Americans, can someone tell me.....?

Question

Reposted due to my first question not showing on the board grrr wheres my 5 points!? :o)

Could someone tell me why?
Ever since i started using answers, there has been countless questions asking about President Bush's competance/agendas/policies etc.

All of the people discussing the president seem to really dislike him and the vast majority of them are from the U.S.

I have never once seen one good comment about him or one person praising him! What do the American public really think of him, and if you really do dislike him as much as it seems, how the hell did he get back into office?

This is a serious question and I'm not trying to be insulting or patronising so sensible answers please.

Answer 1

This is best described under one of Murphy's Laws. "You will only be rememberd for your mistakes, not your accomplishments."

Bush has made a lot of mistakes. (When I say Bush, i mean his administration.)

He has also done a lot of good things. But you are not going to hear that from the whiners that sit here in Yahoo! Answers and do nothing but bombard us with Anti-Bush propaganda.

I support my President, I believe he is doing a decent job, but he surrounded himself with the wrong people. In America today, it's not what you do that counts, it is the perception of how you look.

Take Clinton for example.

Sold ICBM technology to China, Gave Nuclear capabilities to N. Korea, Spent millions and killed innocents to draw attention away from his trial, sealed an investigative report on him and hillary that was paid for by the tax payers because of it's findings, Deserted the Military and dodged the draft, etc, etc, etc.

But some Americans just can't get enough of him...

wierd huh?

Answer 2

The reality is that Bush is very unpopular. The American perception of him is that he is not particularly intelligent. His foreign policy is very unpopular also.

Although he was very unpopular at the time of his re-election, he was up against a candidate that was considered to be very weak. The democratic party wasn't 100% aligned with that candidate either. This opened the door for a solidified republican party to get Bush back in the office.

But just like everything else in the media, the focus is on the negative. The reality is that our economy and unemployment rates are getting slowly better. Job growth is also up. In many areas, he has done quite well. But primarily because of the war and occupation of Iraq, he is very unpopular with the general public.

Answer 3

I still like and respect the President. Don't go by what you see here on answers. Anytime I write that I like the President and why my answer gets so many thumbs down checks by the Bush haters. The President haters don't want anyone, especially people outside the US to know that their are people in the US that still like and repsect the President.

Answer 4

It's the Dems, the Diebolt machines, Florida & Ohio