Especially since we did it TWICE?!?!
2006-09-15 06:19:47 · 22 answers · asked by *~HoNeYBeE~* 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
And if you didn't vote, then why are you complaining at all???
2006-09-15 06:24:33 · update #1
Geez, take a chill pill people!! It's just a question!!! Ya don't have to go postal!!
2006-09-15 06:28:16 · update #2
Bashing the President at the presnt level does get tiresome.
However we are in a truly free democracy so everyone has a right to express their views. In particular it is well known that voters tend to vote against someone rather than vote for some one i.e. people cast negative rather than positive votes. It is therefore natural that the opposition raise complaints continuously to enhance their chance to get elected with negative votes against the incumbent, with increasing venom as elections approach
The President was elected twice as you say, but in each case 50 million or so[ give or take 10 million] voters voted against him. That is quite a few people who preferred the alternative and more than enough to support the partisan complaint level..
The current President gets perhaps more than a normal complaint factor because we are engaged in what has become a generally unpopular war, and the normal level of complaint has evolved into a major partisan hate campaign.
I make 2 observations about partisan hate campaigns.
1. they tend to be most virulent against an incumbent who is particularly successful in winning elections. i.e. a good politician. e.g.. The Republicans waged such a campaign against Bill Clinton.
2. The American voter doesn't appear to reward the party promoting hate campaigns. Bill Clinton was reelected with increased majority despite a virulent hate campaign waged by the opposition. George Bush was reelected with an increased majority under similar attack. On the other hand there was no hate campagin against Jimmy Carter or George Bush senior and both lost their bids for reelection.
Partisan politics is not bothered by reality. The hate campaigns against Bill Clinton and George Bush were maintained and heated up during their second terms when neither could run again !!! However negatively one feels about the President we are simply not going to get another chance to express it at the polls.
But that is dynamic democracy and its offspring partisan politics.
2006-09-15 07:04:21 · answer #1 · answered by Fred R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I did vote and I am still complaining about the bunch of morons who were fooled not once but twice. It seems that H. L. Mencken was right when he said that someday Middle America would get its fondest wish and elect a complete idiot to the White House.
2006-09-15 06:31:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-15 00:54:44 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, not ALL of us voted for the president, either time. Plus, people have a right to change their minds and realize that they may have made a mistake.
2006-09-15 06:22:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you voted for him but I did not. He is not doing his job and just because he is our president doesn't mean he automatically gets our support. He has to earn our support. We have the right to criticize him if we do not agree with his policies and feel that he is not doing his job as the president.
2006-09-15 06:37:35 · answer #5 · answered by Peace2All 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I did vote and not for him.
but, that's what makes America great. We have the right to vote, not to vote, to talk a streak of crap about any elected official, have message boards like this, etc. Freedom of Speech.
2006-09-15 06:30:52 · answer #6 · answered by GalPokerPlayer 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I didnt vote for him. And he's being bashed right now because he more than deserves it. He has NOT been a good president since day one.
2006-09-15 06:27:46 · answer #7 · answered by THE LONER 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That's debatable with the cloud of doubt over the last election
2006-09-15 06:27:37 · answer #8 · answered by mjdp 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He stole both elections and even if he was elected, we can still bash him, look at what clinton when through!
2006-09-15 06:29:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because that's the enitre point of why this country exists?
2006-09-15 06:26:03 · answer #10 · answered by enaronia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋