where do you stand on the leadership of our nation (US citizens ONLY)?

Question

no negativety, no crap talking, just your honest opinion of bush cheney and their.........cabinet. US CITIZENS only, cause im sick of all the europeans chiming in....as i recall, alot of themwere under control ofn a dictator not too long ago......and thanks to us they dont speak german unless they are german....ha, so.....americans only please

negativety is okay....but dont be rude, okay

Answer 1

I'm happy with the leadership.... so we don't end up like the Commonwealth subjects and Europeans.

Answer 2

I don't believe that we have had any true leadership in the last 35 years (I'm 54 so I can remember back then) and even then it was shaky. It doesn't matter what your affiliation, religion or beliefs are as both major party's are selling out the working class.

Since 1975 and the enactment of NAFTA, our manufacturing (the thing that made this country great) has been going overseas. Ross Perot had it correct when he said, many years ago, "that sucking sound you hear is American jobs leaving the country". The politicians are now just actors, bending their knee to the public for applause; they no longer even try to give the facade of being honest. They are down on their knees to big business; they no longer have any shame or feelings of humiliation. Money is the new God and Power the new religion. The American working class, the new slaves.

I truly believe that we, the people, need to clean house and start over. Get rid of the illegals (bury them here for fertilizer along with the company owners and managers that hire them) as well as the politicians that have a law degree. Add a $3 charge on our income tax to be used for election campaigning and allow no lobbyist or "perks" to government officials at all. To violate this is an act of treason and punishable by firing squad.

That's what I truly believe.

Answer 3

Bush is not my favorite. Some of his cabinet appointees have done very well. MANY however have not.

My position on presidents is this:

ALL presidents hire people who know more than them about a particular subject. Just like presidents of businesses hire accountants, engineers, secretarys, vice presidents of operations etc. It is the smartest thing to do. A president of anything is the accountable one, for he did the hiring, but he is handicapped by the information that he assumes is valid handed to him by his subordinates.

I am not making an excuse for Bush, Clinton or any other president...but an executitive anywhere has his hands full, he relies on what his trusted advisors tell him.

I think Bush, lets his people have a free reign, withour keeping a close eye on what is going on. Katrina, I think, is the best example of this. The government completely botched that fiasco, and still is TO THIS DAY. Someone needs to be accountable and Bush is not requiring that. But neither did Clinton. Reagan was pretty good.

I think one of the problems today is everyone in government is more worried about offending, stepping on toes and appeasing, no one is paying attention to efficenct, effectness, useability and end result.

As far as the country in general, and the way we are led? I think the government has gotten its priorities way the hell out of line with the American people. I think the government has dug its self into a bureaucratic hole so deep that there is no getting out. The bureaucratic red tape is so thick to get anything done is is asinine. Even the states are like this. For instance, leaving partisian politics aside, EVERYONE knows we could end or reduce the dependance on oil. Both sides know this. There are engines that will literaly run on water. Neither party wants to man-up, show some sack and help the people get there. (I am not a tree hugger, just the first example I came up with after a show on discovery channel last night)

I will sum up with this: Since Kennedy, I think that every US President would have been fired for poor performance in the private sector.

Answer 4

I think both political parties in this country have failed us miserably. I submit that we need new leadership. The Republicans and Democrats have had their chance and now it is time to get back to the constitution. BTW I agree with with you on the Europeans. The really funny thing is that they are setting themselves up for another dictator a little organization we like to call the UN.

Answer 5

My honest opinion is that they are greedy, arrogant, secretive, inept, and dangerous.

I think they are guided by PNAC's agenda, which is a recipe for imperial disaster.


Worst of all, regardless of whether or not they had anything to do with planning 9/11 or allowing it to happen, I truly think that many of them were secretly glad it happened, because it gave them the cover to do some things they'd always wanted to do, like increase presidential and police powers and establish an American beachhead in the Middle East.

If this seems implausible to any Americans out there, read the PNAC position paper on American force projection and pay special attention to the signatures at the bottom.....

...Wolfowitz, Perle, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Khalilzad, Negroponte, Feith, et al.

If you don't know who those people are, you have no business in this discussion.

Answer 6

It is a very difficult and trying situation to show someone that their is a political and safe way to settle difference. When that effort fails, force is the only thing they understand. I am glad to see the Germans can protest and speak their minds. The world has come a long way and has a long road ahead to get us to GET ALONG with One another. World Peace is still a dream of the very far future.

Answer 7

I totally disagree with the policies and actions of the current administration, as well as those of administrations long passed. Half-@ssed interventionist foreign policy, a declining(and practically nonexistent) manufacturing industry within the country, fundamentalists hijacking a major political party and running it straight into the ground with blind rhetoric, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and all in the past 20 years. We the People need to elect truly intelligent, experienced, and capable leaders and representatives to work on these issues, rather than electing rich people with little to no practical experience. They'd rather squabble and line their pockets than see a glimmer of hope and goodness come to their country. Party lines aside, they've all been corrupt to one degree or another, and all sides have proven themselves untrustworthy when it comes to upholding and defending the Constitution..

Answer 8

I am disappointed with the current leadership. I think Bush started out okay, but got sidetracked with the Iraq fiasco. If it had gone the way he intended, which was for us to look like heroes and get out fast, things probably would have been different. It seems like the current administration doesn't listen to experts, and that is troubling. But, it is almost over, thank goodness.

Answer 9

Bush and his cabinet are literally getting fat off of war. I'm against it. I think they should invest all that money they spend on war in alternative energies or mass transit that would reduce our need for energy and get the hell out of the middle east.
I can't say that any other political party or group would do any different though. Our economy would die without our middle eastern oil suppliers as it is today. It is the sad outcome of decades of investment in oil based technology.

Answer 10

I've decided not to develop an opinion. Lincoln was one of the most hated presidents EVER.......during his time. Obviously he's not hated anymore.

When the smoke settles and the dust clears, it will be historians, not pundits, reporters, film makers, actors, political activists or fellow politicians, that have the final say.

Call me crazy, but I'm going to go with the historians.