Why is George Bush such a bad president?
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At first I thought this was a dumb question, but other people answered you. He has broken many law's, bot domestic  and foreign, trampled the constitution, put the nation farther in debt then any other president, you kids and grand kids will pay for that. He lowered the tax on the very rich and is making the poor pay for it by cutting many programs that are life lines. He has done nothing for health care and medicare D, isn't anything but to help his friends in the insurance and drug industry's get a little richer. I think I could write a page of things that he has both done and not done since being appointed to the presidency in 2000 but will limit it to what I have said.
1108217
Because he was better then Kerry. what's wrong? You don't like out president? C'mon he's just a little slow! ;) Be nice to the little guy. "Bush, you wanna pretzel? huh? Do ya? Do you wanna pretzel Bush?"
56272
Most Americans do NOT like George Bush!  Most didn't even VOTE for him!  He's crooked and he doesn't care about anybody who isn't filthy rich like he is.\n\nThere are plenty of things wrong with America, you just don't know.
888971
bush is the worst pres. ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
720348
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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There's no question about that. Some political historians are already calling Bush THE worst President in U.S. history.Since his Presidency began,the standing of the U.S. has fallen to an all-time low. Other world leaders don't\nrespect him and he's done nothing but antagonize them.\nEven Tony Blair steers clear of him now,since not even he has enough influence with his "ally" to have him re-consider idiotic environmental non-policies.
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Badly.  Bush is president.
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Bad Job:\n\n1. When he took over office he had a surplus of cash; now we have a deficit of 8.1 trillion dollars.\n\n2. Took us to war for oil and lies.\n\n3. Illegally spying on his citizens. \n\n4. reacted extremely slow to the hurricane Katrina crisis and stated that there was no way to know that this could ever happen.  Even though there where numerous reports that this will happen and he cut the levy's budget the summer prior.\n\n5. Lowered taxes on the richest of the rich in America and to help cut savings have recently decided to cut spending on medicade, medicare, and education programs.\n\n6. Never really won the popular vote in the 2000 election.\n\n7. Used cocaine and other illegal narcotics and has been convicted of a DUI.\n\n8. Draft dodger\n\n9. Could care less how the other 50% (Democrats)of the population feel about his policies.  \n\n10. Incorporating religious philosophies with politics and law.  Even though the basic principal of our countries laws and ideologies is the separation of church in state. \n\n11. Trying to get a Supreme Court justice who will overthrow Roe vs. Wade.\n\n12. There is many more reason why he is a bad president, a bad person, and there will sadly be more reason to dislike him to come.
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Well it depends on what is "worst." For example, a president can be really bad for not doing anything. This was what Warren G. Harding's admininstration was. His entire term, until he died in office, was completely about doing nothing. However, if you are talking about acting on things, but doing a terribel job, i think Bush is definitely up there. I really can't think of any other president "messing up" so badly.\n\nSooooo.... it falls down to acting badly vs. not acting at all or a battle, in my opinion of course, between Warren G. Harding and George W. Bush.
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I really like President Bush. I don't agree with all of his decisions, but I think he is a wise, Godly man who is a good leader. People claim that he is an awful president, but no one ever likes the president. People had problems with Clinton and every president before him. I am sure if some of these people who criticize Bush would have people that didn't like them if they ran the country. Electing a president is more or less electing the person who will get the blame. Running the most powerful nation in the world can't be a day at the beach....
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Bush is the WORST President in US history! He is a liar, he is incompetent, he can't speak English, he dodged his military duties, he's an arrogant jerk, and he has screwed American workers to satisfy the greedy corporate execs that pay the Republican party! Do you need more reasons - it could take a looooooonnnnngggg ttttiiiimmmmeeee.......
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His ratings keep plummeting. He is at less than 30% approval, down there with Nixon when he resigned. There is a good article in the latest Rolling Stone that shows why prominent historians rate Bush as one of the worst presidents in American history.
26669
Besides the fact that he has disgraced the United States, he is a really stupid person. Republicans are narrow minded people, they have no objective view points, they should be eradicated from our government. Bush is a prime example of the dumb part of America.
1029621
Have you heard him speak lately, its hysterical! He was bad enough durring the Presidential election but now he has really lost, kind of like AL Gore did.He cant even keep a store straight in a 5 minute interview. Its a really sad statement about the state of our country that we came close to electing these to idiots as our leader.I am not a huge George W fan, but think that he's done what he has thought best for the country and not what will boost his ratings in the opinion polls... but I guess that is obvious!
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No.  Honestly I've seen a lot of George W. Bush's life before he became President.  Not only is he a bad President, but he was a disastrous governor in Texas and did the same thing to their state as he has to the United States and flushed it right down the toilet, and he's a generally poor example of a human being.\n\nBefore doing that, he spent his life doing absolutely nothing except screwing up and letting other people take the blame.  Gets into the National Guard, spends his whole time there on a drinking binge, then goes AWOL for seven months?  Who cares?  It's not like we were executing other people's children for that sort of behavior at the time (well, we actually were, but not the RIGHT KIND OF PEOPLE'S children, and that's the important thing to remember).  Gets busted for drunk and disorderly?  Boys will be boys!  You're not supposed to remember that's something that usually ruins the lives of your average day folk, after all.  Mis-invests public money in failed efforts to find oil in a state where people are literally tripping over the stuff in the streets?  Daddy's friends can take care of it.  S&L scandal loses 90 million?  Oh gosh, not his fault.  Bail out time.  Plunges Texas from its best economic times straight into the worst recession in its history?  That has to be the last guy's fault, you know... everyone loves me.\n\nBe offended if you like the guy, but you have to ignore common sense to review the man's record and think he should be allowed to run a 7-11, much less an entire country.\n\nThe bottom line on what went wrong is that an incompetent man who never should have been allowed to make a serious bid for the office of President was swept into it, and did what all incompetent men do.  He screwed up.  What continued to go wrong was that he ended up in the one job where no one could feasibly fire him for it and the people were too apathetic to collectively afford themselves of the opportunity to do it, so he just kept screwing up, and kept screwing up, and kept screwing up... and when it came time for people to decide whether or not he should be stopped, he hired some very clever people to distract the public from what a poor job he did just long enough to let him keep his job because, apparently, he WANTED to keep screwing up, and keep screwing up, and keep screwing up for reasons unknown.\n\nI'm afraid the state the country is in, and the President's "lowest in the history of the United States" approval ratings, are both the fault of the same two things:\n\n1)  A man who refuses to take the advice of wiser people even when it's mind-numbingly apparent he has no idea what's going on or what to do about it, because he has visions of ruling the world; and\n\n2)  A country of people who allow him to keep doing it.\n\nMaybe instead of voting for looks and a bit of charm, we should try voting on who has the best grasp of the issues, who demonstrates the best ability to lead, and whose track record demonstrates the most competence for the job they're applying for.  It might just avoid some of these problems in the future.\n\n\n\nP.S.-- Oh, and for the record GWB didn't manage any of the things BassCatcher ascribes to him.  His college grades were lackluster, he wasn't responsible for winning his elections (quite a few advisers his father handed down to him were... and whatever else you care to say about Bush Sr, the man was awfully bright and hired good help), he didn't accomplish more than 300 million people by being the only one out of them who could have been elected President since most people, quite a few much more solidly qualified than him (even in the conservative base) don't aspire to that job, and the bulk of evidence indicates he wasn't elected either time in any case since in both elections reviews by the state of Florida found evidence of massive voter fraud (and in both elections losing Florida wou
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Bush - bad. People- pretty good.
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Bush is one of the best presidents ever!!! A very good man. True he is not right about everything but who is. He is doing great under the circumstances. The media totally misrepresents him.