hate it when people just use entirely emotion-based arguments when discussing politics, like when people say, "I hate Bush!  He's so stupid!  etc. etc. etc."  There is a way to discuss ideas about politics and government without losing your cool.  This is also why I hate CNN and FoxNews and all of those other sensationalistic news channels.
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This is what I think of Bush and our Government.\nBUSH IS A PUPPET so he can be all the idiot he wants to be.  This administration and their cronies have made a real mess of things. They have based their agenda on out right lies to the American people.\nThey say they want to help the elderly and yet want to destroy Social Security.\nThey said they would get those terrorists, yet Ben Laden is still free.\nThey said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but they did not.\nThey said they would lower taxes, but didn’t mention that was for the rich.\nThey said that they would stop Americans from being killed by terrorists, yet we lost over 2,000 of our men and women fighting them.\nThey spent billions on propaganda to sell us their lies.\nThey say Social security is going broke, but leave out how they barrow (steal) money from it.\nThey said to fear not they were ready for Katrina to hit, yet they dropped the ball and thousands suffered and died.\nThey said they would fix the national debt, yet they made it bigger than ever.\nThey are so lazy in guarding our borders that civilians have to guard it.\nThey want to let illegal immigrants work, but they do little to put Americans to work.\nThey apologize for high gas prices, yet they are all major share holders in oil companies and have helped the oil companies make more profit.\nThey have killed over 30,000 Iraqis citizens and started what many call a civil war there.\nThey have cut spending on many social programs that helped the poor and the middle class.\nTheir No Child Left Behind act is a joke and has done nothing to help kids.\nThere released the name of a CIA agent, then lied about it.\nLook at how many are having criminal charges against them in the GOP.\n\nI COULD GO ON AND ON ABOUT ALL THEIR SCREW UPS AND CORRUPTION.\nYes impeach! And soon! For it will take decades to undo what they have done.\nHistory will call this the most corrupt administration in American history
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Bush is a sad case, he is so out of control that he doesn't realize it, but in his defense the lack of control is not necessarily his fault.  He has a cabinet of slimy corrupt money/power hungry friends that are influencing his decisions in a very detrimental way.
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I have met the current president when he was Govenor of TX.\n\nHonestly, I found him to be a very smart person, not just intelligent, but smart (there is a difference).  He has a great sense of humor and is very much a people person.\n\nI think the job he is doing now as president is a very complex one.  Perhaps he would be viewed in a better light had it not been for the 9/11, war in Iraq, the two recent hurricanes, but there is no telling whether anyone else could have done any better (in spite of the Democrats saying they could have).\n\nIf you ever have the chance to meet him, do.  I am sure you will find him fun to be around and very accomodating.\n\nIn addition I have met Reagan and G.H.W. Bush (but he was VP at the time).\n\nIt is an experience you will never forget.
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I voted for the first Bush and the second. I am not ashamed to say and no I do not regret it. He is doing a great job. What have you done for our country?
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I believe that Bush has done and continues to do more damage to this country than any other president in the history of the United States.  He managed to turn unprecedented international support into unprecedented international disdain.  He has invaded a sovereign nation for no apparent reason, overextending the military and diverting resources form the legitimate military campaign (the one aimed at actually finding the people who attacked us).  He sent military forces into Iraq with no viable exit plan (which was obvious to many of us from the start and has since become obvious to most).  He has turned an record fiscal surplus into a record fiscal deficit.  He has trampled, and continues to trample, on the bill of rights.  He has forced congress to approve the appointments of radically conservative judges, who will continue to errode our civil rights for years to come.  He has spent billions of dollars on an unnecessary war while schools accross the country are discontinuing art, PE, music, even science and history classes due to lack of funding; entire schools are closing resulting in larger class sizes; special ed programs are being closing.\n\nOK guys, I don't think the asker meant he *literally* wanted to replace Bush with Nixon, but rather that Nixon did less damage as president than Bush is doing.  I expect he knows he's dead...  Although, I must agree that a dead Nixon would be better than Bush in that at least he couldn't actively harm or nation.  For that matter a grapefruit would make a better president than Bush.\n\n_____________\n>>>Do any of you liberals have an original thought in your head \n>>>that DIDN'T come from moveon.org or Micheal Moore?\n\nFrom what I can tell the ONLY thoughts in your head are "Bush good" and "liberals bad."  My political opinions are based on my personal morals, my own observations, and my interpretation of what I read in the news.  Yours appear to be based on a misguided believe that anyone who did not vote for Bush is a terrorist.  Perhaps there is a reason you feel the need to attack anyone who questions your idiomatic ideology?\n\n___________\n>>>There was a very good reason - Iraq lost a war in 1991 and \n>>>didn't submit to UN inspections for WMD. Even Clinton was \n>>>ready to invade in 1998, where was your outrage then?\n\nYou may note that Clinton did NOT invade in 1998.  If he had, I probably would have been outraged, although as he DIDN'T I can't comment on the exact circumstances that would have surrounded this decision.  You may also note that old Bush chose to withdraw from Iraq rather than overthrow Saddam.  Again, there's a reason.  Besides which, failing to submit to UN inspections may or may not be cause for UN action, but it is not a justification for unilateral US action.  Even Bush has stopped talking about UN inspections and WMDs.\n\nAlso note that this is only ONE of the many atrocious policy decisions for which Bush is responsible.  Apparently you can find no argument with the rest of them.\n\n____________\n>>>No you wouldn't have\n\nYou have no basis on which to determine what I would and would not do.  I would not and do not support the unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation no matter who happens to be president.  And the fact remains that CLINTON DIDN'T DO IT.\n\n>>>AND SEVERAL OTHER NATIONS\n\nOh, sorry, I forgot Poland.  Seriously, though, we had the UK on our side, and a couple of tiny countries who are dependent upon our financial support, but that's about it.  It was unilateral primarily in that we did not consult with other nations in making the decision to invade, not in that there weren't a handful of other countries fighting along side us.\n\n>>>Don't give me the tired WMD crap either - you know DAMN \n>>>well he had them, just ask the Kurds, "Where are they now?"\n>>>would be
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Actually Im mixed on the issue. Im more conservative on things, but he didnt really say anything too out there. On the other hand, if he was completely unbiased, hed have said things in favor of the current administation and it appears hes only throwing out anti bush, anti american sentiment. Id have to hear more of his lectures to know.
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I dont have an opinion of him. I do think he has surrounded himself with people that are way to close to him which has hurt thier ability to offer him un-biased insight. i.e George Tenet, Dick Cheney, Harriet Myers, Karl Rove. It would be like if you got elected president and you made all your Fraternity Brothers and all your High School buddies your top advisers, I mean how much do you think is really gonna get done? I have heard that he will not fire anyone he is to afraid of what they might think of him. It goes all the way back to his days as a Texas oil tycoon. His heart is in the right place, he thinks what he is doing is the right thing and once he makes up his mind your are not changing in it cause he thinks hes right, you gotta respect that whether or not you agree with him it is an admirable quality. But the bottom line............you cant impeach someone for being a dumb@ss thats the only crime hes guilty of.\n\n\nIm pretty much Independent when it comes to politics but i am so sick of hearing the Left WIng Loons talk about impeachment and what a horrible job the President has done and how Iraq is a mess. Maybe those things are true but they havent brought one positive idea to the table...........not one. Whats the Democrats plan? I havent heard one except wave the white flag and run home and impeach the president...........I mean come on is that the best you can do, what are we paying these people for?\n\n\nAs far as the Wiretapping goes. There are 2 kinds of people in this world now. You either live in a pre-9-11 mentality or a post 9-11 mentality. Quit listening to the bleeding heart media and open your eyes. There are people who want to destroy us and if running some wiretaps and some other clandestine stuff is gonna keep me alive and not speaking Arabic, then im all for it. Bush is trying to keep us safe.........I dont really like him i think hes kinda of an idiot myself, but hes trying cut the man some slack. He got dealt a raw deal by being in the chair when 9-11 happend and hes responding the best way he knows how.
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Bush is fighting hard the last remnants of his pride he has left.\n\nWon't get him far, and will give us all a chuckle like the one I got when I saw him on TV, with his ego dragging on the floor yesterday\n\n...Let him!
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While I have some concerns about some of the actions initiated by the President Bush (such as some elements of the Patriot Act) but by and large he is a dedicated and sincere President.\n\nI say this though I have never supported him in an election, but I make a distinction between such reservations and the blatant, unsubstantiated assertions made about the President.  I have no doubt that there are those who want a different president, that is obvious with the virulent yelling of hatred which is so often seen here.  However, I suggest that those who sincerely want a change that there should get involved with political actions which will lead to such change.  To do that is an act of a mature person.  To continue to scream hatred is childish and ineffectual.
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Bush isn't the sharpest nail in the nail-gun is he. You know what gets me is, Bush has been doing it all in every bodies faces. So he and his crew need to be extra punished don't you think. I really think maybe executed, to stop all of this madness, and to take the American Presidency more seriously. That what I personally think with George Bush disgracing the Presidency before the World. The best the Republican dirty tricks squad could get on Clinton was a headjob (WHICH THE WORLD VIEWS CLINTON AS A MAN). Nobody in the World cares,but the Republicans 30% pathetic sociopaths.
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I used to hate the man.  And now that everyone hates him--now I'm starting to respect some of his positions: in particular, I like his stance on immigration, and I prefer his--and Condoleeza's--diplomatic efforts during this, his second administration.  My sense is that Mr. Bush is orders of magnitude better than the average Republican, even if McCain, Giuliani, Bloomberg, and Specter are significantly better than him.
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Remember when George Bush was a moron? A poor student who spent most of his life in a substance abusing haze, who cost America billions in the Savings and Loan bailout, whose only foreign policy experience was the “It’s a Small World” ride at Disneyland, and who stole the presidency despite forming sentences like the kid from “Deliverance”? Up until September 10 2001, Bush was the favorite whipping-boy of talk show hosts and columnists. But, in the wake of the Al Qaeda attacks, somehow that same George W. Bush became a hero. And a recent poll found that a surprising majority of Americans think George Bush is doing a good job as president. A good job? In the 3rd year of his presidency the US economy is still in tatters while he runs around touting a foreign policy that can be summed up as “Hulk Smash”, and people consider that a good job?\nMany people will tell you he's doing a good job because of his leadership after September 11. Huh? Why do they think Bush did a good job after September 11? Because he publicly led America’s response to the attacks? He’s the president, what other option did he have? Curl up in a fetal position and drool like Ozzy Osbourne? Hell, maybe if he got in a plane like Bill Pullman in Independence Day and actually joined the battle, fine, but giving him high marks for making speeches and waving his fists is like giving a student straight As just for showing up to class.\n\nMaybe they think Bush deserves extra credit for ordering post-911 military retaliation against those deemed culpable. *sarcasm*Wow, what a bold, groundbreaking move. Much as I supported the action, an American President ordering a military response is like the guy at the drive-thru asking if you want fries with your order. It’s the most basic, perfunctory function of the job.\n\nAnd what did he do after he took out the Taliban? Help keep Afghanistan from the clutches of nasty local warlords and gangsters? Start to build bridges with the anti-western world? Or maybe even pay attention to the continuing-to-falter American economy? No – he looked for someone else’s ass to kick. Bush with his military is like a boy who’s just discovered his penis – he can’t stop playing with it. After all, the War on Terror distracted people from realizing Bush was the same election-stealing, silver-spoon moron he was on September 10th, so why not keep it going?\n\nAnd so George W rooted around in his dad’s war-chest and pulled out some old scripts, and once again Iraq was the enemy. No question, Saddam Hussein is a world-class tyrant, torturer and oppressor of his own people. You’d think it would be easy to find a reason to take him out. But in the months since Bush focused his monkey-like attention on this shiny object, he still hasn’t been able to convince anyone but his cronies that war against Iraq would actually provide any benefit. It would de-stabilize an already volatile region, engender greater hatred of the west among Middle-Eastern nations, seriously damage any existing good relations with Arab countries, and likely only result in greater terrorism against the west. But Bush keeps stamping his feet and demanding his war, like a 2 year-old in a Toys R Us aisle screaming for a new BeyBlade.\n\nAnd that’s what really puts the lie to the notion that Bush is doing a good job – after months of trying, he actually has fewer people convinced the US should war with Iraq. If he was a halfway competent President, he could have cooked-up some decent Gulf of Tonkin, tossing babies from incubators propaganda by now. In fact, Bush is such a lousy president he can’t even convince Americans to go to war, which is, let’s face it, like trying to keep a dog from licking itself.\n\nI don’t really blame Americans. Their media’s become an extension of Ari Fleischer, they’re scared, and they want to believe – no, need to believe – that the guy in charge of their safety knows what he’s doing. It’s like th
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Dislike intensely. I do not think he is trustworthy at all. I think he has lined the pockets of his friends (Halliburton!) at the expense of the middle-class. I think he is a big international bully; if other countries did some of the things Bush as ordered done, like invade another country without the support of the UN, Bush would have invaded them, too.  I also find it offensive how Bush and the rest of the Administration think the public are a bunch of sheep--- really, a $100 gas check, but I have to say it is OK to drill in the Alaskan Wildlife Preserve? What kind of deal is that? And how dumb do you think I am, if you think I would accept that?\n\n I think we need to break the Republican stranglehold on power in the upcoming elections.  And I voted, like I always do.  So I am allowed to complain!
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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.
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Shoot man, I coulda told ya that! Go into the Politics section of yahoo answers. Bush has got his spies laying all kinds of questions in there, posing as normal users to find out exactly what people think of Bushy.
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YES HE IS. BUSH IS LIVING LA VIDA LOCA at the expense of the american people.  He is a shiit for brains mediocre piece of president.  He is not even a full man.  He was raped as many members of the Skull and Bones society are, and that's why we call him now Baby Bush or Bushy for cute. \n\nDo you know what's his favorite entertainment now? Playing with Cheney to see who farts louder and longer in the oval room when the CIA recorders are rolling.  Sometimes they soil themselves and call the White House aid to clean saying it was the dog.  Yeah, right. And they didn't even consider James Brown or Eddie Murphy for president.  They would have done better.