Bush Announced Most Unpopular President in US History

It was just recently announced today that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in US history. At this point, Bush’s approval rating stands at a slim 29% – even lower than President Nixon’s rating when he left office. According to Keating Holland, the CNN Polling director, this is the first time in US history that a president’s disapproval rating has broken the 70% line. However, we must look at this in many different ways as well.

In the last 25 years, US foreign policy has been in shambles. From involvement in Vietnam and Korea to the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars, the United States has been fighting every enemy that comes up on their radar. While Bush made majority of the bad decisions, we need to understand that Congress and the CFR are also a part of this problem. Because of their spineless approach and/or shadow government approach, very little has been done to restore the US to the foreign prime it had years ago.

We live in an era where the American people demand three things: lower taxes, better healthcare, and a non-intervention policy. The American voters, especially constitutional Conservatives, would agree that we need to forget about problems abroad and remember the battles we need to fight here at home. With unemployment at over three million people and very little being does to cease the economic recession that is on the horizon, we may very well be dealing with the worst president in US history.

However, we must remember that Bush is not just a failure for his actions in Iraq and as president. Throughout US history, it was the very conceptual ideas on how to run our country that divided men and brought out the worst. It was the very feud between Adams and Jefferson that lead to the splitting of the Federalist Party. We must remember that we are all Americans – Republicans or Democrats, Conservatives or Liberals. In the end, it is the health of this great nation that we must all agree to work together in every way we can.

How Do We See The World?

As of late, I have had the pleasure of reading both Sophie’s World and Ishmael in order to fulfill a class requirement. However, I found that I gained a lot of in-sight because of these books. I was able to look into a lot of famous philosophers and thinkers that I have never had the pleasure to read. However, the books also gave me a new way to look at everything. Then again, all forms of philosophy incorporate that the reader or pupil tries to look at something that might be everyday or common in an entirely new perspective.

The most intriguing part of the books was the approach to Man’s ultimate destiny. Now to a talking gorilla like Ishmael, the ultimate destiny of Man is revealed to be to destroy the planet and to use it to whatever their hearts’ desire. To others though, Man may have a different destiny. To a man like Immanuel Kant, one is decisive of his or her own destiny. In many ways, this is because humans cannot always assure themselves of the Absolute Truth of anything. Man can just as much prove that God exists and controls the world through religion as they can prove that the world was formed by the Big Bang. In the end, we are incapable of philosophically discovering the absolute truth.

Then there are others that say God is an absolute and that reasoning cannot exist without him. St. Augustine and others have said that it was though God’s creation of the world that one would gain a better understanding of reality in the world. After all, that follows the theory that in order for us to truly interpret the world, we need to understand the miracle of its creation. However, philosophical discussion of God is like that of trying to debate on the subject of whether the chicken or the egg came first: the argument can go on and on.

In the end, we need to realize that we need to live life to the fullest and do what we can to make ourselves in this dog-eat-dog world.