Americans - are you ashamed of your President?
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Ashamed - no.\nHorribly disappointed - yes.\n\nThere are policies this president has supported that I don't understand and really worry about.\n\nYes there is the war in Iraq and there are terrorist threats that I don't feel are being dealt with.  \n\nHowever, I'm honestly very concerned about some of the stuff going on a little closer to home.  \n\nWhy is the president spending so much time and money trying to define what a marriage is?  (Please don't give me the God said it's bad for a man and a man to hook up and it's bad for a woman and a woman to hook up, I'm looking at it as a tax payer, and I'm sick of the government spending money telling me that I can only marry a man legally.)\n\nWhy did the federal government screw up so badly in response to Katrina?  (We had to know that a hurricane was coming and we didn't prepare for it or what?)\n\nWhy does our president think that a teacher in this country is leaving any child behind?  (No child left behind is a great idea, but it's completely useless.  It is a completely under funded idea that the government decided would be a nice catch phrase to get voters to agree with, but if you actually know how it works, you would cry for the teachers and students.)\n\nWhy are we spending around 520 billion on the department of defense versus spending about 60 billion on the department of education?  (I'm not arguing that I want to feel safe in the country that I was born in, but why are we spending almost 9 times the amount of money on education on defense.  Maybe it's just me but I think the kids in our schools across the country deserve more than what they are getting.)\n\nYou may disagree with what I have to say, and that's fine with me.  I support what our country stands for, but I have some serious concerns about how our fearless leader is currently directing our country.\n\nHave a great day from the Land Of Lincoln.  :)
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no i think the president makes us look bad!
637969
I am English but I studied in NJ for a year and I could feel the wave of depression that Bush has brought. THere was a strong feeling of embarrassment amongst some people that your leader seems to have no clue how to run a country or indeed anything.\nHowever I am also ashamed of our leader Prime Minister Blair, he has blindly followed George Bush without asking the right questions. He is certainly the pillow biter of the relationship and it is appauling.
576546
I'm a Canadian and I think the Americans, except for the government, are a bunch of suckers. Unfortunately most Americans are not by choice. The president has got you people so hyped up on the idea AMERICA IS THE GREATEST YAAAAAAAA that you American people are completely oblivious of all the scandals and awful things that your government is doing. I have to say that President Bush and all the other presidents have to be as messed up as Bin Laden himself. Its not entirely the fault of the American people that you're in shit up to your necks but you people are just like f&*cken puppets on a string and it takes a third person (Canada and the rest of the world) to identify it. America, sadly, is a first class country going down curropt rd. in the express lane. Yes I agree GOD Bless America and  I prey to god, let the American people see the reality so they have at least a fighting chance to change thier future.\nThies are just my thoughts to your comment about your American government. I like the American people your  Canadas favourite friend but you guys got to wake up and smell the corruption.
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I believe that most Americans are under the illusion that they truly have free speech, true democracy. etc..   Compare the actions of previous actions of dominant empires throughout history.  Have we transformed or are Americans fooled by a cleaver rouse.
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I spend as much time in the US as I do abroad. In Europe, Asia and Arabia. The disprespect that is now heaped upon anything American is just unbelievable. In these forums I read notes from people who have never left their environs, harping on and trying to justify the unjustifiable. It leaves me very sad, because natural friends of America are now openly disrespecting a once great Nation. Why? Because of the Fundamentalist we have in the White House. In Britain, the politicians and populous have acted and asked Blair to go, because he has brought shame to the country in his support for Bush. It is unbelieveable how much he is now ignored by his own European partners who once glorified him.
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I've learned how little time is required for a US president to completely screw up my country from top to bottom. I've learned how easy it is for a US president to transform a world (literally) of good will (immediately after 9/11) into a world of hostility, condemnation and contempt (today). I've learned that evil-minded people can defecate on our precious Constitution and tread all over our cherished rights and freedoms simply by virtue of being in power. I've learned that one pitiful excuse for a president + an incompetent ANP rubber-stamp congress = a budget surplus becoming the greatest deficit this nation has ever seen. I've learned that irrespective of the truth, the evidence and the will of the American people, a US president can declare war on a sovereign nation, causing the deaths of thousands (including over 2,500 US soldiers), the resurgence of terrorism and further overstretching our armed forces and national debt. I've learned that evil and stupid though I knew this president was, he and his criminal cronies are about on a par with hitler and his evil henchmen, which surpasses even my darkest fears when these devils first stole the office of the presidency in 2000. In short, I've learned a lot I wish I'd never have lived to see happen to my country. When does our long national nightmare finally end?
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Sure, it's OK, but it is amazing the amount if misinformation being spread throughout the world about the US.  I think that bothers me more.\nPerception of the US and our policies, is often amazingly way off the mark.  You don't see alot of posts making fun of many other leaders around the world.\n\nI think it's good that it annoys you, GW is OUR president, and even if you don't like him personally, or his policies etc, having respect for the office, and for the fact that he is the president is important.  This is a 2 party system that we have, and there will always be a winner and a loser.
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i think i speak for all irish people when i say ireland doesnt think american people are brainwashed. we think americans are good people with big hearts. i am actually engaged to an american. i have to be honest though, i do not like your president. i do not know what he does for the american people, but from what i can see, he is sending young men to war for a reason i dont understand. it was good that saddam was taken down from power, but why are your men still there and being killed. bring them home!!!
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Bush is much more than just an embarrassment. he disgraces our country and our flag. it is painful to watch him try to think (if you've ever really tried to watch one of his moronic speaches). i wish i could move to Canada but i dont have enough money because of the Bush Administration. the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. i'm lower middle class and it seems like each paycheck pays for less and less. and the people that say we all need to respect and back him whether we voted for him or not: are you even f.ucking seeing whats going on in your country? Bring the damn troops home. we have wars to fight on our own soil. bring on 2008...PLEASE!!!
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Many Americans (unlike myself) are stupid, ignorant, xeno-phobic, racist, are willing/unwilling fools participating in discrimination, fearful and hateful, and ethno-centric assholes. \n\nIt is sad that like the propaganda bull shit shoved by both goverments is followed by their supporters, our goverment is led by a bunch of rich selfish hateful shameless assholes that are minons of the rich and powerful just like theirs is. Both goverments feed both of us lies and many of us are mindless fools of the proganda and we belive the stories about how evil the other one is. \n\nBoth governments have leaders that say they care about the own people but really don't and all they really care about is themselves and their masters (who have even more money and power then them). Both governments are also lead by so-called religious leaders and that a crock of shit! I say both are horrible examples of Christians and Muslims. \n\nBoth have a bunch of mindless followers and minons to do thier bidding. \n\nI like all kinds of people and I have nothing against anyone. I wish I could say the same of all Americans
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+There are no words to express how ashamed I am. We will spend years trying to debunk the damage he's done to this nation, as well as our children & their children paying this debt off.\n\nI've voted in every in every election since Carter. I'm not always happy with what I have to choose from. I watch political chances every day.  CNN or MSNBC.  Whoever Chris is-he's the idiot. If he listened to a few news reports, he'd know that one of the biggest problems Bush faced was the so-called poor intelligence that sent us to war.  The GOP was given ALL the information, both good & bad & chose to ignore the intel that said there were no WMD.  That's why it was so important to make Joe Wilson look like an idiot after he came back from overseas & said there was no WMD.  Remember the outing of  Valerie Plame?\n\nI believe that what goes around, comes around & Bush will go down as the worst president in history.  I just hope I'm around to read about it with a smile on my face!  GREAT QUESTION!
565634
In a nutshell\nNO and he is a terrible president l feel sorry for the usa\nit used to be a country the world looked up to\nThose days are loooong goooooone
54608
No I did not vote for Bush, but my biggest problem with having G.W. as a president is that it has become exeedingly embarrassing to be an American.
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yes americans are hypocrites
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Ya know, I'm no fan of Bush.\nI DO respect the office of president, but Bush is a joke.\nI will, however, give him credit for making light of his faults.\nIts just too bad that America is the butt of the joke, thanks to "W".\nAnd please - someone tell me the punch line to the rumor that Jeb Bush is considering a run for prez.
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I think he's trying to show the American people that he's a good president. But to me,he's an A**hole,I feel he doesn't even care about his people or what he's doing to this country,we are so much in debt it ain't funny anymore,and what country out there is going to help us,Nobody that's for sure.America is suppose to be the riches country but we're the poorest.He cares more about the outsiders,than his own.