Bush Bashing?

Question

I'm a little curious of why people hate the President and some think he should be impeached. I don't want answers like "He's stupid" or "The election was rigged." I would like some intelligent feedback with some reasoning behind your answers, please.

Answer 1

I think its just a symptom of a larger problem. The Democratic Party has lost its direction, and I've seen this since Clinton's time. He ran on change for the sake of change, which worked at the time because people were angry with Bush I.

But thats the sort of thing thats only going to work once. They just don't have a message other than 'everyone who disagrees with us sucks.' Thier lack of any message is resulting in monogovernment (no one gets elected but Republicans) and this leads to corruption.

Answer 2

Oh I don't know, he ignores all the science presented to him and still doesn't believe global warming and CO2 emissions are related to each other.

He says nuc-u-lar instead of nuc-lear.

He is an ex-alchie who was saved by evangelical Christianity and holds the most important job in the world. He admits that he runs our country using his religious values and God as his guide. We are not all evangelical Christians so I have a real problem with this.

He twisted the intelligence on Iraq to convince the Senate, the House and the American public that Hussein was an IMMANENT THREAT. That was not true and now...300 TRILLION dollars later, a bunch of dead soldiers and dead innocent civilians caught in the cross-fire, well you get the idea.

Bin Laden is still alive because we went to war in Iraq instead of staying focused on Afghanistan and Al Queda.

Bush also has made the national debt higher than any other president in history, when we were working with a surplus from the Clinton administration. Remember that the second highest cost to the American tax payer is "the interest payment" on the national debt.

Bush is spending more time trying to ban gay marriage than address other far more important issues like health care, education, energy and jobs.

He and his administration took away most of the governments funding of research for alternative fuels, then the day before he visited a solar power company to glad hand for the media, he reinstated 500K of funding to the company so they could re-hire 50 people they had to lay off.

He has reduced funding for research by 40% leaving scientific innovation to happen overseas instead of the USA.

Look, I could go on for hours and I know I am missing some big issues but maybe this will open your eyes a little.

Answer 3

From everything that I have heard and my own feelings about this guy it seems to me that he came into the presidency looking for a fight with Iraq. Either he was finishing a job his father should have done or he thought he could get another victory for America under his belt. I don't like the way he talks, I don't like the way he looks, I think he has been very sneaky in a lot of things that he has done.

I think he knew about 9/11 and chose to ignore it so that he would have a good reason to get into the middle east. I think he knew there were no WMDs in Iraq but there was enough doubt that he could use it as his way in there. Everything he has done seems like that has been his objective from day one.

What's worse, I believe he is profiting by the whole thing - him and his closest friends. It feels like a giant con. Now he has all those judges in place and he fuels the fire with the radical right. He seems to want to make dramatic changes in the country and th world and I just hope it doesn't get out of control. And I hope that he has not now depleted our military resources to the point where we are vulnerable to attack on the other side of the country.

He just strikes me as a dangerous, greedy man. He has the lowest IQ score of any president for all time - I don't think he makes good decisions. How many tax breaks during time of war when we don't really have the money to spare?

If it is proven, that he knew about 9/11 (or heaven help him - if he or this government paid those pilots) I think he should be more than impeached. We lost people we knew. To go to such lengths to settle an old score (as it seems to me) would be beyond criminal, in my opinion. If it is proven that he lied to the house and senate to force his way against the UN, into Iraq - I think that would be beyond criminal. To lose our own family there to settle a personal grudge - that would make him Mad King George, wouldn't it. If...

Peace.

Answer 4

I don't like the president. I'm not sure I want him impeached.

I wish he could pronounce words properly. And some of the things he says don't make sense such as "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000 or "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004. Some things he says just sound ignorant of the working class such as: "You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." —to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005.

And the whole Iraqi War thing going on - we went there being told we were looking for "weapons of mass destruction" and then we are later told that there are no WMDs. That's false premises. And that's not being truthful or respectful to our troops.

Bill Clinton laid the cards on the table to put North Korea at peace with us. He went there and talked (and talked and talked some more) and they came to an agreement. But, it was at the end of his term and Clinton expected Bush to pick up the deck. Bush didn't - he just ignored Korea. So Korea came to the conclusion that we broke our promises (because we never got back to them) and then our government thought that they broke their promises. And now it has just become a nasty current event.

And the Patriot Act (I did a speech on the Act during one of my college courses). It gives the government the right that they can search and sieze your medical, personal, financial and/or library records without informing you. They can also get documents from your doctor or employer and they are required by law to not mention the search to you. It's just an invasion of our fourth amendment rights it makes me sense (I could go more into detail and start throwing quotes at you but your question doesn't require me to do so.).

I could go on but those are the main reasons why I dislike him. Some of it for personal reasons and the others for political.

Answer 5

Where do I start? Starting a war in the wrong country on false information (where are those WMDs and if we went in to take down a dictator, why not campaign to save suffering African nations, North Korea who has WMD, or Iran?). HOw about breaking the law with wiretaps- even in war, you can't break the U.S. law and give the president more power that can hurt American people later on. Besides other collasal flops, Bush has committed crimes on a higher scale of severity than CLinton ever did, and Republicans tried to have him impeached. Anyway I got to go right now, and more importantly, so does Bush, right out of the White House.

Answer 6

Bush has gotten us into a quagmire war, much like Vietnam. When we went to war, we all held our breath, believing that Bush was protecting us from Weapons of Mass Destruction. As it turns out, the war wasn't about that at all, and we aren't even winning the war on terrorism, if anything the war has recruited more people for AlQuada. Most of us do not feel more safe than we did when he took over. We all support our troops, and our own president doesn't, keeping our men and women in uniform over in Iraq and Afghanistan longer than a person should have to bear. (The stress is starting to show , as the news is now reporting of heinous acts committed by soldiers who are totally stressed.) Hell, our soldiers don't even have proper equipment from our administration (Thanks, Rummy!) His Social Security ideas tanked. He screwed up help for hurricane Katrina victims. He has taken away our civil liberties (the Patriot Act among others), shown little to no sympathy for any one but rich oil company owners. He could not care less about the environment. A famous rapper has a song out now about how Saddam Hussein and Bush use the same methods and how Bush is no better than Saddam. I agree!!! He has hid behind a mask of christianity when he is anything but...it is a wonder how he sleeps at night.

Answer 7

Let him stand on his record. It's there for all to see. We don't need to bash him the way Conservatives bashed Clinton for 8 years...oh and continue to even now.

This President takes too much time off from the most important job in this country. He doesn't take an interest in educating himself on what is going on in the world. He seems to want to spend more time in Crawford than the White House. He has violated the law. He has misled (if not outright lied) to the American People. He has sanctioned torture and a suspension of the Geneva Convention. He has imprisoned people without any due process.

He is the most fiscally irresponsible president in our history.

And he can't put more than two coherent sentences together.

Other than that he's a great guy.

Answer 8

Well, I think there's three groups of people.

One group has jumped on the let's hate the President bandwagon because they see it as edgy or as the cool thing to do. There have been a lot of these more and more recently.

The other group has actually done its research and sees real problems with the administration. He does things like cutting funding to his own programs, signing bills into law but then exempting himself from them, and overall, greatly increasing the power of the Presidential office, in such a way that many see it as upsetting the checks and balances system. Not to mention that whole Iraq thing.

Then there's the group who just hates any Republicans because they're Republican.

Answer 9

O.k. here goes. Bush has sent our troops out to kill and be killed for a so-called AMBIGUOUS "war on terrorism". This makes no sense to me! Our country isn't winning any new alliances in the world, and we are losing the few we have left, and for what? Because HE thinks we can stop extremists from doing "extreme things" by lowering ourselves to their level and beyond??? Does this make any sense? How many human lives (note I said "human"- not JUST "American"!) will it take to satisfy his viewpoint? Can we really stop crazy people from doing crazy things? If we take guns away from everyone, will that end violent crimes? No. It's nonsense. Seems to me, we should be in the business of modelling the RIGHT way to achieve peace- by creating it, preserving life, by non-violent means. As a so-called Super-Power, the U.S. should be setting an example for the rest of the world, not expelling hypocrisy masked by "patriotism". Americans aren't stupid, and neither is the rest of the world. The war needs to stop. There will be "no winner", and the longer it goes on, the more innocent lives are lost. The fact that it ever started in the first place, and the fact that it still continues on today, is the BIGGEST reason I "dislike" Bush. (And that is to put it mildly.)

Answer 10

OK i know answering a question with a question is a little redundant but why shouldn't this man be led through the process of impeachment?.. he has done nothing but ran this country into the ground using bad business policy's and ethics .. just due to the fact that one of his larger company's haliburton supplies the armed forces with many of its weapons and munitions makes him want to be a "war president" and when he sees the word war he sees dollar signs maybe if your into it watch the movies Bowling for columbine and Fahrenheit 911 both by Micheal Moore .. are wonderful works of art.