Essay | The Presidency of George W. Bush

George Bush is an incompetent President.

Imagine that a possible felon, an unconvicted deserter and a drunk was handed presidency of the US on a plate by his father and his father's rich friends, despite the people of the most powerful country in the world voting for the opposing candidate, and that this man, when in office, doesn't even read his own briefing papers and thinks that Africa is a nation, not a continent..

In this day and age you would not think that this would be allowed to happen, especially when decisions made by this leader have a knock on impact on other countries, such as the UK, and endangers the whole world by putting him in charge of nuclear weapons and relations with other nuclear powers, which he needs the intelligence to negotiate with. This is the man who made a speech in which he seemed surprised that...
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