Do you think Bush is or is not a good leader?

Answer 1

I think history will not have too many good things to say about the current lot of US presidents post World War One, they seem to be deteriorating, and Bush seems to be near the bottom, maybe Nixon was disliked more at home.

George Bush is disliked by a majority of humanity on earth.
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Answer 2

I think he is a great leader. Clinton didn't want to fight the war we're in, but Bush is. This war on terrorism isn't just any normal war. Where are the instructions on how to fight a war like this. So, those who think that this war is wrong then just sit back and wait so that the terrorists will come take over the country because you are complaining, but those who are fighting it are fighting for freedoms that we have and that others would love to get.

Answer 3

The Bush administration is the most evil, corrupt and incompetent ever to occupy the White Office. Consider what Bush has done since 2000. He has:

Illegally and unconstitutionally invaded another sovereign country that in no way provoked, threatened or attacked the United States;
Massacred tens of thousands of Iraqi elderly, women and children without any reasonable justification;
Killed more than 2,500 U.S. soldiers;
Turned small countries away from us as they become fearful of the new "evil empire" - the U.S.A. - and consider developing their own nuclear weapons in order to defend against our invasion;
Tarnished our reputation as a global leader and world peacekeeper;
Bankrupted the U.S.A. financially and morally (we are now trillions of dollars in debt, which means YOUR taxes could within a few years eat away up to 85% of your paycheck);
Condoned the illegal incarceration of insignificant prisoners and torture, abuse, and even murder of those individuals;

Ruined all previous efforts to manage our environment better and enhance the ecological issues so desperately needed to keep our Earth a viable place for human habitation;
Neglected America's poor, sick, aged, disabled, homeless, hungry, underprivileged and disadvantaged while playing "Robin Hood in Reverse" and stealing from those impoverished people to give to his rich friends, lobbyists, special interest groups, and big corporations who - in turn - make generous (if not illegal) contributions to help keep the GOP in power.

Answer 4

Horrible leader. But, he's not really the leader, Cheney and Rove are the leaders, Bush is just their puppet.

Answer 5

He is becoming a good leader.

Answer 6

Not. He's not my leader. I wouldn't follow the idiot anywhere. He's managed to bring this country to the brink of ruin and made it a laughingstock because of all the stupid things he's said and done. Jeez, what a loser!

Answer 7

i did at one time think he was a good leader ,but he has screwed up one to many times like trying to charge american citizens to get out of lebanon.what the hell is that about?the entire world has got to be laughing at us .that has got to be one of the most idiotic things i have ever heard of.the damn french got americans out before our own government did this whole f@#$@#& thing just pisses me off!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

bush is a total dufuss. i think the vice president is running the show.

Answer 9

not a good leader!!

Answer 10

In his second inaugural address as Governor of Texas, George W. Bush declared, "Some people think it's inappropriate to make moral judgments anymore. Not me." Among those who agree with the President is noted ethicist Peter Singer, author of The President of Good and Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush, released in paperback in August. In his book, Singer, the Decamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, evaluates the moral calculus behind Bush's decisions on issues from gay marriage to the war in Iraq. Lawrence Kohlberg argues that most people go through certain stages of moral development. Using his categories, and looking at some of the moral judgments Bush makes--not so much the substance of the judgments as the way in which he reaches his judgments--it seems to me that Bush is at a stage that is typical of adolescent boys. Most, though not all of them, later go on to a more reflective view of morality. Bush appears not to have done so.

The question of who bears responsibility for the Abu Ghraib prison scandals is one you tackle briefly in the preface to the paperback edition, saying that President Bush made "scapegoats of those at the bottom of the military ladder." How did the President's moral leadership contribute to the abuses at Abu Ghraib? To what extent is he responsible?

First, the President is responsible because he began the war that led to the need for Americans to run prisons in Iraq. Obviously that's a situation in which the potential for abuse exists. Second, the President appears to have allowed his subordinates to set the standards for interrogation procedures. He did not use the authority of his office to insist on, and remind all Americans serving in Iraq of, the importance of strict adherence to the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners. Indeed, in detaining prisoners without trial at Guantánamo Bay, he himself violated one aspect of the Geneva Conventions. It is not surprising that other Americans under his command should have violated other aspects of them.

The question consuming politicians concerned about our position in Iraq is "What now?" What is the most ethically sound course for America to undertake in Iraq?

To hand over essential functions to the United Nations and get out. I think the presence of American troops is making it more difficult, not less difficult, for the interim Iraqi government to establish its credibility. It provides an excuse for radicals to refuse to participate in the democratic process that we would all like to see.

You talk extensively about President Bush's religious beliefs and their impact on his leadership and policy-making, saying that some of his words come "straight out of apocalyptic Christianity." What is the proper role for a President's religion to play in governing?

None. We live in a multicultural society, and we should keep religion out of state affairs.

Just this week, on the third anniversary of President Bush's decision to limit stem-cell research to the seventy-eight lines already in existence, First Lady Laura Bush defended her husband and urged the public not to take the ethical issues involved "too lightly." As a bioethicist, what do you see as the ramifications of Bush's policy on stem cells?

I think Bush's policy is misguided, but for an explanation of why that is the case, your readers will have to take a look at the relevant chapter of my book. The ramifications are that research in this promising area will proceed more slowly than it would have if federal funds were available for it. Fortunately, several other nations do not restrict stem-cell research in the way that Bush does, so the area will develop anyway.

Recent dialogue about morality has centered around the Bush Administration, but what about the obligations of regular Americans? Did American citizens have a duty to vote in 2004?

Absolutely. The low voter turnout in America is a disgrace, and undermines the nation's claim to be a great democracy.