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Is Bush The Most Disliked President In History?; Trick or tricky question
Topic Started: Aug 26 2004, 06:52 AM (680 Views)
olstuf
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This is not a Bush bash. However with this country divided about 50/50 on Bush and because of his alienation of many of our allies with this war, I would guess most of those people dislike him in a much greater percentage. Certainly the Islamic nations are a bit ticked off at him. Because of the increased population of the world and those people being more aware of world events, it would appear more people do dislike him than any of our previous presidents. Now at one time, there were a lot of people that didn't like Truman in this country but the rest of the world thought he was pretty good. Nixon was disliked in this country and several others but China liked him because he opened up our country to them somewhat. Ain't no way to disprove or prove this idea but I think he is the most disliked president ever to serve this country if you consider the world. Time will tell I suppose. :D
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Jim Miller
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I would vote for clinton but you said disliked not disrespected. Oh hell, I'll vote for clinton anyway. :angry:
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Gershon Ben Daniel
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Thank you for asking about President Bush! I voted for him in the last election. I am voting AGAINST him, in this November's election. Here is why:

1. He has little historical perspective, as shown by his willingness to trade our hard won Consitutional protections in order to find terrorists.

2. He fights a military war, against guerilla fighters. In all of history, has anybody ever won a guerilla war with the military?

3. His leadership in this Globalization thing is terrible! I have never heard him even one time, explain how Globalization will be good for the workers of America. All he seems to see in his perspective, is corporate Globalization. Where do the people of America fit in to this new world? The unemployment line?

4. Bush's immigration policy is incomprehensible to me. He seems to welcome illegals from Mexico, in their own language no less! I do not get it?
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brewster
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I think from a worldwide perspective Bush is easily the most disliked President. Somebody mentioned the Islamic nations, but they just dislike America in general. I think he is flat out hated in most European nations, a statement that as far as I know cannot be said about ANY other President. I think that Bush is actually viewed in his most positive light in Canada, where he's merely disliked.

Most of the world was bemused by Clinton, neutral overall.

The world was amused by Carter.

Nixon was actually rather liked, at least until he was stupid enough not to burn the Watergate tapes, and even then most of the world thought it a Tempest in a Teapot.
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He certainly is the best known president ever! Even in remote places people can tell you the name of the present US-president.
And yes, since he decided to invade Iraq he`s highly disliked.


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Undoubtedly, YES! The days of "Cowboy up" leadership must end.

Brute force and military superiority are no longer an effective way to protect our country from those that would do us harm. We now live in a world where 19 men can kill 3000. And 150.000 can't catch one. It will take outside the box reasoning and logic to bring peace to all that want and deserve it. When Americans are willing to put aside the never ending war that they are waging against themselves within their political parties and come together to face the real problems this country face we will have made the first step. The man, or woman that can do that will be the greatest President this country has ever seen.
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Daniel: Well said
Who said: "The direct use of massive force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." ??
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pentax
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This article, though a bit dated now, explains it as well as I have seen, from a Canadian point of view:

Hope you lose, eh?

This icon probably sums up the feelings of most up here: :unsure:
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olstuf
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Jim Miller, remember I said in the world. Clinton was liked by most of our allies and by even a pretty fair amount of Americans. Disgusted, sad, dissappointed maybe, but disliked, I don't think so. Besides there are more people now.
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Jim Miller
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Sorry Olstuf. My mistake.
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ImaHeadaU
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I believe that President George W. Bush is quite popular with the Al Qaeda leadership. He might even be their poster boy due to his influence in generating such a huge swell of support by the many volunteering to join their ranks.
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Hmmmm.

First, how do you measure this emotional thing, dislike?

Second, is dislike good or bad?

In many ways it was national dislike of one president that has led to global dislike of another.

But the world does not dislike the US because of any one man but policies over decades.
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Aug 26 2004, 09:17 AM
Daniel: Well said
Who said: "The direct use of massive force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." ??
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But the world does not dislike the US because of any one man but policies over decades.


We've had a lot of short-sighted, self serving policies over the years and almost all of them have come back to haunt us.
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kajtek1
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Reading Polish, Russian and some German mass media, doesn't like, like it is dislike of the Bush.
The recent articles about 36 millions of Americans living in poverty (1.3 mil raise in last year) suggest, that he is an idiot.
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