Quote Originally Posted by Shinigami View Post
Alright, this is getting a tad out of hand with the "better than the last president" bull.

I doubt any of you even know the good things that George W. Bush did. Let me list a few off the top of my head.

While there was a war going on in Baghdad he was there, secretly, helping to serve the troops Thanksgiving day dinners.

When the massive tsunami hit Indonesia, Bush sent a Boeing Aircraft Carrier to them, want to know why this is significant? "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck.. We have eleven such ships"

Those are the two big ones off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more, that if you look for can find, but you know why it so damn hard to FIND these?

Its because of fools and idiots like you lot who said he only did wrong who only want to know the wrong he did without looking at the good things he did. People wonder why he's upset at this point in his life and why he has suicidal thoughts? I couldn't possibly begin to understand the amount of pain he is in after trying his ass off to fix what he could.

Could YOU even begin to imagine how hard those 8 years were for him? He had to deal with more crap in his 8 year terms than any other president has had to in the past 50 years. He had to deal with 2 hurricanes that caused massive damage, a war, suicide bombings, a terrorist attack on our twin towers. Our previous presidents NEVER had to deal with so many things, sure, they may have had to deal with one or two, but not all.

And lets not forget that he ALSO had to deal with the beginning of this economic crisis that we are still dealing with.

So please, take your heads out of your own ***es and look at what he did do, not what he didn't and not what he failed to do.

And let me add one more thing.

After the terrorist attack on 9/11, he risked his life going down to ground 0, where he KNEW there was a high chance of suicide bombers in the area that would gladly have blown him to pieces if they saw him. Luckily for everyone there, it didn't happen.
I have taken a neutral stance on all the things that Bush did. They ALL have good and bad. The problem with the good things you pointed out that Bush did is just expected of him. What leader of this country wouldn't provide aid to sufferers of a natural disaster like that, what leader wouldn't feed his troops chicken/turkey on Thanksgiving? Additionally, I guaruntee the president wouldn't visit ground zero if his agents didn't deem it "safe". Over-glorifying minute good deeds on his part doesn't make up for the fact that some of his moves were idiotic at best.

In leiu of what I have said, that doesn't necessarily make him an awful person, perhaps just a questionable leader. All the occurances that happened in the country like hurricanes and floods weren't his fault, but because he is president people blame him for it. That just comes with the territory.

AND, lastly, people deem him a bad president because he seldomly followed the "voice" of the nation; making policies, etc., that people didn't necessarily agree with. We elect our state officials to represent our needs and wishes, the same with the president. Lets just say a lot of people feel he didn't "deliver" as they say.

(Please watch your language as well.)

-C