Who voted for Bush, but feels like he has let us down?
924469
I voted for Bush, I don't feel he let us down.  I feel he has made mistakes and the people whom he appointed has made mistakes, but I don't think he let us down.  I also voted for Clinton, he let us down!
628151
Probably only those who voted for George W. Bush. They are all wacko.
1110880
Regardless of how the votes went, YES, "we" as a country elected him and he is our President.  I would suggest that it was "our" apathy that got him elected personally.\n\nWhy you suggest that "we" have to be reminded I am not sure, since he is the president of a country where we have the right (and often the duty) to voice our opinions about our elected officials, INCLUDING our President.\n\nMany have died defending this country and it's right of freedom of expression.  I for one, do not take it for granted, but am offended when people suggest we cannot say anything bad about him or it is unpatriotic somehow.  \n\nI vote, that gives me the right to complain about the wrongs I see WHEREVER they are.  (and yes, I also do things to try and change those wrongs, but since I am not democrat or republican, I am stuck with those candidates they give me.)
397861
Yes I did vote for him, to bad it wasn't an honest election  and Bushit didn't win fair and square, we need an honest election in 08 to restore validity to the process.
1180039
I have problems With President Bush, but I believe that he has gotten some bad advice and has surrounded himself with people who don't have the nation's best interest at heart.  I voted for him simply because I didn't want Kerry to become leader of the free world.  As for my vote, who knows, it might count, it might not.  I still vote with high hopes and low expectations.
550754
Disapprove.  I feel that he misled us into a war that we can't possibly win (by lying to get us there in the first place).  I feel that not reversing the big tax cuts to oil companies proves corruption and we are paying for it.  I feel that spying on people without judicial approval is a violation of the rights of citizens.  But most of all, I don't feel safe anymore.  I feel that he and his administration are only exacerbating the hatred of terrorists towards America.
742297
hmmm feel sorry for a rude inarticulate silver spoon frat boy who has uses our Constitution as toilet paper, gotten us into a war for profit,  pandered to his "have and have mores" corporate cronies, trashed our environment, embarrassed us in front of the entire world community and has demoralized our beloved country with constant spew of fear mongering?\n\num ... i don't think so.  tho perhaps i should follow the strings to the puppet master's hand and direct my angst towards Darth Cheney instead.
451906
I cried when he stole the first election & could not believe that US citizen were so uninformed that he was actually elected again.  He has exceeded my expections of his eliteism & sense of entitlement. George Bush has no clue how the "real world" works and has never lived in it.  OUR world is being destroyed while he lives in his own little bubble & listens to dinasours which, I believe, are extinct!?! \nHe will NEVER admit to a mistake if it was slapping him in the face.  I've stopped praying that he will make good decisions & have started praying that the rest of his mistakes won't have the dire consequences he & his followers already created.  In closing, I feel George Bush has a God complex.  He knows what God wants because he feels he IS God.
662399
Dont know if his votes were transfered to someone else but something just did not feel right aobut the whole thing last night. Everyone, including Kathrine looked to surprised for it to have been what it was supposed to have been the outcome of the voting
1106902
I admit that I feel a bit used by our President. I voted for him, after a personal struggle of decision, because I opted for any chance at right to life issue passage. Yes, it seems he has not followed through as ardently as I would have hoped. But you, questioner, seem more upset than I am. It seems, though, that with any politician, from any state, red or blue, from any party, in the end must negotiate, and no voter seems to get exactly what he/she wants done. Such is life. \n\nCome, Lord Jesus, And right soon. \n\nGood question. \n\n<><
574093
Don't feel bad,we have the same problem in the US,our politicians are just car salesmen that will go to the highest bidder,we now have a president that insults US citizens by telling them illegals will not get amnesty but still get the benefits of a legal citizen,he further states they will be at the back of the line yet stay in the USA,while other immigrants that have been waiting for years are not allowed to come in
694895
I did. I am not a Republican, but given the choice we had at the time I felt safer with Mr. Bush. Mr Kerry did not fill me with confidence from the very start of the campaign. Sometimes the devil you know is better than the one you don't. During that campaign security was a major issue for many voters, myself included. Mr. Kerry kept saying I have a plan, but then he would say I can't tell you till I'm elected. I'm sorry, but that just didn't do it for me.
801780
Wouldn`t you of loved to be a fly on the wall at the Bush house last night? HA HA HA .CHECK- MATE REPUBLICANS. I hope Bush knows how people think about him now cuz he lost the votes for his party last night.It didn`t matter who they were or what they stood for they were doomed because of Bush`s AROGANCE. THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN !!! and this time our votes counted unlike the presidential elections.
1095620
What's there to be proud of? Bush screwed up.
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
156105
I was fed up before he got in office, that's why I didn't vote for him.  Nice to know it's not my fault that the US is so disliked in the world but I'll still be expected to help clean up the mess he made in the end.
420738
You hit so many nails so squarely on the head that it is difficult for me to add to the essay you have written. I don't feel we are a "complete failure" because our foundation is (or was) so strong. I do feel that we are, however, chipping away at that foundation...actually sledge hammering it would be more like it! So many people have been looking out for number one and therefore have become blind to the fact that the very freedoms on which this once great nation was founded are being ripped from us RIGHT and LEFT (pun intended). It is like a repeat of the "rise and fall of the Roman Empire". The greed, arrogance and not just short-sightedness, but blindness of the Bush administration have hastened our downfall tenfold. I am not a bleeding heart liberal, though I am a bit left of center (Neither extreme is good). I do believe that at heart most Americans are good and decent people. But we have allowed our voices to be silenced and become too unwilling to open our eyes and look in the mirror.\n\nAfter 9/11 most of world was behind us. Democrats and Republicans, who were very divided before that dark day, became, for a brief shining moment, once again "united" as AMERICANS. Bush could have led us into the sunlight again. Instead he used that terrible tragedy to further his own agenda...(well actually I say Bush, but the person really running the country is Chaney, with Rove, Rumsfeld and Rice , et al, right along side). Americans have been arrogant for a long time, but the arrogance of this administration has never been equaled. We no longer are a country to be admired...basically, as you have already alluded to in your question, we are no longer a country at all, but a business...and not even a good business, but a corporation like Enron, where the leaders get rich and the workers get screwed.\n\nBoth of the last presidential elections were rigged (this is not the first time this has happened, but certainly the most blatant!)\n \nKatrina victims who have already been devastated by nature (the severity of the hurricane, a direct result of global warming) have been further victimized by the govt. and now won't even be able to vote in the next election! I could go on forever on my tirade too, so I'll TRY to cut this short because I realize with you I am singing to the choir (though we both are going to get blasted on this one).The American PEOPLE, not the government, have come together in an effort to help the victims of Katrina and the victims of the tsunami.(Note to readers who disagree with my views: Please don't quote me the stats on the million$ our government spent on either catastrophe...it wasn't enough. PERIOD!)\n\nI believe the heart of America still beats strongly, but we need to find leaders who are better cardiologists. We need to find leaders who will pull this country back together and not turn our political differences into unnavigable crevasses, or who make our financial disparities so vast...leaders who still believe in the separation of church and state, still believe that our system of checks and balances, engendered by our three branches of govt.(executive, legislative and judicial) ONLY works when one branch does not try to control the other two. We need leaders who recognize that one religion is not superior to another and who won't proclaim that only THEY have a finger on the moral pulse of our nation.\n\n A good leader is someone who ACTUALLY does believe that "all men are created equal" and who remembers that this is a "government OF the people, FOR the people and BY the people" and by this, I mean ALL people (all colors, all religions, all sexes - including homosexuals, all income levels). Whether our next administration is Republican or Democrat , Independent, Libertarian etc., the task ahead is greater than it has ever been...the ideal America as envisioned by our forefathers, the government re-united and rededicated by Abraham