Why do people think he was a lame President? Just maybe it had something to do with the following
* Took more vacation time than any other President
* Invaded Iraq to get rid of WMDs which didn’t exist
* Implemented protectionist steel tariffs
* Outed a CIA agent for political purposes
* Fired prosecutors who refused to abuse their positions for political purposes
* Disregarded FISA laws and wiretappd Americans without warrants
* Never caught Osama Bin Laden
* Failed to plan for Iraq occupation after Saddam’s government fell and the subsequent occupation has killed 150,000 Iraqi civilians.
* Created a vague “enemy combatant” status in order to indefinitely hold foreigners and even US citizens without trying or charging them with a crime.
* Used torture to interrogate prisoners despite evidence that says information acquired through unreliable
* Prematurely said the mission in Iraq had been accomplished.
* Approved budgets that outspent our tax revenue by hundreds of billions of dollars.
* Poor leadership on response to Hurrican Katrina
* Little or no policy changes on our changing climate
* Didn’t veto a single bill for six years and when he finally did it was to shoot down the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act.
* Passed the Military Commissions Act, which removes the right to Habeus Corpus, one of the most fundamental safe guards against tyrannical governments.
* Pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missle Treaty
* Issues illegal “signing statements” when passing bills, saying which portions of the bill he will or won’t enforce. This essentially allows him to rewrite legislation.
* Pushed for elections in Palestine that lead to a Hamas victory, and then tried to overthrow them.
* Allowed Don Rumsfeld to outsource much of the Iraq war to security contractors which are not subject to Iraqi or American military laws or standards.
* Tried to appoint his personal attorney, Harriet Myers, to the supreme court.
* Dangerous diplomatic philosophy that discourages peaceful negotiations with certain nations.
* Appointed John Bolton, a man who said “there is no such thing as the United Nations“, as the UN Ambassador.
* Consistent intellectual disinterest in his job.
* Failed to act on warning signs of the September, 11th attacks.
* Was dishonest with the American people about his National Guard service.
* Lied about giving up golf in a time of war.
* Dissolving the Iraqi army right after the war, putting thousands of trained soldiers into the insurgency.
* Believing Paul Wolfowitz that the war and subsequent reconstruction would pay for itself with Iraqi oil revenue.
* His policies contributed to a quadrupling of the price of oil.
* Lied to the American people that Saddam Hussein was working with Al-Qaeda
but hell, who knows I could be wrong...
