Is Bush the most defended president in history?

Question

It's so strange! There has never been so many people defending a president before! I seem to remember most true red-blooded Americans being all for criticizing and making fun of the president. After all, he's PRESIDENT of the most powerful country in the world--he has all the power and protection and doesn't need any of us to defend him!

Duh, Clinton was certainly attacked, but I never once defended any of his alleged crimes because I believe many may very well be truth and I don't think ANY president should be above the law and scrutiny.

Answer 1

The President is always ripe for satire, when that satire does no real harm. We are in a war that began with an attack on our own soil killing nearly 3,000 people. People are scared they want to know that someone has the answers, even if those answers turn out to be wrong, they offer comfort and stability. When you mock and humiliate the man that they are counting on, you threaten to bring their world crashing down upon them again. For those who took comfort in Bush's strong leadership after 9/11, anyone trying to tear down Bush is trying to tear them down too. They lump you right in with the terrorists who caused the first injury because the emtional distress is so closely linked to that tragedy.

Answer 2

I believe upon actual research, you will find clinton to be the most defended, as he is actually the only president to have people volunteer to pay for his legal defense. I guess he is also the only president who needed a legal defense.

Gee, the more I think about it clinton really has set a lot of firsts for the Presidency. Doesn't he make you Marxists happy?

You know your user ID is kind of apropos, you say that all people defend bush and your argument about clinton is that you never defended clinton. really a silly arugment isn't it.

Why not say you are criticizing bush and cannot understand why people would defend him, and that you never defended clinton. Now that is a much more intelligently phrased question don't you think dumdum?

Answer 3

What are you having the difficulty with? Are you disenchanted that Chavez had the nerve to assert that approximately Bush mutually as being in the country, or are you disenchanted democrats would get up for Bush? If it incredibly is that those feedback have been made in the country, freedom of speech ensures that he be allowed to voice his opinion approximately your president. Frankly, Chavez has it suitable for my section, and everyone who stands up for bush is an fool. would not all human beings on your u . s . a . understand the conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan is predominantly Bush's fault?! particular, mutually as Bush is president, i'm afraid the completed international is residing in the Twilight Zone. did no longer I hear these days that Bush desires to make flag burning unlawful? If it is authentic, how can that be ? in basic terms an fool like Bush would desire to be at conflict attempting to convey democracy to the international and yet attempting to have anti-unfastened speech rules created at abode. playstation in basic terms had to characteristic after analyzing lots of the previous solutions. What the H**L are you human beings questioning?!! To blindly help a president in basic terms because of the fact he's the president isn't in basic terms stupid, yet very very risky. i will guess maximum Germans of the time supported Hitler because of the fact he replaced into their chief, yet in hindsight would any questioning guy or woman extremely help Hitler right this moment? You human beings incredibly need to apply your brains periodically, 'reason you're being blind patriotic sheep. Patriotism is nice yet no longer whilst the chief you're helping and protecting is a conflict-monger and a hater. the international would be a good purchase extra suitable off if Bush fell off the face of the earth so as that human beings would desire to vote in a real chief who isn't a international bully and a perpetuater of hate.

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Wartime makes a difference. Most patriotic Americans hesitate to attack the Commander-in-Chief while our troops are in harms way. If you look back at Kosovo and Somalia and other military acitons Clinton took, you will find most republicans not saying much until after the events were over. Then they went after Clinton.

Until now, it has always been this way. The democrats have destroyed another tradition by openly and personally attacking the Commander-in-Chief during war.

Never a good idea unless one wishes to encourage the enemy and undermine our military.

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Answer 5

Oh. he's made fun of. Same thing happened when his fellow Texan, Lyndon Baines Johnson became President. And the poking fun of President Bush is not quite as bad as the savage attacks on Abraham Lincoln during his time.
We have an unfortunate legacy in this nation, handed down by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There's a dedicated cadre of adults who think of the President as some sort of Federal Wizard King who is supposed to take care of them. FDR was a great President. But, the Great Depression ended when Imperial Japanese Navy Captain Fushida flew through Kolekole Pass on Oahu and sent the following voice message from his aircraft to the Japanese carrier Akagi: "Tora, Tora, Tora!".
I can see good reasons for President Bush having so many defenders, if for nothing else than to dampen down some of the more hysterial bleatings of his critics. They wring their hands over casualties in Iraq, while forgetting that over 9,500 service members died on active duty between 1980 and 1984 when no one was shooting at us.
Many of the members of Congress berate him for the operation against Iraq, while conveniently forgetting that many of them voted for the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 which contained many of the same reasons for the action as set forth in the subsequent resolution passed in 2002.
And they can get away with all of that because a lot of Americans are afflicted with short attention spans.

Answer 6

Truman, Grant, Polk, Andrew Jackson, and both Roosevelt's were heavily attacked in the media and defended by many. I don't know if any reserach has been done on this topic, but would be willing to guess that Bush is not the leader on being defended.

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In today's times, no. Clinton is the obvious whiner, I mean winner in your question. There appear to be a lot more Liberals who forgive him readily for his atrocious acts, in allowing all the terrorism against us during his administration, having done nothing to protect us. I am not even including his dishonorable acts in the Oval office with Monica.

Answer 8

You have a short memory. Whenever a President is attacked, others quickly come to his defense, especially when the attacks are unfair.

Answer 9

Who has a problem with some one and as a result gos
and attacks his neighbor? He needs defending.

Answer 10

The democrats have made it their mission to criticize Bush and his administration. Why should we let them get away with that? They need to tend to the business in the house and senate, and stop getting up every morning wondering what or who to subpoena today.