Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only.

Postby Chris12 » Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:46 pm

''This is why he declared war on that country and sent many thousands of our soldiers, both young and old, there to depose the wicked dictator who ran this poor African country,''

Uh...it lies in the middle east :odd:

Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Chris12 » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:50 am

I do agree Bush was a bad president but thats more because he also dragged my country to the middle east.

Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Jason Toddman » Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:17 am

Bush was a bad president - period. :evil:
It isn't just YOUR opinion either, that's for sure!!!! :twisted:
In fact, I'd love to see him appear as the Guest of Honor in one of Chloroformmrplease's stories and get the works!!! :bondage1: :spank; :bondage:
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Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Jason Toddman » Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:55 am

After posting this article, don't you think it's a bit late to be shy? :twisted: :twisted:
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Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby dreadnaught3200 » Fri Jun 18, 2010 9:07 am

I'm kind of tempted to write: BUSH WAS THE GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER!!!! Just to see was the responses are. But no, I cannot in good conciense do that. I mean yeah he was dealt a pretty difficult deck to start with but... yeah, you get the pciture.
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Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Jason Toddman » Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:35 am

cricks5 wrote:
Jason Toddman wrote:After posting this article, don't you think it's a bit late to be shy? :twisted: :twisted:

Jason if I had been any more critical and if my research had turned up even more disturbing facts, do you think my professor would have allowed this essay to pass? He would have failed me and then informed Homeland Security too as a security measure. I know what I was doing when I chose to research this most controversial topic and I refuse to take back any part of it at all period.


Who the Heck ASKED you to take any of it back?! Not ME, that's for sure!!!
You couldn't say enough bad things about Bush, as far as I'm concerned! As long as you can back them up with real evidence anyway; I kind of draw the line at accusing him of instigating 911 as some folks (I'm not talking about you here) do though - mainly though because they havent' got a shred of evidence to back up their claims. Even I'd need to see some proof of an accusation THAT inflammatory!
As far as Homeland Security is concerned, you sound just a touch paranoid to me there. I think even they would hesitate to trasmple on free speech, dude. Especially when there are so many people saying far worse things about Bush than YOU did!!! And since he's not the President anymore I doubt they'd do anything to you now anyway unless you threatened his life or something.
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Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Kyle » Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:54 am

There isn't a single post on that thread where you mentioned Bush or a followup post. Where did you say anything about it?

I think you're extremely paranoid about Homeland Security if you think they'd come after you for something like this, particularly when all you talk about is how Bush increased our national deficit. Though if they did do something like that it would explain how they let somebody who was all over the terror watch lists basically walk right into this country and come about a few bomb-making lessons short of blowing up a van in the middle of Times Square. But seriously, this isn't quite the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.

That being said, I don't disagree with you about Bush being a bad president, and speaking of Homeland Security coming after you he wasn't a good president for civil rights/liberties at all (see Patriot Act).

Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Kyle » Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:34 am

It wasn't a big deal, but I just happened to go back looking at that thread earlier and it just kind of hit me that I didn't see anything said on there. I thought maybe I was going crazy.

Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Wedgieboy14 » Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:30 pm

Are you guys kidding Bush was a great president, I mean by him you can laugh about his own incompetence.

Also that's my bush was not possible without our george :big:

Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Chris12 » Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:24 pm

I liked that show!

Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Chase Ricks » Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:27 pm

Chase Ricks
English 090
September 13. 2004
Writing Assignment #1
The problems of having a corrupt ruler for a leader
When I was first given this topic for my first writing assignment in English 090, I had a few decisions to make concerning the subject and type of audience that this essay is best suited to interest. I had quite a few things I could have chosen to write about, but they seemed like mere trivialities when compared to the major issues in our world today. In addition, I have done a lot of reading on this subject too. Therefore, I just hope that I have done a good job on this. If I could ban anything in the world today, I would ban corrupt government rulers because of the problems they can cause. Judge me dear reader and see for yourself if I have succeeded or failed at this task.

Throughout the ages, seemingly minor decisions have sometimes led to major events. For example, King George the Third of England wrote in his journal that nothing of major importance happened on July 4, 1776. Nevertheless, we all know that date in history was indeed of major importance, because that was when the Declaration of Independence was created and the United States began its march into the history books of the countries of the world. Back then, there was no corruption in our first national government. There were just a whole lot of humble and upright people wanting to live a better life without having to be ruled by an autocratic ruler who lived across the ocean from them. Most of them were farmers and merchants. Only a few of them were even rich according to the standards of the world back then.
Now in the year 2004, all this has changed to a corrupt government. President George Bush has not done much to better our lives in his first term of running our dear country. Instead, he has increased our nation?s national deficit, courted many political lobbyists in Washington D.C., and gambled on the idea that Iraq had secretly built Weapons of Mass Destruction. This is why he declared war on that country and sent many thousands of our soldiers, both young and old, there to depose the wicked dictator who ran this poor Middle Eastern country, Saddam Hussein. However, so far our soldiers have not discovered any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Already hundreds of America?s beloved recruits in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the National Guard have either been killed or badly wounded in combat over there.

Why should we have to have a leader who gives our country a bad name in the global community? Now I am not saying that King George the Third of England from 1776 and President George Bush of the United States of America today are the best people to compare. The centuries between their rules over our lives have greatly changed the way governments treat those who live under them. However, a few ways have not changed at all. They both had advisors who gave them poor advice that led to trouble for us then and now. They both did what they thought was best for themselves instead of what was good for their subjects. Eventually this caused England to lose the thirteen colonies when we fought for our freedom.

Christmas in Congress / Special interests clean up in pending legislation
Here, in the words of one member of Congress, are a few of the benefactors of a tax cut bill now creeping through Congress: "cruise ship operators, foreign dog-race gamblers, NASCAR track owners, whaling tribes, bow and arrow makers, Chinese ceiling fan manufacturers, Oldsmobile dealers, and beer and liquor wholesalers. "Not to mention tobacco farmers and possibly the most needy, deprived and underprivileged of all American entrepreneurs, the millionaires who own professional sports franchises.

THE BUSH administration announced last week its revised figure for this year's budget deficit: $445 billion. This, or so the spin goes, is good news, because the original forecast was even higher -- $521 billion. However, outside budget experts had warned that the forecast was inflated, which tarnishes any celebration of the new number. Not that the administration was deterred. "This improved budget outlook is the direct result of the strong economic growth the president's tax relief has fueled," crowed Office of Management and Budget Director Joshua B. Bolten.

Mr. Bolten's argument makes little sense: Economic growth has been no faster than the administration anticipated when it predicted the higher deficit. In any event, $445 billion marks the highest deficit ever (though the administration seems to be setting the stage for a new round of better-than-expected numbers just before Election Day). Only in the administration's upside-down, economic world could a deficit $70 billion higher than last year's be hailed as progress.

Bad economic news presses from all sides. The recovery is faltering. The stock market is in a funk. Consumers are being squeezed between stagnant incomes, rising costs of buying credit, and maxed-out credit cards.

Deficits of all kinds are growing. The federal budget deficit is projected at $5 trillion (that is trillion, as in 5,000,000,000,000) over the next 10 years. The federal government's unfunded liabilities, mainly for retirement and healthcare, are $72 trillion. This will show up later in budget deficits as the baby-boomer generation ages. The trade deficit - the difference between what the US exports and what it imports - was $46 billion in May, the latest month for which figures are available. That is a rate of $552 billion a year, the measure of the obligations to foreigners incurred by the US.

Doing something about the budget deficit and its cousin, the unfunded liabilities, is simply being put off in the hope that they will go away until somebody else is in charge. Deficit deception
PRESIDENT BUSH is using White House budget projections to disguise the reality of dismal fiscal news. This year's deficit will be the largest ever, and his tax cuts are responsible for much of the red ink.

In releasing the figures last week, the Office of Management and Budget said the $445 billion deficit expected for this year is $100 billion less than the projection in February. Nevertheless, many budget watchers at the time said the figure was too high. Even at $445 billion, the figure is $70 billion worse than last year's and represents 3.8 percent of the economy, a huge amount during a time of expansion.

Today, the Office of Management and Budget released new projections stating that the budget deficit will grow to $445 billion in fiscal year 2004. This is $70 billion larger than the 2003 deficit, which stood at $375 billion. Despite the recovery, the deficit has continued to rise significantly.
The $445 billion projected deficit also is more than $700 billion worse than what the Administration projected for fiscal year 2004 in its first budget, submitted in February 2001. At that time, the Administration forecast a $262 billion surplus for 2004.In the face of this dramatic fiscal deterioration, the Administration is now attempting to downplay the deficits and is citing the new figures as evidence it is making progress on the fiscal front. In spinning the new deficit numbers, the Administration and others have made several dubious claims.

In closing, I just hope that the citizens of the United States of America never have to fight like that again in order to have a democratic government to watch over us. It is never a good thing to have a corrupt leader in power.

They can do many other things besides the main problems I have described here. Take this time to think of what our president has done to our country so far instead of for it. Then think about what he can do for America and the millions of people who call it home. Finally decide for yourself if this is the type of leader we want to have running our country for the next four years. This is why I would ban bad politics if I could prohibit anything in the world today.
From whence I came and whence I went heaven said I was too evil and sent me to hell. Demons and devils succeeded in breaking my soul.

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Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Chris12 » Thu Sep 30, 2010 6:42 am

Wait why does it appear like this is my topic? :? :shock:

Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Jason Toddman » Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:17 am

Chris12 wrote:Wait why does it appear like this is my topic? :? :shock:

When Cricks got banned before, the 'credit' for authorship went to whoever posted first afterward; it's a glitch in the way things are set up. In this case it was you. Other times it was someone else. I got a few of his posts this wasy myself (like our LDS debate, which looks like I'm rantin g to myself now). Just check other topics he started and you'll see. There may even be other ones that you 'inherited' this way. :lol: I;m surprised you haven't noticed this happened with his posts before, since there were so many of them.
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Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Chase Ricks » Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:58 am

This means that the only forums of mine deleted where the ones I never had any replies to before being banned.
From whence I came and whence I went heaven said I was too evil and sent me to hell. Demons and devils succeeded in breaking my soul.

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Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Jason Toddman » Thu Sep 30, 2010 11:11 am

Shane Bikman wrote:This means that the only forums of mine deleted where the ones I never had any replies to before being banned.


Yep; and now in all those forums (plus all the others you were active in) all those people (me and Chris especially) look like we're talking (and arguing) to ourselves a lot.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
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Re: Why Bush was a bad president in my personal opinion only

Postby Chase Ricks » Thu Sep 30, 2010 11:57 am

Jason Toddman wrote:
Shane Bikman wrote:This means that the only forums of mine deleted where the ones I never had any replies to before being banned.


Yep; and now in all those forums (plus all the others you were active in) all those people (me and Chris especially) look like we're talking (and arguing) to ourselves a lot.


You and him could always delete the forum posts you did so that it no longer looks like you both are talking by yourselves in said forums.
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