Did Bush do anything right?

[Alphavillain]

I suppose he tied his shoelaces in the mornings. But then again, I have my doubts about that.

 

[SeleneRose]

If the voting machines were rigged why did Obama win?
YOUR ARGUMENTS
HOLES
THEY HAVE LARGE ONES
Also, you assume all highly paid investors are evil capitalists who hate poor people
ignore the traceable trail to barney frank's forcing the banks to give out crappy loansH
He wasn't implying bush had magic powers, he was making fun of your massaih worship
You grossly misrepresent arabs as suicide bombers and killers
You can't deny that getting rid of saddam was a good thing
President has the power to veto bills, its one of the things that gives the office power

Anyhow, you seem to be stuck in a self destructive spiral where you have actually become -obsessed- with bashing bush, you sir, are one day going to find yourself with no one to blame
and guess what?
Shit will still go wrong, it always does, and it always will

 

[Wingmna]

Nice of Bush... Other than driving us into a 7 year war we dont even belong in, running our country into the largest national debt in the history of the planet, and then leaving it all for someone else to clean up? Nope, cant really think of anything.


AND he went into Iraq WITHOUT the UN's consent, did not find WMDs, and then LIED about there being WMDs to make it sound like we had a reason to be there.

Theres my rant. Felt i had to het that off my chest.

Nice of Bush... Other than driving us into a 7 year war we dont even belong in, running our country into the largest national debt in the history of the planet, and then leaving it all for someone else to clean up? Nope, cant really think of anything.


AND he went into Iraq WITHOUT the UN's consent, did not find WMDs, and then LIED about there being WMDs to make it sound like we had a reason to be there.

Theres my rant. Felt i had to het that off my chest.

Nice of Bush... Other than driving us into a 7 year war we dont even belong in, running our country into the largest national debt in the history of the planet, and then leaving it all for someone else to clean up? Nope, cant really think of anything.


AND he went into Iraq WITHOUT the UN's consent, did not find WMDs, and then LIED about there being WMDs to make it sound like we had a reason to be there.

Theres my rant. Felt i had to het that off my chest.

It is cute that you blame Bush for the economy. For the most part he was trying to fix a lot of the things the earlier Clinton government did like loan out massive amounts of money to make those companies go down in the first place. Was Bush perfect? Of course not, we don't know whether he could have prevented it or not... And Obama doing the same thing (push huge amounts of money back into the economy) just proves that lefties shouldn't disagree with the way Bush handled it. It is almost like blaming protestants for the Crusades (and if you don't understand that example then you shouldn't be here anyway).

@ New Orleans
It was the BLACK mayor and the state government that were the ones that didn't enforce the water dykes. Am I being raciest? No, I am stating "BLACK" because many morons accessed Bush of being racist, it is pure irony that rappers were trying to pin Bush as a racist when it was a Black people who made the major mistake that lead to such a pain. Was Bush a bit slow on the uptake? Of course, no one is denying that that was a mistake... But of course idiots are still going to blame him even though it was purely BAD P.R. that was the issue there.


And the American election? The most racist election in years. Sorry, but I'd rather have an experienced black man as the first black President. It's sicken hearing people like Oprah voting for Obama solely because he was the same colour, and voting for him for the experience of seeing a black man in charge rather then because he was a good leader.

 

[Pseudonym2]

Did bush really do anything wrong?

Sure, plenty of people are against him on policy, but I can't think of that many things he objectivly did wrong.

And it isn't like this is a monarchy, the president has way less power than people tend to think.

There was a topic back in December called Why does everyone hate George Bush Jr? This was my response. It's a long list.

Spoiler

hese are the first things off the top of my head. Sorry I don't have enough time to go look up all the sources. Sorry for any typos. Yes, I hated him when he was still governor. Note these are not exclusive to Bush or even Republicans alone. Also this ignores deeper problems of hegemony but that would take entire books to explain.

9-11 (whether he caused it or just screwed up is irrelevant)

Illegal and immoral war in which thousands of civilians were killed.

Downing street memo
The funds from those wars weren't spent on education or infrastructure, like say, levees.

Abysmal "with us or against us" policies that pissed of the rest of world.

The only world leader in all of recorded history to raise taxes and go to war at the same time.

This lead to record debt. I lost count once we reached a few trillion.

Fired scientists when they came up with results that would be politically bad for him

Advocated torturing innocent people

Blackwater

John Poindexter

Karl Rove

Best friends with Ken "Kenny boy" Lay

Spying and other civil rights abuses including spending $600-million dollars spying of Quakers. Infiltrating peaceful anti-war groups but ignoring KKK and actual domestic terrorists.

A new level double speak and Machiavellian phrasing (clean air act, healthy forest initiative)

A new level of secrecy.

Classified millions of unclassified documents

Color coded systems that tell terrorists when we are most prepared.

Push polling

Homophobia

K-street

Tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest fraction of a percent

Environmental deregulation

Supporting dictators

Poor treatment of troops and veterans.

Pandering to the religious right (he announced his run for president at Bob Jones university)

Favored candidates for office based of loyalty. (Heck of a job Micheal Brown!)

Played guitar while people drowned.

Leaking CIA agents WHILE they were on duty.

Stopping innocent people from voting/having their votes counted.

Deregulation, which lead to abusing workers, environment, ect.

Favored gas industry.

Lost 363 tons of money in Iraq.

When he was governor of Texas executed record number of people and did infamous mocking of the people he executed.

Racist anti-drug laws.

He stopped crazy people from getting medicine and when they were arrested he claimed he was saving money and being "tough on crime". (That happened to my uncle)

Drunk driving (4 times for Cheyney)

Got out of having to go to Vietnam yet is still a hawk.

Took a record number of days off.

Lied to SEC

Tricked Texas into paying for his new baseball stadium.

Bankrupted everything he's ever run.

Could not find oil in Texas

Could not have been as "successful" if it were not for his parents.

As for things he did right, giving money to Africa is the only thing that comes to mind.

Half of the things you said were rumors spread by Bush-hate groups. The other half were mostly untrue....for christ's sake just because he was president whenever 9/11 happened did not make it his fault, and more or less the entire government approved the war...you guys really need to get your facts straight...

I avoided most of rumors such as cocaine use and only went for things from fairly reputable sources including some of the people directly affected. I did specify most of these were not entirely or even mostly his fault. I blame everyone involved in these things but he had the power to say no to most of these and he didn't. Whether he actively promoted torture or just allowed it is irrelevant. He surrounded himself with crooked allies and did nothing when they started screwing the world over.

 

[Sporadic]

LMAO, Classic.

 

[SeleneRose]

Saddam kept his citizenry from slaughting eachother, ignore the genocidal stuff he did
IT WAS ALL PROPOGANDA

 

[SeleneRose]

So, comments from even people in the Obama administration that have admitted that we have dettered terrorist attacks with information gained via torture is all completely moot, isn't it

 

[Orenthi]

Spending more money on Star Wars junk while sending soldiers into battle in unarmored vehicles

we aussies offered you guys our bushmasters. it seems you lot refuse to buy good things unless its usa owned and made in USA. GG (look up bushmaster if you must, they have very good record for going over landmine and the people inside not dying, unlike HMMWV)

oh and even coming from a conservative background: public health system = win. ours is failing, but when we look over the pacific, we quickly realise our failing system could be worse. it could be YOUR health care system. no thanks.
oh and guys. pharmaceutical benefits scheme. invest in one.

methinks bush had his good moments and bad moments in equal measure. Obama himself at the end of his term will be the same, some moments of failure so epic people will be wishing for the bad old days of bush, followed by moments of brilliance. both in equal measure.

yay for aussie 2 cents...wait thats 5 cents, our 2 cent coin is no longer legal tender

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Did bush really do anything wrong?

Sure, plenty of people are against him on policy, but I can't think of that many things he objectivly did wrong.

And it isn't like this is a monarchy, the president has way less power than people tend to think.

Wars, terrorism, hurricane Katrina response, driven the world economy ino the worst state in history, Guantanamo bay, Enron scandal, etc.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Sigh just when I was forgetting about that big eared hillbilly. Seriously the man could not even get hit by shoes properly!

Let's see...

We lost two skyscrapers and a major city on his watch. Something that nobody saw coming, unless the Dems have gotten omniscient again...
The economy nearly collapsed due to unregulated financial shenanigans. Due mainly to the stupidity of your average, greedy investor
A significant portion of the country was acting like they thought DISAGREEING with The President was _treason_. This is his fault? Seems more like our oversight...
Same portion acts like they think the other major political sect HATE this country, not just disagrees about how it should be run.
Creationism made a comeback. PFFFFFT. Don't make me laugh, they just got more vocal. They're on the way out.
The national debt nearly doubled on his watch. Might have to do with the WAR going on
The US Army decided the SS and the KGB had the right idea after all, and started cribbing their "interrogation" techniques.
And then quislings came out of the woodwork to explain why using the Spanish Inquisition's info-gathering methods was a triumph for FREEDOM(tm). Source things that are controversial. Otherwise, I will disregard them
We invaded two countries, and left them in ruins, leaving us with the choice of staying there forever or watching as they get taken over by hostile theocracies. And yet they seemed to like it, and thanked us for getting rid of their dictator
Our air and water got more polluted. I don't see Obama zapping it clean with rainbow beams...
Bush decided that any treaty or law he didn't approve personally "didn't count". Sources, yet again...
Corruption became so obvious that it stopped being news. Monica Lewinski. Heard of her?
Nobody trusts voting machines. But nobody cares enough to get rid of them. CONSPIRACIES! Always a valid argument!
Are educational system is worse off then it was--and that's SAYING something. It's been getting worse since the 70's, your point?
And on,
and on,
and on.

I would just like to say to you LOL. LOL at you're ignorance!

You think nobody saw 9/11 coming? you're an idiot because there are whole fucking documentaries about how the CIA thought there was a threat and nobody fucking did anything!

Yes the ignorance of Americans IS HIS fault. Retards rub off.

Well if he didn't go into so many wars you wouldn't have such a large debt! (btw your defense for that is retarded because the people who agree with the war, we should go to war with them)

And on the Creationists. DUDE there is a WHOLE FUCKING ORGANIZATION in the white house while he was there, dedicated to doing the work of jesus! (sounds like a good thing? it's really not. I'm not going into it here, just research "The Family")

Bush fucked up. But get over it. Anyone who denies it is retarded, but those who keep going on about it are annoying. Just let it go and thank fuck you have a president who knows what G20 is.