Do you think "President" Bush did a good job with the devastation of Hurrican Katrina?
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I look at it like this, the Republicans are crying to get the National Guard to police the Southern boarder States boarders. The travesty of President Bush ignoring the obvious devastation of New Orleans is just flip-flopping. It's all the demise of ethic populations in the U.S.. If America goes by the Republicans politics then the Boarder states failure to keep the Latinos from crossing the boarders would be at their expense. It's their fault that the problem exists. So I don't listen to any Republicans anymore with their racism.
508354
I like Bush alot, but I have to admit he is falling on his face quite a bit in the last few months....personally, no I do not feel sorry for him. He could fix the problems, instead of making them worse.
139222
YES. Bush became president. If he can do it, anyone can.
254677
Bridget:\n"I agree a bit. See Katrina was 98% blacks and all the other towns around them are recovering yet Katrina is the only one in ruins!"\n\nI didn't know Katrina was a town.  Where is Katrina located?\n\nKatrina was the hurricane that hit and destroyed a lot of the Gulf Coast.  The main city that was affected was New Orleans in Louisiana.  Now, regarding Mr. West's comment, while I think there may be some truth to his statement, I don't agree 100% with it.  I don't think that Bush is a racist, and doesn't care for black people.  I think Bush doesn't care for poor people.  It just so happens, that most poor people in that area were black.  So, you see, more than a racial issue, this is a socio-economics issue.
73737
A good President in very hard times.
673663
I totally do not think that Bush is a good president. I recommend watching the movie Loose Change. It proves that 9/11 was a conspiracy, and that Bush knew about it. He let it happen so he could get oil from Iraq. Also, he is doing this new immigration law to distract people from raising high gas prices. This is my opinion.
446104
FEMA did great under Clinton and competent leadership.  It is only when it became nothing but a slush fund for no bid contracts to Bush cronies did the thing fall apart.
1053771
He was very likeable as a president (sometimes too likeable!)   He did a great job with our economy, he talked a lot to the American people, he liked his job, was good at his job, and was very smart.  He married a brilliant woman, who, through all of his mistakes, looks as if he truly loves her, and she truly loves him.  He was the first president to give an office to the first lady in the West Wing.  He really had set us up for a future, going into this millenium.  And then, disaster struck...
345257
Bush hasn't handled any disaster, that's the problem. He's created them, but handle them, nope. I don't think he'll be compared to Stalin or Hitler, but he will go down in history as one of the worst presidents this country has ever seen, and that legacy will be rightly deserved. \n\nHe created the mess in Iraq. He neglected the mess in Louisiana. He created a historical deficit. He created the most secretive government in history. He's the first to thumb his nose at the Bills he has signed into law by adding the "it may be law but I don't have to follow it" clause to them. No, he won't be one of the most notorious, evil presidents in history, but he'll be damned close.\n\nBy the way, I believe FDR had much more to deal with than Bush would be even capable of reading about.
1105117
I acknowledge Bush has made errors. Contrary to the beliefs of some, he IS human (and NOT possessed).  I agree though, that he is a sincere man.  He has been forced into decisions that history will judge.  I hope for all our sakes, that they are the right ones.
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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
1023663
That was great ! I think he does a good Bush.But nobody can beat the dumb*** himself!
558965
I do believe we went to make it better. We removed Saddam from power - a true mad man. The people are more free than they have been in a decade. The numbers who came out to vote prove that they feel more free. The women have quit wearing the horrid black coverings from head to toe & gone back to school - something illegal before. The violent death toll is 25.1 out of 100,000 - 1/2 of New Orleans before Katrina at 54.6 out of 100,000. Yes I have to agree it is working, not at the speed we want, but nothing is ever fast enough for us Americans.
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I know...I mean he might not be the sharpest tool in the shed but hey what can you expect from a redneck Texan (no offense to Texans)\n\nThe only thing he should have done better was an ALL OR NOTHING in the middle east...not half-in and half-out.\n\nBut the economy/jobs/crime yadda yadda all that is good. I think alot of people's views are too influened by what the media says. If the media was spouting "ohh look how well our president is dealing with our problems rah rah" then he would have a lot higher approval rating...
1082500
Yeah, because Bush is doing such a great job.  ~sarcasm~
50415
I do not approve of much the Bush Administration has perpetrated in its five years of existence, but I think it's entirely appropriate to compare present administrations to recent past ones.  Anyway, the Clinton Administration did far more good than bad, so the Bush Administration comes up short anyway.
600998
Yes I do, President Bush is an excellent president, who confronts difficult problems instead of ignoring them.  He does the right thing even when it would be easier for him to do the wrong thing.  He is largly responsible for removing the Taliban and Saddam Hussein from power.