Why do people think Bush is stupid?

Question

i'm in college and all I ever hear is bush is an idiot, bush is stupid, bush is dumber then a chimp.. then i ask them why is he stupid, and they can never give me a logical answer. They say oh he can't pronounce things right or hes a puppet. But they never back up their claims when I question them. Because the truth is bush is intelligent and quite capable. He may have made some mistakes but every president does. Yes I am defending bush. Any responses?

What facts do you have??? Thhe decisions he has mnade were not cut and dry my friend they were very complex. Say if china wanted him to give more t-shirt quotas. I mean the american textiel industry would definatley have problmes with that!!! Yet he has come to terms with both parties and made agreements that solve the pronlem. HOw does that no take intelligence????

oh warcriminal you know very well the decision was not so cut and dry. I could think of many good reasons we went into iraq. so oil would not directly finacne terrorism, to have a strong hold in the middle east, and to save international face. Come on now those are very viable reasons. Not to mention hussein was a mass muderer who needed to be stopped

Yes but have you read the book travels of a t-shirt kermit?? The american textile industry may represent a small dieing minority of us industry, but it is a powerful lobby group my friend. Very powerful and that is just and example.

Sorry about all the typos I have to be fast. I can't respond to all you post. But you all certainly have valid points. There is no real right or wrong, simply grey. But if you would still like to argue your points email me, and I will be glad to oblige you.

Answer 1

Bush is not unintelligent but he is stupid mainly because not only does he not use his intelligence he is proud of not using his intelligence. He tells stupid lies or at least believes stupid lies. The money from oil would never have gone to terrorism. Saddam was the creation of the USA and as such was a pariah to the fundamentalist and despised and hated by Osama ben Landen.Hell, who do you think owns the oil in Iraq? The Iraqi's? He is not capable. With the mightest military in the world, whose one carrier group should have been able to take out a third world military, he and his braintrust are still losing men and women in what is rapidly becoming the longest unwinnable war the US has ever carried out when the whole country but the oval office knows it is unwinnable.Actually to defend the shrub the only station who must watch is Fox and the only thing you must read is much the same as him... nothing.As for mistakes he will be up there with Reagan as worst president. He will be remembered as the man who led your democracy to the brink of ditatorship. It will be sad to see such a noble experiment as republican democracy fail. But given the Americans I have met most would appreciate the removal of the need to think.

Answer 2

The primary example would be his spending half a trillion so far to invade Iraq, on the grounds of those supposed WMDs, which it turned out didn't exist.

He's made excuses for this:

Oh it was never really about the WMDs after all And yet it was by far the greatest, if not the only, supporting argument his administration offered beforehand.

Oh the CIA misled him. But the CIA has been wrong before- wouldn't a competent president have had enough sense not to jump in to the tune of half a trillion dollars without checking up on their story even a little bit?

It's not like the CIAs reports were full of unalloyed affirmations of Bush's delusions, there were statements of equivocation made, there were dissenting opinions: Bush chose to ignore them.

Or did he lie to the American people? Some people claim he did. He either lied or did something monumentally stupid. I think it's more realistic to suppose he did something stupid, but perhaps you see this differently.

The administration claimed Iraq would cost sixty billion, "tops," and take six months at most to resolve. It has cost over half a trillion so far. It will likely cost well over a trillion before it's resolved, at best.

In terms of benefits for American security, what are they? Terrorists, the threat we are supposed to be so concerned about, do not need to travel through Iraq to get here. A huge fraction of our armed force is tied down in that country, which will be most inconvenient if some, less unequivocally threatening sort of development should happen to arise in the meantime.

The administration is finding it impossible to trust the local democratic process they have put so much stock in, unless they can keep a huge occupying force on hand, to make sure the elections go the right way, so to speak. And yet it is exactly this kind of military interference in the region that has produced opposition to America in the region for years, including terrorism and the 911 attacks themselves.

The entire undertaking is an expensive example of a self fulfilling prophecy: Bush's mideast policies are producing exactly the threat he claims to be so concerned about, and at enormous cost to the US taxpayer. The only part of it that made *any* sense was the initial invasion of Afghanistan. On the whole, in all seriousness, the US would be better off today, if Bush had done *nothing at all*.

It is a textbook example of presidential stupidity. Or was it all just clever lies? Go figure.

Answer 3

Not every one thinks he is stupid, some people think he is an evil mastermind. His problem is that the reasons he gives for his actions do not make sense, even taking account the double talk we are use to hearing from politicians. I still do not have a clue about why we invaded Iraq,. If was because we thought Saddam has poison gas (which was what the CIA had evidence for) it was stupid, because poison gas is easy to make and every county that wants it has it. If it was for some other reason he lied to us about what he was really doing. He say he want to make social security solvent, and then proposes a plan for major changes that does not accomplish his goal. Does he not understand the numbers, that is stupid, or does he have some other purpose for his plan. When asked if he had made any mistakes during the 2004 election , he said no, but if you can think of some, why can't he.

Answer 4

I agree with con-man. I don't like Bush but I wouldn't go as far as calling him stupid. I don't think this great country of ours would put an idiot in the White House. I don't approve of his ideas. Where does it say that The United States has to be the world police over every country??? We need to concentrate on our land and protecting it. I also agree that The United States is more than capable of sending an elite force to catch Osama Been Hiding. I just don't understand why we haven't. I SMELL SOMETHING FOUL.

Answer 5

Well just recently he tried to Veto a bill that would give the army the ability to build structures around our waterways... WHY?
Simply because a democrat introduced the bill...

He's a big baby who has no idea what he is supposed to do because he was raised to be a little prince and now he just learned his favorite word... Veto.

That is just one tiny little thing from Yesterday... he does this kind of crap ALL the time...

I don't think he should shoulder all the blame for everything - like some people do.
But he really is not a smart man or a nice one... he is a pretty bad president.

Answer 6

Bush is a very poor public speaker and not all people are used to a Texas accent (acquired after living in Texas for 25 years). People too often mistakedly associate intelligence with how well you speak.

For someone who has been elected governor of Texas twice and President of the United States of America twice, he can't be as stupid as his detractors would like him to be. If he were that dumb, he'd be a one-term governor and a one-term president.

Answer 7

The facts speak for themselves where Bush and intelligence are concerned. The two have rarely intersected and seem content to part company permanently.

Willful ignorance of the world does not a great president make.

Answer 8

Hussein was a mass murderer; and Bush isn't? Who made it America's job to stop every mass muderer in the world, you? God? Bill O Reilly? And if it IS our job, why aren't we in Darfur? Why didn't we capture Osama at Tora Bora (and don't give me that old line about how slippery he is. I don't believe for one second that our military is THAT incompetent; Only their commander in chief) What was that Jack Nicholson said in A Few Good Men? "You want the truth; YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!!

Answer 9

He's evil but he is not at all stupid. All the crap done in his time was all planned methodically. In politics nothing is ever an accident unless someone like Edward Snowden stands up and fight for what's right.

Answer 10

get your $$ back from whatever college you're attending. a college student not knowin the dif between "then" and "than"??? thats f'ed up!
no wonder you dont think bush is an idiot

now, to answer your Q. Why do people think Dumbya is stupid? It could be because he unintentionally makes up words. It could be because he cant pronounce some of the most basic words. It might also be because he always looks like a deer in headlights...