How come people still support President Bush?

Question

Anyone who supports Bush is an idiot. And you know that's the truth.

Answer 1

AMEN...

I think Bush's approval rating pretty much says it all.

Most (sane) people now agree that he will go down in history as one of our nation's worst presidents. There used to be some room to debate this, but it becomes more clear by the day that we the people made a grave error in his re-election.

In support of this we need look no further than the myriad of cabinet posts that were abandoned during his tenure. Essentially ALL of them! His own advisors couldn't work with or for him because he's entirely unreasonable. Worse - he possesses a dangerous conviction that prevents him from considering the possibility that not all of his decisions are good ones. I'm sure he means well, but as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Seems we're headed that way...especially with all this record heat!

Goodbye Kyoto...

Answer 2

I support president Bush because he didn't lie like the media and liberals insist. He's told us 100% truth ever since he's been there. And he has kept us safe from these maggots that want to kill us. You people can believe the media who is against him every step of the way if you want but I personally want us to win this war that they started and even though the media has been telling you otherwise we are winning this war.If you look at everything objectively and truly listen to both sides you'll see that it is the media who is trying to bring this president down. If you notice all this stuff that the democrats are getting caught with is getting a free ride with the media but let some idiot come up with a false accusation against Bush and it hits the front page for fifteen weeks in a row then when they admit it was wrong they do it on the 9th pg. You people need to wake up here and realize what's going on here. The enemy and the liberals are saying the same things about Bush. Coincidence I think not. They actually want us to lose this war just so they can blame it on Bush. So when this country ends up being a muslum country and women are treated as such etc. It wont be Bushes fault. Rush Limbaugh may have had some personal issues in the past which he has corrected but he is absolutely right in what he says and I know you've never listened to anything he has ever said because you believe everything the mainstream media says. I dare you to see both sides of this.

Answer 3

Bush has not been a bad president...he has done one thing that i disagree with, and that is not deal with the idiots setting the prices for gas...the war in Iraq was and is completely necessary to keep our country and the rest of the world safe...that is why people still support Bush...let's not forget that he was still re-elected after the war in Iraq had been going on for 3 years...so he must be doing something right

Answer 4

I'm very sorry you don't like it here, but you do have three options!

1) Support your leaders and your country!
2) Get off your liberal butt and do something about it!
3) Shut up and get out! Im sure France would be happy to have you!

But as usual your too busy sitting around complaining about your problems instead of doing something about it! What have you done lately to support what you believe??? I know I just got back from a rally at our state capitol!

Wait, there are a few things that I can blame Bush for!!!

With Bush in office I know that I don't have to worry as much about another attack on our soil!
With Bush in office I was able to get Federal funding for school that I wasn't able to get under Clinton.
Under Bush I bought my first house because of the regulation changes that he initiated.
Under Bush I got a tax break that allowed me to pay off bills and leave me more money for other things!
Under Bush I have watched the school systems in my community improve and test scores come up.

Its simply amazing all the things I can blame Bush for!!!

Answer 5

Some people have honor and respect there country no matter what. Like it or not this man speaks for us all and he has to be supported for that reason. I do not agree with many of his beliefs and policies but who am I to judge him. I know nothing of politics like he does and neither do you. Would you go up to someone doing a job you know nothing about and start ridiculing him because you saw a negative story about him on CNN? Probably not because all humans have a divine right to be respected by other humans and if everyone would just do that, the world would be a much better place.

Answer 6

Why do people still support Bush?

I am bewildered by the magnitude of the extremes that Bush supporters will come up with in order to try to justify or excuse the most pathetic lack of leadership in America in the past generation. This has lead me to wonder why, as even a rat knows to leave a sinking ship.

After doing a little research on this subject I have found some most interesting things. People who often feel strongly about an issue and back it so forcefully will tend to remain fixed to the issue even if the concept is found to be completely flawed. Reason being, that if people are to admit that a concept, issue, or subject that they so strongly supported were flawed then it would be an admission that they were wrong for supporting it. So why is it so hard for people to admit when they are wrong?

I have come to believe that our society encourages fluidity, herd mentality, politically correctness to the extreme that it is now seen as impolite to disagree with others. Psychologists call this a "comfort zone" bias based on research suggesting that breaking from the status quo is, for most people, emotionally uncomfortable. It requires increased responsibility and opening oneself up to criticism. The desire to conform to the beliefs and behaviors of others is recognized by psychologists as a fundamental human trait. It's reinforced by fear of regret--a disproportionate concern over being placed in a situation in which it is apparent to others that we have failed.

Another point is our attachment to emotional response as oppose to a rational one. An example might be on your TV any given night during a news broadcast in which the commentator asks the guest, "How do you FEEL" instead of "What do you THINK". The first time I realized I had heard this was the day after September 11th when on CNN, Paula Zahn asked a guest, "How bad do you feel about this", and needless to say I wanted to hurl at such a stupid question. One of the critical elements in our past educational system was that of logic and rational argument, which seems to escape more and more people each day. I am reminded of a scene from Gone with the Wind; during a party the men and women divide and go about their own discussions. The men are standing around with glasses of brandy and cigars discussing the upcoming Civil War and its potential consequences and then I remember the saying, "It's not polite to discuss, religion, race, or politics." I can't help but think I might know how Galileo felt when he was imprisoned for claiming that the earth revolved around the sun.

Answer 7

THE great majority of human beings on earth believe today that a superhuman Authority controls human beings.

Italians call this pagan god Immortal Italy. Germans call it The German Race. Communists begin to believe that History is its name; that history is not a mere record of men’s acts, but a Power that controls men’s acts. The god has many names; Society (“Society is responsible.” “Society must provide—“): The Industrial Revolution (“The Industrial Revolution creates the Capitalist system.”); The Machines (“Man is the slave of The Machines.” “This is a war of The Machines.”) Some Americans lament the death of the god that created these United States and once made Americans strong and self-reliant. Its name is The Frontier.

Experience contradicts this pagan superstition. Whatever the intangible Authority is called, it can not be seen nor felt nor smelled nor heard. When a man musters courage to act against or without its control, it does not strike him dead. It does nothing whatever.

From this experience, the believer rarely concludes that his god does not exist. He merely changes its name, or his idea of how it works. (Or, he supposes that it controls everyone but himself.)

Since history began, men in the Old World have never doubted that some Authority controls them. But ordinary experience makes it hard to believe that this superhuman Power is wholly intangible. Most men have believed that it creates a superior kind of man to act as its agent.

The Japanese today believe that their Mikado is a living God. The Tibetans believe that God incarnates Himself in their Great Lama. The Pharaohs of Egypt, and the Emperors of Rome, were believed to be Gods. Until 1911, the Empress of China was sacred.

In 1776, all continental Europeans and the descendants of Europeans living in South America and most of North America believed that a King was God’s agent on earth and ruled inferior men by that Divine Right.

After the First World War, all continental Europeans except French were obeying Kings, and still believing that anyone of Royal ancestry—though crippled, diseased, imbecile or insane—was, by his birth and nature, a superior kind of human beings.

Anyone who believes that Authority controls human beings, and who does not believe that this superhuman Authority is some men—by their birth, their race, their color, or by a direct act of God upon an individual—a superior nature and a right to control their inferiors.

Therefore they obey these men, supposed to be superior, who are the governments.

So, here you go. If it is not Bush Jr., it might as well be someone else. So what?

Answer 8

Guess I am an idiot. He has done a lot without any real support. Give it a few years and you will also reap the benefits of President Bush's leadership.

Answer 9

People support him because they don't know anything else. This is like with Huey Long of depression era Louisiana. He was a bad guy who almost turned Louisiana into a totalitarian state. Yet the people still elected him. They didn't trust voting for anybody else. Yes, they were idiots, but it was more ignorance than idiocy. This is the case with the remaining 29%

Answer 10

A man is known by the enemies he keeps.. I am a student of political philosophy and have studied the publics responses to many things, including presidents, and I am convinced that President Bush will be proven right, strong and corageous. He will be reverred by most and may even have a date with rushmore.. The fact that you think idiot of most of the conservative Christians in America, most of the successful bussinessmen in America, and most of those courageous soldiers who offer thier lives to protect your freedom establishes who the idiot really is...

Answer 11

It is because of a very common human trait: We FEEL an emotion in response to events, and then we invent a rational framework for those feelings. The Bush administration has been very good at manipulating the American population's emotions, with pretty flimsy (or just non-existent) reasons for their actions.

The primary emotion they used has been fear, with some anger and desire for revenge thrown in too. The events of 9/11 created a huge reservoir of these emotions in all of us. They have just channeled those emotions to recreate the social contact in their desired model.

The people who still support him, despite all of his justifications, proposals, and excuses collapsing, are those who are still prisoners of their own fear.