Even to the most diehard liberal, there must be something he did right or said right while in office. In a separate question I'm also asking conservatives and neocons to list what he has done wrong. I'm trying to distinguish between issues of right & wrong and issues of partisan politics.
Please: no name-calling, just a list.
2006-12-12 05:55:21 · 19 answers · asked by Martin L 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm an admitted liberal, and here are a few things he did that I agree with:
- The invasion of Afghanistan: the hunt for Osama Bin Laden started there. It may have ended there, too, but at least it was a start & had the support of the vast majority of the world.
- He stated that the government was not going to send jack-booted thugs to collect all the illegal immigrants in the country & ship them back over the border. Any reasonable immigration policy would not include such drastic measures & the labor provided by illegal immigrants is vital to a number of major industries. In general, he seems reasonable about the immigration issue.
- Bush signed the North Korea Nonproliferation Act of 2006, the Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2006, the renewal of the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003, the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006, and the Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005, to name but a few.
I disagree with many of Bush's actions & inactions as president, but I'm not so partisan as to say that he's done nothing that will benefit this nation.
2006-12-12 06:42:42 · answer #1 · answered by Dave of the Hill People 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The farce that replaced into the medicare drugs software that benefitted his pals interior the drugstore employer No toddler Left in the back of, an unfunded mandate that has not decreased the college dropout price yet compelled colleges to reduce decrease back even extra. the entire and finished mishandling of recent Orleans and FEMA and the persevered false impression about what to do. The denial of international warming and the refusal to abide with techniques from the Kyoto Protocol. As to lies, this exerpt is from "The us of a" mag: "Fourteen months after the attack, Bush suggested, "We ought to hit upon each and every element and learn each and every lesson of September the eleventh." yet his moves belied this rhetoric. His White residing house refused to tutor over techniques to the intelligence committees about a pre-9/11 intelligence briefing he had had considered, and the Bush administration does not enable the committees to inform the established public what intelligence warnings Bush had received previously Sept. 11. "more advantageous famously, Bush does not declassify the twenty-seven-web page component to the committees' very last record that in contact connections between the 9/11 hijackers and Saudi Arabia. And following Sept. 11, Bush persistently maintained that his administration replaced into doing each and everything plausible to guard the country. yet that replaced into not actual. The administration did not bypass--and has not moved--right away to handle gaping safe practices concerns, which include vulnerabilities at chemical flora and ports and a large shortfall in factors for first responders."
2016-11-30 11:53:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Good:
No child left behind Act
2006 Military Commissions Act
Identity Theft Act
The Adam Walsh Act
and that's all I can think of.. I disagree with almost everything he has done and has said....
I use to agree with the Patriot Act until the second time around when he decided he shouldn't have to answer to Congress
2006-12-12 06:16:00 · answer #3 · answered by katjha2005 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have to admire the confidence he seems to have, even when a lot of people think he's a moron. He always appears to feel as though he's doing everything right. Most people with a 30 something approval rating would fake it less well, but he does act very sure of himself. Don't know if it's acting or just him, but it is interesting.
2006-12-12 06:09:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
The job as President has got to be a tough one. Nobody seems to realize that the “war” in Iraq is a distraction from our failing economy.
Actually the only thing that I can think of that he has really done wrong (in my view of course) is to continue with the Democrat’s Free Trade Acts.
This has taken over 5 million manufacturing and IT jobs from the US.
It has allowed US based to companies to operate freely (by that I mean little or no tax if based in a foreign country) while still under the protection of the US government.
Propagated child slavery in countries where the facilities are set up while devastating the local economies.
Allowed millions of substandard products to flood our shores…. The list goes on.
Now excuse me while I run down to Wal-Mart and buy a bunch of worthless junk from our little brown brothers.
2006-12-12 06:07:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
uhh....the only possible thing i can think of is the afghansitan invasion and the overthrow of the Taliban for harboring and supporting Bin Laden and Al Quaida (but that could be considered a bust also b/c Bin Laden escaped)
this was the last time the president and myself were on the same page
2006-12-12 06:03:31 · answer #6 · answered by kahboom 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Didn't he have something to do with the Family Medical Leave Act.
$1000 back on your taxes for a few years if you decide to drive an electric car.
Wrong:
No overtime pay for people in a certain income bracket (middle of course)
I'd mention the whole war thing, but I'm just sick of expressing myself about it.
2006-12-12 06:02:23 · answer #7 · answered by Mel 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I cannot think of anything.
My interests are:
Groceries - Price increases between 30 - 40 %
Gas - more than doubled
SS - I'm retired, it's not enough for my needs
Utilities - went up a total of $40/mth
Medical bills: I have no insurance, I have to cut but groceries to buy medication
Recreation: I cut out movies in favor of having dsl, and I no longer eat out. I may have to cut out dsl too, if prices keep going up.
2006-12-12 06:13:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
No. Everything.. every day in every way Dictator Dumbya has fubared the USA fulfilling his stated (inadvertently true?) pledge to do so. "..they never stop thinking of ways to harm America and neither do we". Down with Dictator Dumbya!!!
2006-12-12 06:30:43 · answer #9 · answered by rhino9joe 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Withdrew from the World Court of Law
First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors
All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
And the best:
First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
2006-12-12 06:02:27 · answer #10 · answered by Lab Runner 5 · 4⤊ 5⤋