why do Democrats think they can do so much better than the Bush Administration?

Question

To put it in perspective, if any democrat was in office as president of the United States; and did the right thing to finally confront the elements who’s purpose is to destroy this great country. He / she would have do deal with the exact politics as the current Adm. Bill Clinton knew this when he was president, and in all honesty just didn’t want to go down that hard road. To think, Islamic fascist would not have us in their cross hairs if it were not for Bush is just absurd. Why do these extremist religious fundamentalist countries hat President Bush? He did what the president of the USA is required to, under his duties of the constitution. So yes he acted and confronted them. Honest debate can be had on how his Adm. Is handling it, but for all these democrats that seem to have this delusion of grandeur from arm chair quarter backing they have all the right answers is just and I am sorry for using this word but just plain stupid. How would any democrat deal differently with Iran’s part is Iraq? Hindsight is indeed 20/20. I may very well have to put aside some very strong personal beliefs come 08 and make my vote for the best chance we have as a nation to rebuild our standing in the world, will that be republican or democrat? I am not sure yet, I personally shall take a very hard a close look at the whole. I hope every American will do the same.

Answer 1

After what I have read in the way of answers on this page I know I will have the unpopular answer.
They think this because they are petty...they refuse to accept that Bush is the scapegoat for THEIR leaders. Every one of their leaders pushed for this war LONG before Bush seen office. Here is a link to Gore criticizing past presidents (including Bush Sr.) for not doing EXACTLY what Dubya has done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JE48XHKG64
The part I don't understand is how they can sit there acting like they are innocent when it's their party who have betrayed our nation by creating a situation and then blaming our President for the results.

Answer 2

If you can please explain to the audience what, exactly, did Iraq have to do with terrorists, then I'm sure you're question would make sense.

THAT is the problem. We had worl support for invading Afghanistan. We had beaten the Taliban into a corner. We had bin Laden pinned down. We were on the verge of sweeping the counrty clean and then.....

Iraq? What does Iraq have to do with this? We went against the UN. World support dried up. And now we are stuck in a quagmire.

And bin Laden, the man Bush swore he would get and then changed his mind (saying he was not that important), still roams about planning who-knows-what.

Short memories.

Would a democrat have done differently?That answer would reside in what special interest were pushing in what direction. However, I'm pretty sure anyone else would have "stayed the course" in Afghanistan until all elements of Al-Qaeda had been eliminated.

Iraq was a complete non-threat. Iran and NK were significantly more of a threat.

Is the world better off without Saddam. Sure. But did the ends justify the means? We're getting up towards 4000 soldiers killed, sectarian violence, thousands of Iraqi's killed, millions of refugees, terrorism, etc. . In other words, NO. At least with Saddam, we knew what we were dealing with and what to expect. Now, it's pretty much chaos.

Terrible choices were made, either for self-serving purposes, malice, or just plain ignorance.

I have a hard time believing that someone else couldn't have done a better job.

~X~

Answer 3

Unfortunately for us Americans, it is all about control and power. If the Democrats were in charge right now, rest assure that the Republicans would be saying the same thing as the Democrats are saying now.
The Democrats do not have a better plan and never will. If it were not for the war, President Bush's adminstration would probably be viewed by the majority as highly successful.
Also compounding the issue is his down home delivery and frequent slips of the tongue.
The fact of the matter is that when the troops do come home, the enemy will definitely follow and it is not fantasy nor scare tatics to believe that we could be experiencing terror and civilian casualties within our borders.
I believe that president Bush, like Truman and Lincoln, will go down in history as one the best presidents in our nations history because he had the guts to be proactive in our fight against terrorism.
Remember, Truman and Lincoln were both held in low esteem and considered boneheads during their periods of leadership. Now we think of them as real heroes.

President Bush is right about the economy, health, energy, immigration and so on but if we as a nation don't buy it then we continue to be divided and a nation divided against itself will not stand.

Our troops really are fighting for our freedom but most Americans are self centered and full of self pity so we don't get it. In addition, it is not hard to realize that our troops are dying and that someone is losing a father, a mother, a son, and so on and that they will not be coming back.

That is a very difficult loss to justify.

No matter who is in the White House, these issues will continue and until we come together as a nation, the issues will not be solved.

President Bush is a good man and a good leader even if he stumbles with the english language.

History has repeatedly shown that real leaders always have the lowest approval because they make decisions that are not popular.

Answer 4

Amen.
No , no one can make any progress in Congress, the Senate and the House anxiously awaiting and yet still, they all fail. The promised saviours a Democratic rule vs the evil President Bush. Now their rating are even 10% lower than his. They have proven nothing but the fact that they are partisan motivated. Those candidates for President with two jobs, those numbers reflect their service. Now, just watch, the statement will be poll numbers mean nothing. It was approached by a few on Sunday morning TV. I love these shows because some of the moderators are the off spring of the best and Brit Hume, his son Sandy died under suspicious circumstances around a Clinton investigation (The Body Count, his is in there) He is editor of news @ FOX. I am not clear if it only the weekend folks. George Stephanopolus and Chris Wallace. They rock.
Today D- Diane Feinstien sp? & Trent Lott, last week General Petraeuas. Sorry I have not spelled the names right. I don't feel well 2 day.
I pray AMERICA wakes up. Keep writin on. I am behind you 100 % Thank you so very much.

* Ted Kennedy is on ABC This week with George how lively! Yes a debate on TV not so much slated crappola as we see daily via O'Reilly etc. glad he takes weekend off.

Answer 5

Sadly, I think many of President GW Bush's decisions were driven by a desire to show Daddah up. Maybe he should have talked to Pop before launching off on Iraq, rather than relaying on Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et al.

This may be one more reason to think twice before electing the relative of a former president, especially a close relative.

I think many Republicans, Democrats, and Independents could have done a much better job. Better yet, a bipartisan team. What would be wrong with a Republican and Democrat running together for President and VP?

Answer 6

Bush for the most part has done a fairly good job. it's easy for these political arm chair quarterbacks to say, oh no, "my 14 year old niece could do a better job", well that's bull. being president requires you to make decisions that most people would prefer not to have to assume responsibility for.
Bush chose the more difficult road in reacting to 9/11 and has been constantly criticized and attacked for it, yet he presses on as he should. someone who was weaker would fold from the pressure and change directions. once you have chosen a direction you must continue in that direction or progress is stopped. the powers that wish to destroy the US are real and have to be confronted. we can't let up or let down our guard for political reasons such as, how we are viewed by the world, this would just be playing into the enemies hands. they protest and want the world to protest the actions of Bush and the US so that these actions will stop. we can't allow this to happen, we must remain strong and let our enemies know we will not allow their aggression.

Answer 7

Basically at this point it is all talk and no action. Both sides promise the gold pot at the end of the rainbow, but in reality they do nothing, except look out for themselves.

The US is in serious trouble with all politicians that we have in charge of the herd.

I believe this country is headed for a revolution. It might not be for many years, but the people are starting to get fed up with all politicians.

But hey, that is just my opinion

Answer 8

No, that became into the beginning up of the downfall. Even the lib economists and political speaking heads say the recession began in 2007. That became into whilst Bela Pelosi and Cherri Reid took over. they only comprehend that lib drones do in no way evaluate those info.

Answer 9

I am really sorry that you have fallen for the republican propaganda. Have you ever looked into the excessive secrecy of the Bush organization? There is so much that has been secret from the public to keep us from knowing what is really going on and spun to dubya's satisfaction. I hate what he has done to us and to the world. I truly believe that almost anyone could do a better job than bush and his administration......Democrat or Republican.

He took a vow to preserve and protect the constitution of the USA and immediately started working his way around it and to destroy it.

I truly doubt that the other parties would go out and try to run the entire world spewing hatred everywhere. I'm sick of using the disaster on 911 as an excuse to attack a country that had nothing at all to do with it. And I could go on.......

Answer 10

I honestly do not see where Democrats say they have all the right answers. What we DO seem to be doing is holding our elected officials accountable for their decisions and actions. When one examines the obvious hypocracy between what Bush says and what he does, it makes it pretty obvious the current mindset in power in Washington clearly neither has the interests of 300 million Americans as their first priority, nor particularly cares how many people die in an extraordinarily mismanaged war.

Bush says, "If we dont fight them there, we will have to fight them here"- Then why are US borders not secure almost 6 years after 9/11? Another way of saying the above phrase is, We wont have to fight them here, if we fight them over there", but as the JFK fuel line plot points out, this isn't true at all.

Bush says, "Iraq is a sovereign nation. We are there at their behest. Our presence there is the will of the Iraqi people, through their democratically elected government. If they wanted us to leave, we would"- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/26/AR2006092601721.html

Bush says, "I want Osama bin Laden, dead or alive", and "We're gonna smoke bin Laden outa his cave".- Almost 6 years later, where is Osama bin Laden? Bush has also said, "Bin Laden has been marginalized, I dont even think about him that much." Excuse me. Mr President, I dont want him marginalized. The families of the victims dont want him marginalized and the American people SURE dont want him marginalized.
http://www.cursor.org/stories/binladenforgotten.htm
We want him caught, arrested, tried, convicted and "marginalized" in a jail cell for the rest of his life.

Bush says, "We invaded Iraq to remove Saddam because he was trying to kill us with nuclear weapons."- Then when no nukes were found, we "are there to free the Iraqi people", then it was to quell the civil unrest and quash the insurgency, now it apparently is to re-arm the Sunnis we drove from power in the first place, to "Free" the Iraqi people. Does no one else see the idiocy of this move? The Sunnis will remove al Qaeda from Iraq, then they wioll turn to the Iraqi people and say, you see? America couldnt keep you safe from al Qaeda, only WE can keep you safe", they get swept back into power and we have to deal with some fanatic who we NEVER had as an ally, as we did with Saddam.
Bush says, "I support our troops", even though he wasn't man enough to finish his OWN military obligation to this country, even though those troops are fed rancid food and water contaminated with fecal matter, even though he has cut their salaries by almost 33% and defund the VA to the tune of $2 Billion.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5333896/
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/30/as-katrina-struck-bush-vacationed
http://www.ihatemylife.us/cgi-bin/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/494

Bush says, "I believe in Freedom", yet promotes illegal wiretaps, warrantless searches, eavesdropping on US citizens who have done nothing wrong, and torture of prisoners. The Republican abandonment of the legal doctrine of "Habeas Corpus" has done more to dismbowel the US Constitution (a document our President has referred to as, "That goddamned piece of paper") and the US Bill of Rights.