Answer for: What do you dislike most about President Bush?
#4 That people can't stop bashing him
Why don't we talk about some issues rather than villifying somethat is all to easy to poke fun at?
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I think that's what this poll is, Avatar... A place to talk about specific issues that are the core reasons behind our pure, unabated hatred for this man ;)
I think that it is fascinating that everyone is so critical of our President but they have very little to say about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the President of Iran who is beating the war drum or North Korea's President Kim Jong Il who is starving his people to put artillery pieces on the border. Despite what you may like to think President Bush did not unilaterally decide to go into Iraq. I would like to see a little credit given for success in Afghanistan and for the women who are getting a college education there or record voter turn out at their first national election. How about the way our country is pulling out of a recession or how more first time home buyers bought their first home than ever before. These things don't make up for and shouldn't cover up bad planning or poor decisions but honestly we don't know what hard times are. Stop complaining allready. This country just had its election and huge numbers didn't even bother to vote. Take your energies and apply them to something that may produce some positive results. I think that it is great that we can debate these things and speak our minds. God bless democracy and the freedom to think and speak. Stop the Bush bashing and write your congressman/woman, lobby for change, better yet make sure you vote in the next election.
"I think that it is fascinating that everyone is so critical of our President but they have very little to say about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (...) or North Korea's President Kim Jong Il"
That's an excellent point - I mean, as long as we can find something in this world that's WORSE than the presidency of GWB, then he must be alright... Right?
"Despite what you may like to think President Bush did not unilaterally decide to go into Iraq."
Do you have any supporting evidence of this?
"I would like to see a little credit given for success in Afghanistan..."
You mean credit for turning it into what has been called (even by the White House) a "narcotics" state?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7090585/
Or how about this: According to Professor Marc Herold's update of his groundbreaking study, "A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting," between 3,000 - 3,400 civilian deaths were caused by the U.S. air war upon Afghanistan from October 7, 2001 through March 2002. For more info on THAT study, see http://www.workingfo...?ItemID=12694
I could spend the next week pointing out your flaws in reasoning Re: Afghanistan, but I think Working For Change has it all summed up nicely: http://www.workingforchange.com/
"How about the way our country is pulling out of a recession or how more first time home buyers bought their first home than ever before."
How did we get in that recession again? Oh yeah, that's right, spending our budget surplus on an unnecessary war! And do you know why there are more first time home buyers than ever before? Because the federal reserve HAD to lower the interest rate before the economy did a tailspin out of control!
"Take your energies and apply them to something that may produce some positive results."
You mean like having intelligent discussions with people to (hopefully) learn a little something from each other, to become aware of perspectives you couldn't see before? If that's your definition of wasited energy, it's no wonder you defend these war-profiteering fucks who are making off like bandits fleecing the American people - That's you and me both, my friend.
"...write your congressman/woman..."
Because we all know THAT's real effective. Unless you've got corporate funding backing your ideas, they could give two shits less.
Our democracy is a joke, and I am absolutely ashamed to be an American under this administration.
Holo,
We actually got in the Recession in 2000 when the Feds raised interest rates to 6.5% and everyone freaked out and started selling.
Right now the Economy as a whole is doing very well.
If by "incredibly well" you mean going from a surplus as far as the eye could see, to adding $2.5 TRILLION to the national debt in five years, then sure - We're doing great.
And how exactly do all those fiscal conservatives out there justify supporting a president who is currently projecting a federal debt of $706 BILLION dollars for the 2007 fiscal year?
http://origin.www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/
The Economy is not defined by just a federal deficeit.
The Economy is doing very well. This is a fact.
Any Money being spent on our Military or Defense I have no problem with, even if it puts us in debt.. however...
As far as the other spending, this has me and many others pissed. The Repubs are doing a wonderful job alienating its base. Some Repubs are doing fine, but there are a great many who need to be unseated.
Well, by all meqans, please share the documentation and benchmarks you are using to determine the "fact" that the economy is in great shape with the rest of the class - For something that you have determined is such a forgone conclusion, I have yet to see anything substantiate it.
Links would be a nice touch here, as well...
Both Opinion, but the numbers are correct, and in one place.
http://desmoinesregi.../1035/OPINION
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=020906F
You can argue Social Politics, but that is irrelvant, the economy is doing good.
I'm sorry; I am not an American so I feel no warmth towards a man who has gone into countries and brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the name of 'peace'. Sure women have the right to go to college & people are voting, but gays and lesbians in the states can't have the right to marry?
Before you can go ANYWHERE and tell them what to do you need to focus on your own country. You guys live in a country that has one of the lowest education levels in all of the developed countries. You guys are considered a 3rd world country due to your own debt and yet youââ¬â¢re willing to expend so much money on a war that didnââ¬â¢t need to be carried on for so long? Seriously, use that thing between your ears given to you by god or whomever you believe in.
I will be the first to admit that not every country is perfect, nor is every person who runs it. However after saying this, when a country willingly votes in an ass they deserve everything the rest of humanity wants to throw at them.
After saying that, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a man I agree should not be in power however his people voted him in. Even though, much like the American election there is speculation on whether or not the voting was rigged.
In all honesty the UN should be a major governing body in the world, but people like Bush overstep their bounds and the rest of the world is on clean up.
That's exactly what I think. I agree 100%
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