George Bush is a good president

- nobody said that you or i would decide the debate. - "He…created the Patriot Act, making our constitution invalid," "He failed to do ONE good thing for America." These statements do nothing more than give away your clear hatred for a man you don't even know. + My job as a debater is to DEBATE!!! When I say he created it, i mean that he was responsibile for the creation of it by promoting and signing the bill. - In addition, none of your statements are backed up by any facts. They are completely opinion based, and some of them are so untrue, that I'm not going to even waste my time disputing them. + In debate, that means that you conceed that argument. I think that this is unfair that I use my time to make valid arguments and you are too incompetent to make good points. - I'll bet that you cannot point to a single lie George Bush has told the American people. + Not only does he lie but about TORTURE among other things: We are finding terrorists and bringing them to justice. We are gathering information about where the terrorists may be hiding. We are trying to disrupt their plots and plans. Anything we do ... to that end in this effort, any activity we conduct, is within the law. We do not torture." - President Bush (Nov. 7, 2005). THE FACTS The State Department's annual report on human rights practices worldwide has condemned countries such as Burma and North Korea for the disappearance and indefinite detention of political prisoners without trial; while also condemning Libya, Syria and other countries for engaging in acts of torture that include hooding, stripping detainees naked, sleep deprivation, subjecting detainees to extremes of heat, cold, noise and light, threatening them with dogs, submerging them in water to simulate drowning — which is known as water-boarding — and other acts of physical abuse all of which have occured at U.S. detention facilities. See State Dept. Study Cites Torture of Prisoners: Rumself Approved Similar Practices (Washington Post March 10, 2005). President Bush: "Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to strike America, to attack us. I would have used very resource, every asset, every power of this government to protect the American people." (03.25.04) THE FACTS Condoleezza Rice was the top National Security official with President Bush at the July 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa. There, "U.S. officials were warned that Islamic terrorists might attempt to crash an airliner" into the summit, prompting officials to "close the airspace over Genoa and station antiaircraft guns at the city's airport." In his October 6th speech on the War on Terror at National Endowment for Democracy, President Bush said"The United States and our partners have disrupted at least ten serious al Qaeda terrorist plots since September the 11th, including three al Qaeda plots to attack inside the United States. THE FACTS The plots that Bush claimed his administration disrupted actually had already been abandoned by the time they were discovered. Bush: "leaves no doubt that . . . Iraq . . . continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." There are no WMDs. BUSH: We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. [Bush on Polish TV, 5/29/03] During his Veteran's Day 2005 address, Bush charged that " . . more than a hundred Democrats in the House and the Senate -- who had access to the same intelligence -- voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power. " THE FACTS The Washington Post extensively analyzed this claim, concluding that: "Bush and his aides had access to much more voluminous intelligence information than did lawmakers, who were ependent on the administration to provide the material…Bush does not share his most sensitive intelligence, If you are truly intellectually honest, you would admit that George W. Bush is a man of his word. He says what he believes, and believes what he says. If you believe Bill Clinton was a good president, then you must also believe that a man who can point his finger and lie to your face in order to circumvent the rule of law is good leader. - A good president is not somebody who tells the truth, rather somebody who goes good for their country. Bush has done NOTHING good, not even be honest, which I proved. - Clinton ignored every terrorist attack against our allies, military, and citizens, President Bush has rebuilt the military. + Bush cut funding from veteran health care etc. to pump money in our miilitary and has not been effective in stopping terrorists. Source: Washington Post, "Bush's '06 Budget Would Scrap or Reduce 154 Programs - NCLB will clearly fix this problem, by forcing teachers and school administrators to get these students up to par if they want their funding.+ This plan is ineffective. I've been in both schools and NCLB just lowers funding for those who deserve it and the other kids suffer too. - We'd all like to know from whom a 14-year old gets the idea that NCLB is so bad. + That is so insulting. I care develop my own opinion through experience and not speculation unlike you. - If that's the case, you're telling me that in your first year of high school, NCLB was so bad that your school went from completely vacant to completely overcrowded? Much like your previous arguments, it just doesn't hold any water. + I'm a junior in some subjects (complicated) and yes. YOU DESCRIBED THIS EXACTLY RIGHT!!! To sum it up, I believe George W. Bush is a good president because he is honest, he is proactively protecting our country from terrorist threats, and because he pushes legislation he believes in, not bills to make him popular. + He is obviously dishonest. + He has not stopped terrorist threats and will not and cannot. + All presidents push legislation they believe in. This is not even good quality. YOU DID NOT MENTION MY POINT ABOUT THE ECONOMY: Budget Surplus/Deficit $422 billion Bush $236 billion Clinton Pct Change in Deficit +278.85% Bush -181.4% Clinton Unemployment Rate 5.2 Bush 4.0 Clinton Uninsured Pct. 15.6% Bush 14.2% Clinton Poverty Rate 12.5 BUsh 11.3 Clinton Median Household In