people hate Bush, no one even gives him a chance Options

[jo3]

Sometimes a political figure becomes so hated that he can't do anything right in the eyes of his enemies. President Bush has achieved this rare and exalted status. His critics are so blinded by animus that the internal consistency of their attacks on him no longer matters. For them, Bush is the double-bind president.

If he stumbles over his words, he is an embarrassing idiot. If he manages to cut taxes or wage a war against Saddam Hussein with bipartisan support, he is a manipulative genius.

If he hasn't been able to capture Osama bin Laden, he is endangering U.S. security. If he catches bin Laden, it is only a ploy to influence the elections.

If he ignores U.N. resolutions, he is a dangerous unilateralist. If he takes U.N. resolutions on Iraq seriously, he is a dangerous unilateralist. If he doesn't get France to agree to his Iraq policy, he is ignoring important international actors. If he supports multiparty talks on North Korea, he is not doing enough to ignore important international actors.

If he bombed Iraq, he should have bombed Saudi Arabia instead, and if he had bombed Saudi Arabia, he should have bombed Iran, and if he had bombed all three, he shouldn't have bombed anyone at all. If he imposes a U.S. occupation on Iraq, he is fomenting Iraqi resistance by making the United States seem an imperial power. If he ends the U.S. occupation, he is cutting and running.

If he warns of a terror attack, he is playing alarmist politics. If he doesn't warn of a terror attack, he is dangerously asleep at the switch. If he says we're safer, he's lying, and if he doesn't say we're safer, he's implicitly admitting that he has failed in his core duty as commander in chief.

If he adopts a doctrine of preemption, he is unacceptably remaking American national-security policy. If the United States suffers a terror attack on his watch, he should have preempted it. If he signs a far-reaching antiterror law, he is abridging civil liberties. If the United States suffers another terror attack on his watch, he should have had a more vigorous anti-terror law.

[black_cloud10]

What are you talking about? We've given Bush a chance over the last three years ... he's had absolute power enjoyed by no other President since possibly FDR ... He has done a few good things, but in general, I believe he has no respect for American ideals and the Constitution at all.

go comrade red!! for once ur comment made sense to me ^_^

Bush's approval rating throughout the his entire term has been 50/50. a lot of people are probably more patriotic now then ever because of him, and thats all good. personally i'm against him. the anti-gay marriage stuff bothers me a lot.

i'm not really upset about the war on iraq, but the reasons behind it is what upsets me. we were told they had WMD. last i checked we hadn't found any. i'm also missing the 9/11-Iraq connection. not to sound like one of Michael Moore's drones, i think the gov't took advantage of the high emotions over 9/11 and used that to manipulate people in support of the war. any president that supports that, or sits idle while it happens is no good to me. if someone from the white house had got on CNN and said "saddam's a complete and total @sshole and we're gonna go bomb the eff outta his country" i wouldn't have minded the war at all.

so president bush doesn't have my support.

PS: i have no problem admitting the bush administration is the first political thing i've followed on a national basis. before that my concerns were focused on my mayor and the school-super. considering i was just in elementary school i think that's not half. but i will tell you i probably know next to nothing about politics and the stress of the job. what i do know is that emotions are high, people are being affected, and people are dying.


EDIT Just an afterthought - ok these are your views. What are you going to do with them? Besides bash people online who don't agree with you.