How does everybody feel about George W. Bush? I need to hear it from as many people as I can.?

Question

I have been pondering about this for sometime and even though I am from the greatest state in the country (TEXAS!!!), I feel different from most people. I tend not to believe that we are in Iraq for oil and money but for fighting terrorism. Would any other president responded any different or would we have just said "DAMN, they got us" and forget about 9-11. How about Katrina, is it really the president's fault for certain people not getting out of harms way? I don't keep up with everything he does, mostly the things they dont really show on the news, so maybe it the acts and bills that he passes that people dont agree with. I don't feal he is as bad as people say he is but he isn't the greatest president either. I really dont want any short answers and am looking for more explanations and facts then opinions. Let me know some thing that I probably dont know. I want to see where people stand on this issue. Thanks in advance

OK, so much hatred against President Bush but let me ask this. WHO COULD HAVE DONE IT BETTER? The American people voted him into office so who is to blame. Please understand that I dont think he is the greatest president ever, not even a average president, but I dont think he is that bad. Here's how I feal about 9-11. He was at the school, planes hit the WTC and he stood there. Silent. What was going through his mind? NO other president has ever, ever gone through so much crap like he has, so how can we compare him to the PERFECT president. How about this, United 93 got up and rose up, and fought terrorists in their face. What happened to the other 3 planes? Have we, Americans, gotten so afraid, so controllable, that we let that happen. I feal for the people in those planes but if they would have gotten up and fought back, there would be many more people here. And about Iraq, would you rather be fighting Al Qaida and Taliban here on American soil?

And fought a fight that most if not all Americans dont want to. Not once but twice, and I was not even a citizen of this greta country of ours. After my second tour, I came back and paid my $400 to get my citizenship. So back to what we were saying, I am for the military and for arranging appointments for Islam people to meet their Alla guy. But I feal not all blame should be put on President Bush. He is not a domestic terrorist or a racist (Katrina) he is human like everybody else. Now if for some reason, a leak comes out saying he did the things he did for personal gain, then yes, he should be tried and charged with the same charges as that Hussein guy did. But not then, I believe I went over there to fight a fight that I dont wana fight here.

Answer 1

Does it strike anyone that death follows this huckster, from the record executions when he was governor to the Iraqi destruction that is only rivaled by Vietnam as the biggest military blunder in our history. He was nothing but a little rich boy who failed at every business he tried and got bailed out by his daddy. He was a spokesmodel for a baseball team, a convicted drunk driver, a clown who changed the spelling of nuclear, and the absolute worst President in history! !

Answer 2

First of all, 9-11 was planned for, trained for, and financed during the Clinton Presidency. I don't blame him for that nor do I blame George Bush. Hindsight is always 20/20 and if you know the end result you can always trace back and find things that might or might not have been clues, but at least were abnormalities. That's AFTER something happens.
I think most people understand and support the freeing of Afghanistan. It was the base of 9-11. I do think Bush tried to take advantage of the wave of patriotism that swept over America and the outpouring of support for America from the world after 9-11, and decided to use that golden opportunity to rid the world of Saddam Husein. The plan worked. The only problem is he had absolutely no ideal what to do next. He thought the citizens of Iraq would view America as liberators, not invaders. He thought our troops would be met with kisses and flowers like when we liberated France in WWII. He thought America would once again be the world's heroes. I personally believe our plans for this war extended to ending Saddam's reign, and no further when we invaded. That has been the problem all along, and there is no cure for it until we can hand over control of Iraq to a responsible party.

Answer 3

I have a lot of problems with Bush. I don't think he is an evil man, but I don't think he was good enough to be our president . Here are the problems I have with Bush and his admin:

The Deficit:
We had a balanced budget when he came into office and the deficit was at 5.6 trillion. That amount has been increasing since 1910. Since Bush has taken over, in just 6 years the deficit has increased to 8.6 trillion. It will take generations to undo this damage.

Iraq:
He used old intelligence and exaggerated the evidence we had for Iraq's WMD's. When we didn't find any he started making up other reasons for our presence.

Katrina:
Mother Nature wiped out an American city and he couldn't even cut his vacation short.

World Opinion:
Bush is a terrible public speaker and the world See's him as an idiot.

Answer 4

Well, not from TX so I hope my opinion is still valid to you... :) I think that what happened on 911 is sad and terrible...I think that 911 and Katrina had nothing to do with Bush or is his fault BUT I do NOT feel that he has been a good Pres. I think that our foreign relations are horrible and the world as a whole has an even lower opinion of the US than they did before. I feel that we as a country are in a pretty poor state and I do feel bad for the next pres to have to help fix everything regardless of whether he/she is dem or rep. Maybe this is too much opinion and not enough fact for you but just overall, i feel that it's sad in general. Also - if u look at this week's Newsweek, Bush is pulling in daddy's council to help him because things are such a mess. In addition....it's pretty bad that there are some govs (I'm in CA so Schwar.) are completely seperating themselves from the Pres because of the effect on them and such.

Answer 5

You dont want to get me started, because I wont stop, but I will say one thing and that is that you cannot blame those people for not getting out of harm's way. Most of them were poor with no transportation or any way of getting out besides foot and that was their only home and the onnly things they had. Bush knew they had no way of getting out and help only arrived after the worst was over. School yards fool of buses that could have been used to get people out were not used and instead gone to waste when New Orleans was flooded. Bush knew these people had no way of getting out and we knew ahead of time that Katrina was going to be bad. In my opinion, he could have done a lot more than he did.
And while I'm at it, the election we just had proved that no one is happy with him. And if you dont see that then you might need glasses.
Sorry for the rude-ness but I really don't like Bush. He's an a$$.

Answer 6

From one resident of Texas to another - I beg to differ. The terrorist problem - al Qaeda - after 9/11 was located in Afghanistan and not Iraq. Bush went into Iraq to satisfy a personal vendetta - he wanted to get rid of Hussein because he had a contract out on Daddy at the time of the Gulf War. So, now we're there for oil.

As to Katrina - its not Bush's fault that people never got out of the way, but it is his fault because government funds have never reached the people to whom it was promised. "Good job, Brownie." Yeah, right.

He's probably the worst public speaker in the history of the presidency - hell, maybe the history of this country. As a result of his mispronouncements and social boners (see his famous back rub of the German Chancellor) he's made this country the laughingstock of the world and we're longer respected like we were.

He's probably going to go down in history as the worst president of all time - totally ineffectual.

Answer 7

I voted for him in 2000, but I didn't vote at all in 2004 because I was and still am devastatingly disappointed that he asked for the injunction to stop the re-counts in Florida. I can not and do not accept his argument that the lack of uniformity in determing a legally valid vote amounted to a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. There are Republicans who were and are embarrassed at that aspect of Bush's argument and that the Supreme Court granted Bush's request on that basis.

I try my darndest to think very judicially -- meaning that I strive for as much objectivity as I possibly can when I interpret the Constitution. No matter what my own "political" desires, no matter what I may do as a voter and what kind of causes I'll fight for politically, I always end up putting on a different hat when I think about the Constitution. Indeed, I'm at a place in my life now in which I don't wear any other hat.

So I don't have it in me to think about Iraq or who is or is not at fault for the reaction to Katrina. I simply don't think about those things. Because instead I am always thinking, day in and day out, about what is or is not an objective interpretation of the Constitution. And I am too disappointed in Bush to support him.

Answer 8

welcome to the conservative movement...your a welcome relief from the idiot liberals and the people that want to blame bush for everything from there personal economic woes to halitosis. i was a nine eleven survivor in manhattan and i can some up the bush presidency with one thought...thank god we had a president right or wrong with the conviction to properly do something about al qaeda instead of doing the white house interns on the oval office floor. liberals are quick to skate over the facts however travelgate, filegate, whitewater, the largest tax increase in us history, the vince foster coverup, etc were manufactured by the incumbent regime of ms clinton and ms pelosi.
the sad part about the idiot liberals that infect the chat rooms here is they dont understand the vote at all...if you look at the outcome of EVERY mid term presidential election since Roosevelt you will notice a trend.of lost seats in congress...usually its attributed to the the throw the bums out philosophy from the twenties teapot dome...
in the last few years it was the growing dissatisfaction from an increasingly liberal and out of control govt and this year i fear , its the worst understood of all.
contrary to what most of the idiot liberal preach to this was NOT a vote for the democrats. it was a vote against the war and the conservative involvement in it. approval ratings for people voted out of office were in fact quite high in general excluding the scandal states and ms pelosis scandal ridden cronie was ousted in the first round recently.
in other words we got action instead of having the president get some.
when your life is on the line fighting jihad i think thats important.

Answer 9

well for openers, we are not in Iraq because of 9/11 if you really aren't aware of that.. then it's up to you to get cracking on current events, as for Katrina, to blame poor people that couldn't get away from an impending storm is ridiculous. The reality is that the president knew that there was a very definite risk and yet did not react to it.. clearly his choice of Brown as the head of FEMA was a flaw and the fact that FEMA is integrated with home land security and was still under funded has never been thoroughly addressed.. as for something he has done bad directly .. the worst act o domestic terrorism in our countries history and probably the world.. happened on his watch. The response or the lack there in by the military to intercept the second plane when it was very clearly on the same course is ..."INEXCUSABLE". I don't care what anyone says. There is something horribly wrong when you can have two back to back events with no intervention. as Commander and chief it is his fault.. His Fault ! period..If you want more just let me know

Answer 10

I have to admit that he is a good militant, but not as a good fit for the president. He dealt well with the war, act quickly, not talking about what intention he has in mind. One thing he forgot is that we were at recession during that time, and he spend so much money on war that it seems like he has forgotten about us all. He dealt poorly with the disaster and health care. We still don't have a good solution to pay the seniors social security funds when baby boomers are getting older.