What is it about George W Bush (Bush43) that has so polarized the Democratic party to such levels of hate?

Question

I know He doesn't appear to have a strong command of the english language and stumbles over his toung from time to time, but what is it that causes so many people to hate so much they would rather see our country fail in Iraq and make the sacrifice of our troops worthless?

Answer 1

I'm not making the sacrifice of the troops worthless. Bush's failed policies are with his lack of an exit plan and long term strategy. I just refuse to go down on Bush's sinking ship of deceit. He's unethical, obstinant, unwilling to compromise and an embarrasment to our great country. Bush polarized "us" when he told us, "You are either with the terrorists or with him"...and now his supporters parrot those idiotic phrases anytime you question anything about his policies. I live in a republic democracy, last time I checked, and dissent is ACTUALLY healthy for our government.

Answer 2

The level of hate that the Conservatives had for Clinton went beyond anything imaginable. For 3 hours a day Rush Limbaugh spewed venom about Clinton throughout his entire presidency. The hatred for Clinton compared to the hatred of Bush was like Mount Everest compared to a New Orleans pothole. As a liberal, I don't even hate Bush. I feel sorry for him. He has done absolutely nothing right in his presidency. I wish he would do something right just for the sake of our country. What a pity!

Answer 3

Bush and some of the members of his party and some of his supporters have done what may well be irreparable damage to the country he swore to serve and protect and to the Constitution that is supposed to be his guide.

He deserted his National Guard obligations, and lied about deserting them...then had the gall to demand our lockstep acceptance of his unjustified use of our armed forces (for what turns out to be nothing more than a plan to de-nationalize control over Iraq's oil) as proof of our pride in and support for the men and women who serve in our military and navy.

Our most precious right is freedom of speech; all our other rights depend on being able to express our thoughts on any subject without fear of reprisal. Yet Bush has ordered the Secret Service to set up "Free Speech Zones" a distance away from wherever he will be, whenever he travels around our country. There citizens who oppose his policies are confined, out of his sight and hearing, so that he is never compelled to see or hear (and television cameras will never broadcast) our protests to the policies we oppose. He has attempted to persuade other nations to do the same whenever he travels abroad, making an international mockery of the freedom for which the whole world has so long admired and respected us.

Like so many other of his policies, the name of this one is diametrically opposite its function: There is little point in speaking freely in a "zone" where the person one wishes to address (Bush) cannot hear one's speech. Furthermore, as one judge put it, dismissing criminal charges against a man who had refused to be confined in a "Free Speech Zone", "I was under the impression that the entire United States is a free speech zone".

The "No Child Left Behind" program is an assault on our public school system, which has performed so poorly for so many years that my generation -- our parents were the children of the Depression and the bulk of those who served in WWII -- is characterized as the first American generation to be less well educated than its parents. That program has resulted in public schools that largely restrict their curriculum to "teaching to the test", which is pure rote learning (memorization).

An educated citizenry is essential to the survival of a democratic republic such as ours. But an ignorant populace, illiterate, incapable of logical thinking and critical analysis, and unaware of the history of mankind's struggle to achieve just the sort of government our Constitution established -- that ignorant populace can be inflamed into religious zealotry, distracted by moral issues for which no legislative act can ever hope to provide absolute resolution, and frightened into surrendering its freedoms in exchange for illusive and unobtainable "security". The "No Child Left Behind" program is intended to reduce our children to just such a population: a subjugated people.

For those two reasons, Bush is contemptable and detestable.

Sadly, as others have already commented, they hardly represent a fracion of his incompetence, corruption, deceit, hypocracy, and ignorance.

Aren't you glad you asked?

Answer 4

It's not Bush. It's the state of polarization in American politics in general. We are all literally living in two different nations inside one border.

It won't go away when Bush goes away, and in that will be the evidence of my truth.

It is compounded by the number of people who have only recently become interested in politics. Those newbies tend to believe all of our nations ills and issues are new, that somehow everything having to do with politics has suddenly come into existence.

They just haven't paid attention until Iraq. But the internal strife isn't new, the internal debates aren't newly minted. And when Bush goes away, they won't. So the national conflicts will continue.

Bush doesn't run the country, he just represents a large segment of it. That segment of the country might loose their highest ranking representative in the next election, but they themselves will continue to exist, and so will their issues and positions.

Bush gone will change nothing.

Answer 5

Because he lied the USA into a war. Because he didn't win in 2000. Because he believes that he is only the president of the people how voted for him and everyone else can take a deep knee bend.

Answer 6

1. Everything he spouted in the run for the office became a lie
2. He is so much a crook that he oozes slime
3. America has suffered so much from his leadership
4. He aligns himself with Enron and Channey and on and on
5. Stubborn fool that he is
6. Arrogance

It just goes on

Answer 7

jus_han - What lies are you talking about?

Bush said that there was NO connection between Iraq and 9/11.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/18/iraq/main584234.shtml

Bush lied about WMD's? If so, then he was only repeating the lie that had its start in the Clinton Administration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNgaVtVaiJE

Answer 8

He and his Facist have destroyed the Constitution, engaged in torture and murder, cheated, stolen, and committed every vile act with the possible exception of cannibalism.

Don't try to wrap that smelly fish in the flag and call it a patriot

Answer 9

Because he's a Republican and a patriotic President
who has the backbone to retaliate when the US is
attacked without our own states. What will a Democrat
President do if and when the US is attacked again...that's
what scares me because they sure as heck won't go to
war or fight back. That leaves US pretty vunerable. I'm
sick and tired of hearing that Bush lied. He didn't lie about
wmd's. Iraq had them (even Clinton said they did) but while
waiting on UN Inspectors to get there (months and months),
Iraq moved the wmd in passenger planes to Syria. The
liberal media does not want you to know that as they want
you to keep hating Bush for telling lies about wmd. Who
wants the US to be a loser.......most liberals.

Answer 10

Because he barely won the first time around. They are pissed that Gore lost by such a small margin in Florida. It is the same reason that the Republicans hated Clinton. He never won a real majority of the popular vote.

It is incredibly frustrating to know that you are in the majority but loose.

The second election just made them realize how much they underestimated him. He is much more crafty than he appears. Those who dismiss him as an idiot are playing directly into his hand. Others realize he is fairly sharp and dislike him for that.

There are also some who simply hate him because he does the exact opposite of what they want but I am assuming that you are discounting them. They will never like him.

Answer 11

Nobody "would rather see our country fail in Iraq and make the sacrifice of our troops worthless" so your question can't be answered since it's completely unfair.

Try again.