why such harsh slander regarding the president?

Question

i asked this before but worded it incorrectly. i understand not everyone agrees with everything the president has done but why such vicious attacks. there's a mature and professional way to voice your opinion, and everyone seems to forget that when Bush is the topic. i even had people attacking me personally just for asking the question.

Answer 1

Personally, I think he deserves harsh criticism cause these are harsh times. Mature and professional are some of the characteristics, sadly, that Mr. Bush lacks. It's difficult to take him seriously, and it grows harder by the day. No one really needs to slander him, he presents enough true f**k ups that no slander is necessary.

Answer 2

Did you know that despite being the only President that was ever elected unanimously, George Washington still received criticism? Or that practically every member of Lincoln’s cabinet hated him and actively tried to derail his efforts (practically every “vote” for the direction his cabinet thought he should go ended with “One Aye, Seven Nays. The Aye’s have it”) several of which may have had a role in his assignation? The British hated Gandhi, the white’s hated Martin Luther King Jr., the Soviets hated the Pope (and backed the Turk’s 1987 assassination attempt). Throughout human history, no matter who you are, or what you do, somebody out there hates you. Not just disagrees with you, not just doesn’t like some of your choices, but hates you to the point that they are utterly obsessed by you, and blame you for everything that happens, even when by reason & common sense, you can't possibly shoulder the weight alone.

Our society in particular seems to be ruled by blind, viral hatred, and one-issue sycophants who aren’t happy just believing whatever they choose to believe. Instead, their burning desire on a daily basis is to make sure that everyone knows how much smarter they are than the majority of citizens who just want to live in a safe world, or short of that, at least in a world free of attacks on our country.

Our country’s, and our world’s problem isn’t that times have gotten any worse than they have ever been before (the Great Depression, the Civil War, Pearl Harbor, Black Monday, the Cold War, countless riots, the Chicago fire, etc, etc, etc all occured before 2000) or that this President is any worse than any other. It is, as the asker implies, society has lost the ability to show any courtesy, decency, or common sense during a disagreement.

We have seemingly long since lost the ability to disagree with each other and to share that disagreement in a calm and constructive manner. If you read half of the political questions/comments on YA you’ll find that it is open season on the President, without any real hope of honest and fair dialog. How arrogant is the YA (replace YA with American, or Global) community that it can’t accept the fact that there is a chance that not every body knows everything, and not everything can possibly be the fault of one person or one President.

Our President may not be very popular, but he is the President. Our country had two chances to prevent that (had it wanted to), but he was elected, and sworn in, and now serves as the head of our country. Our continued attacks on the office of the President, and the man currently occupying it, serve to do nothing other than harm our country and make us look like fools abroad. Far worse than the actions of any one single other person can do, whoever the President happens to be at the time.

How many people here wake up every day and receive an Intelligence briefing, followed by briefings by the State Department, FBI, Treasury, etc. . .? Or work 15-hour days on behalf of 301,000,000 people? Or have the burden of calling the parents / spouses / children of our country’s dead soldiers and let them know that their children / spouses / fathers / mothers died to defend our country and its right to survive (even proactively if necessary)?

Yet we’re all experts on what happens in the world because we have high-speed Internet and watch CNN!

This, Asker, is why in our country there's such harsh and vicious criticism of the President of the United States of America, because it is not who's right, it's who's loudest that "wins" the argument.

Answer 3

People say bad stuff about the president because they have no respect. Not for themselves, this great country or our president. If they think they can do a better job then they should run, or put out a petition, not talk bad about someone who is doing the best they can. And not all the decisions he makes are by himself. People are forgetting that every decision has to be approved by congress, so why blame ONLY the president. People should have more respect for this country and our president. There used to be a laws that would have you thrown in prison for talking bad about the president, too bad it still doesn't exist.

Answer 4

It's the way President Bush has gone about the war, and not
accepting the fact that the Middle East does not want our help
and our democracy. Also his No Child Left Behind system
stinks. Our children are being forced to quit school if they have failed one to two grades because they didn't pass a test
known as Leap (Louisiana) Meap (Michigan) Map(Missouri).
If a school does not meet specific requirements they lose their federal grants. Learning is not exciting and fun as it was
when I attended school. Teachers have to go by guidelines and not their own creativity. Also the new methods being taught are hard for Parents to help their Children. Now this is my opinion and no matter who is in office I feel this way.

Answer 5

There is no logic to the Bush hatred. But as a general rule we on the Right disagree with Leftists. Leftists, hate us. Since they occupy a morally superior position, anyone who disagrees is basically evil incarnate and deserves no civility or respect.

Answer 6

Well, when you vote for someone several times, then back him, when the rest of the country does not, and he then tells you you are Not an American if you do not agree with him on Immigration, then there you have, a great reason to agree with Bush Bashers. The man is a moron, and deserves all the name calling that can be hurled at him.
now, that reminds me, I must change my screen name and avatar. I made this one up, when I liked Bush.

I liked him, before I didn't like him !!!!!

Answer 7

Bush is not leader material.

Bush's inability to listen to intelligence reports allowed the WTC to be destroyed.

My son lived 12 blocks away and now has a permanent respritory problem, I guess your not supposed to inhale human remains.

So Bush's inability to stay "awake on the job" has not only caused the death of over 7000 Americans, to date but he almost cost my son his life.

He's definately not on my "Favorite Dude" list.

Answer 8

He has ordered mass murder, torture, and rape.

It's not slander to point that out.

It's called accuracy, or truth.

BTW, it's a gross understatement to say not everyone agrees with everything he's done.

Almost every disagrees with almost everything he's done.

He's a traitor to his country.

He has NO conscience.

I see no reason to sugar-coat his behavior, or to pretend that he's a nice guy.

He isn't.

He's a criminal of the very worst sort; he has never shown any remorse for his gruesome crimes.

Answer 9

It's hatred by those who are hipocritical and insist that they are loving, caring, compassionate and tolerant. I've been slammed on more than a few occasions for calling such people loser. OK, so it's immature to call names, I know. But when they are so completely insulting and cannot base a single accusation on fact... Myopic and seditious.

Answer 10

Why shouldn't we be harsh against a self proclaimed dictator that has done nothing but lie to us, get thousands of troops killed and has turned us into the most hated country on earth!
I agree it is not slander it is the truth! This man is EVIL!