We’re not accustomed to giving President George W. Bush kudos for a job well done, but in one regard he’s exceeded all expectation: Junior has succeeded in turning half the population solidly against him. In the last three months, Bush’s approval ratings nationwide have dipped by 10 percentage points, and a recent study by the Pew Research Center for the People… return to article
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Reader Comments (13)Page 1 of 1 pagesSo Bush is back where he started from. The scary thing is just how popular—and well-funded—he remains. A lot of his resiliency might have to do with the weakness of the Kerry candidacy. Does any progressive really believe Kerry is very strong on issues of social and economic justice or more peaceful foreign policy? Til the ruling classes have a real crisis of self-doubt, nothing will change.
Posted by Charles Jannuzi on Apr 1, 2004 at 1:39 AM If the news media did it’s job and reported the actions of the Bush administration we would be talking prison sentences, not election numbers.
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Posted by TvNewsLies on Apr 1, 2004 at 1:43 AM All I want to know is what happened to that other 50%? Did they sneak off and get a full-frontal lobotomy while we weren’t looking?
I fear that if we get another four years of this bozo our streets will look like down town Bagdad!
Posted by Al Sniff on Apr 1, 2004 at 2:02 AM lincoln was right: ‘w’ isn’t fooling all the people all the time. unfortunately, he and his cabal are totally amoral and a-ethical and will do whatever it takes to get and retain power. they believe their money gives them the right to do and say whatever it takes. it’s the right of everyone else to pay the price.
bush knew and he has to go!
Posted by nathan on Apr 1, 2004 at 3:18 AM i am afraid of bush, i am afraid of his followers, i am afraid of what they are doing to this country, to the world.
from byron:
“This is the patent age of new inventions,
For killing bodies, and for saving souls,
All propagated with the best intentions.”
Posted by am on Apr 1, 2004 at 2:26 PM I am also afraid. Our government has become the neighborhood bully-immoral, lying, reckless fucks-I’m no historian, but, isn’t the u.s. government doing basically what the Germans did in Europe in the late 30’s?
Posted by pjd on Apr 1, 2004 at 5:03 PM I fail to see how blind the ‘conservative’ voters are. Trillions in debt - better than five trillion by Dubya and co. Biggest deficit of trade, took a federal surplus (2000) into into the biggest deficit ever . Still killing our young soldiers. Impersonating a Navy Pilot. Hey"W” you are overselling “STUPID”
Posted by Bob on Apr 2, 2004 at 4:50 AM How can any honest American still follow this clown, he has decimated the economy and strength of our country, every American should be outraged
Posted by Steve Eschler on Apr 2, 2004 at 3:43 PM If you guys think “George” is bad - well you do not live in the State of Florida where “Jeb” reigns! I no longer consider Florida as Florida - it is Now called “Jeb Land”. God - Help the State of Florida!!!
Posted by Shelly Darby on Apr 2, 2004 at 5:17 PM I recently saw a joke circulating on the Internet—
Question: What do you call a Bush voter who is not a millionaire?
Answer: A sucker.
It never ceases to amaze me that any working or middle class person, much less any woman or person of color, could favor Bush. My only explanation is that if the average IQ is 100, then half ther population has an IQ under 100. Ergo - Bush voters. It’s hard to believe that anyone with an IQ over 100 could not see through the lies, coverups, bullying of dissenters, degredation of civil rights, economic disaster, and environmental fiasco that characterize this administration. Just the loud sucking noises created by the movement of wealth into the top 1% of the population should be a heads up for the rest of us.
Posted by LeeAnn Gallucci on Apr 5, 2004 at 3:33 PM You say in November the voters will “bring it on?” And I ask: bring who on? John Kerry? Is he not just another Yale, Skull and Bones alumni who is as much a child of priviledge and member of the same elite insatiably greedy class that Bush is enriching through this current presidency? Do you really think the American people are being given any kind of real choice in the coming presidential election? I don’t. I see it as a loss either way with business as usual no matter who wins. Sadly, I remember being told as an impressionable youngster that if one worked hard and kept his nose clean one could someday grow up to be president. Not true. Only the children of the wealthy and the elite get to do that. Hell, even if somebody from a modest background somehow got through to run for office, he would have to sell his soul to those same elites just to get there and his own people would no longer recognize him. I ask you, humbly, where is our great democracy? America has sold it’s soul and now the rich and greedy rule while the country sinks deeper and deeper into debt while making more and more enemies by abusing its power. I don’t like where we are heading. Indeed, it frightens me.
Posted by Al C on Apr 5, 2004 at 7:37 PM Great job, funny and well-written. . . “crotch-grabbing conduct in the war on terror” was great.
Good use of statistics too.
Al is right about the priviledge thing. . . Nowadays if you work hard and keep your nose clean you can barely buy a house much less become President. Of course, John Kennedy and FDR weren’t really “men of the people” either - for that matter, neither were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin.
Bill Clinton was partly a great President because he came from nothing, and understood what “the economy” means to ordinary people. Obviously “the economy” is important for the vast majority of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. . . George Bush is a terrible one precisely because he has no idea what life is like for 99.5% of us.
This crony capitalism is basically communism under an American flag. The sooner our republicans and conservatives realize that their party has turned it’s back on smaller government, fiscal responsibility and “get big govt off my back” the better off everyone will be.
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