Why do people express a dislike with Pres. Bush, yet cannot articulate why?
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Amazing...  you ask people to articulate their reasons, and then when they do you dismiss them, and futhermore you dismiss them by saying people shouldn't just repeat what they hear on the news.  Where do you suggest people get information?  Official Bush propaganda?  \n\nAs for the tax cut issue...  yes, it is tilted towards those who earn more, and, I believe, unfairly so.  But, the tax cut package does have a few trinkets in there for the poor, as well.  However, the most scandalous thing about it, in my opinion, is that it's been the main cause of turning a massive surplus which was well on the way to paying down the national debt into year after year of record breaking federal deficits and skyrocketing debt.  This sort of fiscal mismanagement is incredibly irresponsible, and Bush and his allies in the GOP controlled congress are the primary architects of this massive overspending.  Not only has he sponsored and signed an irresponsible tax cut, he continues to support it even when there are massive financial outlays for the wars he has started.  Even die hard conservatives like Bush's father recognized the need to raise taxes when the reality of the situation required more spending.   Bush the younger steers us on a course for financial ruin even as he starts new and expensive projects like the homeland security reorganization and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, among others.    \n\nThe Bush administration's inept and ideologically driven fiscal policy will cause this nation serious problems for decades to come.  \n\nRegardless of one's political affiliations I think that everyone can agree that long term income cannot fall below long term expenditure without courting disaster.   Yet, even as he commits troops to expensive military campaigns that will outlast his presidency, Bush also pushes to make his tax cut plan permanent, despite this situation creating the highest operating deficits the US government has ever run.
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HE LEFT THE QUESTION TOTALLY OPEN TO DEFEND BUSH ANY WAY YOU CAN... TALK ABOUT ANY GOOD POINT...\n\nYOU APPEAR, FOR THE MOST PART, TO BE HAIVNG PROBLEMS DOING IT (GRANTED, HE MAY HAVE CALLED THEM LIES, BUT IT'S STILL AN OPEN FORUM)... I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WOULD HAVE PROBLEMS...\n\nI SWEAR TO GOD I COULD DEFEND HIM BETTER THAN HIS FANS DO ON HERE... GEEZ!
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It is much more a reflection on our society than an objective criticism of his policies.\n\nMany people criticize him for the strength of his Christian values, many of which he holds to be true and right in all cases, regardless of any mitigating factors.  This absolutism is as frustrating to the open-minded intellectual types of this nation as the relativism of the Clinton era was to the more conservative sectors of the population.\n\nBecause of his strongly-held convictions, the liberal-minded of the American populace distrusts him and portrays him as a tyrranical individual, just as the previous President was painted by the conservatives as spineless because of his seeming lack of absolute convictions.\n\nAll the debate that rages over the current President has less to do with actual policy dispute and more with the underlying old political question:\n-       Is a politician supposed to vote how he or she believes or how the majority of their constituency would vote?\n\nBecause much of the criticism about President Bush is due to his closely-held beliefs, our grandparents (who often held the same beliefs just as strongly, or maybe even more so) would be pleased with him - they tended to respect a politician who did what he or she believed was right more so than one who voted how the "folks back home" would like.  After all, didn't our grandparents coin the word "pandering" to describe this?
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They know.  They just don't care, and they get angry when you try to correct them.  They want it their way, period, and to Hell with everybody else.\n\nRudeness is endemic in this country.  If you want to know why Bush was elected president, just look at the rude, arrogant behavior all around you.
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I am Dem and I dont have a high opinion of the man....I think that Bush is Cheney's puppet and is continuing what his father could not finish....Have you noticed that all of the people nominated to his cabinet have either been a former director of CIA or a part of Bush Sr's administration...clearly Baby Bush is continuing the dynasty and it has to end now\n\nHowever, while I cant stand him, I dont appreciate people from other countries posting negative comments about our president....Im a citizen of USA and I can criticize him if I want but dont stare from the outside looking in and think you have the right to bash....He is our leader and yes he needs lot of work but look at what's happening in your own country with your own leaders before you start bashing mine
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Historicly,   People respected the president even if you didn't like or vote for him simply because he was the president.\n\nThe idea of President bashing is a new one.
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Bush is an awful president and it's shameful to see so many people who like him. \n\na couple of reasons to hate him: \n\n1- He had Bin Laden cornered and had the resources necessary to find him wherever but then he decided to go to Iraq for no valid reason and he is not even trying anymore to bring the greatest criminal to custody. \n\n2- Bush does not appoint people based on their abilities.  Look at Michael Brown at FEMA, his supreme court nominees, etc.  He gives jobs to his friends regardless of the fact they are incompetent for the position.
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He's a politician. Which means his only real ability is to stick his nose into other people's business and tell people what he thinks they want to hear. But, as we have seen from past attempts, he is not very good at either. \n\nAs far as his comment, some have tried to argue that he was attempting a slur at Bush, and failed. Which means either he is stupid enough to think insulting the troops will score him points with anyone, or he has simply reaffirmed that public speaking is (also) not his strong suit.\n\nThe only thing he really has going for him is name recognition, and sadly many Democrats don't realize that hitching their campaigns to his wagon are likely to cause as much harm as good.\n\nPoliticians -- can't live with them, haven't found a legal way to shoot them.
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Nothing is wrong with criticizing Mr Bush. We can disagree or agree with anyone! It is free speech! \n\nIt is sad that the Conservatives have turned disagreement in to anti-patriotism
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The reasons there are always Issues with this president is the fact that the Liberal Biased Media can not stand him, so they are finding issues that are non issues and making them larger issues...\n\nJust watch them.. when an Issue comes up.. Bush and the Facts resolve it, they find another.. it gets resolved.. smae way.. then tehy come back to an old issue because there is something they had to miss....\n\nThey HATE President Bush....
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Because they feel like they need someone to blame.  Often, it's because of low self-esteem, and they feel better by complaining about someone else, even if it's not for a legitimate reason.  However, I think people blame the president because he is the central figure of power in this country.  Even though he doesn't really have total power, many people are ignorant of that fact, and for that matter, many of them CHOOSE to remain ignorant about it!
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It seems that Mr Bush is a very focused man - which could be a good thing, but has instead been a negative thing.  There have been people inside his administration who have tried to give him advice and he has almost categorically ignored them.  It seems that there is information that is welcomed and accepted, and then there is some information that is swept under the carpet.  I think people feel disenfranchised when the President and congress act as if we are preschool children and we are incapable of making informed decisions at all.  Most Americans are intelligent enough to take the information that is presented to us on a daily basis and form opinions and ideas.  We just wish that we felt represented and not dragged along behind whatever agenda our government decides is important.
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I don't hate the man, but I do understand why many people do not like him.  Mostly it is an honest issue.  He's a horribly untrustable person.  Almost everything he said he would do he didn't, and almost everything he said he wouldn't do he did.  Just look at the funding for church based initiatives. He promised lots of money and has yet to give a single penny to any of their causes.  Clinton gave about 15 million to church based initiatives, Bush Sr. about 10 million.  And it's not like he wouldn't have had support for it - the whole House and Senate is majority Republican.\n\nThen there is the war built on bad intelligence, the fact that he stayed on vacation for 3 extra days during a hurricane, hasn't caught Osama Bin Laden, has spent more money the a drunk Ted Kennnedy in Vegas with a fist full of government bonds, said he wasn't doing domestic wiretaps....\n\nThere is quite a lot of reasons to really dislike this president and I'm afraid that history will not be kind to him.  Bush is my president, but he is not a good president.
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Actually, I have recently taken the current Bush administration's approach with pretty electrifying results:  First, deny the accusation.  Then, quickly choose a subject to talk about that is related but does not directly address the issue.  And lastly, end my retort with a personal attack on the person doing the criticizing.  \nMy only struggle has been that because I choose my friends so specifically, there is no criticism to deal with.  No wonder he's so good at it!
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I know!  I've noticed that too.  Most of the people I know HATE Bush, his ratings are low, and the Congress that supports him had a recent 16% approval rating.  I even know some moderate Republicans that voted Democrat this year.\n\nYet people still say that "liberals are idiots" and "Bush is great."  Don't they realize that most of America and practically ALL of the world disagree with them?  Yet they still act all high and mighty.\n\nQuite a god complex they have, isn't it?\n\nBUSH SUCKS!!
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He's not.  Many people feel like they need someone to blame. Often, it's because of low self-esteem, and they feel better by complaining about someone else, even if it's not for a legitimate reason. However, I think people blame the president because he is the central figure of power in this country. Even though he doesn't really have total power, many people are ignorant of that fact, and for that matter, many of them CHOOSE to remain ignorant about it!  Questions like this show this blissful ignorance of all the good things he has done during his presidency.  Please don't take a one-sided view of things.  If you don't like him, then I suppose that's your choice, but you don't need to go around trying to make people hate him.  And now I step off my soapbox.
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It's certainly easy to believe that people don't know how (or want to truly debate) when you read the Yahoo discussions and watch a lot of the media. Frankly, I think many people are intellectually lazy. They don't want to take the time to provide defendable reasons why they believe a certain way, so they resort to vitriole and name-calling.\n\nI too believe that Bush is a good man and was right about Iraq, but he is a horrible communicator. That was Clinton's strong-point. Right or wrong, he knew how to get the American people to buy whatever he was selling.