Quoted: What legitimate reason is there for people to hate Bush though?
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Legitimate reason?
Well, for a socialist/liberal, there are a few...
He's the most anti-socialist president since Reagan, and they're treating him the same way...
Bush doesn't believe the UN should have a say in US policy
He believes the US should do what's best for us, and that if our 'allies' don't support us on this, that they aren't very good allies...
He has had the gall to ignore the views of those Americans who will never vote for him (Bush policy back here has been basically similar to our foreign policy: If you agree with Bush domestic policy good, if not, you're not gonna vote for him anyway so too bad for you)....
And he doesn't care how many feathers he ruffles in the process...
The Bush haters want someone to 'feel their pain' and many liberals are so convinced of their own superiority that they cannot understand why a conservative president rejects liberal ideas out-of-hand (They complain because Bush would rather cut taxes than increase spending on welfare programs & public education. It's as if they cannot fathom how any president would NOT believe what they do, ignoring the fact that the people who put Bush in office WANT tax cuts instead of social programs)...
Those are the ones I run into the most (I'm working with the local campaign office)...
In the rest of the world, Bush is hated because he symbolizes American 'arrogance', by his attitude that the US doesn't *need* the rest of the world bad enough to allow thw rest of the world to influence US policy... This is true - we don't. However, the other half is that we're glad to work with those who agree with us...