Turning it around: Reasons to vote FOR Bush?

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@RussianBeer

Err… he failed at almost every job he did, they gave him money to find oil in texas, he couldnt find a male sex organ. Bush did not need to marry in to wealth, he was rich already.

Maybe - but he isn’t running on his business record. That was his personal life. Even Kerry’s career as a lawyer was supposedly mediocre before he entered the Senate. The difference is that Kerry is running on something that he did 30-40 years ago while not bringing attention to what he did his past 19 years. That I do have problems with, for unlike Bush, Kerry was a public servant since his days as Lt. Governor in MA. What they both decide to do in their personal lives is up to them…unless the capitalize on it for political gain! When Bush claims to be a successful business owner during his campaign stops, then it’s a free for all - anybody can start poking at his dealings.

@RussianBeer

But notice how he never talked on education…There is reason for that…

I don’t know much about the education thing and Texas, but according to Chio it wasn’t great. Maybe there were other issues that the public liked him for, for he was after all re-elected as governator I believe

@RussianBeer

Hmm… no, Im sorry but Bush was a legacy student and C’s are some **** crapy grades. Honestly, imagine you had a C average a MIT? (Personaly I dont care on the UNI GPA)

C’s aren’t great grades, but you have to factor in the strict academics of a place such as Yale. He was later accepted into the Harvard Business School for an MBA. You have to do something right in order to get into the Harvard Business School, for that is one of the world’s toughest schools to get into.

He isn’t the smartest Pres. we ever had, and I think he made up for that by surrounding himself with smart(er?) people (imo :))

@RussianBeer

Second, define morals? And esspecialy in a country where the church and state are seperate who is Bush to enact Morals? Who elected him to enact morals, last time I checked that wasnt under the president’s job discription.

Me liking his values has nothing to do with religion for me. I believe he has a core set of values that he will not change. He clearly has defined what things are right, and he has also defined what things are wrong. Others hate that, but I actually like people who actually strongly believe that some things in this world are wrong and will not change on them later.

@RussianBeer

See, Bush is not a complete idiot, he is the average joe. But most presidents are great intelectual, I mean Nixon was extremly smart, even Carter was an intelectual, Raegan was elegant, Bush I was brilliant and a CIA director, ,Clinton was a road scholar, and then we get Good ol’ Bush. I can see him being my neigbor!

I see him as a people person, and I look at his success with the public in the past four years. Anybody who can weather attack after attack on his public image (and continue to keep Dick Cheney as VP!) and still manage to be either tied with Kerry or only a few points back has to be doing something right.

I’m not sure that intelligence benefitted a few of the people you mentioned, for I also look at how they were able to apply their intelligence. Nixon was about to be impeached, Clinton did not but later stated that he did have improper relations with Monica ™, and I’m not sure how many people would consider Reagan elegant back in the 80’s when he was President

Seriously, does Brazil have black people…haha j/k? That clearly wasn’t his best line