Was George W. Bush a good President?

Question

I want to know your opinion if George W. Bush a good President & why? This is just because me and some one else were debating if he was, we will go by the popular choice! Thanks!

Answer 1

Only history will tell. Ask that Q. again in 50 years, 100 years and 200 years and then you'll know.



Look at Mikhail Gorbachev, former party chairman of USSR when it broke up. He is mostly hated in Russia today. I predict that Russian history will write of him in glowing terms 50 or 100 years from now.

Answer 2

Well he handled a good job for this post-9/11 attacks but for the war in Iraq? Don't get met wrong, it's true to the fact that Saddam was not abiding by the 1991 ceasefire treaty but that's the other thing.



Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, one of Bush advisors, convinced George W Bush to invade Iraq with fewer troops than the military advised the civilian leaders that were needed. The troops were not so much needed to defeat the Iraqi Army, they were needed to slam a lid on the country once we had occupied it. By not having enough troops to quash the budding insurgency immediately in the aftermath of our takeover it took root and grew into a much longer term problem than it would have otherwise.



Cheney/Rumsfeld were the Robert McNamara's of the war on terrorism. They thought that because they have business degrees that made them smarter than the generals who only had attended second rate colleges like West Point, Annapolis and the AF Academy which don't even offer business degrees.



Turned out the Generals and Admirals knew what they were talking about (again) and the civilian arm-chair generals should have kept their mouths shut and followed the expert's advise.



George Bush father listened to the military, Bush Jr didn't really that much. Also Bush saw the economy crashed but i don't blame him, most of the regulations started back under the Carter adminstration in the 1970s.



So no, he's not good president in my eyes.

Answer 3

He was far too much of an Establishment Moderate. That being said, his record looks pretty good against Obama's.



Good President? Sure. Great President? No.



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Answer 4

An unncessary war that had nothing to do with "terrorism", 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction. This cost the taxpayers billions (if not in the trillions now), destroyed our credibility overseas & cost people there lives (or body parts) on all sides.



He was also one of the more fiscally irresponsible Presidents, spending while at the same time cutting Government revenue.



I'd give him a C- / D+.

Answer 5

He was good and history will show him to have been very strong I think. He was a great leader and he stood up to the plate when dealt with a disaster that no one could have expected. I felt safe with him at the helm even though I didn't always agree with him.

Answer 6

He was one of the worst and we will be paying the price the world over for generations to come.

Answer 7

No, he was one of the worst in my opinion. Because of Bush, my Generation is going to have to pay off these trillions of dollars of debt that he built up as President. Don't get me wrong, Obama has also spent a lot, but he's inherited a lot too including two wars and an expensive medicare part D program that was never on the books when Bush was President. On top of that, it's because of Bush's failed economic policies of taking a hands off approach to the deregulated financial industries that caused this horrible economic climate in the first place. I am also extremely frustrated by how he decided to take us to War in Iraq, taking our eye completely off of Afghanistan, Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. And after spending trillions of dollars, North Korea create their own nuclear bombs. In order for Bush to appease the North Koreans, he takes them off the State Sponsors of Terrorist list. Complete hypocrisy there. And then he goes on spending billions of dollars nation building in the middle east while spending very little on the domestic front when our roads, bridges, airports and the overall transportation infrastructure is getting old and outdated. And then he has the nerve using his justice department to take my state all the way to the US Supreme Court to block the assisted suicide for the terminally ill law that the voters here passed. I thought Republicans were for State rights? Oh right, unless their religious views come into the picture. Which by the way, 8 years of no federally funded stem-cell research really set our society back on medical advancements and allowed China to get ahead of creating patents on future medical breakthroughs. Basically, I view President Bush as a very poor President.

Answer 8

He was good for the economy and the war against terrorists. He was good at getting the country through bad times: 9/11/01 and Hurricane Katrina. He was bad on the socialism side: way too much spending, too much government, Medicare drug program.

Answer 9

He is the worst president of all time.



History proves this.

Answer 10

he was good in the fact that he was honest and he stood by his word unlike Obama, but all presidents since Eisenhower have sucked, even reagan who started the reckless federal spending programs

Answer 11

He did an ok job with the hand he was dealt.

Answer 12

no he was not.. he oversaw the collapse of the economy...

his buddies got their pockets loaded in companies like BlackWater... we and the military got screwed.

Answer 13

no he was to liberal for me