to critics of our president

Whenever informal talk of our government or our presidency arises, there always tends to be a particular line that comes up. Someone will typically make the offhand comment that "Bush is an idiot." Chances are if you haven't verbally announced this, the thought has gone through your head more than once. Yeah, Bush is portrayed as a fool by the media at times, but if you're a critic, tell me how often you watch the news. How often you keep up with world events. How many speeches you have actually watched Bush give. I doubt very many if any. Before you go about bashing him for a few sound bites, check yourself and read.

I find it both ironic and funny when it comes to you people who say "Bush is an idiot." What the fuck do you know? Tell me something about world politics, international diplomacy, globalization, foreign policy, energy crises, petropolitics, amnesty, humanitarian aid, terrorism, worldwide poverty, genocide, war, peace. Tell me about Hugo Chavez, Haniya, Ahmadinejad, Nasrallah. Tell me where the G8 Conference was recently held and just who the Group of Eight are. Name me someone in Al-Qaeda besides Osama and al-Zarqawi. And tell me something besides what you've seen on the news when you glanced over it for the 10 seconds you watched it, and besides the basic 101 shit you've learned in class that makes you think you're so intelligent and empowered. Unless you go to an Ivy League school, chances are very, extremely, definitively high that Bush is smarter than you, placing you several notches below that of your aforementioned "idiot", effectively making you a fucking retard, or a fucktard. I'd like to see you get into Yale and after that, get an MBA from Harvard. Yes, there's no doubt that it's hard to turn someone down when they have a powerful congressman and future President on their list of affiliations, but Bush still got in nonetheless and came out with a degree.

Above his political means and also his speaking troubles, people tend to criticize Bush for dodging the draft and Vietnam by joining the Coast Guard. Firstly, I'd like to see your asses join the military. But of course you critics wont because you're a bunch of pussy asses with big mouths and no balls. Not even the army; go ahead and join the "Bush was a pussy to join the" Coast Guard, then you can say something. Of course he wasn't going to fight in Vietnam, his father was the Congressman of Texas at the time. Even if GDub wanted to fight and volunteered as a point man for the worst hot spots of Vietnam (a point man's survivability rate in Vietnam was an average of something like eight minutes), the government would ensure that there was no way in hell he'd go over there. It's the way the government works, protecting our future assets and peacekeepers, while letting the young and uneducated die in foreign countries as peacemakers. It's the way our country has always been so don't go blaming Bush right away. At least he served our military in some form, which is probably more than you will ever be able to claim.

And for the ever-bitching Democrats: As my fellow blog michiganissuperiortoyourcollege/Tales of the Crypt points out, you can't complain about Bush being president in the slightest, because you chose a candidate who COULDN'T BEAT HIM. If Bush is an idiot, Kerry is, well, fucktarded.

People, especially college kids and to a lesser extent, high school kids, are quick to point the finger without any justification or reinforcement whatsoever toward their claims. Someone will say, "Bush is an idiot" but if you ask them why, they'll give you the same common, nonsensical answers that are recycled more than Red Dog cans on MSU's campus. "He talks stupid." "The War in Iraq." "Stem cell research." "Immigration." If these people would actually look into, research, and see what Bush is doing towards these issues they would shut the fuck up and be appeased. If these people would actually READ (or watch, or listen; basically any form of consuming information) something about the issues they would realize that the President is doing things about them, but no, ignorance is the dominant factor in their minds. This leads to stupidity and ignominious remarks that are oftentimes in truth are the complete opposite of what the dumbass speaker is trying to say. I commend Bush for his recent stands on immigration and stem cell research, both of which make compromises and thus create the best overall path for growth.

I am not saying that Bush is the perfect president. I am not claiming he's exceptional, excellent, or even great. Every president has their flaws, and Bush certainly has a good amount of them. But he's competent enough to handle a country who for the most part is ignorant and because so, go completely against whatever he does and says. For him it's damn if you do, damn if you don't, out of the frying pan, into the fire, because the hoi polloi can never be pleased and for the most part don't know what the fuck they're talking about. It's people like him, those who are able to persevere and create success under fire, that are required for America, and also the world, to exist. I'm not going to parade in the streets in support of George W. I'm not saying you're completely wrong to criticize him either; on the contrary, it is a citizen's duty to do so. But if you do, make sure you're actually criticizing him and not just making a simple insult, because it would be you seeming like an idiot instead of him.

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