When Bush was voted in the 2nd time did you just shake your head and despair for this country?

Question

Do you think America's education system can be improved to ensure we never ever let something like that happened again where we put a moron in charge of our country?

Answer 1

No, I rejoiced that the majority hadn't lost their minds...yet. I think that the American educational system (public school teachers) spend enough of their time trying to influence the young and to promote their own political agendas. The youth already fall for their silliness. Thankfully, as they age, they gain some perspective (for the most part). After a certain age they gain some wisdom.

Relax, even you will eventually grow up and gain some wisdom and perspective---hopefully.

Answer 2

Unfortunately we have not and won't get past an error laden vote like that. Even now after Bush has messed up much of the world there are many uninformed people who still support him.
I am not sure I want the educational system getting involved in politics, but it would be a great help if the system could make everyone read the news and be taught to think about what they read.

Answer 3

Modern Declaration

I, having loved ever since I was a child a few things, never having wavered In these affections;
never through shyness in the houses of the
rich or in the presence of clergymen having denied these
loves;

Never when worked upon by cynics like chiropractors having
grunted or clicked a vertebra to the discredit of those loves;

Never when anxious to land a job having diminished them by a conniving smile;
or when befuddled by drink
Jeered at them through heartache or lazily fondled the fingers of their alert enemies; declare

That I shall love you always.
No matter what party is in power;
No matter what temporarily expedient combination of allied
interests wins the war;
Shall love you always.

Answer 4

I went to bed early on election night, (when it was looking good for Kerry) and I woke up to a nightmare of Republican celebration on TV.

Required civics and government courses in school would help a lot. One result of "no child left behind" is that these classes have been dropped by many schools in favor of teaching to the reading and math tests. I doubt that this was a plot by right wing Republicans, but keeping the kids ignorant about the political process and apathetic toward it, can help keep the right wing in power.

Answer 5

Being a memory loss victim, and recovering bit by bit when Clinton was in office, I was appalled at what was going on in this country.
I am still recovering, but it seems we did not remove those
trying to squish the constitution. President Reagan was trying to
rid us of their threat, but former President Bush saw no threat.
Former President Clinton wanted to be popular as long as it
didn't cost him, and put many citizens and government workers
at risk, with allowing open Private information. I've been shaking my head in despair ever since!

Answer 6

~I had a hard time believing it the first time, the second time did come as a shock. I couldn't believe that many people in America were fooled.
I would like to think common sense would tell you who to vote for, but I was told there is no such thing as common sense.
The very fact that he claimed he was a Christian, is what won him votes, blind sheep.
Thank God he's almost out of there, not before bringing America to it's knees.~

Answer 7

When George W. Bush was reelected it was a ratification of both his stolen election and vigilante diplomacy. Until then we could believe that Americans did not support the kind of behaviour in their leader, but 2004 but the seal of approval on his fraud, lies and aggression.

That was the moment for the public to reject the Bush league and reclaim the national honour. Who can trust the word of the United States now?

Until Americans turn off their television sets and ipods and pay attention to what is being done in their name you will be ruled by those who lie to you the most believably.

Answer 8

ONLY in America can a man's money get his idiot son elected...

We have just proven to the world that Forrest Gump exists in the guise of our President... George Dubya "Howdy Doody" Bushit, the rodeo clown!

I've even seen his face plastered in MAD Magazines with his familiar, "What, me worry? I'm da Decider!" quote beneath his photo.

Despair... and SHAME that the whole world is laughing at us for electing a mental deficient but at least we can brag that we treat our mentally disabled so fairly that we even elected one as President... our one and only "Decider."

Dubya proved the Peter Principal... "Rising to the level of one's incompetency." 'Nuff said.

Answer 9

Not exactly. I shook my head in sadness and despair, not when Bush won the second time, but almost exactly 4 years before that. Precisely, I shook my head and I felt despair when Bush asked the federal courts for an injunction to stop the re-counts in Florida. I had just voted for him a few weeks before, but when I heard what Bush was going to argue in federal courts, that was when I wished that I could take my vote back. I eventually decided that I wasn't going to vote at all in 2004, and I didn't, and I indeed felt -- I still feel -- that I will never vote again.

Answer 10

Its nothing to do with the educational system, but a lot to do with the use of false information by groups like Swift boaters who don't have to verify their ads and whose leaders claim no responsibility for accuracy of content even as they avidly pursue a lie in the media to discredit the opposition. We need some kind of National Honesty test before we are subjected to that kind of crap again. We, as a nation need to understand that the President shouldn't be a saint, but a good manager, with brains and the ability to communicate a thought without making it painful to listen to. Someone who is more interested in the average citizen than the average lobbyist, not a frat boy you want to have a beer with, but a smart person who does his/her homework.
We need to grow up and understand we are in for some hard choices and tough decisions as to how to get this country working well again.
When Bush had his first inauguration I was distraught, not so much by him as his method of getting into the White House. To me, one man one vote was the core value of the country. I fully expected to have the Supremes recognize this and insist on a re vote, no matter what the cost, confined to those who had signed in at the polls the first time. That they didn't and chose Bush made him less viable in my opinion.