Why is it that most people?

Question

Why do most people feel they can judge a person without knowing anything? I mean....Take Bush.....I know he has made some bad call....at least as far as I can tell...but you and I both know we have absoutly no idea what is really going on and what info he and the gov has....so how can we say we would do anything different? The economy is good. stocks market is at all time highs and has been for a long while (yes even before the dems took congress)....he has done a lot of good...that gets over shadowed by the war....but can any of you say you would have acted different without knowing what he really know? We don't know a 1/4 of what really happened and let up to it....and we never will.

I love getting people all riled up. Especially over things like this....people rant and rave and the only real informaition they have is what was on Fox news last night. And I am sure that that does not cover half of what we really should hear.

Answer 1

Actually the economy isn't as good as it's cracked up to be. You need to look a little deeper than just GDP and the Stock Market. Median wages have been stagnant (those below the median have seen their wages decrease) and the report today about the personal savings rate being the worst it's been since the Great Depression should be worrisome. This should tell you that the economy is growing disproportionately towards the wealthy (this explains the increase in tax revenues that we've been seeing--a greater percentage of the nations income is being taxed at the highest rate. Dollars are moving up in class, not people, that's not good). Consumer spending is being sustained right now by the use of credit, the personal savings rate validates that. When the credit runs out, people will be struggling, because they will need to pay off their mounting debts with lesser wages. The consumer spending will stop (I predict 2008 or 2009) and we will go into a deep recession.

Answer 2

You poor naïve soul. You're right: we don't know 1/4 of what really happened for the last 6+ years. The Bush administration has been the most secretive Executive Office in history. But rest assured, when the Dems kick into high gear and begin oversight investigations, your dear president will likely occupy a 12 x 12 cell for a long, long time.

Answer 3

Well even with what I know, which isn't as much as THEY know intelligence-wise, I would have not gone to war or made many of the decisions he has.

- Containment was working with Iraq. We could have staying THAT course and fomented an overthrow via his enemies within. That would not have costed us $300BB and counting.
- I would have focused on getting Bin Laden. He didn't.
- He was warned that Al Qaeda planned crashing planes into buildings-- he did nothing. They could have strengthened security at airports and changed policy-- easy fix not done (he was too busy going on vacation).
- Katrina - he knew the hurricane was coming. He was, you guessed it, on vacation. He should have mobilized and prepared. It was a dismal failure.

- the economy has turned around for a few reasons and not all due to Bush-- Tax cuts helped but so did rate cuts and the natural operation of markets to deal with the downturn. The stock market is not a proxy for the economy so that is irrelevent and HE has nothing to do with that.

- He focused on Gay marriage and flag burning. I wouldn't have wasted one second on that. We have way more imporant things to deal with.

- I would have sent a balanced budget to congress. People would have been pi**ed but I would have done it-- he's had a huge run up in the debt.

- He has also had his administration do all kinds of untheical things-- Plame debacle, kidnappings, Guantanamo, wiretaps, etc. etc. He hasn't been charged but he and his people have not been RIGHT or moral in their dealings.

Answer 4

Most intelligent question asked for some time now. We do not have a clue to what is going on. Most of us have never listened to political debate much less actually see or experience the issues at hand. None of us truly know how we would act in his place. We say what we currently believe, and most of us gather our beliefs from what we hear from the news, gossip, office say-so's, and other non reliable sources. Bush has done alot of good that he is not getting credit for. The haters have tunnel vision with their hatred and are not able to see outsid of that.

Answer 5

What do you mean, without knowing anything! -- we have six years of Bush's actions to judge him on, books, news reports, interviews, etc. The idea that we have no idea of what is really going on is a ridiculous cop out. Yes, I can say I would have acted differently and I have read enough heard enough and seemn enough to be confident in that statement.

Answer 6

Well, I DO know that it was Osama bin Laden, not Saddam Hussein, who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks and that he is STILL free. Call me crazy, but common sense tells me that if your country is attacked, you immediately go after the main person responsible until he is caught and don't let yourself get distracted by your urge to defeat your father's enemy or your urge to make your friends in the oil companies happy by invading a country that just happens to have one of the largest oil reserves on the planet.

Answer 7

If he was working at a fast food restaurant people would be less critical about his work but he is commanding the world's most powerful army so that might be reason enough for people to judge his decisions don't you think?

Answer 8

You judge a person (or president) by their actions.
President Bush lied to the American people.
He lied so he could invade a country on the other side of the world he had no need to invade, an action which resulted in the death of 3000 American soldiers, plus tens of thousands of innocent women and children.
I think the people of the world have every right to judge President Bush, don't you?

Answer 9

Liberals will always have something bad to say about Bush, they can't make any progress so they have to go the name calling and bashing.

Answer 10

"Bushie, you're doin' a great job." Especially when we look at Katrina, illegal immigration, the jobs that have gone overseas, loss of our constitutional rights, our loss of allies, the increased cost of living for the middle class, the cost of gasoline and college tuition, scandals such as the outing of a CIA agent and the Abramoff deals, etc. Yep, we should really admire this idiot.