Does anyone actually like bush, and how does somebody SO intelligent get into a high ranking political office?
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To Refresh Your Memory\nGW Never WON The Presidency\nThe Presidency Was HIJACKED By The BUSH CRIME FAMILY\nAnd Georgie Was Placed Into Office By His Daddy\n\nBrother JEBs District Was A Deciding Factor In The Outcome Of The Election And There Was A HUGE Scandal Following Which Was Quickly And Conveniently Swept Under The Rug\n(The BROOM Being The CONGRESSIONAL PAYOFF) \nAnd Somehow FORGOTTEN About By WE THE PEOPLE\n\nAMERICA... OPEN YOUR EYES... ARE YOU ALL BLIND??????\n\nSo To Answer Your Question\nIt Dont Matter Who Or How Many Voted For GW\nHE IS THE FIRST PRESIDENT In The History Of These United States That Was Appointed To Office Without Winning An Election
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I certainly think he would have made an interesting President.  He is obviously very intelligent, and believes in a path to help the USA.  I think he speaks his mind too much to be a viable candidate, but I would vote for him in a heartbeat.
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He did his undergrad at Yale and got an MBA from Harvard. I'm sure his family connections helped him get in, but while I've only heard President Bush talk about business or economics a couple of times, I can tell from my own business and economics training that he knows what he's talking about in those areas. He's just not very well spoken, in general.
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Bush Jr.'s heart and spirit burns with American patroism, but his cabinet appointment choices have been nothing less than poor; rife with unqualified and inept people.\n\nNot that this problem is isolated with just the White House, but historic and often tragic events during Bush Jr.'s terms have produced glaring clear evidence that other vital government operated offices our National safety depends on are rife with political brown-nosers whose ineptness adds a dangerous ingredient for a recipe of disaster.\n\nBottom line: I pray as Americans, we learn it's not very wise to elect politically empowered family members to become our President.
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Lol I love your question man. To tell you the truth I asked myself the same thing. And I think he may pass off for stupid. I think he's just not fit to be president and that his advisors weren't helpful to improve that.
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Why is Bush such a good President?\n\n1) He's a real STATESMAN. He doesn't pander to the public opinion polls like his democratic counterparts. Face it, Clinton would read a poll before deciding how to vote. Bush isn't out to win any popularity contests; he takes job very seriously.\n\n2) No more attacks since 9-11. Bush has fulfilled the most basic obligation he has as President: to protect and preserve the Union against attack.\n\n3) He has vision. While other politicians would only see in alterable chaos in the Middle East, Bush saw a region ripe for change. He understands that everyone years to be free. Now, people all over the Middle East are clamouring for their chance at democracy. They've seen it, they want it.\n\n4) You can trust him. Whether you like or dislike Bush, practically anyone will agree that he does what he says. He is very plain spoken. With other politicians like Kerry, you would get a different speech depending on what state you were in. \n\nI know this will eliminate any chance of getting your Best Answer vote, but Clinton accomplished some good things.  He reformed Welfare.  Sure, maybe the Newt Gingrich congress bullied him into it, but Clinton followed their lead.  He was bright and articulate. \n\nClinton could have done so much more if people would have stopped all the pointless investigations.... travelgate, the Monica Lewinsky case, ad nauseum.\n\nA President is still a human being, but we treat Presidents as if they should be able to wave a magic wand and make everything perfect.  As someone who did not vote for Clinton, let me say point out that if his attention had not been forcibly diverted in 100 different directions by all the accusations of misconduct, he might have been made better decisions regarding terrorism.\n\nHere's a proposition:  let's start stop being a nation of hypocrites, prudes, and childish thinkers.  The people who could best serve our nation: in Congress, the Senate, governorships, and in the Presidency will never run for office.  Understandably, they don't want to endure a humiliating, privacy-invading microscope of undue attention.  Whose past could survive such relentless scrutiny?\n\nLet's stop scrutinizing our candidates to the point where no one who is qualified wants to run for office.
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Bush hasn't done anything right since he was born, not alone since he's been in office. Anyone who likes the man is a jacko, because he's lies, spies on his own citizens, and only cares about himself and the other rich people! Bush just sux!!!!
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yes, and the man is more intelligent than you can dream of being. stop trying to make excuses to insult him, if youdon't like what he does, then criticize the job he does, not him. i guarantee you that you couldn't be president, especially during a war
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At least twice each week I read the rant of another angry American who declares that Bush is an idiot, but if they're just figuring that out now, they're throwing stones from a glass house. Of course he's an idiot. They needed an idiot. If the man displayed any signs of intelligence, evil actions couldn't be  passed off as "failures" or "bungling." If the president were intelligent and scholarly, people would question why he's completely incompetent, \nbut because he's an obvious buffoon, many people accept that as the reason everything's \ngoing horribly wrong. It's also a lot less distressing to believe that your government is incompetent rather than know that they're evil, and most people will cling to that comfort.\n\n               The real problem is that if people blame Bush's idiocy for our troubles, they probably also think that the solution would be to get him out of office, but if they think we'll be saved by "Hillary in '08," or any other politician, they're even slower than Bush. \n\nRegardless of who's occupying the White House, there has never been an idiot running this country. There's  too much power and money at stake for an idiot to gain control of it. If the president is an idiot,  he's only in the White House because someone else has firm control over him. Someone somewhere has a lot more control over the fate of this nation than our "president" does. \n\n               Of course this reasoning begs the question "if this country isn't being run by an idiot, \nwhy is everything going so horribly wrong?" The answer is that it's going wrong by design. \nThe questioner makes the  assumption that this country is being run by people who are acting in the interest of Americans, but nothing can be further from the truth. Instead of accusing Bush of doing a lousy job, or being a lousy president, please try to think in terms of Bush's "boss" being someone other than the American people, and his "job" as being to grab as \nmuch cash as he can for himself and his friends before driving this country into the ground. If you look at his presidency in that light, you can instantly see that he's doing a marvelous job, and he's the best "president" an enemy nation could ever hope to see in the White House.The fact of the matter is that America as we know it (or knew it) is being systematically destroyed, and the politicians from both political parties are making this possible.\n\n             Freedom and justice are fading memories, the U.S. Constitution is "just a goddamn piece of paper," and the election process has been undermined. The jobs have been shipped overseas, the economy is hopeless, the environment is being raped, the Army is "broken," the infrastructure is crumbling, our borders are being dissolved, and every dollar or gold nugget that was subject to being looted, is already gone. With the entire nation and its population deep in debt, crashing the economy is a simple matter of raising interest rates, which will allow the bankers to once again scoop up all mortgaged property, and force its inhabitants out into the street. Instead of calling it illegal immigration, we should be calling it a foreign invasion, because the consequences of this invasion are as terminal to our freedoms and to our way of life as any act of terrorism ever perpetrated against us! The United States is being invaded - FOREIGN INVADERS.  \n\n             The American people need to understand that the United States is under attack! \nNo, not by Iraq or Iran, but by Mexico! Yes, Martha, you had better believe it. \nThe Mexican government is deliberately and systematically working to destabilize and undermine the very fabric and framework of American society. \n             And President George W. Bush and Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy (among others) ar
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He was voted into office by a LANDSLIDE!!! \n\nMajority of VOTERS wanted him into office!!!\n\nHe is the BEST person for the job!
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Hey, let him drive you, and also get the chance to win the pot.  He won't know who you vote for, and most likely all of the intelligent workers will vote against the guy in question.  The dumber ones will think they have to vote for the guy.  But that;s lfe, and why we have Bush.
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I am from Texas.\nMany people think he is.\nI've met him and I assure you that he is not.\n\nHe is smart and well spoken in person.\nHe graduated from a well respected university and is personable in person.\n\nHis policies and political mistakes have made him disliked by most Americans. We are all tired of the war and have the same questions about it expressed by people in other countries.\n\nI hope this answers your question without going off like most people seem to do about him these days.
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How much intelligence do you expect from this man.. He's bush!
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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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yes, darling.....we do have a stupid president.....and he got this far in politics because of his family, not merit.....stupidity gallops in politics......politicians are many times elected because of their names, not their beliefs......grow up and start thinking for yourself....\n\nto steal from another answerer a few days ago......let's look at his resume.....\n\nThe Resume of George W. Bush\nGeorge W. Bush\nThe White House, USA\n\nEDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:\n\nLAW ENFORCEMENT:\n--I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol.\n\n--I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days.\nMy Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.\n\nMILITARY:\n--I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use.\nBy joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.\n\nCOLLEGE:\n--I graduated from Yale University with a low C average.\nI was a cheerleader.\n\nPAST WORK EXPERIENCE:\n--I ran or U.S. Congress and lost.\n\n--I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975.\nI bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas.\nThe company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.\n\n--I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.\n\n--With the help of my father and our right-wing friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.\n\nACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:\n--I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union.\nDuring my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.\n\n--I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.\n\n--I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.\n\n--With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.\n\nACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:\n--I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.\n\n--I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.\n\n--I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.\n\n--I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.\n\n--I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.\n\n--I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.\n\n--I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.\n\n--In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.\n\n--I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.\n\n--I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.\n\n--I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.\nMy largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.\nMy political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.\nI have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution.\nMore time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.\n\n--I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.\n\n--I pr
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I love how the best that most people can come up with is that he is dumb or stupid..............at least if you are going to take a position know why.  I don't agree with everything that George Bush has done.  I hate that he can't admit that we have been in Iraq for way too long or that our budget is in a major state of crisis, however, I think that he has lead this country in a direction that he though was right and that he has lead this country through some of the hardest times that we have ever had.....and if you hate President Bush so much, than maybe you will get passionate about your right to vote.
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I don't know, it's hard to take seriously a man who believes that Jesus helped him get elected as president. I'm sure he's got some smarts but it doesn't seem to be his shining feature.