Why is George W. Bush the President?

[Philosoraptor]

I know it's a silly question, but really, why this man? Why now? Why him?

We know he wasn't elected but selected, but why oh why him?

[dysfunctional press]

1. because the people of this country allowed it to happen...

after all- it's not like we live in the ukraine, or something like that.

[benburch]

10. We still could reverse that decision...

...if we had any balls.

But I can't do it alone.

[robinlynne]

11. I'm here. and ready. you're not completely alone.

[dysfunctional press]

14. it's not gonna happen.

my wife and i drove to dc from chicago in january 2001 to protest at the coronation...i just assumed that MILLIONS of angry citizen-voters would do the same.

they didn't.

the people of this country obviously haven't suffered enough to REALLY want change.

they'd rather go shopping at walmart than try to right an injustice of incalculable scale...

ukraine- now THERE'S a country!

[pitohui]

53. the ukraine now there's a country?

what we should all leave our country and pimp out our daughters to strip clubs and move to new york or las vegas instead of fixing our problems at home?

sorry the ukraine is not what we want to be, they're us with less money and more oopsie

[dysfunctional press]

55. at least they didn't let their election get stolen.

everyone in this country who sat at home and watched have only themselves to blame for george bush being in the white house.

[Jed Dilligan]

57. Nice

Slam a whole ethnic group as pimps and then add the implication that all these damned foreigners ought to stay at home.

I love to mix nativism with my racism.

[diamondsndust]

21. I'm right there with you man...

I've been saying for the last couple weeks that the only thing that is going to save our Country is a full scale revolution of historic proportions. Nothing less than a full frontal assault is going to drive these criminals out of power. NOTHING! Voting isn't going to work, as much as it pains me to say that, and we will see that in November. It's going to be up to us, WE THE PEOPLE, to bring Democracy back.

Sign me up. Freedom Fighters for Democracy!

[Webster Green]

32. Dude, I got your back....

No shit!

Oh...fuck you, agent Mike!

[Jazzgirl]

42. Double fuck agent MIke!

:mad:

[BillZBubb]

2. The people with the money wanted him to be.

He does their bidding.

[salin]

22. he's a perfect dupe

easily manipulated by playing to his ego (do better than your Dad... you are gonna be bigger than Reagan...), an easily created demagogic front-man.

[Brigid]

3. One Word:

Diebold. :grr:

[MissWaverly]

4. Because of his dad, his dad's friends, the caryle group,

the Saudis, his brother Jeb, Tom DeLay, Jim Baker, Ken Lay who paved the way with Enron money
and the use of his private jet for the recount

[geomon666]

5. Yeesh

I remember laughing about the idea of Dan Quayle being president. Not laughing any more.

Somebody wake me up.

[butterfly77]

60. Another dumbo they are planning on running is..

the senator from virginia, I forgot his name he.

[driver8]

6. Amazing, isn't it??

I always wonder the same thing,

How in the hell did this buffoon become the president?? This guy has failed at everything he has ever done. He is lazy, disinterested in the world around him, uncaring, and a coward.

It just goes to show you that the people of this country will believe anything.

[bumblebee1]

50. My God!!!

How the bloody hell did this buffoon get the Republican nomination? Was he the best the Repubs could come up with?

[walldude]

7. Because the people who really run things needed a guy

with no morals, no compassion and no brains. They hit the trifecta!

[SmokingJacket]

59. Plus, name recognition.

People thought they knew him, because they knew his dad.

[JAYJDF]

8. Busch makes a dandy puppet

He is uncapable of doing the things that have taken place alone. He's the mouth piece for Cheney, Rove, & Rummy.

[smokey nj]

9. Could it be because he works as both.......

a puppet and a scapegoat? He clearly isn't capable of forming a thought on his own, so he'll do what he's told. And, he's obviously an idiot, so if it becomes necessary, all misdeeds can be attributed to his stupidity and not the failure of the ideology. Just my humble opinion.

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[rzemanfl]

20. A lot of people here would not agree that Kerry lost either the

electoral or the popular vote and I am one of them. 2004 was rigged in many ways.

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[rzemanfl]

33. Get back to me on that when you have a star and a thousand

posts.

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40. Lots of people were convinced to vote against their own self-

interest by BushCo. See the analysis of Bush voter's views that PIPA put out before the election:

http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Pres_Election_04/Report09_29_04.pdf

You'll see that they didn't know what they were voting for.

Nonetheless, there were not enough of them to have won the 2004 election without the Republican cheating that took place before, during and after the election. Read "Fooled Again." Then read Kennedy's article in Rolling Stone.

Faux news viewers believe the '04 election was fair. A majority of people who get their news elsewhere think it was stolen. Can somebody help with a link on that?

[walldude]

23. Welcome to DU. Allow me to introduce to you Greg Palast

http://www.gregpalast.com/section/articles Search for articles on election fraud. Bush never won anything in his life. Except a free ride and a silver spoon...

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[smokey nj]

34. Are you trying to argue that he's bright? Where's the evidence?

I'm not convinced that he won in 2004, but unfortunately there are many citizen's who would rather vote for the guy with whom they'd like to have a beer.

[ProgressivePatriot]

12. We need definitive evidence that he is...

That evidence has yet to be provided.

[diamondsndust]

13. because no one has "suicided" him yet?

:shrug:

[godhatesrepublicans]

15. Because God wanted me to vomit 3 times a day for 8 years.

And it's working so far...

[rzemanfl]

19. Bushlemia? n/t

[paparush]

44. LMAO!!!

[paparush]

45. Sheeple say baaahhh baahhh cowboy good baaahh baaaah

[SoCalDem]

16. Because Poppy's second term did not happen, and he & the boys

spent 8 long years in exile planning how to insititute the changes that were going to happen in his 2nd term.. Poppy held back during term one, and hoped that 'war president' would ensure a glorious 2nd term when he could unleash the PNAC plans he and his pals worked on for so long..

Junior is little more than Poppy;s revenge for not electing him in 92

[rzemanfl]

17. Sandra Day O'Connor, Monica Lewinsky, Katherine Harris,

Theresa LaPore....and that's just a few of the women.

[longship]

25. Because we let him be.

We forgot to stand up and defend our republic. We presumed that our party would stand up for us. Of course, we were wrong.

That's why we have to stand up for ourselves now and show our party how it's done. Only then, shall we be rid of this plague.

[Mrspeeker]

26. Because he's the perfect puppet

A total Idiot that will pander to the World Banks needs.
Every Modern Day President is just a puppet, they all work for one common thing.

GREED!

And they will go to any length to control everything in the name of their GREED, even if it means killing all the life on this planet!

[davhill]

28. It is a great GOP tradition

to choose some mindless, amenable goof as a front man for those less appealing fellows who actually run things. Think of Warren Harding, Wm. McKinley, Chester A. Arthur for example. All good looking front men who did, or allowed more harm to the nation than good.

[AndyTiedye]

29. Because the Fundies & Robber Barons Stole Our Country From Us

[aden_nak]

30. Because of the GOP fear-talking points: "God, Guns, Gays and Gringos"

http://adennak.com/blog/?postid=59

[otohara]

31. He The Perfect Puppet for Cheney & Corporations

He reads what they tell him to read, yet he knows not what he's reading.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

36. American Christians have been taking over our country stealthly since

before Reagan. There are books written about it. In the book, "Eternal Hostility: the Struggle between Theocracy and Democracy", by Frederick Carlson, he speaks of dominionism, taking over the world. The very theology Christians believe fits in perfect with the fascism we're witnessing in this country.

Aside from that, Christian ideology fits into fascism like Cinderella's foot fits in the glass slipper:

1) Dominate the beasts of the field, the land (other peoples, other countries, take over what is theirs, etc.)
2) The world is going to end anyway via Armageddon, so don't bother to safeguard the future of our planet for anyone (take yours and theirs while the going is good).
3) The world is going to end anyway via Armageddon, so who gives a damn if we cause world destructive wars by taking over other countries?
4) "We" Christians are going to heaven anyway because Jesus said so, so as long as we say we love Jesus, we can do whatever the hell we want.
5) Proselytizing is mandated in the Bible, so let's take over all those non-Christian "savages" in other countries and turn the entire world into a capitalistic-evangelical theocracy.

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[livvy]

38. No. Just plain simply no. More votes may have been reported, but

they were not legitimately received.
Welcome to DU. I hope you are enjoying your first day here. There is much to be learned if you spend some time here, with an open mind.

[femmocrat]

39. The real question is: Who are they grooming for 2008???

Remember, W came virtually out of nowhere and we "misunderestimated" him. We did not take him seriously and made fun of him. It could happen again in '08.... especially now that they have the electronic voting machines in place. Hell, they could even suspend the election "in a time of war" to keep their ventrilolquist dummy around for another 4. I put nothing past them.

[PADemD]

46. Jeb Bush, Who Else?

[SammyWinstonJack]

41. PNAC. And he had name recognition and he had a rep. for bending

to Corporate America. Check out his Texas Governor record.

[Marr]

43. Same reason Ronald is the McDonald's mascot:

He seemed like a marketable guy. At least- he was the most marketable of the men who met the prerequisites. He's wealthy, tied into the good ol' boy network, and stupid enough to believe in the Neoconservative principles.

[bdamomma]

47. he was appointed by the Supreme Court

[sakabatou]

48. One acronym: SCOTUS

[lpbk2713]

49. His Poppy (Former Prez, former Vice Prez and former head of CIA)

worked out his career path for him. It must have been very difficult for Poppy because he didn't have a whole lot to work with in his imbecilic offspring. He also got one of his other dimwitted offspring to be governator of Florida.

[Dangerman]

51. Lemme tell you something...

If George Bush isn't impeached and imprisoned by the end of his second term...

It is the death of America as we know it.

[pitohui]

52. what does your question mean?

if you mean technically, blow by blow, why him -- it's obvious, isn't it?

they wanted a stupid man they could control after the disaster w. nixon and eventually they found the perfect candidate, a man w. alzheimer's disease, the sainted ronald reagan

you see nixon made a mistake, he had an independent mind, oh he was a crook like all republicans, but he tried to do a few things for the people -- windfall profits tax on oil producers, epa, wage and price controls to keep inflation in check, he even proposed a guaranteed minimum annual income (dole!), so another nixon could simply NOT be risked

so they get reagan the famous moron and his veep was george bush, an equally stupid man who seemed to spend his entire time going to funerals, getting fucked up, and puking off the side of ships (and blaming it on james baker!) or on japanese prime ministers (where it couldn't quite be blamed on anyone else, ooopsie)


alas and alack, after 12 years of republican theft under these morons, even the dimmest american wised up and voted for the democrat, we wouldn't have pants on our ass if we'd had 26 straight years of mental defectives in office, think abt it!

however, after a respite under clinton, during which time the people could rebuild their personal and national wealth, then it was time to find another moron who would allow the republican greed bags to rob the country blind

and who more natural than a moron son of a puking moron?

that's right!

the one man in america who makes dan quayle and poppy bush look like they have heads on their shoulders -- poppy bush's pathetic brain damaged spawn george

that's why him

if it wasn't him it would be another moron

GOP wants stupid people at the helm so they can steal

it was true under US grant, it's true today, it will always be true, forever and amen to the end of time

feck, i should be an american history teacher, that's it in a nutshell, do your own research, but that's it, the republicans behind the scene live to steal and they are not at all embarrassed to have a fool as their public face, indeed, they prefer it for fools are easily fooled by definition

[coalition_unwilling]

61. Hey, don't slam Grant by association. He wasn't "stupid" nor was

he personally "corrupt" (as far as I know). I'll grant (npi) you that Grant's administration was one of the more corrupt.

My personal feeling about Grant was "great and smart general," "not so great or smart politician." But he did, while President, seriously try to implement black enfranchisement in the southern states then under military occupation.

[CJCRANE]

54. VRWC...nt

[cobalt1999]

56. well, I blame the democrats.

Look, here is the most unqualified person with a horrible track record and we lose to him TWICE!

I don't sit around marveling at Rove, but looking at where we went wrong.

1) Gore was so OVER (MIS) Managed, he couldn't even win his own state of Tenn (although he did win Florida).
2) Kerry as a senator from Mass, was already behind the 8ball from the get go. Why? Did we think we had it locked up?

Come on, if you can't beat one of the worst presidents in US history, you need to look in the mirror a little bit.

[butterfly77]

58. Because they needed a puppet...

to use to stand up and spout their lies and who knows nothing about running anything in government. I believe this is what was going on in texas.

[blues90]

62. he's not my president

I don't care if he thinks he is the president or others want to sit here and accept they were ripped off by this crime organization , I do not recognise bush as my president , have no respect for him or would be impressed if I met him and he does not represent me in any way , shape or form .

Anyone with a working reasonable brain knows they stole both elections and should bash bush and revolt every chance they get . Like Henry Taylor , here was a guy that spoke out and one of the few who got the chance . Nothing happened from this but Henry has to feel he made his stand and also has closure in doing so .