Why do people blame Bush for every problem the country has?

Question

Yes, he is partially to blame with the situation in Iraq (partiallly, because many other people are involved in the political decision making process), but he also is a scapegoat for things that he has no involvement or control over.

"What! My electric bill went up 3.50 from last week? It must be that damn Bush, and his insatiable lust for oil, using up all the energy this country has to fund his crusade in Iraq....curses, Mr.Bush, currsessss..."

Answer 1

Yeah, he somehow caused a hurricane on the Gulf Coast, but not a blizzard in Denver or a tornado in Alabama.

I've been in Iraq for seven months now, and I have yet to see a single oil tanker leave en route to the USA. It's funny how people think that we protect Iraq's sources of income so we can take them. We protect Mosques, too, but we're not trying to steal Islam.

Answer 2

If I were President? How would I fund a war? Afghanistan was like hitting a speed bump that lasted for a couple weeks. Even the woohoo was an anticlimax. That was obvious when OBL didn't show up.
What should I do now? Afghanistan was relegated to a majority of small unit actions and an aerial display.
Well let me see, now what can I do? well I can shut down some governmental agencies that are doing peaceful scientific monitoring of our environment. I can restrict government funding to states in the areas of education and law enforcement. Hmm, here is a good one, I can restrict the flow of oil to our markets and drive up the costs of gasoline. So every American will have to pay higher state sales taxes (shh, that is called hidden taxation). This will also rip through the full economy faster than greased lightning. No pun on the greased part. this will also cause a higher cost to be added to the construction of new homes. Restricting growth there. So how will I keep capital flowing into the government now that fewer people are paying for new money with the Prime Lending Rate. So now that goes up?
I don't know what I would do as President. But then I was not President on July 26, 2002, when that guy initiated a downturn. I will not tell you how the office of President has some control over our economy. It is more than you think and scarier than you can handle.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that Saddam Hussein openly chuckled in the face of his visible tormentor over their misfortune of 9/11. And that is the fault of the UN, as to why there was one a country carrying the largest burden of enforcing UN sanctions. What Saddam deserved, according to this President, was end-all-dialogue and war. Saddam paid the penalty of inaction on the part of the UN. Shameful.

Answer 3

Point taken, however he is the commander in chief and what he says, goes. He has gotten so many Americans in a tizzy about this Iraq war that they are just bitter about everything now, war related or not. Their trust in him about any major decisions is long gone!!! I'm not an American but I can only imagine that is how a large portion of the country feels at this point. Don't jump down my throat for saying that, I know not EVERYONE feels that way!!!

Answer 4

You hear of the expression--Starts at the top?

Imagine if you always voted Democrat and knew of the consequences without them actually coming to fruition. Then you might be able to figure it out. What is it that you will have to lose in order to realize how incompetent the man is? How much of our Country? Do you even have a limit?

The conservative idealism has a purposeful intent on making an individual feel that it is an individuals problem with everything and that actions shouldn't be taken for others causes based on racism, beliefs, etc etc. --anything but the truth. Maybe that's why your kinda alone on this one or at least why your the only one who thinks like you, in a room of 4 people these days.

Giving credit where credit is do is what logical folks do.

Answer 5

Because it is an easy solution to blame someone else rather than take any responsibility. It shows the poor problem solving skills a lot of people have in this country.

Answer 6

Well, the average household income is the highest its ever been, unemployment is down, we're just riding down from the largest realestate boon in US history, and things are economically much better than they were when he took office. That's what's caused by tax cuts and giving people the freedom to spend their opwn money on what they want to spend it on.

The stock market and the personal debt are both caused by the same thing: individual irresponsability in finance. People run up credit card bills to maintain a lifestyle they haven't earned then blame the President, and they also invest their money in ways they don't understand, then flip out in panic when the Chinese get spooked. That's their right, and I support it; but you can't blame that on a President.

Iraq is his fault. He should have sent our boys in there, hit 'em with some AMerican sunshine, ripped the place apart, then gotten out of there with Saddam in chains. Instead he caved to liberal pressure and tried nation building, which never works. Part of his running platform was to not use the military for nation building. He should have shown more leadership and told those people he's going to rip that country apart, and leave it in shambles because that's what the military is for. If they don't like it, they can fix it.

He didn't. I hold him responsable for not doing what he was elected to do. That was his platform, and voters voted for him because they felt he'd carry it out.

Gas prices are also his fault. By toppling Saddam, he ended oli for food. UInder oil for food we got oil in exchange for grain the government buys from farmers to keap the amount of grain on the open market to levels where the price stays up. Basically, we were getting free oil from Iraq. Now we have to pay for it, and have to dump a whole loet of grain in the ocean instead of paying for oil with it.

Answer 7

It all steams from the libs losing two elections to GW. They can't accept the fact that America rejected there candidates twice! They have adopted the strategy "BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE" Even if it leads to a "defeat" and puts the county in jeopardy and open for an other attack

Answer 8

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Answer 9

No they blame Bush for the problems he could have prevented but chose to ignore, like my electric bill and that foxhole in the desert my neighbors kid is living out of on the Iranian boarder.

Answer 10

People that do that feel the need to have someone to blame things on. It happens when Democrats are in office, too. They do not represent those of us that are conscientous objectors to this administration.