Why is hating President Bush "trendy"?

Question

People at school talk about hating him, but they don't know the first thing about politics or economics. They can't even produce rationally thought arguements for why they hate him. It does not make sense. It's not like he is drafting you like LBJ..

This is exactly what i'm talking about, people who come in, and say he is a lying pig, and he is just hatable. You produce no logical arguements, you are just reacting off of emotion or other sentiment.

How exactly is the war in Iraq senseless? Isolationism and Appeasement were what allowed Hitler to rise to power. If Chamberlain had any balls he could have prevented World War Two..

We may need to intervene diplomatically and possibly militarily in China and North Korea. Allowing them to build up larger nuclear arsenals and build larger and larger armies will only destabalize Asia, and eventually lead to conflict. If we can take care of the situation before it becomes out of hand, it will be in our benefit.

Clinton believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction as well. Iraq at one time did use chemical weapons on the Kurds in the north of Iraq, and also against Iranian military and civilian targets. To say Iraq never had weapons of mass destruction is to ignore history.

Answer 1

Because they turn on the TV and they see all the celebrities who hate him, and the celebrities must be right otherwise they wouldn't be celebrities! Then they go to school and all the teacher's unions gave money to Kerry so the teachers tell the kids Bush is horrible and mean and ugly, and teachers must be right about him too!

Answer 2

OK, why do I dislike him? Let's see: The tax bracket break, going into Iraq for no reason (there were no WMD's found and there are facts stating bin Laden and Hussein hated each other) other than oil and money, attempting to sell our seaports to Arab businessmen instead of creating jobs for Americans on our seaports, refusing to ask Congress for an increase in minimum wage so the poor HAVE A REASON TO GO TO WORK, refusing to allow gays to marry (this country is suppose to be a separation of church and state), always throwing 9/11 in the countries face to scare people although he has yet to even try to find bin Laden, hinting at Americans if we don't support the Iraq "war" we are un-American, yet he cut benefits to Veterans, helping big business but not helping this country with increasing jobs (saying you want fries with that doesn't constitute as a career), the "no child left behind" BS he has thrown around but has done nothing for it (he HAS left children behind by NOT INCREASING Financial Aid with college increases and cut public school funding), went to Iraq but won't help Dubai because he can make money there... It is not trendy, it's fact. I do not know bush as a man, but as a President that YOU elected, he sucks.

You say Clinton knew about the weapons he had. Of course he did, WE sold it to him in the REAGAN administration! You cannot compare Saddam to Hitler, but if he was trying to do what Hitler did, the United Nations agreed to stop him from advancing in the early '90's. Why didn't we allow the UN to do the same thing when checking for weapons? There was no need to go to bush's personal war against Iraq. He needed to find bin Laden, and he was no where near Iraq.

Answer 3

I don't really follow trends, anyone that knows me will tell you that. Where I'm at, it's trendy to be for Bush. I think he is incompetent and almost a complete failure as a president. If this was a Democrat, I'd say and think the same thing, if he was from the planet Zebulon and his name was Zahaar, I would still think the same thing. Incompetence and failure speaks for itself, no matter what political group that person belongs to. I care more for the well being of my country than I do of what is fashionable at the time unlike most people it seems. That makes a whole lot of damn sense to me, what about you.

Answer 4

I can produce rationally thought out arguments for intensely disliking president bush (i don't hate anyone), and as someone who has been personally affected in more ways than one by the war in Iraq, which is completely senseless and pointless, I think what I want to think. I don't listen to the media - I have done the research and formulated my own opinions.

Answer 5

There are no presidents who young people have liked.

Young people don't like politics. They don't own property and don't generally have resposibilities.

The best any president can hope from the young is indifference.

Rock the vote...yeah right.
Can't even get off the couch to change the channel without a remote, much less effect political change.

Today's kids make the hippies look industrious!

Answer 6

Beats me. This is summer time "the days of soda pretzels and beer" I think that was from a 1950's Dion song.

This is far to nice of a summer to be jumping on Bushes case. Everyone should go to the beach and chill out.

January is Bush bashing weather. It's cold Christmas is over party season is off for the month. Yep January is Bush bashing time.

Answer 7

He's not drafting, but he will if he goes after Iran and/or North Korea, and the DoD was recently trying to raise the maximum draft age. Hmm...

George Bush deserves to be hated, but it's preferable that people understand why. The people who hate him because doing so is trendy are probably democrats or have democrats for parents, which is unfortunate.

Answer 8

If your talking about high school students, it's probably because they are parroting what their parent's say in order to sound smarter than they are. Around here in Lancaster PA, kids that age irrationally hate Democrats, and call them "baby killers", because that's what the authority figures at home and church say. It takes a developed mind to actually form a rational opinion, and a well educated mind to understand an opinion without accepting it.

Answer 9

It's been that way since we started electing presidents, and ever shall be I'm afraid.
I don't care for Bush either, but I'm smart enough to know that we're all better off here than in places like China, North Korea, etc.

Answer 10

The left media has a lot to do with it. They are making millions and millions to regain control of the white house. They were so aggravated that they couldn't control the last two elections, that there are people in this country who actually do think for themselves. So they are working harder on the young parrots to get the negative word out. And the young parrots are falling for it. hook, line, and cracker.