Do you beleve george bush is doing a good job as a president? better yet do you think he's racist?

Question

give me some facts to back your opinoin

Answer 1

i don't think he's a racist. i think he's ignorant as to how poor people live. when the order was given to evactuate before katrina he just assumed that everyone could pile all their stuff in a $50,000 suv and stay at $100/night hotel for an unlimited duration. he seems to look at everything from his own perspective. that of a white, rich kid who was given everything including every job he's ever had. and he assumes everyone else is like that too.

Answer 2

To answer simply, no and yes. But then you did ask for facts, $3.00 a gallon for gas, oil company's making huge profits. Nothing is being done to lower the price of gas. Every bill that is passed has a rider on it to lower the taxes to the richest Americans and nothing for the poor or middle class. ect. that is the no part, and some of the yes.
His refusal until an election year to address a NAACP meeting, his response to Katrina. His no child left behind act from there on went down hill to only aid the richest schools leaving the U. S. with one of the lowest rated public school systems in the world. l would think he is a bad, racist president maybe even the worse.

Answer 3

George Bush is no racist......What he is though is a globalist. He wants to globalize and open our borders. No racist would ever want that, they would want to close borders and preach nationalism.

I don't like what he is doing in the middle east, but the book hasn't been closed on that story, so we have yet to see the final results. He doesn't do what is popular and has pissed off many nations, so you have to give him credit for that.

I do wish he would focus more on issues at home, instead of running all over the world fixing its problems...

Answer 4

No he's not racist- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/29/politics/main658185.shtml
and RubyC -As far as Katrina every other state that is hit by hurricanes has had good leadership from the state it hit - what happened in Louisiana is the Governor and Mayors fault- All those empty buses PLEASE.... We have been hit hard in our state , heck the geography was changed !!! But the US gov. and Fema never tried to save our butts. It was up to the state and the individual not the US Gov. when are people going to take responsibility for themselves and quit standing around with your hand out?

Answer 5

Yes, he is doing a great job. Up until now, the economy has been strong (despite all the attacks against it, natural disasters, etc.). We have not had a major terrorist attack since 9/11, and on and on. As far as his being a racist, his administration is the most culturally diverse - EVER. Far from it, friend.

Answer 6

I never thought of Bush as a racist. As far as his job as president, remember if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

Answer 7

I think the response time to Hurricane Katrina as opposed to other Hurricane in mostly white areas should answer your question

Answer 8

1. Yes, I think he is doing a good job.

2. No, I don't think he is racist.

Answer 9

I don't think you'll find MANY presidents who've come out of office unscathed when facing a national or global set of crises as Bush has. And let me say I'm not a Bush advocate or apologist. However, confronting Bush over the last 5 1/2 years has been:

a persistent recession/stagflation, a dilapidated military structure, the collapse of Israel/Palestine land for peace talks, escalating healthcare and energy costs, 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Space Shuttle disaster impacting NASA's future, EU trade friction, proliferation of nuclear technology in Iran and N. Korea, international terrorism, mass outsourcing of mid-level salary positions to lower cost of labor nations, the results of poor military/intelligence investments prior to his terms- Abu Ghraib, Git'mo, AQ Khan, WMD, you name it....ok and now he's blamed for not reigning in a democratic, capitalist country (Israel) who is defending itself against the largest terror organization on the planet.

If we had this forum in the 1860's, you'd hear much the same thing about one of our most revered leaders, Abraham Lincoln, who faced outright mutiny by the Southern states who seceded, a humanitarian decision to emancipate slaves and bring the US out of the dark ages of slavery while conducting a war that pitted Americans against Americans. His reward was a bullet in the head. Yet his popularity at the time was as tenuous if not more so than Bush's is today.

As for Bush, the docket of negative-trending developments to address successfully on a regular basis is extensive by any measure, for ANY president. Some he's exacerbated, others I'd say there's not a whole lot anyone could do to turn the tide (especially the Mid-East).

I think what Bush has been unfairly lambasted for is his faith; for his reintroduction of faith into the vernacular of citizens and politicians, as a factor in debating issues of our day; of strengthening the military through the only two ways that matter: Use and Funding; for holding up high the values of middle America, against minor (but highly implicative) attacks on traditional American life...like same-sex marriage, stem cell research (which could foreseeably spiral into selling embyros for cash), heavy taxation on estates (and undermining the transition of wealth within all families, regardless of stature/income) and what really fuels the American Dream: OIL (remember your designer jeans and iPods and creme brulees and lattes don't happen without the transportation infrastructure that runs solely on fossil fuels). There was no way he could have turned America into a GREEN economy during his first term, and likely his second. Oil is what we use, and no one has really made a personal sacrifice other than time devoted to empty protests to stem our dependence on oil. Bush realizes he needs to secure energy sources that are cheap, secure and easily accessible, in order to prop up our teetering, consumptive economy.

Ok, so what hasn't he done? He hasn't secured the borders (easy task, little effort shown); he didn't overwhelm all opposition in the Iraq invasion/occupation (again, relatively basic task given our military assets, if not ability, little effort shown); incentivized American companies to produce and employ at home (slightly more difficult task, but without effort, even more Herculean in nature); annihilated the Al Qaeda leadership (which casts massive doubt on his ability and legacy as an anti-terrorist patriot); neutralized the N. Korean and Iranian nuclear aspirations (slightly more difficult task, which requires help from China and Russia, two entities that are extremely suspect in the eyes of traditional Republicans); offered domestic policy initiatives on the most pressing internal troubles: education reform, healthcare reform, progressive energy needs, retirement funding requirements, infrastructure revitilization (bureaucratic as well as concrete).

If you were to grade Bush, anything above a "C" would be turning a blind eye to reality. But a president's success is at least half dependent on external dynamics, which have been horrendously negative in the last six years, of his own doing or not.

Is he a racist? Ask Colin and Michael Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Alberto Gonzalez, and a host of other 'ethnic minorities' who are, in the president's eyes, simply Americans who are equipped and able and willing to do difficult jobs in difficult times. No president before Bush has employed 'minorities' in such high level roles. So if he is racist, he's got a funny way of showing it. What may be termed 'racist' in his actions, is his insistence on personal responsibility and developing personal management and coping skills, rather than relying on external or government assistance to get by in life. Most people, regardless of race, are capable of fending for themselves and realizing unimaginable success. Bush has been bold (or brash) enough to suggest Americans fend for themselves a little more, and maybe that kick in the pants is just what this country needs to be a strong, vibrant and proud nation again. The self-loathing and finger-pointing is divisive and undermines a nation's security and ability to progress together. Perhaps no president has presided over a nation as divided as America is now, perhaps none since Lincoln himself. Let's hope that Americans resolve to band together for their own benefit, rather than use presidents and other scapegoats as excuses for their own inability or refusal to DO rather than just talk.

Answer 10

He's horrible...