See, I'm going to end up having to DEFEND this guy here! I don't say he's a grand president, but, he's done a few things. Just not what we wanted him to! In general, the fact is, he is not far off from Reagan; many Republicans will kiss his arse forever and ever (even after death!) and many Democrats will hate him with a flaming passion forever and ever. You won't get a straight answer from this. I dare say, really, that the Iraq thing (wasting time on **** we shouldn't be allowed to do) and the budget and the ruined economy will destroy any chance of him being widely remembered for doing anything too good, and most of his better things were pretty neutral overall, e.g. cutting taxes.
He preached abstinence in his effort to lower teen pregnancy rates, only to learn that the ones not heeding his words were unprepared because they were not taught about safe sex.
I wouldn't say it's entirely his fault. Since, well, Bush didn't make them disregard the abstinence teachings. I think safe sex should be taught, but I wouldn't, as such, say that it's Bush's fault that it wasn't. He didn't enforce a plan that said "YOU HAVE TO TEACH ABSTINENCE, OR ELSE," to my knowledge; I mean, I had sex ed during his term, and they taught me proper condom use. That was 05/06. I think we can nail this by teaching both! Of course, GWB's religion wouldn't allow that, but the President STILL doesn't have his hand up the *** of the education system THAT far. I would NOT say that his beliefs influenced the population
that much overall, either.
He sent our troops to Iraq even though Iraq was one of the areas in the Middle East that was not involved in 9-11 whatsoever.
Hussein, etc. Not his job, though, which is the problem here.
Hurricane Katrina- perhaps the worst natural disaster in US history- terrorized New Orleans, and Mr. Bush was off doing God knows what.
As Lutz said it was more the fault of more local causes, but I dare say both of them had some fault in this; Bush didn't give any aid that the people of New Orleans would need in addition to the more local government aid... of course, his response was not vastly swift, either, which is where a big part of the REAL problem here comes from.
How did we ever end up with him as our leader?
Isn't the system beautiful.