You know, everyone seems to dislike George Bush. So why did you re-elect him?

Question

I'm tired of hearing all this garbage from a country that re-elected him!

Answer 1

We changed our mind. ha ha

Answer 2

First of all, sorry.

Americans are pretty pathetic when it comes to voting, and/or understanding the local/national/global political issues they need to be well informed of to make good decisions at the polls.

Our voter turnout for presidential elections consistently remains at around 60% of the populace. Many, if not most, young people under the age of 30, don't vote at all. That may be changing a bit, with the current ongoing upset over the Iraq war, but we've seen this kind of thing before, with Vietnam. Young people suddenly realize they have a voice, and use it, but the young ones coming of age after the catalyzing issue has been resolved are pretty apathetic.

Consequently, the Republican Party was able to re-elect GW by making a huge, sustained effort to get people registered and get them to the polls. They poured a tremendous amount of money and man-hours into the effort, going door to door, driving people to their polling places, and getting absentee ballots sent to people unable to leave their homes.

Coupled with the Democratic Party's inability to unite voters sufficiently to prevent too much splitting of the overall vote, it apparently was enough to re-elect GW, both by popular and electoral votes.

A lot of the 'garbage' you are hearing does come from people who didn't vote, didn't oppose the war, didn't even care until they suddenly realized that they were paying a lot more money for gas. I think a lot of them are screaming the loudest. They feel they have been bamboozled, and on some level know that their own lack of concern about their government's honesty is what allowed the fraud to take place.

However, a lot of the yelling you are hearing comes from people like me. I've been mad since the day GW stole the first election from Gore. I believe the Republican-dominated Supreme Court stopped the ballot recount in Florida and handed the election to Bush because they knew he was not winning in the recount. The efforts to sweep that decision under the rug since suggest to me that they do not want it scrutinized. I believe GW Bush is not the legally elected President of the USA, and that he has destroyed our country's honor. Don't look for me or others like me to stop anytime soon; in fact, expect it to get worse over the next couple of years.

I'm sorry your press devotes so much time to American politics, but, as you know, our politics have pretty much tainted the whole world. When we have terrible leaders in office, eveyone on the planet pays a price, even if it's just the cost of earplugs.

Answer 3

Gunslinger99 has it precise. in the course of the 2004 election, Kerry and the Democrats would not be quiet about the conflict in Iraq and how unlawful it became. obviously, Kerry nevertheless in no way stated he would pull the troops out, he purely stated he'd favor to ensure a time table. distinction there. So, this is exciting...with all this evidence of conspiracies, lies, threats, greed etc...were extremely actual why would we re-opt for that individual as a President. Bush were given re-elected, he's now unlikely to be impeached, he did not carry back the draft (like the Democrats had to do) i am going to flow on all day. So, NO, i can not ask the President to renounce. this is tremendous to have a President in position who sticks to what he says and does not replace his view in accordance to what's universal.

Answer 4

I am assuming this is a serious question and not more BS.

The truth is not everyone hates him. He is not well liked, either. Most people like some things about him and dislike other things about him.

Don't let the people on this forum shape your views of the United States. Most of them spewing their hate for Bush probably are not even old enough to vote.

The fact is, he got reelected because the Democrats decided to run one of the biggest douche bags in the history of American politics. It is not hard to get reelected when your opponent is completely devout of any platform, any patriotism or any moral sense.

That is it in a nutshell.

Answer 5

I am personally sorry that you have to burden yourself with listening to our garbage, but think of it this way, what do you think the a family in Iraq would feel if a stray bullet killed one of their children? Would they be tired of hearing the sound of American Choopers overhead?
So why don't you try measuing all the unintended misery America has caused the average Iraqi family. And if you are thinking that you don't care what they think, try that on when America is invaded and occupied.
What, America will never be invaded and occupied. Will China was, Rome was, Japan was and we can be also, down the road.

Answer 6

Ugh--I certainly didn't vote for him. I'm still not sure what people hated so much about Kerry, other than that he wasn't very charismatic. But I would gladly take that over a man who doesn't seem to have two brain cells to rub together. (Sorry, Bush fans.) If you notice, the east coast and west coast all voted for Kerry, and everyone in the middle (who were all up in arms about gay marriage) voted for Bush. I was truly shocked when he got reelected.

Answer 7

I didn't re-elect him. And when I asked people I know who did vote for him I only got 3 different answers: 1-In a time of crisis, we don't need to rock the boat. 2-He's a good christian man, who I'm sure prays to God for guidance on a daily basis. 3-...........um......

I'm not sure how he got re-elected. But, I can tell you I voted against him, then got the heck out of the country. My goal is to spend as little time in the US while he's in office. So far I've only been here 4 months and I'm leaving again in 2 weeks for another year. Best of luck.

Answer 8

It was a vote against Kerry. Don't think Kerry really wanted the job because he didn't really come up with solutions to the war, and seemed reluctant to discuss it..knowing if elected he'd have to deal with it, as a voter thought Pres. Bush got us into this mess he should clean it up.

Answer 9

Well he had to have been elected first to be re-elected. Having the supreme court and dubya's bro in florida give you the election doesn't count as winning the election.

Answer 10

Becuase the option was John Kerry not George Washington.

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Answer 11

First of all, barely half of this country votes, they are too lazy or just dont care because they would rather focus on their shallow empty consumer driven lives. Second of all, the first time, he stole that election.He did not "win" anything.Thirdly we need to do away with the whole electoral vote process, its ridiculous. Lastly you should be happy you are hearing all this **** about him because it means this entire country isnt stupid.