Why does everyone have such a problem with Bush?
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1) He was voted, and depends on the support of, by the "Religious Right". As an atheist, well, I'm wary of supporting someone whose dad said atheists shouldn't be citizens.\n\n2) He opposes gay rights, affirmative action, and abortion. As a liberal, again, these go against my philosophy.\n\n3) He invaded Iraq needlessly, and without waiting for the rest of the world. And for what? WMD's were non-existent, and Iraq wasn't much of a threat anyways.\n\n4) Under the Bush admin, privacy has decreased dramatically. AT&T has already confessed to giving the NSA authority to monitor Internet communicatons, and by saying "protect the children" from porn, the Justice Department got search records of most of the Internet prooviders.\n\nAs far as what he did do right, he invaded Afghanistan after their gov. attacked us. He strengthened the economy, or at least didn't make it weaker. And I guess he handled 9/11 ok.\n\nSassyk : Wow, way to be detailed ;) Bush may be a crook, but then again, just about every politician, left, right, or middle is dishonest. That's just how politics was and probably will be 'til the Earth blows up.\n\nEDIT2 : thanks for the compliment, cadbury :)\n\nbuttercup : Whoa. I never got the "Liberals allow terrorism" memo. And DUH, of course liberals and Democrats hate Bush, it's called politics. Remember how much Republicans hated Clinton when he was in office?
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Dude, Bush has a problem with every icon(s) who go against him and disgrimates America. He should just get over it, because there is just as much disgrimation about him on the internet/media as there is with pop idols.
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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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Bush hasn't done anything right since he was born, not alone since he's been in office. Anyone who likes the man is a jacko, because he's lies, spies on his own citizens, and only cares about himself and the other rich people! Bush just sux!!!!
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Bush is a sad case, he is so out of control that he doesn't realize it, but in his defense the lack of control is not necessarily his fault.  He has a cabinet of slimy corrupt money/power hungry friends that are influencing his decisions in a very detrimental way.
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I think Bush is a great man. He has delt with soo much since he has been in office. My props out to the guy. No matter who is elected to be in office there will always be people who don't agree. You can not please everyone.
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There is a reason that George Bush was elected president in the first place - he is not so dumb as everyone seems to think.  Although he does have his faults, he has not commited an impeachable act, but has unfortunately taken the blame for many political wrongdoings as of late, just by being the president.  What people may not understand is that he is not the only person making decisions for and about this country; he has a large staff that is there advising him, so maybe they should take some blame too??
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President Bush has had more to deal with than most other Presidents. I think he has made mistakes but it has been a tough 6 years. I don't think any politician would have done well in this Presidency. I don't think any politician can run our country.I think the people who are capable of leading this country aren't even in politics. They are too smart to even want to be involved with the spectacle that we call a government.
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It seems this country is divided...  My personal opinion is everyone blames Bush, but they don't stop and realize that many, many people run this country.  Were we better off with Clinton? Well if people say Bushed lied, then praise Clinton, Clinton lied to the country as well and bombed that country while the scandled unfolded.\n\nMostly too people don't take into consideration that lets say we never went to war, and did nothing after 9/11 (which I believe if Al Gore was in office, nothing would have been done) we would have been hit again, and its either fighting the enemy on his turf, or fighting it here at home, like on 9/11.  God Bless the USA
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I've been to war & lost friends, & I like the guy. What's he ever done to any of you. Why is your rhetoric always so hateful? Are you so bitter as that? Run a moderate already. Swing voters won't vote for a liberal. Conservatives never liked how liberal Bush was, but they wanted to win so compromised on someone that could appeal to the middle. Why is this always so advesarial though? Why can't people have arguments on reason & logic & do so with mutual respect. You can dislike everything about the President, but grow up alreay with the tone & behavior, why do you think you can't break into the rest of the country.
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Because the entire country doesn't dislike Bush.  I for one do.  But that's what we have the impeachment process for.  We do not have a pure democracy.  We have a representative democracy.  We select people to voice our opinions for us.  (Congressman, governors etc)  Unfortunately they don't always listen so closely.  If you want to initiate something start a petition in your congressional district asking for the impeachment of Bush and quit complaining about it on Yahoo.  If you don't understand the system you can't complain about it.(PS - Send me the petition - I'll sign it before you can blink)
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About your last paragraph: 1) Many Americans do hate Bush; he's a mass-murdering, torturing, lying, thief who stole our country and is doing his best to run it into the ground; he is the ultimate anti-American as he hates everything that America stands for (thinks he should have absolute rule, thinks everyone who disagrees with him is a terrorist who must be stopped -- for just two examples). He has no human decency whatsoever.\n\n2) People have the right to their opinions (contrary to what Bush believes). Thus, people in other countries are perfectly within their rights to despise Bush, as he is a horrible person who thinks he has the right to bully and rule the world for the profit of his personal friends. He is not only completely ignorant, arrogant, stupid, and incompetent, he is hopelessly corrupt, brutal, greedy, and inhumane, utterly lacking compassion.\n\nWhat hardly anyone seems to understand is that he was not ever elected president by the voters of America (lost the popular vote in 2000 and was president only because Democrats in Florida were prevented from voting; won in 2004 through the votes by machines that were programmed to elect him).\n\nYou can't blame people for exercising their right to despise the despicable. All decent humans who use their brains at all can't help hating him and wondering at the people who tolerate his rule.\n\nThey hate and fear him for the inhuman monstrosity and genuine threat that he is.\n\nTHEY should back off?
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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.
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Because George W. Bush don't care about America, or any of it's people regardless of race, color and creed. Mostly I think he just hates black people. That's why it took so long to get help for the victims of Hurricane Katrina down South, because they say that the majority of people living down there are black. I hate Bush. Plain and simple and I can't believe that I have to suffer for another 2 years while he's president. 6 years has been long enough. If I was Harry Belafonte I would just say to Bush, "Screw you. I'm not gonna apologize, because it's my right and you can't change that."
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EVERYTHING BUSH DOES IS WRONG!!!!
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People may not agree with the President...but hatred from the rest of the world has been aimed at us for generations.  I've seen this guys questions....and he does need to grow up.
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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!