Question to AMERICANS: Does anyone else think BUSH is giving us a BAD NAME?

Question

I mean, ever since he has been in office, sooo many countries have turned against us, they just see Bush and they think all Americans are like that and that we all agree with the war.
I just read a question posted by Doogie, and he writes, "Question to Americans: Do you all realize how much the U.K. dislikes you?"
Do you guys like the way the rest of the countries view us? I take offense to it. Why are they judinging us based on the actions of ONE man?

Answer 1

I don't like the way that i have been told the rest of the world views America. However, if they don't like it, they can stay where they are, don't ask us for help, don't expect money from us.

Why don't these other countries deny the big corporations from building factories in their country? The cheap overseas labor is only making the American "fat-cats" richer by taking advantage of their country men.

Answer 2

Not quite right.

Policy has been the same since the George Senior as well as Reagan.

Everybody cheered then.

It's a one trick dog situation.

I really don't worry about it.

It isn't just the actions of one man.

There is consistent general denial. As the people, so the leader. You might say some chickens are coming home to roost.

If they are, they won't be doing so for the U.S. exclusively. All around, the judgement is both correct and universally applicable.

Until this is acknowledged, no one is going to make any headway.

Answer 3

The countries that have "turned against" us are all Western European. Many of them started having those feelings at the end of the cold war. Of course, those same countries were our best friends when they were afraid that the USSR was going to get them. If you look at the old Soviet Bloc countries in Eastern Europe, you will see and entirely different picture. They look up to us and desire to be friends and allies with us.

Some of the "dislike" you have seen in other Western European countries is disappearing too, just look at Germany. They just elected a new leader who is pro US. Just because Chirac in France doesn't like us doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't. Just look at how many people want to live here.

Answer 4

You are worried about having a bad name, yet your ID is Anal Hottie? We don't have a bad name around the world. This is the same old nonsense we see here.

You can look at what the media says and you would be convinced that every American hates Bush, yet he keeps winning elections. The lib's are good at making noise, going to protests (usually because they don't have meaningful lives or jobs), and being outright bitter. America has the same allies as it has ever had, and even a few more during the Bush term.

Answer 5

I agree that Bush is giving us a bad name, but we have been doing that with our MEDDLING and ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM for some time. Bush is just the icing on the cake.

I have the theory that Bush is actually the Antichrist's son. That will not help us as a country to get a good name either, but it is something that we may have to face.

It IS NOT fair to judge an entire country by the actions of one puppet leader for his daddy who is allegedly REALLY BAD. We are a good people going through a difficult time. Americans are generally PRETTY GOOD PEOPLE, but we have relationship issues around the world which will need to be addressed. Let us hope for the best.

VOTE AGAINST THE ALLEGED ANTICHRIST'S NEXT PUPPET LEADER TO HELP, PLEASE!

Answer 6

Yes I do, but presidents are restricted to two terms, so...I'm just trying to close my eyes to him at the moment. Even with his politics (which I don't like) aside, he is simply not an intelligent man and makes us look like a bunch of idiots for electing a man who has said some of the things that he said.

And of course, despite the fact that he split this country up more than it's ever been (possibly aside from the civil war, but probably not), people from other nations still think that we all want him.

After all of that, you add in the politics behind all that he has done in both wars, general foreign affairs, and general domestic affairs and it makes you feel ashamed at what you're your country has come to be.

In some cases it impacts foreign affairs, but its most apparent in the common people. I know people from all over the world and usually any political conversation starts me with the handicap of being an american under that jerk's flag.

Answer 7

They are judging you based on the efforts of the left wing media. The media has done a great job of blaming America first. The people are buying it. I can't change their thoughts, I will not change my President, so I guess they will just have to deal with it. This is all the press having a fit that they couldn't manipulate an election actually 2 elections. I ignore it, so should you.

Answer 8

Last I checked, we quit caring about the UK's feelings around 1776, when we decided we wanted to live under a government chosen by the citizens rather than a dictator chosen by bloodline or military coup, like many of the nations who don't like us now.

For many years, people thought President Reagan was a warmonger and said he was constantly pushing us closer to the brink of Armageddon. History has proven them all wrong and he has been vindicated by the continuing failures of communism, and the freight-train momentum of his economic policies which powered us all the way through the clueless wandering administration of Clinton.

Answer 9

Of course Bush gives us a bad name. But you wonder why we are judged by the actions of one man? Because we VOTED for this one man. TWICE. Doesn't that say a little bit about us? Of course, it IS rude to judge because its all based on stereotypes. Then again you look at our governenment and you have to think...maybe they have point. Next time, lets choose a president who better follows the voices and visions of the American people so that we can be judged for ourselves.

Answer 10

Like it or not, that ONE man is the leader chosen to represent this country. What other way would any outsider have to judge us individually? They look at our nation's leaders and regardless of how or why he is there, he is in that position. I think Americans are giving themselves a bad name by not being more interested in the voting and political process.