Why does everyone hate George Bush Jr?

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sirdanrhodes said:
He holds a phone upside down to his head, do you Americans want someone this thick running your country? Do we Brits want this, Tony and George were best buddies, hopefully Brown and Obama (a guy can hope) make a better pair.
We Brits didn't even get to vote for Brown...I'd rather have Screaming Lord Sutch in charge.
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
sirdanrhodes said:
He holds a phone upside down to his head, do you Americans want someone this thick running your country? Do we Brits want this, Tony and George were best buddies, hopefully Brown and Obama (a guy can hope) make a better pair.
We Brits didn't even get to vote for Brown...I'd rather have Screaming Lord Sutch in charge.
You and me both. So far Brown's done nothing really worth noting in his stint as PM, except make an attempt to limit the damage done by the financial crisis and somehow become massively unpopular.
 

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chronobreak said:
This should be locked, the whole premise of the the original question is wrong. Not everybody hates the man. All reasons why people would hate him have been established. All that's going on are the same tired arguments from both sides that could easily be read in any op-ed page almost any day in America, on The Daily Show, or in books by O'Reilly or Amy Goodman. With any President, some agree and some disagree. I don't see what the gain of stirring obvious animosities up on a message board is, especially when it's for only the sake of doing just that.
Look at a post I did above. His approval rating is the lowest of any Pres since 1937. He is currently at 22% I believe. 22% is not just bad, it is epic bad. The people who approve are in the serious minority.

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Monkeyman8 said:
well seeing as he's run the country in to the ground and wastes billions of dollars a month ($11 billion to be precise) on a pointless war, yah he's done a horrible job. that and he lied about the middle east.
It`s not a pointless war. Oil is running low world wide, so he wants a military presence in the middle-east when wars start to explode there. Iraq is a fine place to start, because they had a dictator, but nobody in the white house ever believed that Iraq actually had bombs. It was a good excuse though.
Same for Afghanistan. Bin-Laden in not there. Oil pipelines are though. Those pipelines are of strategic interest for the US and understandably, something had to be invented to explain a military presence there.
So you're saying that America deliberately invaded those countries to 'stake claim' on their resources? Isn't that a little bit like aggravated burglary?
Yes it is. We invaded a sovereign nation, Iraq, with no provocation. But hey, who needs provocation with W in charge?
 

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Oliver Stone made a great quote today, "People have laughed at him, but the jokes on us"

Bush went to war with iraq and convinced loads of other countries to as well, what a waste of money. I don't care if Saddam was a dick because theres loads of dicks ruling african countries but they don't get declared war on because they don't have any oil.

He's clearly an idiot, people say that they can only blame the public, but you should blame the elitist twats which managed to put Bush in a position where he could of gotten anywhere further than street cleaner.
 

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Intellect won't be something Bush will be remembered for that's for sure.
 

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Delta4845 said:
CIA said:
Tenmar said:
Do not forget James Buchanan, I mean causing the civil war has got to be up there as worst president.


Alienation of american liberties, upsetting the balance of our republic by attaining more power over any other president in the executive branch in history.
I left out the stuff I agree with, sorry.

Anyways one could argue that Abraham Lincoln started the civil war by just being elected. He wasn't even on the ballot in most southern states. When the north elected him South Carolina said fuck that and left, and I'm sure you know the rest.

Also presidents almost always try to get more power. Andrew Jackson was the first president to actually use the veto power. Then every president after realized they could do it without being yelled at.

Anyway sorry again about chopping up your post.
Andrew Jackson however voted against the 14[sup]th[/sup] amendment, which (or at least attempts) due process for all american citizens
Tenmar said:
His entire presidency has accomplished....possible democracy for iraq. That is pretty much it

Edit: I could go on as well if you want. Oh actually one more thing. His entire administrative record as president is under tight security that no press or citizen can access. And has the lowest presidential rating(22%) since Nixon(?)
Despite I do rant how we neglect the destruction in Sudan (millions of Refugees) he did do some good in parts of West Africa, and the relief we sent to the refugees is on a positive note
& Remember everybody "The Power Is Yours!"
*Transforms into Captain Planet and flies away* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w1M4azgzKc]
Yeah he does good stuff in West Africa.

What does the fourteenth amendment have to do with anything?
 

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Monkeyman8 said:
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Ppl hate him cause his child-like gestures and lack of speaking skills make him look stupid (I doubt he's smart, but still). Also, no one like a war-time president unless the war is looked upon as a crusade of sorts.
you do know a crusade's a bad thing, right?
Yeah, but people tend to like crusades when they're the crusaders.
 
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kanada514 said:
The_root_of_all_evil said:
kanada514 said:
Monkeyman8 said:
well seeing as he's run the country in to the ground and wastes billions of dollars a month ($11 billion to be precise) on a pointless war, yah he's done a horrible job. that and he lied about the middle east.
It`s not a pointless war. Oil is running low wordlwide, so he wants a military presence in the middle-east when wars start to explode there. Iraq is a fine place to start, because they had a dictator, but nobody in the white house ever believed that Iraq actually had bombs. It was a good excuse though.
Same for afghanistan. Bin-Laden in not there. Oil pipelines are though. Those pipelines are of strategic interest for the US and understandably, something had to be invented to explain a militaru presence there.
So you're saying that America deliberately invaded those countries to 'stake claim' on their resources? Isn't that a little bit like aggravated burglary?
Did you honestly think the USA went to Irak in a big altruistic initiative to help the iraqis?
I don't think W has done an honest thing in his life.
And I remind you, it's not really stealing their ressources, more like securing them.
Actually I think you'll find it's still all the American companies that got all the jobs for re-building Kuwait/Iraq...

And that's why Bush is hated.
 

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I started despising Bush because he completely booted a golden opportunity to seize the moral high ground after the WTB bombings and create a truly international effort to seize the perpetrators with that stupid "lone cowboy" line he adopted.

The absolute loathing started in 2003, though, with his brilliant idea of starting a second land war in Asia while the first war (in Afghanistan, remember?) was still ongoing. Two-front wars in Asia don't work out too well, historically... and I especially do NOT like W's leaving Canadian troops swinging in the Afghan breeze so he could go gunnin' for the hombre who done tried to take down his Pa.

-- Steve
 

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At least H.W. Bush (daddy) was smart enough to realize that if he took Saddam out, Iraq would be a mess. That's why he left, unfortunately for us, his son is not as wise.
 

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Hypocritical statements (re: What he said about Russia invading Georgia, feel free to look it up)

Near destruction of all foreign relations (maybe not with the governments, but surely with the populations, might have to stick with the "Ich bin kanadisch" in January)

Rich get richer, poor get poorer policies.

The president should be, or at least come across as, smarter than me.

- I could list more, but I dont care enough.
 

Proto Cloud

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The only people that care for Bush at this point are hard-core evangelical conservatives. All they got is: "At least he loves the Lord!".
 

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Proto Cloud said:
The only people that care for Bush at this point are hard-core evangelical conservatives. All they got is: "At least he loves the Lord!".
Even then, if they have sense, they'd say, "But that isn't what determines whether a leader is good or not!"

......But you can imagine how many have sense.....
 

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I really am surprised that so many evangelicals go republican, when many of their views don't overlap with the bible.
 

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Jursa said:
Intellect won't be something Bush will be remembered for that's for sure.
sorry for the bump but...
Agreed... But that is like saying Whinstin Churchill won't be remembered for his racism. (HE IS A RACIST.) (George W Bush had an IQ of 130)
Now, I will quote him from APEC 2008 "The problem with the economy isn't the goverment doing too little, it is the goverment doing too much"
He couldn't of been anymore right (It's a shame that most people don't listen to him just because they think he is stupid, but you should always listen to someone even if he has an IQ of 15 because atleast you know he knows something)