2007-04-11 03:06:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Bush represented himself as a uniter who would work to bring both parties together, reduce corruption (from both corporations and special interest groups), restore the dignity of the Office of the President of the United States, and follow responsible economic policies. He also claimed that he believed in transparency and justice.
The second time around he portraid himself as a man who hadn't made any mistakes, an honest man who knew what was going on and was making steady progress towards America's goals and acting in America's best interest.
Quite frankly, he is not representing any of the positions he claimed to stand for. He is no friend of justice or oversight, and has undermined nearly every effort to investigate to even see if there has been any corruption. He has shown his closest friends are the lobbiests and corporate shills whose interests he cares most about protecting.
His fiscal policy is abysmal, and while the wars themselves are another point of debate, his handling and funding of them has been atrocious. He has also shown that he can work with Congress as long as they do exactly what he wants, but as soon as he has to compromise or work with them he acts like a child who is not getting his way...the typical bully who picks on every kid, but as soon as he is put in his place cries about how unfair and hard everyone is on him.
Not to mention his work ethic is abysmal, not nearly the 'hard working, roll up the sleeves' attitude he promised. He's taken as much vacation time as anyone in America has in the past several years.
2007-04-11 03:37:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I really dont think he is much different than what he made himself out to be which btw was one of the reasons they felt he was elected in the first place. BTW kudos to you for managing to ask a question dealing with the president that doesnt look like a smear question.
2007-04-11 10:21:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, right or wrong, the man has stood up for his convictions. He has done what he believes is right for America and yes, pushed through the tax cuts when we needed them most.
While I don't agree with all his policies, I think he followed his policy as close as any President can. He is not the " wild card" nor did he vary in what he said he would do.
911 changed a lot of things and whether Congress will admit it, the Intelligence Committee (Congressional) gets the same daily briefing that Bush gets, same information and all the updates. Its funny, Congress voted to go to war with the same information Bush had, now they want to craw-fish out of it.
2007-04-11 10:13:48 · answer #3 · answered by bigmikejones 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
During his first campaign, he portrayed himself as a "compassionate conservative". If he thinks that domestic spying, invading countries that pose no threat, throwing innocent people into concentration camps, and failing to catch the actual culprits responsible for attacks on US soil are "compassionate", I'm scared!
2007-04-11 10:14:00 · answer #4 · answered by tangerine 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Well, didn't he initially say that he was going to be a "uniter, not a divider", and that he was going to "restore dignity to the Oval Office"? Less than 30% of the electorate would attempt to make the argument that he's come even remotely close to living up to that...
2007-04-11 10:20:04 · answer #5 · answered by David 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
He ran as an isolationist, middle of the road, compassionate conservative in 2000. He ran as a uniter who could build bridges to Democrats. My, how things have changed.
2007-04-11 10:14:40 · answer #6 · answered by Crabboy4 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Bush positioned himself as a middle of the road Ford type Republican in the election in '00, a fiend of liberals and christian fundamentalist suck up getting the nomination, and, a disaster as president.
2007-04-11 10:11:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
Campaign: I am a uniter, not a divider.
Reality: Most devisive president ever.
2007-04-11 10:26:33 · answer #8 · answered by Matthew P 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
well for one.. he is the biggest democrat that we have elected in years..
he let kennedy write the education bill
he passed the drug bill... ( largest add on to social security ever)
he increased the size of gov time 10...
the only republican thing he has done was cut taxes...
he is the biggest spending democrat in my life time
we need a REAL conservate to get elected
2007-04-11 10:23:11 · answer #9 · answered by Larry M 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We are all different since 9-11.
2007-04-11 10:13:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋