Are Texans ashamed or proud of George Dubya?
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First and foremost, I want to thank you Almeida for asking this question. Second, I want to say that I hail from Austin, Texas. Third I want to say how much I HATE morons like the other three that answered this Q.\n\nNow, I was born and raised in Texas. I love this state but I also hate most of the people here. I am a democrat and can say that the majority of republicans in TX are uneducated red necks. I really REALLY hate that this great state is looked down upon as a bunch of morons. Although I can certainly understand why we are. YES, Dubya is the worst president of all time. YES, he is a complete moron and should be Impeached 100 times over! I and everyone else in TX with intellegence is ashamed of that ding bat and are sick and tired of these moronic repubs making us ALL look bad. Please know that there are those of us who are not blind sighted oil drillin repub trailer trash. And please GOD let BUSH and his minions get indicted for all the hell they have caused in this world! Thank you, and goodnight!\n\nIMPEACH BUSH!   \n\n-Signed, A Texan with a brain.
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He's my bud, a fellow Texan.  I voted for him twice and still stand by him.  I am a little miffed about his stance on the illegal situation and I want him to be tough on this.  But I have been thinking and I feel that he has sincere compassion for these people.  He's in a very tough spot.  Actually, he's been in a tough spot since election day in 2000!  Poor guy has been plagued by everything imagineable.
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I'm thankful I live in my country. My pride only extends to things that I or my loved ones have accomplished. To feel pride for a country means that you feel that the people of that country are superior to the other people of the world, which is xenophobic and ignorant. I am, however, pleased to benefit from the democratic system our forefathers (whom I would not blame at all for being proud of their work) constructed. And I am proud of myself for participating in this democratic system by voting and by making my voice heard, even when it is in opposition to the current administration.\n\nI am not, however, proud of the actions of the current administration. I am ashamed and embarrased of them. In fact, I consider it my duty and my right to fight for our democratic system and our liberties by opposing anyone who tries to destroy them, even if that is the President himself.\n\nPatriotism isn't about blind obedience. It's about doing what's necessary to make sure your country makes the right choices and goes in the right direction. Those who remain silent in the name of patriotism as their leaders cheat, lie, and swindle not only our own people but the rest of the world should be ashamed, not proud, of their behavior.
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Hells yeah. Dubya is widely considered to be the absolute worst president ever. The only reason that he has not been impeached is because he and his right-wing-nut-jobs control the senate. However, with democrats expected to sweep the elections this fall, there is plenty of hope in getting Dubya and his minions out of office and brought to justice. His list of impeachable crimes just keeps getting longer!
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As I don't know them, I wouldn't have any way of knowing that, but I do know that they are in no way responsible for the errors and crimes of their father.  They have no need to be ashamed.  The shame is all Ted Haggards'--for being a hypocrite and a purchaser and user of illegal drugs.  Being homosexual, in itself, is nothing to be ashamed of.  The greatest shame is that his religion convinced him to believe it is.\n\nI do not celebrate the failures of my fellow human beings, though I do think it a good thing that his hypocrisy has at last been exposed.
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Clinton did not disgrace anyone, but his wife, Monica and himself.  \n\nI am not ashamed of him at all.  I've always said he should have chosen me to f*ck, I am not a blabbermouth and then the country would have been richer and more at peace today because repugs ( the haters of sex) would not have gone out to vote. And I wish he'd still choose me now!\n\n\nYou're right other presidents did the same thing, but their indiscretions were kept off the news. \n\nAnd again you're right we libs will respond that Bush is a Nazi, a moron,  a lover of human blood, a thug, a thief, Hitler re-incarnate, a puppet and a grinning imbecile and all repugs are JUST LIKE HIM!!
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I don't agree with Bush and his actions, but being from Texas, I think he is just being himself. You can hate Bush for many reasons, but surely you can't hate him for being himself.
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I am proud to be an American.\n\nWe live in the land of opportunity. The land where dreams come true: If.... you want something bad enough and work hard enough.\n\nWe are free to worship or not worship as we choose. \n\nWe can say anything we want about our president without being taken from our beds at night ..and shot, beheaded, hung or terrorized\n\nWhile there are some problems with our school systems, in most  cases our children are not only literate, but go on to achieve their goals and ambitions in life.\n\nWe are a nation that cares deeply for our own and for the plight of  poorer nations. We are the first country to come running in to offer a helping hand in a disaster and the last to leave.\n\nAnd even if it makes me sound like a backwoods redneck, my\nphilosophy will always be.. "America....Love it or Leave it" !!\n\nand that, is this Texan's opinion
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Why do you Americans have such little pride in your Nation? Do you not realise how much derision you attract from Europe because of your enthusiasm for fools and bigots like the Bushes and Regan?\nNone of these would go far in any European country
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I have no feelings for President Bush.\n\nI haven't thought about his being or not being a complete idiot.\n\nBy the way, what is a 1/2 an idiot?  or 1/3 of an idiot?
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I will never pretend to speak for all Americans, but I am highly qualified to speak for myself.\n\nI am far less concerned about how the rest of the world sees us than I am about my freedom and safety being infringed upon.\n\nI voted for George W. Bush twice, and feel that if he is arrogant or inconsiderate of others it is because he feels the need to protect the people of the country that elected him - twice.
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Really up on your history, aren't you?\n\nThe Spanish stole land from the native Americans, the Mexicans stole land from the Spanish, and the Texans stole land from the Mexicans.\n\nSo, what do you consider "sad?"\n\nIt's sad a bunch of drunks, gamblers and drifters who got trapped in the Alamo (because they were drunk) have attained hero status. \n\nBut, they did give the Texican thieves a rallying cry against the Mexican thieves.\n\nMexicans have no more claim to land in N. America than does anyone else, they weren't the original inhabitants and never had a legitimate claim to the land.\n\nAnd still don't.
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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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Yes, his true feelings of contempt came to the surface in a moment that his awareness failed.\n\nHe's a liberal elitist and he actually believes that he's superior to everyone else. You can tell just be lookng at him.
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I have never felt that Texans were stupid. In Ohio we had more votes for Hisbushyness than voters. It was a massive fraud.\nKerry and other Democrats rolled over and said uncle, spineless. Hisbushyness paid big bucks for the votes in Ohio.
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No, but Bill and George have both done and not done things that have hurt this country. Not everything is Bill's fault, but he doesn't deserve much credit for anything good either. I'd say the same for George W. Bush as well. The only thing I can give Bush credit for is, we haven't had a major terrorist attack on our soil since 9/11/2001. Other than that, he hasn't accomplished much. He has made his own pockets fatter from gouged, outrageously gas prices, but that hasn't helped the country of course, it has only helped him and his family while it hurts so many others.\n\nI do have to say though, Bush hasn't had much help from the Democrats in Washington either, because they have pouted most of the two terms Bush has been in office. Their candidates, who were both jokes, lost in both attempts at being elected President. So....instead of swallowing their pride and trying to work with Bush to try to do what was best for our country, they acted like little kids who refused to play ball with the other kids on the playground. We have to get over our petty differences in this country or we're doomed. We also need to quit giving everything to the lazy citizens of our population, the minorities, and the illegal aliens who don't deserve a damn thing that legal Americans bust their butts for every day of their lives.\n\nIf Hillary wins I'll move for sure, that will be just plain embarrassing.
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I don`t know the exact words. But they went overseas and bad mouthed our government.. And Most folks probably felt the same, BUT, you should NEVER badmouth your country, outside of your country.. WE can talk bad about US all we want to.. But not overseas.. It feels kinda like treason.. Ya know?? Now I do want to let you know, I did not hear them or even what they said. But this is the way I get it.. Maybe some of these nice Yahoo folks will tell us more.. \n\n\nOH, and let`s nip this Texas thing in the bud.. He is from Connecticut.. Born there in 1946.. So don`t blame us... \n\n<><