When will people realize that Bush failed them in every aspect as a president ?

Question

His failures:
1). Iraq War
2). National Debt
3). Widespread corruption in Republican ranks
4). Immigration (wants to make Mexicans residents)
5). Natural Disaster Relief (Katrina)
6). Constitutional abuses (civil rights etc)
7). Global Earth initiatives
8). Bad foreign Relations (countries like Venezuela are talking crap)


So my question is What is it going to take for people to realize Bush failed them ? Please give mature answers. This is a discussion. Prove my point wrong.

Answer 1

The people who still support Bush will support him no matter what happens from now on. His core base will always support him because he puts on his religious front and his cowboy down home country boy front. Those people choose not to look at his incompetence. But if he were a Democrat they would calling for his impeachment. (Remember when Clinton had an afair and was impeached because he lied about it) Apparently that was worse than any of the aforementioned failures.

Answer 2

First of all: The premise is that the items you listed are failures. That is your opinion. Iraq has yet to be resolved therefore it is neither a success nor failure.

National Debt: Again, yet to be resolved, once we see if Iraq is a success, then we will know whether or not the money was well spent or a waste.

Widespread Corruption in the republican ranks: Surely you jest. How about corruption in any rank, how can you hold the President responsible for that and limit it to a republican scandel. I believe this would equate to a biased opinion.

Immigration: He is trying to resolve a still on going issue, which is not a success or failure, because it has not been resolved.

Katrina: Not his job,,, so he can neither take credit or responsibility for it. That's a States job, then they go to the FEDS.

Constitutional Abuses: Unclear what you mean here, last I knew we still were as free as we were prior to the President obtaining office. Did we lose some right that I don't know about.

Global Earth Initiatives: What do you want the President to do here? With the forementioned national debt, who do you want to pay for it, and why not let China handle this one, they have a lot more people affected by it.

Bad Foreign Relations: How many countries are still involved in the Iraqi war on our side? I believe that means that they are with us. Because certain people of certain countries spout off doesn't mean their governments don't back us, look at England for instance. They have a lot of people against the war, but yet the government is still our strongest ally.

So I would say that most of his success' or failures have yet to be realized and therefore an opinion is just that, an opinion having yet been proving true or false.

Answer 3

1). Iraq War

The war is not over yet. If we can succeed in spite of the Democrat party's attempts to sabotage the war effort, then the Iraqi people will have a great victory and live free.

2). National Debt

National debt is always there and it is always growing because we Americans are generous people who give and give, then we forgive the debts owed to us. National debt is not revealed instantaneously. It lags about 4 to 6 years behind the actual causation events. We are currently enjoying the fruits of the Clinton administration, just as he enjoyed the fruits of the Bush administration before him. GW is not playing the smoke and mirrors game that Clinton played. Bush is reporting REAL numbers.

3). Widespread corruption in Republican ranks

William Jefferson Clinton, Gary Condit, and so many more. What a short memory you have!

4). Immigration (wants to make Mexicans residents)

Wanting to do something does not equate to a failure, unless you mean he failed to moisten the tip of his finger and stick it up into the air to determine which way the winds of public opinion were blowing before deciding his position on the issue the way Democrats typically do.

5). Natural Disaster Relief (Katrina)

Bush respected States rights. Individual States have the right to do for themselves without federal government interference. The federal government did respond very quickly once they were asked, by the states affected by Katrina, to get involved.

6). Constitutional abuses (civil rights etc)

Terrorists and enemy combatants do not have constitutional rights.

7). Global Earth initiatives

Refusing to blame America first is something we should thank the President for. America is the source of freedom and goodness in the world today, yet so many want to blame us for everything. That is what the Kyoto Accord does, pure and simple. Man cannot change or control nature. Nature is bigger than we are. If you want to do something that will actually make a difference, PRAY to the One who is bigger than nature and who has the ability and desire to change things.

8). Bad foreign Relations (countries like Venezuela are talking crap)

Who cares what third world countries ruled by second rate dictators say or think! We need to stand firm for what is right and let it be known that if you mess with us there will be hell to pay. Then we need to follow through on our warnings when they are tested. The only reason they feel safe in testing our resolve is because they view us as being weak due to the backbiting and divisiveness of the Democrat party.

Answer 4

about the same time they realize bush is mopping up all the crap that clinton left this country with. Clinton bombed Iraq, stagnated the economy, committed perjury, ignored immigration, botched natural distaster relief (flood of mississippi), abused the civil rights of david koresh, rodney king, and elian gonzales' family, gave china nuclear secrets (that covers 7 & 8 my friend), . I think you could take any person, and make a similar list bashing them. Your question only proves that you voted for john kerry. Please tell me how you think kerry or Gore would have handled these issues better? Are you saying that a democrat would have prevented katrina or been tough on immigration? Or could have controlled the budget during a time of war? Or that under them, the congress would have magically voted against the war? Foreign relations means nothing. I bet joe torre has bad relations with BoSox fans, but that doesn't mean much. Hugo Chavez wants money and power, so of course he will bash whoever encourages democracy. You are entitled to your opinion, but don't act like they are the say all/ be all of the conversation.

Answer 5

The Iraq War is a success. Saddam is dead and gone. We didn't have to stay as occupiers.

The National Debt has been cut by two-thirds thanks to our great economy. Look it up on Google News. You also neglect that we have lower unemployment than Clinton's illusory 90s economy.

Widespread corruption? Two congressman went to Jail. They were prosecuted by a Republican Justice Department. Should we talk about the 5 Clinton Cabinet members who went to Jail? Plus, Sandy Berger who is disbarred for shredidng National Archives documents? Bill Clinton who had his law license suspended?

Immigration? Bush is following the Democrats on this one so why are you trumpeting that one?

Katrina was the fault of local officials in New Orleans and Louisiania. We live in a federalist system. Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Florida have done just fine hurricane relief. Corrupt Democrats in a one-party state ruined New Orleans preparation for a big hurricane. Mayor Nagin and Governor Blance were crying instead of acting to save their residents.

Constitutional abuses? Name concrete examples but I doubt you can come up with any.

Global Earth initiatives? What does that mean?

Bad foreign relations? You blame Bush for Hugo Chavez? Hugo Chavez led an anti-American coup during the Clinton Administration. What's wrong with you?

I slapped down each of your weak arguments. That was very easy.

Answer 6

"Just because you apparently don't agree with everything Bush has done does not mean he has failed as a President. History will judge him on many of the things you have listed (Iraq, immigration, etc. Republicans are not the only corrupt politicians in Congress (William Jefferson LA (D)). Katrina episode, you'vealready said was a NATURAL DISASTER---how does one person overcome a force of nature? "

Hahahah

Other less "civilized" nations have overcome these problems. Why can't we? Oh, our administration.... right.

Answer 7

Here's some quotes from the current President of the U.S.


"And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it."— Speaking on National Public Radio, Jan. 29, 2007

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."—Interview with CBS News, Washington D.C., Sept. 6, 2006

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel."—Washington, D.C., May 4, 2006

"The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany."—Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006

"If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate."—Washington D.C., March 21, 2006

"I think younger workers—first of all, younger workers have been promised benefits the government—promises that have been promised, benefits that we can't keep. That's just the way it is."—Washington, D.C., May 4, 2005

"We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make—it would hope—put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see."
—Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005

"Tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. You're a—you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities."—Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004

Answer 8

LOL so in 30 yrs regardless of the political environment will you still blame bush for everything? you need a new slogan this one has been disproved time and time again, I'm seriously hoping that Dem's take full control of the gov for two reasons, 1. so the country can see that Dem's are just socialist and screw this country up so bad they will never get voted into office again, and 2. so they can continue to blame George bush years after he is gone rather then take responsibility for anything.

Answer 9

Just because you apparently don't agree with everything Bush has done does not mean he has failed as a President. History will judge him on many of the things you have listed (Iraq, immigration, etc. Republicans are not the only corrupt politicians in Congress (William Jefferson LA (D)). Katrina episode, you'vealready said was a NATURAL DISASTER---how does one person overcome a force of nature?

Answer 10

You forgot the Missisippi flooding, Denver shut down from snow and the earthquakes in California.
After all you do think he is God and let you down in these other areas.