He has enough important issues to focus on. How about just letting the president perform at his best for the remainder of the term? Public polls and online postings are meaningless distractions.
2007-06-24 15:04:24 · 31 answers · asked by Lionwarlord 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Um, the "kids" referred to are the mommies and the daddies.
2007-06-24 15:27:34 · update #1
Good Question. Not that I'm against criticism, but who makes everyone an expert on what makes a bad president? I mean, give the guy a break, its not like he trained terrorists or invented hurricanes, he just can't keep up with all the garbage history has thrown at him in a relatively short time. I remember how people thought Ronald Reagan was a senile old warmonger and now look at his history.
If George W sat back and left the middle east alone, never going to war, people would want him impeached for not defending America, sort of what he's getting for his low stand on immigration. We're just a country of complainers.
2007-06-24 15:16:49 · answer #1 · answered by Action 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Unfortunately, criticism will always ben there. And our media in this day is much different then before, but even before other presidents were harshly commented like Johnson. Truman even got paper cups thrown at him at a baseball game because he fired MacArthur, a national hero at the time.
2007-06-27 16:51:50 · answer #2 · answered by ricknightcrawler 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What can you say, people get bombarded with negative information about him all the time. If you repeat a lie often enough people will come to believe it.
2007-06-29 17:16:31 · answer #3 · answered by smsmith500 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, I'm not no kid.
Second, this is a democracy. That means that we get to question our leaders. That means that we are supposed to question our leaders when we think they are heading off in the wrong direction. That's not a meaningless distraction, that patriotism.
If public opinion is truly a "distraction" for the President he isn't up to the job and should step down. Electing someone President doesn't mean we sit back and let him/her do what he/she wants for four years. We provide input.
2007-06-24 15:10:40 · answer #4 · answered by katydid13 3 · 7⤊ 4⤋
It's called sedition. It is unethical, cowardly and unAmerican.
1) It is unethical because the ethics require truth to be foremost, which is impossible if you are name-calling, spreading unfounded rumors, or treating people as "guilty until proved innocent". It requires an unethical person.
2) It is cowardly just as gossip is cowardly. It requires saying something behind someone's back, from a safe place, and doing nothing for the country other than that. It requires that you expect others to be silent while you are seditious, as if only you have free speech, like the bully who calls the larger hero a cheat because someone finally stood up to them.
3) It is unAmerican. Sedition may no longer be illegal, but it is contemptible.
If it is disagreement/dissent/protest with President Bush's policies (I disagree with many) but is done respectfully, strongly, without sedition, it is PATRIOTIC, because it is based on AMERICAN values and puts the country ahead of my personal ideology.
But the people you refer to don't know the difference, even as the people who did the same to Former President Clinton understood the difference.
And they won't, until we all add our voices to say, "You are being seditious. It is contemptible. You have free speech. So do we. Expect to be answered."
2007-06-24 15:17:00 · answer #5 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 1⤊ 6⤋
Tell them to start bad mouthing the Congress, their poll rating is lower than the Presidents
2007-06-24 15:32:56 · answer #6 · answered by bluebird 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Many of the kids (I assume you mean roughly college age) simply receive a bombardment of liberal bias, from everything from network and CNN news, to online political blogs, to liberal bias in college and even high school classrooms.
Anytime that people receive all of their info from one viewpoint, and haven't had enough real world experience to question it, or to independently verify it, they take it as gospel. When this happens people become very partisan and usually resort to name calling, slander and propagating and regurgitating the slant they get. When anyone only receives one side of the story, they become too narrow minded to look at anything objectively and what you refer to is the result.
2007-06-24 15:25:13 · answer #7 · answered by Jon B 3 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Kids learn from Mommy and daddy!
2007-06-24 15:10:50 · answer #8 · answered by TedEx 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Simple.
They've been poisoned by the old liberal media.
Many in the media seemed outraged when both Gore and Kerry lost. Being anti-Bush is so trendy now.
Kids being kids lack the experience to do much but parrot what they are told.
2007-06-24 15:21:25 · answer #9 · answered by GIVRO 3 · 2⤊ 5⤋
How is public opinion serving as a distraction? Is it consuming the president's time? No...He obviously pays no attention to it whatsoever.
The kids can't stop saying negative comments because he's just a terrible president.
2007-06-24 15:08:39 · answer #10 · answered by 1848 3 · 7⤊ 7⤋