How could someone so retarded like George W. be elected as head of the US?
79195
2 things at play here:\n\n1) noone ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.  Bush is the pet rock of this generation.\n\n2) Karl Rove is a master of Machiavellian politics.  "The Prince" by Machiavelli is the guidebook for obtaining power fraudulently and keeping legitimate claimants to power from usurping your claim.  It talks about things like creating splits among your detractors (visa viz Ralph Nader) and creating a common enemy for the public to get behind (the 'terrarists').\n\nAs to the Yale comment -- so friggin what.  The fact that he managed to pay for "C"ing his way through an Ivy League school is no reflection on his true intelligence.  More revealing is that he can be so easily manipulated by Rove, Cheney, Murdoch, etc.  Also revealing is the fact that the man who has the codes to launch nuclear war can't pronounce the damn word.
931105
Humble pie?  He doesn't know what that is.  He is a megalomaniac and a psycho.  He is oblivious to good sense and can't read his public.  I don't know how this man made it to president in the first place.  It just goes to prove that gullible America will elect anyone at all.
751443
Because grossly ignorant people elected him.
532328
Bush ran 4 president when this country was going through this religious thing and he used it all the way to the White House.the guy is an IDIOT.
1069497
George Bush...oh wait, thats stupidity!
634810
thats a tough one. i still dont see how he was re-elected. maybe they are both equally stupid. bush is a dumbass and his followers just dont ever learn, so they are at least as stupid.
241879
right, George W. Bush is one of the worst presidents the United States of America has ever had. But as they always say, people get what they deserve.
19542
There is a reason that George Bush was elected president in the first place - he is not so dumb as everyone seems to think.  Although he does have his faults, he has not commited an impeachable act, but has unfortunately taken the blame for many political wrongdoings as of late, just by being the president.  What people may not understand is that he is not the only person making decisions for and about this country; he has a large staff that is there advising him, so maybe they should take some blame too??
87588
people like to call him a dummy and an idiot. But no one gets to be President of this great nation being one of those.  He is a very intelligent man.  Hes very down to earth when he speaks and doesnt pronouce the word "nuclear" right.  But people try to find fault with the stupidest thigngs.
660711
I don't know, I think we need someone dumber and more incompetent than the last president so that history will see Bush as being a good president. \n\nMaybe we can get Dan Quale to run.
477098
Maybe he was trying to become President of the US?
372899
At least twice each week I read the rant of another angry American who declares that Bush is an idiot, but if they're just figuring that out now, they're throwing stones from a glass house. \nOf course he's an idiot. They needed an idiot. If the man displayed any signs of intelligence, evil actions couldn't be passed off as "failures" or "bungling." If the president were intelligent and scholarly, people would question why he's completely incompetent, but because he's an obvious buffoon, many people accept that as the reason everything's going horribly wrong. It's also a lot less distressing to believe that your government is incompetent rather than know that they're evil, and most people will cling to that comfort. \n\nThe real problem is that if people blame Bush's idiocy for our troubles, they probably also think that the solution would be to get him out of office, but if they think we'll be saved by "Hillary in '08," or any other politician, they're even slower than Bush. \n\nRegardless of who's occupying the White House, there has never been an idiot running this country. There's too much power and money at stake for an idiot to gain control of it. If the president is an idiot, he's only in the White House because someone else has firm control over him. Someone somewhere has a lot more control over the fate of this nation than our "president" does. \n\nOf course this reasoning begs the question "if this country isn't being run by an idiot, why is everything going so horribly wrong?" The answer is that it's going wrong by design. \n\nThe questioner makes the assumption that this country is being run by people who are acting in the interest of Americans, but nothing can be further from the truth. Instead of accusing Bush of doing a lousy job, or being a lousy president, please try to think in terms of Bush's "boss" being someone other than the American people, and his "job" as being to grab as much cash as he can for himself and his friends before driving this country into the ground. If you look at his presidency in that light, you can instantly see that he's doing a marvelous job, and he's the best "president" an enemy nation could ever hope to see in the White House.The fact of the matter is that America as we know it (or knew it) is being systematically destroyed, and the politicians from both political parties are making this possible. \n\nWanna Read MORE On THIS???\nSee My BLOG
313566
At least twice each week I read the rant of another angry American who declares that Bush is an idiot, but if they're just figuring that out now, they're throwing stones from a glass house. \nOf course he's an idiot. They needed an idiot. If the man displayed any signs of intelligence, evil actions couldn't be passed off as "failures" or "bungling." If the president were intelligent and scholarly, people would question why he's completely incompetent, but because he's an obvious buffoon, many people accept that as the reason everything's going horribly wrong. It's also a lot less distressing to believe that your government is incompetent rather than know that they're evil, and most people will cling to that comfort. \n\nThe real problem is that if people blame Bush's idiocy for our troubles, they probably also think that the solution would be to get him out of office, but if they think we'll be saved by "Hillary in '08," or any other politician, they're even slower than Bush. \n\nRegardless of who's occupying the White House, there has never been an idiot running this country. There's too much power and money at stake for an idiot to gain control of it. If the president is an idiot, he's only in the White House because someone else has firm control over him. Someone somewhere has a lot more control over the fate of this nation than our "president" does. \n\nOf course this reasoning begs the question "if this country isn't being run by an idiot, why is everything going so horribly wrong?" The answer is that it's going wrong by design. \n\nThe questioner makes the assumption that this country is being run by people who are acting in the interest of Americans, but nothing can be further from the truth. Instead of accusing Bush of doing a lousy job, or being a lousy president, please try to think in terms of Bush's "boss" being someone other than the American people, and his "job" as being to grab as much cash as he can for himself and his friends before driving this country into the ground. If you look at his presidency in that light, you can instantly see that he's doing a marvelous job, and he's the best "president" an enemy nation could ever hope to see in the White House.The fact of the matter is that America as we know it (or knew it) is being systematically destroyed, and the politicians from both political parties are making this possible. \n\n\nWanna Read MORE About This???
231912
George Bush,sounds stupid in EVERY accent lol
843791
All I know about Bush is he stole the election in 2000 and he lead America into a disastrous war in Iraq.He'll go down as a mediocre leader.
345442
It is not fair to associate people with mental retardation with George W. Bush. Whatever Bush's problem, it is not mental retardation, and mental retardation is not a label that should be used to insult others. I'm totally fine with people with mental retardation, but not with George W. Bush.\n\nBush is quite simply extremely good at getting his and the interests of his business cronies pushed through — no matter what would really benefit most US Americans. He literally walks over thousands and thousands of corpses and has people tortured in the name of US Americans just to push corporate agendas.
519510
because he's the least common denominator.  people used to like a leader who was more intelligent than the majority; now they want the dumbest person they can find.  when the president can hardly speak the language of the people, the people feel good--like they KNOW they're smarter than the pres!  (And, in this case, most of them are!)