I know bush is a bad president but tell me why he is (legitimently)?

Answer 1

you kidding me. I'm not a U.S. citizen, but from friendly north.
he is leading us towards a war this planet does not need .
check out his polices for tomorrows America.I'm almost as scared as the people in IRAN,

Answer 2

1) Lack of strategy.
Toppling Saddam was easy, and we all knew it would be. Not having back-up plans when winning the peace wasn't so easy is inexcusable. We entered the war without the victory conditions fully outlined ( a result of the constant shifts in the reasons for the war), and now we are mired in a Civil War that is being spurred by the Iranians and there still seems to be no exit strategy.
2) Regulation Policy.
I am generally okay with de-regulation as long as it is handled properly. It can be done well (airlines) or it can be done poorly (cable television). The thing that bothered me about this administration's deregulations is the fact that they allowed the industries to come in and basically de-regulate themselves. One doesn't hire the fox to develop henhouse security, does one? The fact that energy industry insiders shaped energy policy and the administration won't reveal the meeting notes is shameful, and leads to
3) Secrecy.
There are far too many secrets. Again, to an extent, it's acceptable, especially when it involves legally run security programs. The government is of the people and should be transparent to the people as much as possible. Here are just five major items that the White House refused requests from Congress for documents:
a) Vice-President's energy commission (above)
b) Forms between the Defense Dept. and the White House regarding the awarding of no-bid contracts to Halliburton
c) Documents regarding the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib
d) White House documents discussing pre-war intelligence on WMDs in Iraq
e) Cost estimates of the Medicare drug benefit program.
Government cannot be considered legitimate unless it can be reviewed by the people and their representatives.
4) Fiscal Irresponsiblity
I don't think I have to go into too much detail on this one, considering many Conservatives are upset about this one too.

Just a few reasons. I don't hate him (I don't like him, but I don't hate him), and I don't think he's evil. Never attribute to evil what can more readily be explained by ineptitude.

Answer 3

Bush had a great challenge: pay back the mega millionaires who put BIG $$$ into his campaign for election and re-election. To the victor so do the spoils: here's why it's dangerous to do that.

GWB put in office UNQUALIFIED people in places of dire responsibility; these people clearly had NO business being there.

And these "cabinet appointees" did one worse: they put further UNQUALIFIED people in high places in their own White House department. Now you see a kind of disastersome "domino effect" here. And each of these departments were rife with high level "good ol' boy" politics, backstabbing and corporate sector malfeasence.

And what happened as the result? People died--by the thousands; the rest of us pay dearly each day for. Here are some prime examples:

9/11 for starters--along with other preventable terrorist attacks, the "legal" BIG OIL price gouging scam, the Iraq war--at a 50 BILLION dollar a MONTH pricetag....and the FEMA/ Katrina bungling ordeal (where FEMA gets ripped off by $ 1.4 BILLION more dollars!!) and thousands of deserving Katrina victims are STILL ignored by administrative bungling.

The new prez will have a LOT of damage to undo; pray it gets done when he gets elected---and gets done right!!!

Answer 4

if there continues to be democracy in the middle east, 30 years from now our "bad" president will be seen as a visionary and one of our best presidents ever.

Answer 5

Go down to Louisiana and you'll get your answer.

Answer 6

Before you characterize me as just another screwloose, barely-conscious BushBasher, let me state, for the record, that I am an Evangelical Christian (first, foremost and always), a member in good standing of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, a constitutionalist/libertarian conservative by political persuasion, and a soon-to-be third year Politics and Public Policy major at Liberty University, also in Lynchburg, Virginia. I do part-time volunteering for Republican, Libertarian and Constitution Party candidates at the local and state levels on a regular basis. I resent both major parties deeply and blame them both for the current political impasse with its increasing polarization, hostility and vulgarity, though I feel more emnity for the Democrats for the time being because of the issues I have with their basic platform, issues that somehow the Republicans avoid repeating (or acting upon). With that said, here is my list, in no particular order:
I. Taxes and spending. I love tax cuts as much as the next Reaganite, but pairing large tax cuts with the largest spending binge in the history of western civilization is just about the dumbest economic policy ever. Yes, spending did go up with Reagan as well, but at least he tried to fight it! In fact, instead of fighting it, Bush has encouraged it AND tried to get his own slices of the people's pie, including...
II. No Child Left Behind. Bush spent his whole 2000 campaign promising us that such humongous changes would be made to our education systems that we would barely recognise them by the time he left office. Well, THEY STILL SUCK, Mr. President! That's what you get when you let the "Honorable" Sen. Edward Kennedy co-author the bill. And, from what I hear, he was actually sober when he wrote the piece of trash! Instead of being such a revolutionary way to teach children, it turned out being what every education plan since the Johnson administration has been: throw more money indiscriminately in the general direction of the problem and hope that said problem magically goes away.
III. The Arab/Israeli conflict. And Israel thought it was getting shafted by Clinton! Bush has made him seem like a patriot from Tel Aviv by comparison. The State Department's stances in the region have been so anti-Israeli, they might as well have been written by Yassir Arafat himself. No wonder Israel's finally gone off and delcared war!
IV. Judicial appointments. Instead of exercising the right of the majority to prevent the filibustering of credible, OVERQUALIFIED judicial nominees, Bush has taken the easy way out and passed the buck down for another administration to handle. Then, after he got re-elected on a campaign that was, in some very key ways, on the nomination of solid conservative judges, what does Mr. Bush do? He nominates a very closet-liberal looking candidate, John Roberts, for the first Supreme Court nomination for the simple reason that he lookes like a closet liberal, completely snubs the incredibly qualified, intensely deserving Antonin Scalia for the Chief Justiceship, instead giving that priviledge to Justice Roberts (who turns out to be the best surprise present conservatives ever got), and then tries to nominate HIS OWN LEGAL COUNSEL (and, let's face it, obvious liberal) Harriet Miers to fill the second vacancy, forcing his own allies and supporters to shoot it down for the good of America. Thankfully, that defeat sobered him up enough to get Samuel Alito.
V. Illegal Immigration. This one's really serious. Supporting amnesty (after Reagan ALREADY TRIED IT) is bad enough, but opposing a House bill that would actually MAKE PROGRESS when it has a strong probablility of success is downright liberal.
VI. Iraq. Yes, Iraq. I do believe we should be there. I do believe we should be helping them. But I do not approve of a large portion of the program.
A. We should have gone into Iran and/or North Korea first. Yes, Saddam was trying to build/acquire CBR weapons. Yes, he was on his way to successfully doing so. But, as we have seen in recent events, both Ali Khamenei and Kim Jong (mentally) Il were far more intense in their efforts and far closer in their progress. Not to mention the fact that, if we had done things that way, there is a chance that Hussein would have caved under our pressure and given in to the demands of the West concerning his CBR weapon programs.
B. The invasion itself. Isn't there some way we could have made that go smoother or faster?
C. The occupation. Simply put, we needed more troops, we needed more and better equipment for the troops we had, and we needed (and still need) to place far more emphasis on getting the Iraqi government, infrastructure, and society to a point of self-containment and self-sufficiency.
D. The debate at home. I could go on for hours about how many ways the administration could have better explained and defended everything from the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom to the present situation. But, to spare you, I will summarize: he screwed up.
VII. Abortion and gay marriage. The basic causes of Bush's largest and most loyal support bloc. Other than an utterly predictable passing of the partial-birth bill, what has 6 years of total control by Republicans done on these two keystone issues? Answer: not a darn thing. By the way, the manner in which Bush recently used the Federal Marriage Amendment as a political tool was totally classless and could really end up shaking Evangelical support for the Republicans in the midterms.
VIII. Eminent Domain. Sure, the President has given (very small amounts of) lip service to feelings of betrayal in what can only be described as a blatant violation of the Constitution. But has the administration taken ANY meaningful steps AT ALL to deal with this. This is nothing short of legalized treason, a betrayal by the Supreme Court of the very document they are sworn to uphold! Mr. President, WHERE ARE YOU??? Would someone please put his face on the side of a milk carton?!
IX. The Cabinet. Not since Nixon has a President been so luckless in his efforts to find compitent help. At least Nixon's people weren't purposely TRYING to undermine his administration! This is what you get when you try to bring opposing powers into your administration in an attempt to build a coalition government.

In closing, I would just like to say that I believe, in the bottom of my heart, that Mr. Bush is a good, decent person at heart, and that he is a much better President then any of the other options from either major party in either election would have been (which just shows how weak party leadership in these times when quality leaders would be quite useful). Further more, I believe that he is indeed a true born-again Christian, albeit a very inexperienced, very fresh one with an extremely poor grasp on most theological concepts beyond Sunday School. I pray for him daily and support and defend him whenever his choices and actions allow. Unfortunately, it feels like those opportunities are becoming rarer and rarer as days become years. Pity.

(PS Praise God, I voted Constitution Party in 04 ;D)

Answer 7

If you know, why should we have to tell you? Moron.