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President Bush: Where He Went Wrong

Outline

Thesis: In the past five years, President Bush has proven himself to be an unsuitable and incapable president due to several problems concerning social and economic stability in the U.S., foreign affairs, and military issues

I. Introduction

II. Social and economic issues
A. Social problems
1. Faith-based initiative
2. Gay Marriage
3. Abortion
4. Underfunding of "No Child Left Behind Act"
B. Economic problems
1. Stock market declining
2. Overall inflation
3. Gasoline prices
4. Iraqi War funding

III. Foreign Affairs
A. How the world views the U.S. & President Bush
B. Bush disregarded the U.N. policy of Iraqi War
C. Temporary Worker Program
D. Darfur, Sudan Genocide

VI. The Iraqi War
A. 9/11 and the plans to fight terror
B. Osama Bin-laden and Afghanistan
C. Troops invade Iraq
D. The cost of war
1. Monetary costs
2. Soldiers

V. Conclusion
Since the beginning of America, all presidencies and elections have been surrounded by some controversy. However, the 2000 election of our current president, George W. Bush inflated the discord of such an influential event to a whole new level. Even from the beginning, Bush was not favored by the majority of the American public. Though Bush's political opponent, Al Gore, conceded the election after a lengthy thirty-six day legal battle, Gore departed the campaign with the higher amount of popular votes; 539, 897 more to be exact. President Bush won the election by a mere five electoral votes (The United States Election of 2000). Since then, the public opinion of Bush has steadily decreased. In the past five years, President Bush has proven himself to be an unsuitable and incapable president due to several problems concerning social and economic stability in the U.S., foreign affairs, and military issues.

On the home front, the presidency of George W. Bush has caused numerous social and economic problems. While the...