NationStates Jolt Archive

Curiousity compells me to ask this question, as there are few Bush supporters here.
Anyway, I dislike him mainly because his economic policies forced an eventual eviction of my family; myself, my three siblings and my parents all had to live with my Aunt Linda in her tiny home in Lakewood for a year; I was stuck in the laundry room with my little brother; it was our bedroom for that entire year.

I don't hate him, per se, but his economic policies are really screwey - all he seems to do is spend, spend, spend (I thought the ideal Republican spends *less*)

because he stole me lucky charms

I dislike him because he completely destabilized the middle east.. (well in the process of it) I dislike him because he's a war monger who dodged the draft himself by joining the Guard, but now has no problem sending other people's kids off to die for an unjust and in my opinion illegal war.. oh the list goes on and on..

I don't trust his entire family! Always doing dodgy deals.

Now people have seen me come to Bush's defense on these forums, but the truth is I don't really like him. I just disliked him less than I disliked Kerry.

So, what I don't like about Bush.
-Christian Evangelicalism annoys the hell out of me.
-He has been in no way a fiscal conservative.
-The manner in which the war in Iraq was prosecuted bothers me.

Now people have seen me come to Bush's defense on these forums, but the truth is I don't really like him. I just disliked him less than I disliked Kerry.

So, what I don't like about Bush.
-Christian Evangelicalism annoys the hell out of me.
-He has been in no way a fiscal conservative.
-The manner in which the war in Iraq was prosecuted bothers me.
-I also don't like his repeatred God told me to attack this country thing. Now God told me he didn't tell Bush so I think Bush lied.

- Kerry is much more fiscial compared to Bush who wants to spend what we have and recieve less. Raising debt.
- Iraq war had no business to be taken place till after Afganistan was relatively safe. Then I would still have protested the idea but at least we'd be able to focus on it without more without stealing resources that could have been sent to Afgan.
- Kerry was in my opinion much better than Kerry in every detail.

Yeah, I too take a "rather Bush than Kerry" stance, but here are my qualms about GW.

The christian fundamentalism makes him biased.
His introduction of the patriot act and other "anti-terrorist" measures are bordering on unconstitutional I believe (although I'm no expert on the US constitution)
His rampant spending has been socialist in magnitude. The gazillions on the war, for example. All his economic meddling has been rather un-republican as well, and the dealings with his oil-business buddies have been very dubious.

- Kerry was in my opinion much better than Kerry in every detail.
You'll have to explain that one...

Kerry was in my opinion much better than Kerry in every detail.

Hehe. Oops.

How anyone could see Bush being better than Kerry is beyond me; most of Kerry's so called faults were easy to explain, especially the "plan" comments. After all, his plans were laid out in this nice 218 page Acrobat Reader document available for download on his site. I used to dislike Kerry, but once I read that document, I thought he was perfect. I think it might still be available.

Because the people protesting Bush made me late.

How anyone could see Bush being better than Kerry is beyond me; most of Kerry's so called faults were easy to explain, especially the "plan" comments. After all, his plans were laid out in this nice 218 page Acrobat Reader document available for download on his site. I used to dislike Kerry, but once I read that document, I thought he was perfect. I think it might still be available.

I'm not saying Kerry is worse as an individual, I'm saying socialism is worse as an ideal. Kerry, as a democrat, leans towards such an ideal. Bush, (had he taken a traditionally republican stance) would be leaning closer to a philosophy which I support (libertarian capitalism).

OK, lemme inhale before I start listing these reasons:

--Lousy economic policy; cut-and-spend just doesn't work. At least tax-and-spend liberals know where the money's coming from.
--The gay marriage amendment. In fact, all his catering to the Jerry Falwells of the world.
--Invading Iraq. OK, getting Saddam out is a fundamentally good idea, but don't screw it up like this.
--John Ashcroft. I loathe John Ashcroft. I shudder to think what he would do with real executive power, but then I remember that he just left as Attorney General and couldn't even win a Senate race against a dead guy.
--I am hardly convinced he really won in 2000. Even if he did, he lost the popular vote, won Florida by the skin of his teeth, and won the Electoral College by the skin of his teeth, yet by the way he governed you would think he got a higher margin than Reagan in 1984.
--He couldn't seem to come up with a single mistake he made in his first term. Even if he doesn't think his policy decisions were mistakes, certainly failing to chew that pretzel all the way was a mistake.
--He tries to be funny and fails miserably. John Kerry was funnier than he was, and John Kerry had the personality of a wooden broom.
--He's buddies with Enron and Hallinburton, seems to hate overtime pay, and turns his nose up at workers who lose their jobs due to outsourcing. Will he create jobs here? Hell forking no. He says outsourcing is a good thing, and leaves those tax breaks for moving jobs out of the country in place. I know they don't affect much, but they sure are a slap in the face to the rest of us.

I will probably come up with more reason if given time.

He's a liar, thief, warmonger, coward, and I would be happy to see him and all his cronies testifying in front of the Hague for their crimes against humanity.

He's a liar, thief, warmonger, coward, and I would be happy to see him and all his cronies testifying in front of the Hague for their crimes against humanity.

Amen to that!

His economic, foreign and particularly social policy (which is beginning to spread)

I'm not saying Kerry is worse as an individual, I'm saying socialism is worse as an ideal. Kerry, as a democrat, leans towards such an ideal. Bush, (had he taken a traditionally republican stance) would be leaning closer to a philosophy which I support (libertarian capitalism).
Ah, OK, that I understand; in this case, it's a matter of political ideals. I've always advocated a combination of capitalism and socialism, so I thought Kerry's ideals were best suited.

Bush Is not a real republican, thats why I dont like him. I cant wait for MR DEAN though. Finally someone with republican economic values who isnt going to push his christian bullshit on the rest of us...

- He cuts taxes and increases spending.
- The proposed gay marriage ban amendment would be a horrible misuse of the U.S. Constitution.
- The war in Iraq would have been better handled in its initial stages by John Kerrry.

That said, I think we're marginally better off with Bush as president right now. We need continuity if we're going to get out of Iraq as quickly as possible, and the Democrats' election loss is forcing them to realize that they need to make some major changes.

1 His tax cuts combined with high spending have created huge deficits
2 He took us to war in Iraq for no good reason
3 He pushed through his "faith based initiatives" to use government funding to spread religion
4 He doesn't seem very bright to me
5 He has made the USA a pariah among many civilized nations

*bumps thread*

I simply hate him because my opinion of the way a country should be ran differs from his. I'm not getting into all that hoopla.

He (and Blair) made us go to war in serch of mythalogical wepons of mass destruction that no-one's found yet. And it's obvious that he wanted oil. :rolleyes:

I think I dislike his inability to relate to people the most. You always know when he's not being sincere, because that's when he makes his verbal gaffes. He doesn't actually feel a great deal of sympathy, because he is seemingly incapable of understanding the situation. He makes me much more sad than angry.

I don't hate GWB as an individual although I wouldn't invite him to dinner. But I do think he represents a move in this country towards a religious right, theocratic government.
His father, in an interview with the American Atheist in Chicago while running for president stated, ""No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God." So, as an atheist this of course makes me very wary. I believe, from reading and listening to republican conservative pundits, that this is one of the true agendas of the republican neocon movement. It's just after GHWB made that slip-up they're too smart to just come out and say it.