Bush's policies may be helping the economy, as they have been hurting the environment, but the environment always takes a back seat to the state of the nation. While it's a backwards way of thinking, it's necessary in order for our country to remain an economical power as well as a military one. No, his policies as a whole are not bad. What makes G.W. a bad president is the fact that in the face of 9/11 When the country stopped and cried in disbelief, when the world wept with us, he used it as an opportunity to further his political agendas, and start a war in a way that the rest of the world did not agree with, for all the wrong reasons. He used the fear created by the terrorist attack to erode our freedoms and to pass laws that saved big businesses money at the cost of our health. He did nothing to cement the bonds that the attacks created with our allies, and instead alienated us from the international community.
I May go too far when I say that he is a bad president, Although he is an undeniably poor public speaker. After all, if he is helping the economy, that is what he originally set out to do. And even if the rich benefit more directly from his tax cuts, the effects of a good economy will eventually benefit everyone in it. Including the poor and homeless, through more money available for charities. Everything he has done so far has shown that he has put the prosperity and power of the nation above the happiness of the people that our nation is composed of. No charts or statistics, no fluctuations in the markets will ever convince me that he ever saw the forest for the trees, and if by some fluke of luck the series of events he set into motion benefit the world in any way, well, the history books may record him as the "least liked, best president ever", but I wouldn't hold your breath.
Oh, and chest thumping tactics of name calling and intimidation fit well with the current administration, I'm sure they would be proud..
