George W. Bush

[hwsteele]

I have a couple of questions...
I know what people think around where I live in the USA but what do people think in other parts of the world?(Or for that matter other parts of the USA other than where I am).

George W. Bush is thought of as not only, not a good president, but a bad one by about two out of every three people is what the media is saying. My question is this:

Why is that?

When I ask that question to people I know most of them give the basic answers.
(I will not give examples here as not to influence any answers that my show up in any way.)
When I ask them for proof of what they believe less than a hand full(5) could really give any real examples WITH explanations. Most just repeated what they heard from someone else, and/or the news.

I then started to realise that most of what people think about Gorge W. Bush is not their own thoughts from researching anything of value, but ideas given to them by others. You know what I mean? The herding mentality?

So I have been trying to figure out what people think of GWB and why. The funny thing is, people who can't give any real examples, most of them will not admit that they have no grounds for what they may think of him when it is obviously true.(other than what other people say, but they them selves never do anything to find out about) They just want someone to blame for problems, or they won't admit to some of his mistakes if they are for him.


Any way just curious:?:

 

[dcraig1]

War monger. Egged on by the disgusting crew of neocons.

Is that basic enough ? How much blood do you need ?

 

[FXSCALPER2]

Of course he was a terrible president. He is stupid, can't string a sentence, is uninformed about the world, has a level of arrogance unjustified by anything he was able to do and tells the world to 'bring it on' as if he is on some football field. He actually believed he could go to Iraq, bomb them to the middle ages and decalre 'mission accomplished' and democracy would follow. He flies overhead in Airforce One while a city drowns. He brought America down to such a level that torture was allowed to take place under his watch. He put in Guantanamo innocent people he described 'bad' for years without bringing them to court. Some of these detainees are now released and have as much to do with 9/11 as my two-month old baby. He squandered all the good will towards the US by being amusingly reliant on American power to bomb Arabs back to civilisation.

He is not only a terrible president but a complete and utter embarassement to the US. How the hell does someone like that end up being president?

 

[trendie]

the option "bad" just doesnt fully encapsulate the full horror, utter incompetence, and stupidity this man has inflicted upon the world.

 

[yacarob1]

http://www.trade2win.com/boards/jokes-humour/46096-george-w-bush-once-drunk-always-drunk.html

I think the above thread sums up adeqiately what I feel about Bush.

The stupid, moronic ape should be consigned to the ars*ehole of history for ever.

Bad bad news !!!!

 

[chilltrader]

He's a stupid prick.

 

[Hoggums]

Just think back at how different the world is now compared to pre-Bush era.

I can't think of anything that is better today than it was.

World economy is a mess. We live in fear of terrorist attacks and he has brought the US down to no.3 on the world power list behind Russia and China dragging western europe with it.

 

[yacarob1]

Just think back at how different the world is now compared to pre-Bush era.

I can't think of anything that is better today than it was.

World economy is a mess. We live in fear of terrorist attacks and he has brought the US down to no.3 on the world power list behind Russia and China dragging western europe with it.

Yes, I used to like America and enjoyed travelling there.

Now I despise America for what Bush has made it ................. a terrorist and murderous country no better than the countries that America itself regards as terrorist states.

 

[zambuck]

...At the height or Iraq war and on this very site there were many who said that he is going to 'sort out' the Iraqis he is going to nuke them.....Iraquis have nuclear weapons etc etc......etc etc.......That thread was closed by moderators as discusion got hot........but if you want to really see what people were saying, then perhaps that thread should be made available....Sometimes it is worthwhile to see what peoples perceptions were then and how it has changed now.....

 

[Mr. Charts]

A vastly over-rated president.

 

[N Rothschild]

regardless of wether he was at fault or not since he has been the president of the most powerfull and influential nation on earth, the world has gone 2 ****..so he must bare the blame

 

[yacarob1]

The election of George Bush as President on two separate occasions is a damning indictment of the American people.

I mean, how could so many millions of people be simultaneously so insanely and idiotically stupid, to elect a retarded piece of crap like Bush to the White House.

Not once mind you but f**king twice.

George Bush can take heart in the knowledge that his people are just as stupid as he is, if not more so.

 

[Splitlink]

The British have been guilty of that, time and time again. Spain has done it, this time, too. Everyone has their opinion but that so many are of the same opinion, and can be so wrong, is a condemnation of the intellect of the majority of us.

That, in a democracy, is very dangerous because it means that we get the governments that we deserve.

I don't think that those at the top are anything more than a reflection of the establishment that put them in. Obama has been put in by, it seems, the popular vote. Or was he? Time will tell.

To me, it is obvious that Blair and Brown have both been put in by very powerful forces in the UK. Now that those forces have caused the biggest financial collapse in history, Brown is left clutching at straws. He is the Turk's head that is on the block. As for Blair, he has been given a good job in the ME. Does anyone know what he is doing there, exactly, apart from getting well paid? It seems like a nice job, to me, and out of the limelight.

Politics is a dirty game . A villain or just plain stupid---the choice is ours to vote them in----or so we are told, but have you ever seen a poor one?

Split

 

[ceydababy]

The election of George Bush as President on two separate occasions is a damning indictment of the American people.

I mean, how could so many millions of people be simultaneously so insanely and idiotically stupid, to elect a retarded piece of crap like Bush to the White House.

Not once mind you but f**king twice.

George Bush can take heart in the knowledge that his people are just as stupid as he is, if not more so.

The usual emotional anti american nonsense

I sit here and question the stupidity of the British people too. We voted labour in THREE times and will probably vote that donut Gordon Brown in again.

Just waiting for the Europeans are so much more cultured argument now :whistling

 

[wasp]

Funny thing is... Grass is always greener... I have lived in 5 countries over the last 8 years and not once has any of my friends in those countries said, ''I love our government, they are the best out of all the choices and glad they were voted in''...

I'm not saying he was a good president but terrorism and the credit crunch weren't his fault and only the Iraq war has he to shoulder the full blame... but its not like he is the first US president to go to war where they weren't welcome...

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[Splitlink]

Funny thing is... Grass is always greener... I have lived in 5 countries over the last 8 years and not once has any of my friends in those countries said, ''I love our government, they are the best out of all the choices and glad they were voted in''...

I'm not saying he was a good president but terrorism and the credit crunch weren't his fault and only the Iraq war has he to shoulder the full blame... but its not like he is the first US president to go to war where they weren't welcome...

I'm glad you are not saying that he was a good president. A very political comment to make.

Both he and Blair are blaming their intelligence sources for the decisions that they made.

As far as Blair is concerned, Doctor Kelly was very clear that the Iraqis did not have the resources to hit us in 45 minutes. Kelly committed suicide. I doubt that he did it for fear of being wrong, but because he was leant upon for saying what he thought was right. The alarm bells should have gone off in Blair's head when that happened.

 

[wasp]

...but the US love a good war and even Brown got told to essentially f**k off by Mugabe (I think!) as end of the day, who are we to tell them how to run their countries when they can't run our own.

Power trips (here and there) thinking we know best for all the planet when both Bush and Blair/Brown should have been trying harder on home turf.

 

[Splitlink]

...but the US love a good war and even Brown got told to essentially f**k off by Mugabe (I think!) as end of the day, who are we to tell them how to run their countries when they can't run our own.

Power trips (here and there) thinking we know best for all the planet when both Bush and Blair/Brown should have been trying harder on home turf.

You've hit the nail on the head. If every politician tried harder to put his own house in order we may not be in the mess that we are in today

 

[yacarob1]

The usual emotional anti american nonsense

What on earth is wrong with being anti-American ? Those people are the biggest nob-heads in the world and are so far up themselves they haven't seen the light of the real world for years.

By the way I do not have any emotions about this or much else.

I do not care about all this nonsense enough to have any emotions about it.

sit here and question the stupidity of the British people too. We voted labour in THREE times and will probably vote that donut Gordon Brown in again.

Speak for yourself. I did not vote for these people as I was living and working overseas for around 27 years.

I would prefer to vote for my dog if she were allowed to stand for office. She is a much nicer bitch than all those bitches in government.

Just waiting for the Europeans are so much more cultured argument now

They are probably less naive and less crass than the Americans but the Europeans have their own faults. I am not a great lover of Britain and prefer to live outside the place. I spent around 27 years of my life living and working overseas and I know where the grass is greener.

And it does not necessarily involve democratically elected
governments - Western style.

 

[Mr. Charts]

At least Bush was elected (ok ok I know all about the hanging chads)
Unlike that other incompetent, Gordon Brown, who rules us without a democratic mandate.