is president bush a great president or the greatest ever??

Question

with the American peoples opinion polls showing that bush is the most unfavored president ever in U.S. history, i would like to know what you think of him and why?

Answer 1

GEORGE W. BUSH RESUME
The White House, USA

* ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
* I attacked and took over two countries.
* I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the Treasury.
* I shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history.
* I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
* I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
* I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
* I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
* In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
* After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history.
* I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any president in US history.
* In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
* I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.
* I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
* I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
* I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president since the advent of TV.
* I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other president in US history.
* I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
* I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
* I cut health care benefits for war veterans.
* I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
* I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
* I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history.
* Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her).
* I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
* I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.
* I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
* I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
* I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history.
* I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.
* I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.
* I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
* I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
* I withdrew from the World Court of Law.
* I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
* I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.
* I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
* The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
* I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
* I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
* I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.
* I took the world's sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
* I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
* I am the first US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
* I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
* I set the all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts.
* I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history. In a little over two years I have created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided that the US has been since the civil war.
* I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.


* RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
* I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).
* I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war.
* I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
* All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father¹s library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
* All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
* All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
* Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

* PERSONAL REFERENCES:
* For personal references, please speak to my dad or uncle James Baker (They can be reached in their offices at the Carlyle Group where they are helping to divide up the spoils of the US-Iraq war and plan for the next one.)

Answer 2

i don't think he'll be considered a top 5 or even a top 8 president, but look what happened while he was president, 9/11 and katrina. which both are still affecting the country and will be for many more presidents. but he was elected twice, beat kerry by 3.5 million votes, apparently the vast majarity of american most think he is doing ok, face it election day is the real and only poll that matters.

Answer 3

Personally, I put little weight or value into the opinions of those who haven't actually done anything to protect themselves, much less their country, in a time of war; especially against an enemy as dubious and underhanded as this one. Having been to Iraq myself and devoted years of my life to my country and to people who do not appreciate it, I can say that I myself, and most of my comrades in the service, are fed up and exasperated with the American public. How many more incidents like 9-11, 7-7 (in London), the Madrid bombing, and countless others will it take to get through into their heads? Are they so impatient and settled into their privileged lives that they are objecting to a war that has had absolutely no impact on their lives beyond SLIGHTLY higher gas prices (we still pay less than most of the world does) and news flashes on TV? Despite some bad command decisions, this is one of the first wars we've been in where the country itself hasn't been "at war"--the military has... especially for a war that's gone on as long as this one. The fact that we, in the military, have kept all the danger and grief away from the greater American public and allowed them to continue living their lives in luxury just as they had before 9-11 even happened has gone unnoticed and unappreciated.

What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.

That is why I put about as much weight into polls as I do into the inane political ramblings of a teenager in a high school debate class; if you don't have the experience to back it up and are dumb enough to believe what your teacher tells you, you frankly have no business spreading a worthless and groundless opinion around. Leave the fighting to those who actually know what the hell's going on and who are still willing to sacrifice their rights for yours.

Answer 4

The American peoples opinion polls showing that Bush is the most unfavored president ever in U.S. history is absolutely accurate. This nation has not been this divided since the Civil War and it's due to Bush polarizing the very citizens he claims to care so much about. Good ones, Zoom. I love Bushisms!

Answer 5

President Bush is a very poor president.
1. He rushed us into war in Iraq when we were clearly not finished in Afghanistan (now Afghanistan made sense to begin with, but it has been screwed up, and badly);
2. Contrary to both statute law and the US Constitution he has pressed for or allowed officials he chose to make warrant less searches and wiretaps;
3. Contrary to statute law and the Constitution, his administration has advocated warrant less indefinite detention without trial for US citizens seized in the US; (See the case of José Padilla; yes, Padilla is probably a very bad guy, but if he has no rights, then all any president has to do is say YOU are a bad guy and you get held for 2+ years or forever without any recourse)
4. He has admitted kidnapping people off the streets of foreign countries and shipping them th secret detention facilities for what anyone who has lived through it calls torture; (When I went to Air Force Security Police Officer's School they taught us that torture, besides being morally wrong, can not get reliable information because the tortured will tell you what he thinks you want to hear.) There are currently at least two suits against the US by kidnap and torture victims generally believed to be the innocent victims of mistaken identity.
5. Alberto Gonzales, then White House Counsel,(yes he is now the Attorney General of the US) called the Geneva Convention, a treaty which we signed and ratified to protect our military personnel, "archaic and laughable" thus giving any future enemy of the US permission to abuse and torture their US prisoners.

There is more, but I'm too depressed to bring it up.

Answer 6

Polls are meaningless.

He has done OK. I think somethings haven't worked out the way everyone would have liked and there are elements that wish to use this to diminish him. Unfortunately that strategy borders on treason. At the least it should turn stomachs.

But as long as they tag onto any crazy statement that "They support the troops" they get a pass. We know better.

History will be kind to President Bush, just as it was less so for Lyndon Johnson. I don't believe the that lying about the war in Iraq is anything like we saw in Vietnam. maybe reversed? The press hides positive news? I know my compadres are getting sick of the press.

Ret. USAF SNCO

Answer 7

First off, most of the problems with the country today are due to ex-president Clinton's poor long-term decision making (like NAFTA). Secondly people call him a scumbag and a moron, but when I ask people why, they can't come up with a reason that makes sense. People make fun of him for his poor speech giving, but so what, I don't see any of you being President right now, so he must have smarts over you.
Semper Fidelis

Answer 8

George W is a lap dog and is tooo dumb to even know it. How can a complete lap dog become president. Do any of you believe all of that big oil, pharmaceutical and insurance money bought Florida in the original election now. It makes you say hmmm doesn't it? If George Bush tripped on a stump and fell the conservatives would say he wouldn't have fell if Clinton would have had the stump removed. If my boss came to me and said Sam why are doing such a poor job and I replied because the last guy left a mess he would fire me on the spot. Conservatives you sound so lame when you blame Clinton for Bush's Mistakes. very lame

Answer 9

People on here remind me of a joke I heard long ago. During a hotly contested basketball game, a foul was called. A loud voice rang out. " Referee is a blind S.O.B. " The crowd got silent and the principal of the school grabbed the PA microphone and asked that whoever called the Ref a blind SOB to come forward. A man stood up and said " I didn't call the ref a blind SOB, but I want to know who called that blind SOB a referee! "

Answer 10

NO HES NOT A GREAT PRESIDENT OR EVER WILL BE
the reason why i think this is hes trying to be like his dad and always tying to get into someones elses country and tell them what they can do or should do . we already got alot of problems here why dont he focus on the poor / messy streets / gangs / bad ppl here 1st . thats why the president from north korea said "NO WHITE MAN IS GONNA TELL ME WHAT TO DO IN MY COUNTRY" when bush tryied to tell him to stop testing his missles . and who gives A **** what happens to other ppl in there country i believe thats there problem and for bush to stop trying to seem like hes some kinda superman going around fixing stuff

Answer 11

Not greatest or even great. Foreign affairs are in shambles and the economy is feeling the strain of high oil prices and the cost of the war. Never in my adult life have I been so fearful of the future then now. Bad President.