Talk:Political positions of George W. Bush

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Creation

I feel that this article is truly need. There are currently similar articles, such as Political positions of Hillary Rodham Clinton or Political positions of Barack Obama, and i think we need an article on George W. Bush's political positions. I have created the article with sub sections used on Hillary Clinton's positions page to give ideas of what should go on here. We have discussed this page being created on Talk:George W. Bush, and it was seen as a good idea. But since no one actually got around to starting, I took the liberty to get the rock rolling, hopefully the page will rapidly grow after this.--cooljuno411 06:08, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to note that this page was created per discussion on Talk:George W. Bush.--cooljuno411 06:46, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, but you may want to gather some info before creating the page. C1k3 (talk) 08:04, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to help expand--cooljuno411 08:07, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I've removed the POV tag because there has been no discussion on this talk page. If you think this article violates the NPOV policy, please point out specific examples. If we cannot come to an agreement, the tag will be restored. szyslak (t) 11:20, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Abortion

With accomplishments like the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, welfare reform aimed at providing for the unborn, adoption tax credits, funding CPCs, providing prenatal care and the Abortion Non-Discrimination act cannot be acceptably summarized as "legislation to restrict abortion rights." - Haymaker (talk) 19:06, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nor can they be summarized as "pro-life legislation," because a discussion in which you participated determined that we must describe the laws' effects, rather than using propaganda language that doesn't convey any information. Would you like to suggest alternate phrasings? Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 19:20, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What is the legal effect of an adoption tax credit? - Haymaker (talk) 20:04, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're apparently the expert on Bush-era legislation - you tell me. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 20:08, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't conform to the language you're pushing, I'll give you that one for free. - Haymaker (talk) 22:08, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We have an article named pro-life. What's the big deal if we use the term in the body of an article? This objection makes no sense. Or is there another explanation...? Lionel (talk) 00:15, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We've had long conversations which resulted in the article (currently) being called "pro-life"; we also had a long conversation which resulted in the phrase "pro-life legislation" being deemed verboten. It is your responsibility to achieve a new consensus, rather than tag-teaming to keep a phrase that consensus is specifically against. Now, unlike Haymaker you weren't part of the previous discussion and so you may be unaware, but just so you know, there currently stands a loose consensus against describing laws (rather than people, who can identify however they like) with propaganda terms that don't say what the laws actually do. Instead, we should describe the legislation. So our friend Haymaker, for example, might write "supporting parental notification for minor girls who want abortions, adoption tax credits, funding for crisis pregnancy centers," etc. etc. God knows the section isn't so long right now that we can't add information that actually tells the reader something, and writing content would certainly be more productive than merely following me around and reverting my edits. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 04:30, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Israel

What about Israel? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.103.181.28 (talk) 20:49, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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