Why are Americans focusing their energy and hate on George Bush...he's not an absolutely monarch king, right?

Question

I believe that Jimmy Carter said it best..."Being a former president is much more rewarding than being the acting president...these days people wave at me with all their fingers." Honestly, I'm flabbergasted by the amount of energy we're wasting complaining like spoiled children who can't see the forest for the trees about our President. I suppose it's in his job description, to be the figure-head for all of our frustrations, but it is getting SO OLD these days. I feel that it's all that John Stewart covers on "The Daily Show" these days. Bush Bush Bush and more Bush...every day, all day. In my mind we have a serious problem in this country if ANY acting President had as much ACTUAL power and influence as we perceive George Bush to have. THE MAN IS NOT A KING THAT CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS. WE DON'T HAVE "INFALLIBLE, DO-ANYTHING EMPERORS" IN THIS COUNTRY. Hell, I don't like the guy because he's a dang hill-billie, not because I perceive him to be the base root of ALL our problems..

Answer 1

I voted for Bush and would do so again.

Answer 2

Guess your stuck listening to this until we get rid of the damn Hill-Billie. The argument you make about Bush not being a king is the argument we are trying to get through to our senators and congress, that this man is not supposed to be allowed to do whatever he wants, and because he is fallible, he has been caught in lies, in if not stealing himself, at least being an accessory to the fact, that billions of dollars have disappeared, and no one is being locked up for this, shows his guilt in the disappearance of this money. The amount of money misspent under his authority, theft is just everywhere around this guy. The stealing that Halliburton was approved thru this administration to commit, on our soldiers, on the jobs they didn't do over in Iraq, but got paid for, and who got a cut of that money to turn the other cheek. Sorry, I know you don't want to hear all this, and if I wanted to I could list Mr. Hail to the Chief's other crimes, and they are many. So, you are correct, he's not a King, but we already know that, it's the people who can bring him down, that need to understand that, and do what the people are demanding be done to this man, and his war in Iraq.

Answer 3

He has done a lot of damage.

He has murdered over 600,000 people.

Yes, Congress abdicated, when they should have done their jobs, but in many things he's bypassed Congress and, for instance, filled the government with the corrupt and incompetent.

His policies have allowed garbage dumped in our air, and taken education out of our educational system.

He single-handedly prevented research that would vastly improve the quality of life for tens of millions of people.

He's gutted governmental agencies that save lives, such as those that check to see that our food doesn't kill us.

Because he's sent crucial equipment to Iraq, there are more victims of natural disasters -- Katrina, the recent tornadoes, and likely this summer, if we have a bad fire season (likely this year).

Most of the time he's been in office, he had a complaint Congress and nearly was Emperor.

He thinks he should be; he doesn't think law or Constitution apply to him.

He has done a lot of damage, and isn't through yet.

Blaming Jon Stewart (who's on for less than half an hour four times a week, not 24/7) is silly.

Jon Stewart just points out what he says and does -- and goes after a lot of other people, media, Congress, and others.

Yes, Congress and the media are partly to blame, but most of the blame for the death and destruction he's caused lies with him.

There has never been a president who has harmed us as much as this one.

It's no joke.

He mostly has done everything he wanted (except he was prevented from destroying Social Security, though it wasn't for lack of trying).

Hillbilly?

He's a mass-murdering, torturing, raping, thieving, lying, utterly corrupt traitor to his country.

Who cares if he pretends to be a hillbilly?

Answer 4

He thinks he is a king and his supporters think he is a god. People don't criticize someone for the hell of it. There must be a reason. The president is the focal point and a symbol of our country. When that focal point and symbol are not truly representative of the majority of the population something is wrong and needs to be corrected. Some do correct and all is fine but this one is stubborn and arrogant. When people say he should be respected I respond that one needs to earn respect. I respect his title but not the man with the title. I have complimented him when he deserved it and criticized him when he deserved that too. Democracy thrives on dissent and difference of opinion. Totalitarianism thrives on walking in lockstep with the fearless leader. You want a good example check out North Korea.

Answer 5

I think people focus their energy and hate on Bush because it's easy.

It's easy to label him the bad guy than to try to hold Congress and the Senate accountable for not hold Bush accountable.

He is not a King. But he does believe he is above the law. He is not the root of the problems, but he is the messenger. It's much easier to shoot the messenger than to deal with the message.

Answer 6

Do you enjoy living under the threat of fictitious boogie men?
You know those 19 arab hijackers that have the supernatural ability to fly jumbo jets into high rises survive the impact and rig both WTC 1 and 2 to explode into nice controlled dust heaps and then 7 hours later these 19 arab hooligans come back to life to form an invisible 5 million pound gorilla and stomp WTC 7 into nice controlled dust heap. And now these hardcore republicans call these supernatural 19 arab hooligans - Al Quaida and to loyal Bushies they get stronger and more bizarre each day. Have you check under your bed or in your closet for one of these fictitious supernatural all powerful Boogie men?

Answer 7

by way of blaming the king, the human beings ought to pass the Parliament's place in what they did with the colonies there. by way of constantly claiming the king replaced into in charge for all of their mess and woes, it replaced into elementary for the Parliament, and for this reason the conventional human beings, to work out the yank Revolution as some thing that wasn't rather nicely worth battling over. because of the fact that Britain had a greater empire to rigidity approximately, they at last figured it wasn't nicely worth retaining onto the yank colonies, and enable them to pass. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, had the human beings blamed the English as an entire, and not basically the King, then it might've given the British greater incentives to destroy the rebels, and quell the revolt lest their fulfillment conjures up different rebellions by way of the Empire. because it replaced into, the human beings have been sensible sufficient to easily lay sole blame on the king, and not the authentic tension of skill in the back of him, the Parliament. a conventional assessment is likewise obtainable. all the themes that the U. S. is inflicting as we talk would nicely be in basic terms blamed on the President. And in spite of the incontrovertible fact that consequently he's largely in charge for many this mess, Congress is those at fault for frequently allowing him to bypass his regulations. yet not often every physique needs to blame Congress as an entire; somewhat, its much less perplexing to assert Bush did all of it, and its all his fault. Likewise, King George III replaced into an elementary scapegoat to blame for all varieties of woe. Its his fault the human beings revolted, in spite of if Parliament handed those form of issues that led to the themes the human beings did not like.

Answer 8

I think you've got a point to an extent, others should not let him get away with stuff. But he is intensly dislikable as a person and his incompetance is mind-blowingly lacking.

Answer 9

I think people are sick of Bush trying to be a King, disregarding the Constitution, Ignoring Separation of Powers, and mostly, the failed Iraq policy.

Answer 10

Why wouldn't we focus our hate at this turd, who with his VP, manipulated intelligence to provide a one-sided case to go to war. Perhaps if you or your children were the ones dying in Iraq for this useless war, you might be showing a bit of hate too.