SHOULDVE STAYED A CHEERLEADER AT ANDOVER

W is pretty polarizing. I hate 90% of his policies but he does stick by what he says (wrong as it may be). Don't like the guy but I can think of people a lot worse.

Might be the most polarizing figure (or one of them) on this list. . .Prince ChickenHawk and his legion of 'faithful' followers, despite untold damage and irresponsibility, still find a way to look themselves in the mirror and then tell themselves and others that this guy really, really, really was the man for the job. It's the difference between faith and intelligence and there is indeed true polarization here. . .

If he was more polarizing, he would be colder than the North Pole.

We liberals can't believe we could possibly lose to this guy. It is so hard to see the attraction. Although I rarely agree with someone like George Will, it seems funny that an intellectual conservative can argue for what seems like simple minded ideas and thoughts.

In my estimation, the polarization of opinions regarding our last two presidents is partly reflective of a culture war that has been brewing in America. A large section of the country wishes to return to a time and place that is forever gone. The other big chunk of the population chafes at the imposition of any standards or measures of "right" and "wrong". This doesn't apply to all American voters, but a lot of them roughly fall into one of these two categories. I may be one of the most "middle of the road" people that I can think of in my view of GWB. I'm a Republican but I didn't vote for him in either '00 or '04. And I suspect that a lot of what he has done (the Terry Schiavo incident, the Patriot Act, etc.) would infuriate me more than it has if it was not for his predecessor in the White House. The plain truth is I'm just so glad that Billary is gone that I'm willing to cut his replacement a lot of slack. That and the fact that he went into Iraq and played "for keeps" (a loooooooonng overdue measure by the United States) makes me kind of ambivalent about the guy.

As Wavebacker so cogently stated, Bush has effectively divided this country between Bush-lovers and Bush-haters. He furthers his agenda by utilizing the tools of fear-fear of homosexuals, fear of terrorists. I hate to break it to ya folks, but the homosexuals are not plotting to take over the country by marrying en masse. And though there is a terroristic threat, that threat did not come from Saddam Hussein. Bush and company love to focus on this distracting, tangential subjects so nobody will notice their preference for the military-industrical complex. Also, it's a lot easier to go after a troublemaker like Hussein than it is to go after the bin Ladens, who may have ties to the Bush dynasty.

Is there any other choice ( Yes there is)? Bush divided the country like no other President in both elections. He appeals to a certain segment of America while the other half cannot stand him. He just doesnt get it or doesnt care.

The 2004 presidential election (and its winner, George W. Bush) has divided the US as I have never seen it before. Staunch liberals are in a deep depression, Newsweek and Time are publishing articles on how to cope with your disappointment and disgust (I don't remember similar articles after the surprise election or dreaded re-election of Bill Clinton, as nearly identical was the reaction of most republicans), pundits are exhorting the liberal faithful to rally behind McAuliffe, Hillary and Howard Dean as uniters and the republican rank-and-file just can't help itself but to perform the most outrageous verbal touchdown dances over their liberal friends. One thing IS certain: the 527 loophole in the highly touted, bi-partisan supported campaign finance reform law contributed mightily to this rancor by removing the responsibility of the candidates for what went on in their respective campaigns. Another sure thing: it won't lessen in 2008.

Bush is more bipartisan then people give him credit for. Under Bush we've actually seen the greatest increase in social spending (such as education and healthcare) since Lyndon Johnson's great society! His tax cuts have helped the poor as well as the rich and he has been instrumental in giving substantial amounts of aid to the suffering worldwide from battling AIDs in Africa to helping the victims in Darfur. As a liberal I'm not exactly thrilled at his re-election but I don't think his first term has been ALL bad.

When I saw this weblist, I knew right away that the DNC ambassadors to RIA would jump on George Bush and claim him to be polarizing. People like gmanod are forgetting that the President declared a War on Terror. You know, the terror that killed thousands of innocent people on 9/11? You know, the terror that has sponsored the actions of those who feel they have a right to chop off the heads of anyone right off the street? Diplomacy is essential in the world, but you cannot stop protecting your country for the sake of making every other country in the world, happy!! GWB knows that and just because he didn't make Paris or Berlin smile when we went to war- doesn't make him a polarizing politician.

Yes, has sought to divide America by religion and race and then reap the rewards. Hopefully, our democracy is not so weak as to allow one of such evil designs to rob us of our Republic in plain sight. He pushes an extreme right-wing agenda, and when I say extreme I mean extreme for American politics, not Michigan Militia. This has greatly divided the nation as he has consistently used Sept 11 to justify or brush aside major policy changes that he has just steamrolled through. I don't understand why people keep saying the democrats have moved to the far left, Bush is a moderate conservative. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about politics knows that the Democratic party has changed little since the time of FDR, if anything it has moved much farther to the right in recent years in an attempt to stop the consistent Republican successes across the country. The idea that the democrats are left-wing is utterly incomprehensible, maybe because I study politics, but it is just so obvious that since Barry Goldwater ran there has been a fundamental difference in the Republican party. It went from moderate to ultra-conservative, religious, big business...it's crazy.

They sold this phony to the moronic American public as The Great Uniter, yet he hasn't displayed a single effort or ability in this regard. If anything, virtually everything he's done while as President suggests the contrary. The country is even more divided than when he first frauded his way into office, and when you consider the great unity in the nation that resulted from 9/11, a unity that the Bush administration squandered, this diseased piece of chickendung has to go down in history as the most divisive President ever. He's spent a good deal of time demonizing anyone who's politically left of Attila the Hun, and has insisted on very questionable positions and initiatives that were specifically designed to undermine our national solidarity. For example: that ridiculous and unconstitutional Faith Based nonsense, his championing of a ban on partial birth abortions, a procedure performed so infrequently as to be totally inconsequential, his opposition to stem cell research, which would put to very good use embryonic material that would otherwise be flushed down the toilet, his obviously preferential treatment towards the rich and the corporations, which are two entities hardly in the need of extra protection or enfranchisement, this useless oil war in Iraq, his jingoistic rah-rah trumpeting of insignificant faux-patriotic issues like saluting the flag and that notable exercise in brainwashing known as The Pledge of Allegiance. He's obviously not content with merely dividing this nation, as seen in his alienation of the United Nations, his dismantling of what was once known as The Westen Alliance, his dissing of long-standing allies, his arrogant dismissal of the rest of the Free World for the sake of his ill-advised misadventure in Saddamland. Get rid of this creep already so that perhaps Americans can regain their forward traction as a people.

Well, I could say something but I guess you know what I think.

Definitely polarizing. People can generally be divided into two camps where George W Bush is concerned: Most Embarrassing President Ever or Ordained By God.

He can't afford to be.