Why is President Bush such a bad President?
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In the Bush administration "the negation of truth is so systematic. Dishonest accounting, willful scientific illiteracy, bowdlerized federal fact sheets, payola paid to putative journalists, 'news' networks run by right-wing apparatchiks, think tanks devoted to propaganda rather than thought, the purging of intelligence gatherers and experts throughout the bureaucracy whose findings might refute the party line -- this is the machinery of mendacity...The point here is not the hypocrisy involved, though that is egregious. The point is the downgrading of truth and honesty from principles with universal meaning to partisan weapons to be sheathed or drawn as necessary. No wonder the Bush administration feels no compunction to honor the truth or seek it; it conceives truth as a tactic, valuable only insofar as it is useful against one's enemies.\n\nBush Lies In State Of The Union Speech\n\nBush: "By the year 2042, the entire [social security] system would be exhausted and bankrupt."\n\nIn what the BBC calls "highly unusual," a State of the Union Speech was interrupted by a chorus of "No's," booing, and heckles from some of the members of Congress in attendance. This happened immediately after the above Bush lie. As Shields mentioned on the PBS wrap-up, and as Brooks concurred, if adjustments are not made, by 2042, as they have been made before, 3/4 of the funds promised would still be available. The entire system would neither be exhausted nor bankrupt. -- Politex, 02.03.05\n\n\n\n------------------------------...\n\n\n29 Bush Lies About Iraqi WMD\n\nbush lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... not lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... \nBush Lied About Lots Of Things\n\nSure Did. Here's Even More\n\n\n------------------------------...\n\n\nToday's Bush Lie\n"[Castro] welcomes sex tourism," Bush told a room of law enforcement officials in Florida, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Here's how he bragged about the industry," Bush said. "This is his quote: 'Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world.'"\n\n"As it turns out, Bush had lifted that quotation not from an actual Castro speech but rather from a 2001 essay written by then Dartmouth University undergraduate Charles Trumbull. In the essay, Trumbull did appear to quote a Castro speech about prostitution. Sadly, the student made the quotation up.\n\n"According to officials, the actual quotation from Castro's 1992 speech reads as follows: 'There are hookers, but prostitution is not allowed in our country. There are no women forced to sell themselves to a man, to a foreigner, to a tourist. Those who do so do it on their own, voluntarily. We can say that they are highly educated hookers and quite healthy, because we are the country with the lowest number of AIDS cases.'"\n\n"...And this isn't the first time the Internet has baffled Bush. Back in 2003, the President cited another student's thesis when making a case to go to war. The student's [plagiarized and "sexed up"] work ended up in a government document describing Iraq's weapons capability. Not exactly the kind of hard intelligence needed to justify an attack on another country." The Register, 07.28.04\n\n\n\n------------------------------...\n\n10 Minute Rice: Three Lies And No Apology\n\nCondi Rice, Bush's National Security Adviser, appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday evening, but, unlike Bush anti-terrorism adviser Dick Clarke at the 9/11 Probe, she did not swear on the Bible that what she would say would be the truth. While Clarke on 60 Minutes last Sunday allowed himself to be probed and turned inside and out for nearly the entire program, the edited tape of the Rice interview with Ed Bradley lasted around 10 minutes, and
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bush is the worst pres. ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bush has stretched the resources of the Army almost to the breaking point. He ordered the invasion of a country on a fictional pretense. Thousands of people have died and the\nU.S. is now hundreds of billions of dollars in debt. Other\nworld leaders deride him and wonder how he ever got re-elected,not to mention elected in the first place. The U.S.\nhas been embarassed in front of the world,even if Bush supporters lack the wit to realize it.\n\n NO. He's not a good President.
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I think Bush is a good president not a perfect one.  I believe he has faced more diversity than any President since FDR and we are still in good shape despite these difficulty's.  \n\nI believe that the biggest problem that he faces is that most democrats are using the difficulties as a way to divide real Americans and create a level of hostility so that they can achieve their true objective and make the US a socialist/communist and UN-Free nation.
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Ever is a big word.  Hayes was known as a bad president.  Garfield, too, I think.  My mother recalls Hoover with venom.  Nixon was tried for impeachment and branded a crook, but he had a few triumphs that washed him in the history books.  I cannot say Bush is the worst president ever, but I will say he is absolutely, the worst to surface in my 42 years of life.
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That's bias on your part.\n\nThe main argument against Bush is his lack of speaking skills.  Since the invention of the radio the President's voice was what could make or break his platform.\n\nHe isn't known for great lines, easy conversational style or anything.\n\nTo be simple, he looks stupid.  Some of his actions are looked as stupid.\n\nWhether you are republican or democrat you cannot deny that he is not a good speaker.\n\nOn that same token you can't deny that he is treated very unfairly sometimes.
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Hes a baaad man. Here are some reasons:\n25 REASONS TO FEEL BAD ABOUT BUSH\n\nEconomic Indicators\n\n1. The unemployment rate averaged 4.1 percent in 2000 and reached a 30 year low of 3.9 percent in October 2000. Today, the unemployment rate has increased to 5.7 percent. There are presently 8.1 million unemployed Americans, an increase of 2.5 million compared to 2000\n\n2. The number of Americans experiencing long-term unemployment-over 27 weeks-has almost doubled in the last year.\n\n3. Job creation has reversed. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the economy created 1.7 million new jobs. This trend has been reversed, and the economy has lost almost 1.5 million jobs since President Bush took office in January 2001.\n\n4. Poverty is increasing. After decreasing for eight straight years and reaching its lowest level in 25 years, the poverty rate increased from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 11.7 percent in 2001. In the first year of the Bush administration, 1.3 million Americans slipped back into poverty, with a total of 32.9 million Americans living in poverty in 2001.\n\n5. Incomes are falling. After increasing every year since 1991, and reaching an all time high in 2000, median household income in the United States fell 2.2 percent in 2001. Median incomes fell for households in every income group in the country except for those earning over $150,000.\n\n6. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are filing for bankruptcy. Almost 800,000 Americans filed for bankruptcy in the first half of 2002. In the second quarter of 2002, over 400,000 bankruptcies were filed in the United States, an all-time record.\n\n7. Mortgage foreclosures are at record highs. In the second quarter of 2002, 1.23 percent of home loans were in the foreclosure process, a record level. Over this same time period, almost 5 percent of mortgage loans were delinquent, up almost 20 percent from the average delinquency rate in 2000.\n\n8. The federal budget deficit is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, showed a surplus of $86.6 billion. The most recent figures from the Congressional Budget Office indicate that for FY 2002, the federal budget, excluding Social Security, will show a deficit of $314 billion.\n\n9. This represents the largest budget decline in U.S. history, and it is the third-largest on-budget deficit in history, exceeded in size only by the deficits of 1991 and 1992 under the first President Bush. Health Care Indicators\n\n10.The number of Americans without health insurance is increasing. Between 1999 and 2000, the number of uninsured Americans fell by 600,000.\n\n11. But this trend has reversed itself and in 2001 the number of uninsured Americans increased by 1.4 million.\n\n12. Over 41 million Americans — 14.6 percent of the population — had no health insurance coverage in 2001.\n\n13. The percentage of small businesses offering insurance to their employees fell by 10 percent between 2000 and 2002.\n\n14. Insurance costs increased by 12.7 percent in 2002, the second consecutive year of double-digit increases and the largest annual increase in costs since 1990.\n\n15. Prescription drug prices increased by almost twice the rate of inflation in 2001.\n\n16. For seniors, who use the most prescription drugs, cost increases were even higher. The cost of the 50 most popular drugs for seniors increased by 7.8 percent in 2001, over three times the rate of inflation. The price of Prilosec, the most popular drug for seniors, increased at over four times the rate of inflation.\n\nCrime and Drug Use Indicators\n\n17.The crime rate is increasing. In 2000, the year before President Bush took office, the crime rate reached its lowest level since 1972. This represented the culmination of a 22 percent decrease in crime during the 1990s.\n\n18. But in 2001, the crime rate increased by 2.2 percent. The murder rate increased by 3.1 percent, the robbery rate increased by 3.9 percen
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Dude, if you think Bush has the smarts to A. operate the internet and B. operate a keyboard/computer in the first place, much less C. read all those big words up there, you're being WAY too generous to his intelligence in the first place.\n\nThe truth is, he's a halfwit driven by religious superiority and consumerist greed. In other words, the worst possible person to be running our country. It wouldn't be so bad if he were INTELLIGENT and a religious fanatic and driven by consumerist greed, but... I've had pet fish that had more brains than that man.\n\nAnd imagine, he's what the American people chose. \n\nSays a LOT about our fool selves, doesn't it? \n\nDon't look at me, I was too young to vote for/against him. I'd've written in Mickey Mouse just to keep him from being elected. I know better than to put a retard in a position of extreme power.
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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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Many historians think that he's the worst in SOME AREAS.  For instance, his handling of the environment has been deemed the worst, and that even George Washington had more regard for the environment.  His tax policies that benefit mostly the rich are also extreme, in that they make Nixon look like a flaming liberal.  I think he has mis-handled the war in Iraq, but we also had Vietnam in recent history.  It is all a matter of opinion, and my opinion is that he definitely isn't the BEST president we've ever had.  And one can truly make the argument that he was put there by his peers so they (Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney, etc) could run the country.  I actually feel pretty sorry for him, because I think he's just a simple guy that got in too deep.
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He's an EMBARASSMENT to the United States of America.\nBy far the WORST PRESIDENT in U.S. History/\n\nMy grandfather is 80 years old, and swears that if he was given 2 days to live, he'd march his a*s  over to the white house, and shoot Bush's face off. Heh, he really dislikes Bush.\n\nBARRACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!
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He is the worst president anyone can ask for. Did you know he was planning to go to war with Iraq when he was still in college. And the two towers falling in New York was a setup. His family is friends with the Bin Ladens. You ever see the movie 9/11, check it out.\n\nMy bf is always reading up on polictics with the world today. Here is a site you can check out to read up on more stuff that is happening in the world today. Go to www.truthout.com or www.truthout.org.
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EVERYTHING BUSH DOES IS WRONG!!!!
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Better than what or who? \n\nEach President faces a unique set of challenges in unique times and in many ways it is impossible to compare them.  President Bush is clearly dislike by some people almost to the point of being an obsession.  Is this dislike based on reliable facts?  It doesn’t appear to that it is.  And yet there are concerns about some of his actions.\n\nHe is doing what has to be done as President and that is, trying to protect the country from the multiple attacks it has received.  That he is doing things that might be considered by some as extra-constitutional, is true.  However, he is not the first president to do so and is far from the worse.
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It really isn't..Bush just thinks he can run every country when in reality he is not only the worst president our country has ever had but by far the stupidest...the man can't even put a sentence together for crying out loud! He is a murderer also but wishes to deny he has done anything wrong in his presidency.....The first thing wrong that man did was before he became president...he was born
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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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Yeah his approval rating really says a lot doesn't it?  Bush is going to go down as the WORST president in history.  He's an idiot, a liar, a cheater (election 2000,2004), and a rich little brat.  Without his daddy's help he wouldn't have gotten anywhere in life.  \n\nTake a look at Rolling Stone's cover!