Is Bush a coward?

[redqueen]

Poll question: Is Bush a coward?

Ducking out of service, and cutting in front of the waiting list to do so is one glaring example of Bush being a coward.

Another is his having his puppetmaster hold his hand today while he doesn't testify (not under oath) and nobody records anything or prepares a transcript.

And who can leave out the fact that he doesn't have the cojones to stand up in front of the press unless they have their scary questions approved in advance.

So, whaddaya think?

Poll result (156 votes)
Yes, he's a coward.	(151 votes, 97%)	Vote
No, he's not a coward.	(5 votes, 3%)	Vote

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. also stupid, lazy, manipulative, elitist piece of crap

[Failure]

2. How about skipping all over the country on 911? n/t

[redqueen]

4. Ah, good one! He surely did bravely fly away, away

I thought being a CEO required leadership abilities. Guess not, if your daddy's rich!

[wtmusic]

3. Oh, come on! Give us a hard one RQ!

[Supormom]

5. How about free speech zones?

He's too cowardly to face the American public.

[samsingh]

6. and he's a traitor and evil.

[lovedems]

7. Pardon my language but

Fucking-A right he is.

He plays the best damn game of Hide-and-go-seek I have ever seen. He puts my kids skills to shame.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I just know this poll is gonna get freeped *lol*

[devinsgram]

29. I see three already

[redqueen]

38. Too bad they're cowards too!

Too cowardly to say what's on their minds... must suck to be that yellow!

[NewJeffCT]

9. heard on the street yesterday

I was outside walking in the park in Hartford at lunchtime and I was going the opposite direction of 2 men in their late 30s / early 40s in business suits and I heard one of them say how Bush is not man enough to testify himself...

[Supply Side Jesus]

46. Is the Pope Catholic?

dur!

[frank frankly]

10. President Hitler is many things

but most of all, he wants to be the Antichrist.

[Guaranteed]

11. I don't know how someone can manage to be

both cowardly AND reckless at the same time, but he pulls it off.

That guy has NO redeeming human value, at all.

[prodigal_green]

easy

He's cowardly about facing any danger to himself.

He's reckless with everybody else's life.

He will not win any prizes at the X-Games of Presidents.

[cornfedyank]

12. " I do not volunteer for overseas." gwb--please help with the date

the picture of the document i have seen does not show the date and i like to be accurate when i call a chickenhawk a chickenhawk.

[Fleshdancer]

13. having no consequence for your actions is cowardly

I think W is a sociopath.

Daddy got him into Yale, covered up his DUI's, bailed him out of Vietnam, got his buddies to bail him out of every failed business venture he had, the Supreme Court bailed him out of losing an election and the press bails him out daily by not commenting on his sheer stupidity.

He's beyond cowardly at this point.

[BOSSHOG]

14. Letting karen hughes take on John Kerry on the military service

issue. Wouldn't a real man step to the mike and cross rhetorical swords with John Kerry over the military service questions? Not george. He has to send the bitch out to do his bidding.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. how about 911=pro choice people?

also eveidence of cowardice

[stopthegop]

17. please explain how ...thanks eom

[Fleshdancer]

21. it's a ridiculous reference Karen Hughes made recently....

She had the audacity to equate pro choice people with terrorists.

[stopthegop]

30. I'm familiar with the reference...

wondering how it shows cowardice

[La Lioness Priyanka]

42. well pandering to peoples fear instead of offering good argument

is a sign of cowardice in my opinion. 911 shook the nation (apparantly shook the rest of the nation more than new yorkers)...using that fear is cowardly as in doesnt address any of the real debate about abortion

[Skittles]

44. SHE IS DOING THE DIRTY WORK FOR DUBYA

WHO IS A BIG F***ING COWARD

[Canadian_moderate]

16. Rather than a coward, I personally think...

He's in over his head. He is a poor leader and he is surrounded by crap advisors. Politically, I think he made a mistake, but think he was daring to put all his chips on the war in Iraq. It was a stupid move that has cost America dearly.

Sure, he may have dodged 'Nam, but many others did as well for various reasons. Were they all cowards? I don't think so.

[redqueen]

25. But when you're in over your head

Doesn't a non-coward admit it and ask for help, in his case - in order to avoid further destroying the country he's currently destroying?

I think sitting on your hands and watching our troops being killed, paying 'contractors' to die in who knows how many numbers, allowing the treasury to be looted by his cronies, etc. etc. etc. - is part of what makes him a coward - not just ducking out of Vietnam.

However, when his campaign is using the tactic of questioning Kerry's service, that makes his ducking out of Vietnam an issue.

[Claire Beth]

18. and an idiot, too! n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

20. ...and his mommy dresses him funny

De rigeur: President Bush shows off his hand-made cowboy boots embroidered with his initials and the presidential seal
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/20...

[IronLionZion]

19. He's a tool for an evil regime

and probably a coward despite his tough talk.

[Triple H]

22. Rhetorical question.

Of course he's a coward. He ditched out of the military. He can't speak by himself to the 9/11 commission. Hell, he can't do anything by himself.

[ieoeja]

23. O Brave George W

Bravely bold George W rode forth from Washington.
He was not afraid to die, O brave George W.
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave George W!

When country called him to Vietnam,
He joined the Guard to stay at home.
As towers fell on 9-11, and country called on God and Heaven,
O brave George W jumped into Air Force One,
And bravely fled to parts unknown.
Brave, brave, brave, brave George W!

Brave George W. ran away,
Bravely ran away, away.
When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave George W turned about
And gallantly, he chickened out. Bravely taking to Airforce One,
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, George W!

[BeHereNow]

24. Bullies are always cowards...

N/T

[myomy]

26. Yes and furthermore he doesn't give a rat's ass what you think.

.

[redqueen]

28. Exactly - which is why he's worse than a coward - he's a traitor

Giving a 'rat's ass' about what the people think (that's who he's supposed to represent, remember) should be an impeachable offense. He's glibly said as much to a citizen's face, and if he could feel shame he would.

How can Bush's few remaining supporters sleep at night? All the ranting about losing our freedom under Clinton, and now look what Bush has done with the Patriot Act! All the ranting about how the White House was for sale under Clinton, and look what Bush is doing with the Saudis! It must be so hard for them, especially considering he lost the popular vote this time.

No surprise then that the Secret Service is out harranguing Bev for trying to secure our right to vote!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

32. But I thought he was the "compassionate conservative?"

Let's take this moment to savor the heady goodness of the following Dubya quote from Bob Woodward's "Bush At War," which opens chapter 16 of "Bushwhacked" by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose:

"I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."

[SOS]

27. Worse than a coward

He's a bully.
Remember creeps like Bush from High School?
"He can dish it out, but he can't take it".

[sinkingfeeling]

31. I'm 56 yrs. old and I've never seen a grown 'man' that was

such a coward. It's in his eyes and his movements as well as verified by his actions...declare 'war' on this and 'war' on that, lies, free-speech zones, talking to reporters, AWOL, unable to face reality.

[Gothmog]

33. He hid from Vietnam

Bush let someone else fight for him in Vietnam. That is the act of a coward.

[Zero Gravitas]

34. a weakling and a coward

and well as stupid and lazy. Not answering questions without Cheney being there is simply pitiful, how can ANYONE take this fool seriously?

[cmayer]

35. Oh come on! Not wanting to go to Viet Nam doesn't make you a coward.

Most young men of draft age did not want to go to Viet Nam. And a lot got out of it. I don't fault George Bush for not wanting to go.

I don't even fault him for using his connections to get into the Guard. He could and did. I don't find it admirable, but it's not specifically cowardly either.

What's indicative though, is that he got into the Guard through his connections. And that has been the pattern of his life. Does that specifically make him unfit to be President? No. It's just part of the pattern. It's the whole of the pattern that makes him unfit.

I'm not sure that F*head has ever been tested for courage. And that's the only way to find out. So I don't know if he's a coward or not.

[redqueen]

37. A few people have said that avoiding Nam doesn't make you a coward

I'd like to address that here.

I agree.

HOWEVER, bush's campaign team has been maligning Kerry's service for how long now?

ALSO, bush cheerleads war and loves to kill (ref. Karla Faye Tucker). For him to be as bloodthirsty and breathless for war as he is and duck out of service, IMHO, qualfies him as a grade-A COWARD.

[CBHagman]

39. I don't think that's the kind of coward Bush is.

Bush requires a body of people to protect him from scrutiny of any sort. In addition, he seems to need a vast amount of power and adulation. Meanwhile, we've never seen him really have to fight for much of anything -- not employment, not recognition, not a high income, not credibility, nothing.

[ieoeja]

45. What about 9/11?

I can not in my wildest imaginings see Clinton shutting himself away like W did. The Right would have called it grand-standing, of course. But he would have BEEN THERE.

Or Poppy Bush. Or Reagan. Or Carter. Or Ford. Or Nixon. Or LBJ. Or (especially) JFK, Eisenhower, or Truman.

Of course, as little as I thought of W before 9/11 it still took me by complete surprise when he ran and hid. I'd have thought someone would have tied him to a board and drug him out into public to show him "standing tall" if nothing else. But I guess you can't order the president around.

[stanwyck]

49. I'm glad my brother got a deferment

and my brother is no coward. It's the guys who didn't serve who are now so gung-ho who bother me. You don't hear McCain or Hagle beating the war drums as enthusiastically as Bush and Cheney. Rush didn't serve. O'Reilly didn't serve. Nor did Delay, Gingrich, or Lott. Daschle did. I just can't handle the war-mongering coming from guys who are now safely, and smugly, out of harm's way.

[CBHagman]

36. Our mantra, ladies and gentlemen: Bully, coward, liar.

Bush is a BULLY, A COWARD, and A LIAR.

Bully, coward, liar. Shout it out loud.

BULLY, COWARD, LIAR.

[Demonaut]

40. ask yourself? "would he risk his suit to save a childs life"

the man is yellow through and through, wouldnt share a foxhole with this piece of shit

[bobbyboucher]

41. Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle?

Drrr.

[mitchum]

43. NO! He is a motherfucking lowlife chickenshit coward

I detest the thin-skinned ape

[donhakman]

47. Shame on you

Is Bush a coward?
Was Napolean short?

[Asteroid]

48. I voted a big YES!

Coward by day, coward by night.