A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president.
“No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup Poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president’s disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark,” said Keating Holland, CNN’s polling director…
CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider adds, “He is more unpopular than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned from the presidency in August 1974…”
The poll also indicates that support for the war in Iraq has never been lower. Thirty percent of those questioned favored the war, while 68 percent opposed it.
The numbers on the Iraq war come on the five-year anniversary of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” moment on board the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, when he proclaimed that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”
I wonder how those percentages are reflected among our readers?
Thanks, K B
#60–gq–talking point or just really that uninformed? Please describe how you think the Dems are “in control” of congress? Please go deeper than they have a majority of members in both houses.
Looks like you need to view “How a Bill becomes Law” again. That gem must be on the web somewhere. If I thought you cared, I’d find it for you.
#59 – It’s not like this ‘approval rating’ matters at all. You didn’t vote for the numbskull but he’s STILL your leader. Twice!
No he isn’t.
He’s a servant of “the people” and just doesn’t seem to understand that.
>>Who on earth will you cry about next year if
>>your guys control all three bodies of congress.
Won’t be anything to cry about then, son. America will be back on track to greatness.
ps: What the fuck does “all three bodies of Congress” mean?
#63 My mistake, I meant both bodies of Congress and the Presidency.
America will be back on track to greatness.
I’ll be holding you to your statement. I bet this time next year, things will be just as fucked up or worse then today.
#60 – “Your team” controls the congress and have done absolutely nothing since taking control.
Nothing?
They’ve passed no legislation? Held no hearings? Nothing? They’ve just milled about in Congressional gameroom playing foozeball?
You are a liar or just incredibly ignorant.
I’m not happy with “my guys” or with your guys or with the media who have hoodwinked us into voting for history making candidates instead of the best candidates for the job…
But Congress has actually been a particularly busy bunch this past year.
I’m not doing your homework.
You think “your” guys are so great, incorruptible and almost “god like”
Show me where I said that and then maybe I’ll go on… You are full of crap because your back is against a wall, your man is a sham, and you have nothing to counter with.
Government is a complicated thing… which you seem to have no appreciation or understanding of.
Anyway… It’s Friday and it’s 8… I’m done…
#14
Bono forgot that Bush’ job as President of *USA* is to do good in/for the USA – not Africa 😉
If he was “President of Africa” it would have been great acomplishment, but for President of USA it is meaningless.
I have nothing against helping others (*if* we can afford it, which is another matter), but clearly fighting AIDS in Africa is not what we elect Presidents for, don’t we?
Bobbo, I suggest you take another look at where you get your news. You are clearly being fed propaganda. You talk about 80,000 Jewish voters, Pat Buchanan got 3407 votes in Palm Beach County. So the number is more like 3000 Jews if you discount the fact that Pat got 7000 votes in the same county 4 years earlier. The 100K black voters is also inflated.
#67–Mike==I’m sure you are right and thanks for correcting me. Bad events grow in the memory. I’ll try not doing that again==I could just as easily been vague.
#52
Actually, it purely based on results. Have Gore or Kerry ever been successfully elected to the Presidency? I could use your logic to claim that *all* candidates from both parties going back to Washington were all *electable*. The proof is in the results. Did they get elected? We can talk all day about someone being electable or specifically, potentially electable before an election but to claim after the fact that person X was electable when they lost is nonsense. That equivalent to claiming that the Buffalo Bills were a Super Bowl quality team.
#54
> I am certain Bush stole an
> election and crashed our country
I have no doubt that there was election corruption. However, I believe that it was equivalent on both sides. In fact, I suspect that the single biggest reason that the Democrats have not put up a fuss about 2004 is that they were as guilty of fraud as the Republicans.
Gore was closer to being electable IMO than Kerry and that does not say much. IMHO, Kerry is a loser. He weaseled his way into those Purple Hearts, played the system to get the metals that he did, married into wealth and parlayed all that into a seat in the Senate. He may be a successful weasel but he is a loser as a person. He is a scumbag of the first order IMO. Except for Hillary, he is pretty much the only person they could have nominated that would encourage me to vote against Bush. Mondale and Dukkais were simply idiots but Kerry is despicable. I suspect that most Republicans you ask will not say that Bush was a great choice but that he was better than the alternative. If Hillary wins the nomination, 2008 will be more of the same.
That should read:
“Except for Hillary, he is pretty much the only person they could have nominated that would encourage me to vote ‘for’ Bush. “
A sense of time is one of the HUGE cultural differences between the east and west.
While Bush was strutting around in his cod piece declaring “mission accomplished,” Iraqis returned to their home villages where they sat, drank tea and talked about how they, their kids and even their grandkids were going to expel the infidel invaders.
We American need to understand that it took ten years to expel the Soviets and the Afghanis thought that was fast — they were prepared to take 50 years, 100 or even more to do it.
#25, gq,
RE #72,
oopps, I messed up my tags, sorry. The last two quoted paragraphs should be:
A The Toledo Blade reported that in the summer of 2004, 28,000 voters were “erased” from the Lucas County voter registration rolls. The purge included voters like Barbara and Ralph George “who first registered to vote for John F. Kennedy in 1960 and had lived in the same East Toledo house for 44 years.”
And last of all,
BY Ohio’s Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, Franklin County election officials have ordered the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation to seize as an official crime scene some 15 touch-screen voting machines that had produced improbable results in a state-wide 2006 election.
In addition, a bogus Homeland Security Alert that led to 2004 general election vote counting shenanigans in a key southwestern Ohio county is under renewed investigation. It is well documented and widely believed that numerous election “irregularities” orchestrated by J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio’s former Secretary of State, succeeded in stealing Ohio’s 20 electoral votes for George W. Bush in 2004, delivering to him an undeserved, catastrophic second term as President
There, I hope I fixed them.