Why did Americans elect such a linguistically challenged President as George Bush? Does he reflect America?
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Without a doubt, the quality of education offered in American schools has plummeted in the last 25 years.  Parents from all walks of life, presented with failing grades by their undereducated children, reacted by forcing schools to lower their standards.  The result has been new generations of young people who, as adults, lack even fundamental knowledge of science, mathmatics, and linguistics.  It does not bode well for the future of science and technology, let alone education, in America.\n\nThe causes are manifold.  Parents, both working long hours, who are less and less involved in their children's lives.  High standards of living causing entertainment to be more valued than work.  Lack of role models.  The Internet.  Reality television.  Computer games.  Hollywood.  Consumerism.  Your evaluation is as good as mine.\n\nBush is not the product of such an average American household.  He's from a driven, ambitious, wealthy family, and an older generation, which valued knowledge, and whose collective work ethic still drives our economy. \n\nStill, you have a point.  He is more representative of the younger  generations coming into adulthood now, than he is of his own.  The political machine that put him into power was more responsible for his success than he was.  Once there, in the limelight, his shortcomings became glaringly obvious.  Was his re-election a result of his appeal to the younger crowd?  I doubt it.  They do not turn out in large numbers to vote.  Their poor education also fails to teach them about the importance of good government, and civic responsibility.\n\nI'm afraid Bush was elected, and re-elected, for reasons that have far more to do with American's fears and biases, than for his intellect or capabilites.  We, and too much of the rest of the world, will suffer the result for some time to come.
1047066
George Bush?  The American people would like to fillet your a.s.s..
128024
I don´t know many Americans personally but in our minds there is the picture of Bush (if a people vote for a president like this...?), \nthe picture of hamburger-eating, milk-shake drinking, fanatically christian patriots who live in a house with garden in a suburb of a small town in the middle west, and all the girls wanna be a cheerleader and marry the captain of the football team.\nThat´s what first comes up to my mind when I think of an American. I don´t know why...\nAlthough I know that the majority of Americans isn´t that way...\nPerhaps it comes from TV...
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Most scholars agree that president Bush is a good speaker who knows how to persuade his audience. The other thing is his work and his overall popularity...:)))\nI definitely like his speeches because he's often making fun of himself which is quite impossible to see in other  countries and other presidents...others are too serious.
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Not everyone voted for Bush. A little over half our country was stupid enough to vote for him. Also, there were many voting irregularities that occurred in Ohio and Florida.  He is probably the most inarticulate and moronic President in American history. It is not brains you need to be president. You need to come from a powerful wealthy family, and have a father who also served as President...and high power friends who own huge corporations.
532014
Bush has a low approval rating. Very low. Bush and his type of people have caused the United States to be looked upon by the world as a terrible nation.
102538
I am not from america I'm an aussie and if your talking about bush than I would have to agree with you I have no idea what you people were thinking when you voted him in.He almost  seems like a robot when talking I think he only made it into office cause of his old man and bill clinton was no longer in the running
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Bush is awesome.\nHe fights for the lives of people in other countries.\nHe is a real American.\nHe helps America with everything.\nHe helps others to.\nHe makes America a good place to live.\nWithout him,America would end up like Mexico.
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Because the not so bright americans re-elected him.
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they mite have replaced it with the word 'american' .... since all those americans must be very gullible that they are still following GW Bush.......
971147
Because is is a bad leader who's damaging the planet and losing respect from all other countries. Because most Americans have woken up and realised he is an imbecile and not fit to lead a country.\nAnyway, Bush didn't lose an election, two more years till that happens. It's only the rest of his party that lost.
633953
I hate George W. Bush with all my heart and I truly believe that he has caused irreparable harm to our beautiful country. The fact that he cannot put a sentence together shows that idiotic voters dont care about anything other than their stupid personal agendas. The Ameri-morons also love to hate outsiders, mexicans, and evil doers. They think that we need neither the rest of the workd nor the environment. They are wrong and will never get into heaven. You hear me? NEVER!!!!!! There may be one thing that we shared with the world, the ability to hate, hate, hate, hate...
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This has baffled me too.  I have a friend who is crazy about Bush and she explained it this way:  "I love Bush, because he's like a common person in the way he trips over his words and sometimes doesn't make sense.  I don't really trust intellectuals that much."  I hope this isn't the prevailing sentiment in the United States, but it would explain how we ended up with such a person as the visible face of America to the rest of the world.
808111
The president is George W. Bush.
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For the same reason everyone says Bush is so dumb, yet he was elected president of our country!  Anyone who is paid close attention to is either loved or loathed it seems.
632287
Living life in America allows me to know the difference. George Bush is the decider, and he has decided to ruin America.
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George W. Bush is great because he has courage and conviction to stand up against his emenies and serve the American people and the citizens of the World. When you are the President of the World, you have a great influence on decisions that are made all over the world and just not in the United States.