A question for Americans?

Question

i've been hanging around Y!A for quite some time now, and from my obsevation (forgive me if im mistaken) but a majority of you people dislike and even hate George W Bush. so my question is, how did he get elected in the first place and also got a second term?

the first time i think i understand why, between W and Gore, u didnt have much of an option. You guys were screwed that time.
but the second term? how did he win that?

thanks in advance for your comments.

Answer 1

Our President inherited problems from the other administration, then he got us through 9/11, Katrina and the list goes on. While many complain about the President, there are more that support him.
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Answer 2

It isn't so much that even the people that stand up for him like all the things he has done. We have a strong 2 party system that is a winner takes all. Many of the for votes are really votes against the mostly alternative. I help put Clinton in when I thought Perot would be a better president that Bush's father; I will not do that again.

Legally he hasn't done anything he can be impeached for. We aren't in a Parliament system so his term runs its course. Making the presumption that there are smart Democrats that are investigative type lawyers, if he had done anything the would pass legal checking he'd be up on charges now. Him staying in office this long is its own best defense that he has stayed within the letter of the law.

I just had to get back on because some person thinks it is about driving up oil prices. If one looks at the price of gas based on the cost in the early 70's, the cost of energy verses inflation has gone down. If on the other hand you base it on a different year say late 90's it has shoot up dramatically!

What will the masses do when the reallity of dwindling fossil fuels actually hits & collides with the baby-boomers retirement bill. Boy the liberals will be crying what happened to MY ENTILEMENTS!

Answer 3

In the first, Republicans running the election in Florida removed tens of thousands of Democrats from the voter registration rolls -- they weren't allowed to vote.

Because of the Electoral College, stealing the election in Florida was sufficient to steal the whole enchilada.

In 2004, Republican running the election process in Ohio prevented no one knows how many Democrats from voting, through various means.

But more importantly, a LOT of voters voted using machines with no paper back-up, (built by a company whose CEO promised Bush he would deliver Ohio's Electoral votes -- the same company, BTW, that makes ATM machines that print the exact time of transaction, and all ending balances down to the penny).

Those machines were programmed, some were diddled with on election day, during voting, to give Ohio to Bush (and thus, the White House).

He was never elected.

The exit polls taken in precincts that had paper ballots or paper back-up accurately predicted the results (within their margins of error). Exit polls in paperless precincts called the race for Kerry, but the final results were for Bush.

There were other irregularities -- the biggest Democratic area in Florida didn't get Absentee ballots until the Saturday before the (Tuesday) election. The judge hearing the case to count them said that voters had a responsibility to get the ballots returned on time -- EVEN THOUGH THEY HADN"T GOTTEN THEM IN TIME TO DO SO.

(The election offices had been getting complaints weeks before the election that the ballots hadn't been recieved. They blamed the post office, but still refused to send them out in time.)

Anyway, still, not only most people elsewhere in the world, but most Americans just don't realize that both elections were fraudulent.

In more ways than I can type out here.

Don't knock Gore -- he isn't a mass murderer, and he wouldn't have ordered torture and rape, let alone done the dozens of other horrible things Bush has done.

I'm not a Gore fan, but at least Gore is a human being.

Yes, all thinking people all over the world, including in the U.S. hate Bush. Loathe and despise, too.

Answer 4

I think most R tired of the war & their blaming bush. Anyone remember 9/11, Everyone was behind him then. A lot (in my openion R young ) of the ones that claim they hate him do not have all the facts. Like some sports their behind a winner if they R dedicated they stay with the team win or lose. Bush is a great man & President. Like him or not we should all stand behind him. WTF is going to happen when he is out of office? Does anyone think that a newbie is going to come in & wave a magic wand & make everything perfect? We should be with the man As far as the war goes we started losing them starting in Korea. USA & freedom of speech.

Answer 5

I can't speak from a liberal perspective, but I can tell you that from a conservative (true conservatism -- unlike the faux cons and neocons that populate the halls of Congress), Bush started off OK. I was with him on Afghanistan; I was with him on Iraq in 2003; I was with him on Iraq in 2004, although my isolationist tendencies were kicking in; I was mostly with him on Iraq in 2005; I began defending him in early 2006 on Iraq, just because it would have been worse to leave at that point AND the libs vitriole against him was so patently biased against the facts that I thought he deserved a helping hand. This, of course, was while he was spending our grandchildren into the poorhouse. . . .the man never met a spending bill he didn't like.

All this because I thought he was in some tiny, tiny way still a conservative at heart. Then came the big day in late 2006 (maybe early 2007) when he used the word that severed him from me and every true conservative I know -- amnesty.

He's willing to barter away the American sovereignty that tens of thousands have died for, and for what? To be politically correct. To try to win a Congressional popularity contest.

However much the libs dislike him, I dislike him even more. He doesn't deserve to run under the same political designation as Goldwater or Reagan. The man is a disgrace to every person who ever voted Republican, including me.

Ok, sorry for the tirade. What I'm trying to say is that he won because schmucks like me thought he was a conservative. Silly us.

BTW, this really isn't a representative place to get a good sampling. We're all young and computer literate. :-)

Answer 6

Basically, Karl Rove ( a Presidential aide) figured out that if you could organize the traditional conservative Christian base they would vote disproportionately in comparison to the rest of the population. The GAP (accounting standard) was changed to allow not for profits (churches) to voice political views and to organize voters. Previously if a church did this they would lose their tax free status. Depending on which poll you believe, about 20 - 30% of the American population falls into the traditional conservative Christian category. So what happened in 2004 is this 20% to 30% base accounted for nearly 42% of the vote. Remember, in 2004 the war was going fairly well. We were just starting to hear the rumblings of discontent. Throw in a hand full of "normal" republicans and a few independents and you've won the election. So essentially the President was elected by a special interest group. Due to the lack of support for the President now and Republicans in general, the Republican party is nominating traditional Republican candidates for 2008 and not catering to the traditional Christian base. For the first time in a long time Americans will have the pleasure of choosing between two moderate, rational candidates.

Answer 7

Bush barely won the second election. He won by a very skim amount.

There are an overwhelming amount of liberals whining right now.

You don't hear the republicans whining because we did our part when we got off our hard working butts to go down and vote.

Answer 8

Bush was elected the first time because he lied to the American people and the second election definitely was a rigged election to get him in. Despite what a lot of youngsters here have told you. And there is a lot of proof as to Bush's crooked and deceitfulness from our last election we had this past November by putting the Republicans out of commission. There were many people from the Republican party who put a lot of Republicans out of commission and a point was made in November 2006.

Also, as soon as the election was deemed a Democratic win, gas prices fell so fast that it was obvious as to what this war is truly all about and who it is "REALLY" being fought for. The oil tycoons, Bush's buddies. It doesn't take a "rocket scientist" to figure it out. And now guess what???? Bush wants to start yet another war with Iran, and so...up go the gas prices again!

Bush has scammed the American people. Did you watch his press conference when Donald Rumsfeld resigned???? He was such a pouty little brat, because the Republicans lost, and he knew it. He would not even allow one reporter to ask a question that night. A poor loser is what was shown that evening. I watched every single minute of it. I just find it so hard to believe that there are still naive people out there still believing what comes out of that man's mouth. The man is pure evil and arrogant if he thinks that he can do as he pleases and not have to answer to the American people.

No...on 9/11, Bush's "true" colors came out. Republicans got Bush in, but it was Republicans who took away his powers on November 2006. And it is just the beginning of a process of elimination of a party gone bad and there will be many more Republican politicians out of a job in 2008...so it's not over yet.

Answer 9

He did not win the popular vote in the 2000 election. There were some questionable practices in a state governed by his brother and whose Secretary of State was once his campaign manager.

He actually didn't win the 2004 election either it was actually given to him by his opponent John Kerry who did not fight hard enough. Bush had also employed great propaganda and convinced people not to change presidents in the middle of a war. They are sorry they believed him and that was evident in the 2006 when voters returned Democrats into power in the Congress.

Answer 10

That is not necessarily true. Bush got elected by a majority in both elections. There is just an overwhelming majority of liberals (Those are the pot-smokers who hate Bush) on this cite.

I hope this helped clear up your confusion.

Answer 11

A majority of the people that hate President Bush on Y/A are ill informed mental midgets who could not get past a 60 second diatribe of facts justifying their hatred.

Therefore sir, you are in good company as your question indicates.