given the knowledge you know today, would you still have voted for George Bush   

To start off I didn't vote either time for Bush. I knew he was not what our Country needed. I knew he was not going to be a President for the people of this country but more for upper class people, oil tycoons etc. He I felt never cared about the little people, ex. Katrina. We will never no if he had not became President if Obama would be our President today. When McCain picked Palen as his running mate I knew he was going to lose. I sometimes think he did that on purpose to lose. Why would you pick someone that no one knew about and a female at that. No one wanted her to pick a step away from the Presidency. I believe President Obama is going to be one of the best Presidents we have ever had.

yes I would have actually, because John Kerry would have done a MUCH WORSE job than George Bush did. George Bush was an idiot, but at least he had balls. John Kerry was and idiot and a pu$$y rolled all into one package. George Bush was also pretty much screwed no matter which choices he made in the war on terror. Everyone bashed Bush for going into Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction once none were found. However, hypothetically, if Hussein WOULD have had a pile of atomic or chemical weapons, and if he HAD used them to kill hundreds or thousands of people, George Bush would have been criticized for not doing anything to stop it from happening if we had not gone in there to make sure. Some people were going to find fault in Bush's decision no matter WHICH decision he made. He chose to go in, and people criticized him for it. If he had chosen to do nothing, and innocent people would have died, then people would have criticized BUSH for not taking action and trying to prevent it from happening.

Bush made the right decision, because we had no real way of knowing whether or not those weapons were there without going to take a look for ourselves. Surely no one thinks that Saddam could have been trusted to tell the truth about the issue. I surely wouldn't have gambled the lives of hundreds or thousands of people on the fact that Saddam said there was nothing there. Sure, we had those so-called inspection teams (or whatever they were called) who were going in there looking around, but they were not allowed to go around without an escort, so in other words, they was a possibility that they inspection teams were only allowed to see what Saddam wanted them to see. I would have likely made the same decision Bush made on this issue.

Bush DID choose to annoy some issues that he could have taken action on that would have done the American people some good. I am not making any excuses for him by any means, because he was pretty much a lame duck for at least the last five years of his time in office. However, people also need to think about the fact that he had only been president a few months when the attacks of 9/11 took place. He was barely settled into his surroundings good when he started having to deal with the worst attacks on America since the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. I surely wouldn't have wanted to be in his shoes, and I didn't see too many other people offering to take his place either.

the democrats did not have anyone that I would have felt good about voting for.
Like Bob Dole against Bill Clinton. He was ok as a Senator. But anyone who talks about himself in the third person.
In the last election, not one of the candidates that I favored survived until the Missouri Primary. And because of what Ron Paul and his supporters tried to do at the state convention; rtying to steal the states votes away from the rightfull winner, made me sick of him. That was acting like a thief...
ERven IF I had known, I still would have voted for, and worked for; GW Bush for president.
WHY??? Because there was no one better that was running..

i am so proud and happy to say that i did not vote for george w. bush either time! he practically destroyed this country financially and made so many enemies around the world that it is going to take a long time to undo. he really should be brought up on criminal charges in my opinion. i am sure his portfolio is just fine. not sure about the question you asked about whether or not obama would have been elected if not on the heels of all the destruction the bush administration caused. i think i would have to say i think he would have been elected either way because the country was so ready for a change to business as usual, not just bush's way and i think the black community really wanted to see history made by electing a half black/half white president. i think people forget to mention that he is half white more often than not and truely what he is should not be entering into it at all.

Just to claim that I'm not American. But if you blame Bush because of the current crisis, maybe you should raise the same question for Bill Clinton, during the presidency of which the white house launched excessive housing plans and promoted greatly the easy credits which finally turned in toxic assets. So my point is that the roots of the crisis are rather complexed and just an election wouldn't had changed too much.

Never voted for Bush, never voted for Obama. Neither Dems or Repubs seem to really know what they're doing.

Well if people had not bashed Bush so much, Obama would not have become president and undone all the good works done by the previous administrations including that of Bush. Oh and I hope you are happy when your taxes will go up per family for $3,000 a year because Obama wants cap and trade. If you figure that Obama is going to save America forget it. He is going to ruin America. You will see more unemployed, more starvation, more discrimination and part of the blame is because there were those who bashed Bush at every opportunity that when the polls were open, many wanted someone who was against all that Bush put in during his administration.
Oh and the reason that Palin and McCain lost was because all of you bashed Palin but Mrs. Obama was a saint.
So although I am a Canadian and cannot vote, I would have noy voted for Bush, but for a stronger Republican candidate who was more right ring and conservative. He did not go far enough.
Oh and I hope you are happy having to pay $20 a gallon to drive your car, and having to freeze to death in the winter and stifle in the summer because you cannot afford to pay those high gas and food costs that are coming under Obama.

I believe that George Bush did a decent job with the country in the first four years that he was in office. I think that his decision in going into Iraq was correct, but I believe that it should have been planned a little better and that the troops should have had some idea as to what they should be expecting and that they would be there for a long while.
However, I wish I would not have voted for him the second term as that is when I seem to think that the worst problems began with him. I don't think that we would have been better off with John Kerry either and so we had to settle for the better of the two.
I am not sure if Obama would be in or not now,but I am thankful that he is and I think that over a period of time, he will make improvements. I just think that he has to have time to handle the mess that we are in at the moment. We need to remember how long it has been that we have been in a mess and that he can't fix things overnight. I feel sorry for him to have had to walk into the mess that the country was into but he bravely stepped up to the challenge.
I don't know what McCain was thinking when he got Palin as his running mate,but it wasn't a well thought plan. I don't care for her and I believe that she needs to worry about her own family first. It takes a village to raise a child,but I don't think it is the village's responsibility to raise a child who is raising a child.
I know a lot of people will disagree with me,but I believe that we are all entitled to our own opinions.