Do USA voters care enough?

Question

When President Bush goes, are you going to say "Well, that taught me a lesson", or are you going to repeat the error?

Answer 1

lol i think its you who needs to learn somethign. Namely that your views of Bush are a minority view. Try thinking instead of reading the NY times.

Answer 2

I think Americans honestly care an awful lot, but are also incredibly naiive. This isn't to belittle Americans in any way, but we're not used to thinking "outside the box" so to speak, and well...we know horrendously little about foreign matters, therefore we are likely to repeat mistakes.

If Americans learned anything, then I hope that we will be able to do the American thing and pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. But I think that this country has fragmented too much. We're fighting over stupid things--including stem cell research which has absolutely nothing to do with a pro abortion stance, especially since the stem cells that are most useful to science come from umbilical tissue and not the fetus itself. But this just illustrates the general ignorance that many Americans possess. We go around yelling "Save the babies" and stuff like that, when the people who advocate stem cell research are basically saying, "yeah, save the babies...just give us the umbilical cords after you've cut them." But nobody really looks at that. And I think that until more of us start looking at things in that way, we're gonna elect either Democrat OR Republican candidates who are just as bad and short sighted as many of the ones we've seen in recent history.

Answer 3

As a UK voter and not a US citizen I can't give you an answer and my advice may sound patronising, however whoever has to deal with this mess after President Bush is gone will have to look at how Government can work better domestically and internationally and perhaps consider the profits of oil companies and weapons manufacturers less when making global policy.

Answer 4

The bush campaign centred around those states which he already knew were going to vote in his favour and those which were half and half. The american people aren't to blame the voting system has an unfair method of judging the winner.

Also the 'Sleeping Giant', as they have been known as, are the latino and black communities, which have yet to vote in any significant way. This is perhaps because bush will not target them as he's too busy cooing the God Squad, tellling them things they want to hear.

There were some controversies as well, beacuse felons ave not been allowed to vote they were struck off. However there were also some people in their familes that were struck off the voting registrar and some people who were struck off because they had 'commited crimes' when they blatantly hadn't. More often than not they were of the black and latin ethinicity.

Answer 5

I voted for Bush, and it was not in error...I'd do it all over again. Some voters care enough to educate themselves on the issues, but not nearly enough do that. Most are uninformed, voting on name recognition or something equally lame..but at least they are better than those who don't even show up. It's a shame, really.

Answer 6

I learned the lesson about Republicans long before anybody voted for DWI Bush. Just wish every body had.

Answer 7

Well, Democrats, are you going to give us a reasonable candidate in '08, or are you going to repeat the error? There lies the answer you seek.

Answer 8

so, Bush has made some bad choices. yeah? and that makes all republican or semi to full conservatives *****es ? At least he TRIED, many other presidents don't even have that to their name. Clinton just kinda worked the House and got what he went in for: fame that died when his term ended. i dont think ppl give Bush enough credit, and they DEFINATELY give Clinton WAY too much.

Answer 9

I don't consider it an error.

Kerry was insane, remember he said, in a debate "the best way to combat terrorism is to increase money for AIDS research".

Here's hoping the Dems can come up with something better this time.

Answer 10

I never made the error in the first place ... it doesn't take a genius to see through the viper we have in the White House ....

Answer 11

I'd LOVE to think we've learned a lesson... but there are more of "them" than there are of "us," so I know they're going to make the same mistake again. Then we just wait for the bomb to give us blissful peace.