Honestly, tell me what other president in history has dealt with as many crisis, natural disasters, etc.?

Question

I don't know of one but if there has been PLEASE enlighten me. No one is perfect in the midst of crisis or emergency, unfortunately you have to learn from situations like that & know training or way to perform perfectly. If no responses from Dems or liberals, your silence will speak volumes on this matter!

Let's see, the other wars mentioned had a clearly determined enemy/country that we were fighting. Quite a different animal in the war we are fighting today as they are terrorist cells of which are in this country as well as every country! Better luck next time!!

Answer 1

Thank you for this question! President Bush has done an outstanding job with everything that has been coming at him. President Bush will go down in history as one of our best and greatest Presidents.

Answer 2

What about FDR during the Great Depression? Abe Lincoln and the Civil War? The Vietnam Era Presidents? A crisis becomes a crisis based on the response to the initial event. Hurricane Katrina could have been a model for disaster response used the world over, instead, due to the ineptitude of state, local, and federal gevernment, it became a crisis. The current "crisis" in the middle east is the result of years of U.S. foreign policy that has mobilized the Arab world against us!

Answer 3

Well you had the Civil War (Lincoln), World War One (Wilson), the Great Depression and WW2 (Franklin D. Roosevelt), even the San Francisco Earthquake (T. Roosevelt, who had the Panama Canal built, and who started the national park system). Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon all dealt with the Vietnam War. None of these people started the problems they dealt with, unlike Mr. Bush, who insisted on starting his war in Iraq. Do you honestly think any company with an executive as incompetent as Mr. Bush at the helm would stay in business more than a day or two?

Answer 4

Certainly no other President would have done that.Winning elections for the first term had been an unprecidented crisis solved through Supreme Court and Gov .Jab alone.Allowing creating 9/11Crisis and resutantly attacking Afghanistan.Helping
Israil keep on attacking Palestinian people in their houses, on the roads in their offices,where not,attacking Iraq for no reasons except fabricated lies,creating a homosapian zoo in G/Bay,******* of Abughreeb prisoners by his women soldiers,never caring for basic rights of more than half of the humanity,deeply suffering from Israilophbia and what not had been ,have been and are the crisis and diasters of dimesionless magnitude.Long live President Bush!

Answer 5

Kennedy dealt with the cuban missle crisis and vietnam

Lincoln dealt with the country ripped in two

Washington faced the burden of being the first president, the example, the prescedent

Madison dealt with British troops on our land and in our capital, in fact burning our governement buildings to the ground.

Iraq is of Bush's own making. Katrina is from ineffectual leadership and the fact that too many Americans rely more on a handout than their own common sense, bin laden could have been taken care of by previous presidents but wasn't (not just clinton, I mean Bush I and Regean). The job he's done on that front is dismal. Almost five years later and we still don't have bin laden.

Answer 6

FDR for many reasons, including the Great Depression, WW2, labor strikes and some natural disasters during his 4 terms.

Ronald Reagan: The US was being held hostage in Iran, wild inflation, lack of optimism among majority of Americans, keeping the Soviets from sweeping into the middle east, the 1986 Challenger disaster, 1983 Beirut military bombing of US soldiers 280+ dead, 1988 Pan Am crash , the AIDS crisis, and the impending fall of Soviet Union as a superpower, just to name a few.

Answer 7

Most of the problems we face are a direct result of Bush's failed policies, and only a complete apologist would excuse him as a victim of the times we live in, or some such nonsense. He destabilized the Middle East by invading Iraq, he hampered Katrina victims from getting relief by giving the FEMA Director job to one of his buddies who was incapable of running the program, his various illegal domestic syping programs are keeping the CIA busy while his VP's outing of an undercover CIA agent destroyed the Iran intelligence gathering program she was involved in. The only bill he vetoed in 5 1/2 years was one that would help save lives, but as he said, every life is sacred, even an embryo. I wonder how he feels about the 50,000 dead Iraqi civilians. I could go on, but I think the point is made. Bush is a perpetrator, not a victim.

Answer 8

Abe Lincoln - Civil War
Franklin Roosevelt - Great Depression/WW2
Woodrow Wilson - WW1
Harry Truman - WW2, the atomic bomb drop
George Washington - the revolution and founding of America
James Madison - 1812 war (British actually took Washington in that war)

there are always natural disasters and those above had bigger conflicts/wars on their hands than does Bush, hell you could easily argue for Johnson and Nixon also

Answer 9

The thing about natural disasters is that they could have occurred many years ago, but since the population was not a dense it did not cause as many problems. Also, it was much harder for news to travel. If I had to pick a President that has dealt with more i would say Abraham Lincoln. I would say that the separating of the Union would have to be one of the hardest things to deal with as a President.

Answer 10

I aggree with others about FDR. Not only did he deal with international crisis, he actually paid great attention the the homefront... He implemented the New Deal programs -- Social Security, Workers Compensation, Preliminary welfare programs, like the Works Progress Administration -- Which helped build many roads, bridges, etc. in this country. He helped this country out of the Great Depression.

Many of our current crisis could have been prevented...

Answer 11

Theodore Rooselvelt
George W. Bush
Senior George Bush
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
JFK