See George W. Bush for a detailed biography and information about his current presidency, and George W. Bush presidential campaign, 2004 for a description of his second presidential campaign.

Campaign Platform

Bush's original platform, prior to a 2001 economic downturn, the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, and the War on Terrorism (though domestic policy has non changed significantly):

Compassionate Conservatism: A motto "Compassionate Conservatism" was endlessly used, abused, debated, & interpreted when you took a Presidential campaign of 2000. "Compassionate Conservatism" is the title of the book by Marvin Olasky, with the Preface by George W. Bush. Bush is typically used when co-joint author. Olasky & Bush develop supported providing public funding to religious depending good-hearted organizations claiming that these organizations come extra experient, & further effective, at providing services to the poor people. Critics of this construct claim that a Bush policy is aimed supplementary at supporting, & so establishing, religious institutions than supporting a deprived, & that it violates a "Establishment Clause".

Income Class action (hundreds to thousands of dollars) Typical Cost (dollars) 0-10 5 10-20 63 20-30 204 30-40 351 40-50 500 50-75 820 75-100 1,776 100-200 2,710 200-500 5,527 500-1,000 17,605 1,000+ 88,873

Economy: His slogan was, "Whoever pays taxes gets a tax break". A rich salary a virtually all taxes, & a todays patterns weighs a income tax against a upper income tax bracket. Bush besides supported raising a Earned Income Tax Credit, which would primarily benefit a moo brackets of income-tax-affected citizens. Education: policy named No Child Left Behind, includes mandatory national touching & a few trend lines for school vouchers. Energy: a Bush campaign supports a comprehensive energy reform bill which includes initiatives for energy conserving technologies likewise when decreasing the foreign dependence in oil across increased domesticated production & the apply of non-fossil fuel depending energy production methods.

Because of the Bush Administration's close modems by having numerous energy corporations, many of Bush's Cabinet members keep close at hand came under brobdingnagian scrutiny from either environmental groups, particularly Steven Griles, the deputy secretary of the Doi. National Environmental Strategies (NES), the oil & barking spiders lobbying business firm Griles worked for, is presently paying him $284,000 the year when a share of a $1.One million payout for his client base. When deputy secretary of a Interior, Griles is charged by having overseeing & revamping environmental regulations that affect the gains of his previous clients & NES’s todays clients.

Redesign of armed services by using emphasis in supermodern devices, flexible tactics, speed, less international deployment, fewer troops. This includes getting the technique to defend against ballistic missile attacks, despite hard objections each domestically & internationally. Numbers of commentators were critical of Bush while, inside his super 1st policy statement when a September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Bush reiterated his intent to place missile attack interventiin highest on his names of priorities (despite a fact that there is no such formulas stand prevented a nature and severity of surreptitious attack a united states had really, non theoretically, experienced). Nevertheless, more commentators keep close at hand endorsed Bush's position, noting, e.g., a continuing development of long-range missile technology by North Korea, along with that united states's threats to resume its nuclear weapons program. [[Category:George W.