Why does opinion of Bush have to be "all or nothing"?

Question

I will state right off that I am not a fan of President Bush Jr. It popped into my head that this particular President we have a extremist viewpoint. People either hate him or love him with no room in between.

Does anyone else find this curious? Does anyone else find it odd that to question Bush or give less than 3000% support results in you being a "commi liberal #@$% traitor"? Isn't it odd that less than 3000% hatred of Bush makes you a "Nazi fascist, Hitler worshipper"?

Does anyone know why this particular President has to be the 2nd coming or the Devil when other Presidents we can look at as men with good+bad traits?

Leogirl> So it is the liberal's fault when I am called a traitor by conservs for not offering my life to Bush?

ruth> do you actually see what conservatives put on yahoo? evidently not that is why I said BOTH sides do it..because in reality they BOTH (meaning libs and conservs) do

tttplttt> check out a dictionary..i am not being a hypocrit for presenting both sides, you are just being a dumbass. I asked a very simple question based on what I see..now since people have neither the patience, desire, or practical application to ask each and every single living being in the solar system what he/she/it thinks we must generalize based on the majority responses. Now everyone here seems to understand that but you which makes you not a hypocrit but a mental defective or just someone playing stupid games (and badly I might add).

tttplttt> You just gave solid proof. You have defective mind. Please go get that checked out..you little "Why aren't the 0.0000000000000000000057% here on yahoo being given equal weight?" proves you to be a nitpicking useless individual.
Also if I am a hypocrit then so are you for not addressing the many people that are..HYPOCRIT HYPOCRIT!!!

Answer 1

As a liberal I think Bush does some stuff right. But things like the Iraq war isn't one of them.

Also, No Child Left Behind was ridiculous and actually pulled every child in a public school behind and pretty much all the kids that weren't doing well before are still not doing much better.

I think the only reason we aren't dying financially is because of the war, so again I guess that's another knock. Everyone knows wars mean better economy.

But when it came to Clinton, here come the thumbs down, he was seriously one of the top leaders in our country's history (not talking about his ethics here but as far as the country's education, lower class improving, minority home ownership, economy, etc) and he is either hated or loved. I think that's part of what happens when we have our freedom of speech.

I can easily see how in a debate I quickly turn to Bush = Satan because my opponents are Bush = God.

Answer 2

Rove instructed him to apply that expression to make the accepted public think of we are all weenies for arguing with him. Bush hasn't had an opinion for the reason that he went into hiding in the process the Vietnam conflict. Bush is a detrimental, risky guy. he's an fool and has plenty skill. i don't comprehend why he hasn't been impeached yet. He might desire to be tried for conflict crimes himself.

Answer 3

Im not a fan of Bush myself I think people bash him to death because he has made some poor choices and the Iraq War is not going well. Also because many people think that 9/11 was an inside job by the government. Its true though people either love him or hate him.

Answer 4

"Blind faith in Bad Leadership is not Patriotism"
This is what most Bush supporters don't seem to comprehend.

To quote a Republican president who understood this.............
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Teddy Roosevelt

Posters on this forum like Leogirl are not smart enough to comprehend. Sad for her.....because she forgot what it means to be an American.

Answer 5

Yes. It is curious. Bush is a incompetent failure by any standard and those that voted for him would do so again if they could. Do you recall "tax cuts for every American" then "tax cuts for only the wealthy" as it turned out to be. Republicans vote their pocket book not the person or the persons qualifications. The Democrats are the party that represents the working class in America. We are the majority. I for one will never forget my own roots as a working class person. BTW, the no bid contracts in Iraq can not be executed and billed if there is no security there to get them done. Iraq is about Money and Oil, always has been.

Answer 6

I too am no longer a Bush supporter. Not since the end of his first term, when he vetoed the CDRP benefit for retired disabled vets, of which I'm one. It was later approved, but only in part until 2014.
In order to understand Bush, you have to understand his up bringing. You have to know that he is and believes that he is one of those upper, upper class persons. You know, the privileged few, whose $h*t don't stink. He went to private military (Texas Air National Guard) when everyone else was being shipped to Vietnam. He went AWOL, but wasn't held accountable. The guys, that you see in the movies, that are above the law. He doesn't have to listen to anyone, because of his money. Money equals power, and he thinks he's the most powerful human on earth.

I don't think that "Ruth" is on the right track either. You don't have to have an alternative reason or solution, just because there is a bully on the block. Has nothing to do with being liberal or whatever. How long has Ruth served in the military? ZERO I'll bet. Easy to talk about death, when your not subject to it.

Answer 7

Wow – school must be back in session – President Bush has one thing in his attitude that scares and frightens people which brings on this “with me or against me” attitude. That thing is moral absolutes. Most conservatives believe this to be the case. In general terms it is the thought that there is no relativity in what we say or do. You see things in black or white with little grey areas to be found. The other thing that scares those who don’t believe this is the fact that he uses facts and not emotion to make his case. An example of the emotion in a president was Bill Clinton. You might not like him as a conservative because there was no standard – everything was as John Kerry (Vietnam, 3 purple hearts) says “nuanced”. Anyway back to Bill – he could make you feel that you were the only one in the room with him. His ability to manipulate emotion was unparalleled. President Bush doesn’t do this. He feels that if he uses facts (because facts are facts) – people will go along with his reasoning. A lot of people would rather have emotion than the facts.

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. . . . You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs - Victory in spite of all terrors - Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."
- Winston Churchill, in his initial speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons (10 May 1940)

Answer 8

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Your hypocrisy is showing. Not everyone thinks in those terms. Maybe it's just people like you.

Charlooch: You are assuming 1) People who support Bush have "blind faith" instead of weighing the issues, and 2) that Bush is performing "bad leadership". Both are opinions. Who is not "smart enough" to understand that?

Hypocrit: You're ignoring the 'side' that doesn't think in extreme terms. Extremist are people like the ones that spew crap in their Additional comments because they don't like the answers.

Answer 9

Seems to me that Bush himself (and his coterie) set the standard and expectation even from before 9/11. He claimed the 2000 election was a mandate even though he lost the popular vote by about 1 million.

His political planner Karl Rove practices a 50%-plus-one brand of politics, and they are all satisfied to stop right there - and the way they make that 50%-plus-one seem bigger than it is is by demonizing the other 50%-minus-one, in contrast to having an inclusive mindset and actually trying to grow from their 50%-plus-one.

As he and his openly reject and dismiss opposing parties out-of-hand, he fosters the very strong reactive climate that is our current politics.

Answer 10

I am hard pressed to find anything about Bush that I approve of and that is mostly because of his all or nothing, for me or against me attitude; anyone who casts his life with those parameters is just asking for folks to say, all right, then, I am absolutely against you. It is his own little childish version of "bring it on"