Should America impeach President Bush?
Cut an American Icon some slack
Zane Ecklund
Issue date: 3/30/07 Section: Opinion
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As of March 24, 2007, President George W. Bush's approval rating is at 40 percent, according to Rasmussen Reports. This probably does not need to be said, but that is bad. Lately there has been a lot of hulabaloo about impeaching our country's executive officer, but we need to ask a question: Why? President Bush deserves to stay in office.
The first reason to keep G-Dubya around is that the United States of America is a democracy. That means we the people wanted this gentleman to be running our country. This should be obvious; otherwise he would not have been elected twice. But let us consider that Bush is really an incompetent dunce, and possibly the worst president of all time. If that is the case, he should still stay in office as a lesson to Americans. Little kids in history classes will read about him, and they will know better when it is time for them to vote.
If we impeached our president, what kind of message would that send to other countries? Today's America is arguably at odds with the rest of the world, more so than it has ever been. Bush is hated all over God's creation, but booting him out is equivalent to telling America's adversaries, such as Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, that they have won.
The impeachment process is also a joke. A movement to impeach is brought by the Senate, but the Senate also votes on whether or not to impeach. This undermines democracy because a few will be in charge of a decision that affects many. Also, if there were a tie in voting, the vice president would be the one to break it, and he would undoubtedly vote in favor of his party.
People need to get off Bush's back; he has had a hard enough life without every little thing he does being dissected by the media. When he graduated high school, he could not make it into Harvard as an undergraduate and had to settle for the less prestigious Yale University. Then he had to join the National Guard, thus being deprived of going to Vietnam and being a war hero. During his adulthood he was forced to come to grips with alcoholism, but not before getting a DUI arrest in the state of Maine. When he knocked his wife up, she gave birth to twins, and since there were two of them, child rearing was twice as hard. These twins, by the way, caused him much embarrassment by becoming criminals in adulthood. Finally, Bush had to overcome losing the popular vote while pursing the presidency.
The first reason to keep G-Dubya around is that the United States of America is a democracy. That means we the people wanted this gentleman to be running our country. This should be obvious; otherwise he would not have been elected twice. But let us consider that Bush is really an incompetent dunce, and possibly the worst president of all time. If that is the case, he should still stay in office as a lesson to Americans. Little kids in history classes will read about him, and they will know better when it is time for them to vote.
If we impeached our president, what kind of message would that send to other countries? Today's America is arguably at odds with the rest of the world, more so than it has ever been. Bush is hated all over God's creation, but booting him out is equivalent to telling America's adversaries, such as Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, that they have won.
The impeachment process is also a joke. A movement to impeach is brought by the Senate, but the Senate also votes on whether or not to impeach. This undermines democracy because a few will be in charge of a decision that affects many. Also, if there were a tie in voting, the vice president would be the one to break it, and he would undoubtedly vote in favor of his party.
People need to get off Bush's back; he has had a hard enough life without every little thing he does being dissected by the media. When he graduated high school, he could not make it into Harvard as an undergraduate and had to settle for the less prestigious Yale University. Then he had to join the National Guard, thus being deprived of going to Vietnam and being a war hero. During his adulthood he was forced to come to grips with alcoholism, but not before getting a DUI arrest in the state of Maine. When he knocked his wife up, she gave birth to twins, and since there were two of them, child rearing was twice as hard. These twins, by the way, caused him much embarrassment by becoming criminals in adulthood. Finally, Bush had to overcome losing the popular vote while pursing the presidency.
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brittney
posted 3/30/07 @ 6:24 PM CST
yes, i think we dont need war. Its unnessare to even be at war. I think the toops shouls come home to there familys that need them not in no war so yes i do think he should be impeaced
Vickie Allison
posted 3/31/07 @ 6:12 AM CST
We must seek out leaders that value truthfulness and integrity if we are to restore our democracy and country to its greatness. Our democracy is undermined when our leaders try to misled and manipulate us with deceitful ways. (Continued…)
David Lindorff
posted 3/31/07 @ 9:40 AM CST
Zane Ekland has it wrong. Impeachment was included in the Constitution (actually it's in the very Article II that defines the powers of the president), because the nation's founders understood and feared that an executive could use a war to grab power and become a despot, precisely as this president has done. (Continued…)
Dan
posted 3/31/07 @ 7:57 PM CST
I highly think Bush should be impeached. I mean, yes he was elected a second time, but we were in fact in the middle of war. So, history repeats itself. (Continued…)
John
posted 4/01/07 @ 3:36 AM CST
The people are calling for Bush's impeachment not solely because of his unpopular war, we are calling for his impeachment because have been tricked. Yes bamboozled, the wool of fear was pulled over our eyes when we saw the towers fall. (Continued…)
Bob Zielazinski
posted 4/01/07 @ 11:27 AM CST
Let's get our facts straight, folks. The articles of impeachment are voted by the US House of Representatives, and tried in the Senate, with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presiding (instead of the Vice President). (Continued…)
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