Poll: Bush Getting Even More Unpopular Out Of Office

[Tangerine LaBamba]

Source: The Huffington Post

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that former President Bush's popularity has dropped since he left office.

When he left office in January, 31 percent of American's viewed him positively. That number has now dropped to 26 percent.

President Barack Obama, meanwhile, is more popular than the past two presidents at this point during their first terms.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/poll-bush-gett...

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I find this inspiring. Even out of office, Chimpy continues to screw up.

I don't ever recall seeing numbers like this. And I'm old ..........................

[MinneapolisMatt]

1. *snort*

[curiousdemo]

39. The verdict is in,

This man is a bonafide Torturer-N-Chief LOSER!

[Xipe Totec]

44. The supreme bleeder n/t

[liberal N proud]

2. With the torture memos and other notable bu$h actions coming known

by the general public (not just DU) this is bound to happen.

[saigon68]

58. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[xxqqqzme]

70. This is true.

Darth & turd blossom weighing in from time to time can't be helpful either. They just remind persons all over again how fucked up everything was.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. you mean . . Ari Fleischer's and Ann Coulter's good efforts were all for

naught?

Ahhhhh poor babies.

[bluestateguy]

4. This actually happened to Bill Clinton in 2001 too, with one exception

Clinton was relatively popular upon leaving office, but he pardoned Marc Rich on his way out of the White House (a terrible thing, in my view). This then set up weeks of nasty news coverage of the now departed Clinton Administration, and his favorables dipped into the 40's.

But Bush was already unpopular upon leaving office, and now his numbers seem to have found a new floor.

[blm]

19. Most didn't 'get' Rich pardon for what it was - a favor for Bush1. The 'Clintons trashed WH' story

that went on for 8 months is what really tanked Clinton's numbers. It was always odd to me that Clintons would let Rove get away with that and not launch a full attack back. But, they let Bush and Rove have all the room they wanted to manipulate that story and others as the Democratic party on the whole took the brunt of the fallout.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

35. You're absolutely right -

most people didn't give a rat's ass about Marc Rich - as if they knew who he was. But, the "they trashed the White House on their way out, even removed the Ws from the keyboard" bullshit was taken as gospel and reported over and over. When the story was found to be false, you recall that the acknowledgment of that was whispered in the girls' room in a Catholic elementary school in Frackville, PA, and that was the extent of the reporting.

I suspect Clinton didn't do a thing to stanch those awful rumors because he was already in bed with Old Man Bush and learning exactly how much HUGH cash he could make as a civilian....................

[bloomington-lib]

54. Aww the "W" thing was fake

I was kinda happy that Clinton "did" that. I thought it was pretty funny.

[No Elephants]

75. The whole story was fake.

[blm]

86. Yes...yet Clintons did little to refute the story as his numbers went down and Bush's went WAY UP.

Gee....why would Bill let Rove and Bush get away with their maneuver for SO many months, and especially when it was hurting the entire party?

[No Elephants]

89. I don't know, but I'm willing to listen, well, read.

[saigon68]

59. learning exactly how much HUGH cash he could make

And he has done that

[No Elephants]

76. Why would Clinton do Bush a favor like that, though?.

[blm]

81. Look into the alliance between GHWBush-Jackson Stephens- Bill Clinton.

Why would ANY Democratic WH side with Poppy Bush and his cronies and protect them throughout the 90s on matters still unresolved from IranContra, Iraqgate, BCCI and CIA drugrunning?

[No Elephants]

90. Thanks, I will.

[eppur_se_muova]

20. "New floor"? Oh, what a paltry imagination you have ...

there's whole levels of floors below this.

[PufPuf23]

24. Deserves a dayglo jumpsuit in the barred basement

living on day old McDonalds.

Oops imagination.

[crimsonblue]

68. According to Dante...

There's about 9 levels left to go....

[JuniperLea]

5. At least he's consistent...

His approval rating has consistently deteriorated

Funny how the number of people who disapprove of Obama's job so far are very much in keeping with W's approval numbers. Hmmm... we should give W his own little island country and ship all his supporters over there!

Gilligan was probably more intelligent... he was certainly a nicer person.

[kestrel91316]

6. By the time he dies, maybe they won't even be able to scrounge up

6 pallbearers for him.

A girl can dream, right?

[Auggie]

15. LOL

[kestrel91316]

16. Hey, Auggie, are you my mailman named Auggie? lol

[Auggie]

38. No,

I'm the Art Director named Auggie.

[kestrel91316]

73. Ok. Wrong Auggie. Hi anyway, lol.

[jmowreader]

17. They won't need to scrounge hard

As a veteran (okay, a really bad one but a veteran nonetheless), Bush is entitled to a full military funeral detail: six pallbearers, seven riflemen carrying three blank rounds, two more riflemen carrying live ammunition to keep people from pissing on his grave until after they get the hole filled in, a Faux Bugle player, a rifleman's sergeant and a second lieutenant to give the flag to Bush's next of kin.

Were it not for that, Bush's pallbearers would be two freepers and a pallet jack.

[Moonwalk]

23. If we're really, really, really lucky....

He maybe, in some crazed, failed attempt at being a suicide bomber, he'll blow himself up and leave nothing to bury? Thus doing away with the pallbearers? As for the riflemen and the Bugler, can we get some really old an crippled vets? Too old to protect the handful of remains from being pissed on?

[jmowreader]

28. Bush's problem is we have too fucking many 19-year-old crippled vets

There's no way the remains won't be pissed on, but with enough armed guards maybe they can protect them until the outhouse is finished.

[Aviation Pro]

29. On a recent episode of Rescue Me....

...Dennis Leary went nuts at his father's funeral (at least in Leary's imagination). My prediction, when Two Shoes shucks his mortal coil, his grave will be the most heavily guarded resting place ever seen.

[tblue37]

31. In keeping with Bush's faux-cowboy, common man-of -the- people act,

I believe that will be when he "Aw-shucks" his mortal coil.

[No Elephants]

77. Shouldn't we call him Four Shoes? He was wearing two shoes when he got two thrown at him.

[DUlover2909]

53. LOL "two freepers and a pallet jack"

[eppur_se_muova]

71. "two freepers and a pallet jack" -- recorded on a cell phone camera for posterity.

I loathe that Bu**sh** is "entitled" to the same treatment as REAL vets like you.

[tclambert]

27. I would love to be a pallbearer for him.

I'm practicing tripping over my own feet. Oops. Oh, no, he spilled out, just like Ayatollah Khomeini! Oh, the horror! By the way, shouldn't we make sure his head is buried separate from his body, or is that just for Rove and Cheney?

[rasputin1952]

45. Pallbearers?...it only takes one person to ...

toss out the bag of dog crap around here...

[Thor_MN]

60. His grave site will need to be connected to a sanitary sewer system

to deal with is left behind by visitors. I want the beer concession that is upwind from it as people will want to have a full bladder as they get there.

[blm]

62. or find 6 people who will admit even voting for him....

.

[montanacowboy]

7. Hey Tangerine...

this is too much - he gets more and more unpopular and Obama just keeps rising!

This must make freeper heads explode all over the country - as the saying from the movie Dangerous Liaisons....

"IT'S BEYOND MY CONTROL" HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA There is nothing they can do to reverse the slide.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. Paisan!

Don't you love this? After all those revisionist rehab appearances by his minions, the numbers keep falling. Apparently, Coulter and Rove and Fleischer and all those other suckasses are even more unpopular than Chimpy.

Do you think those idiots - all the GOPigs - are ever going to catch on and start something new?

Say, something constructive?

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

I've really got to lay off the drugs.................

[LakeSamish706]

8. I bet as more and more info comes out to the general public about his horrific....

crimes he will drop even more. These people should be in jail by now, not out walking around free.

[notadmblnd]

9. of course he is.....

....more and more people are being affected by the policies of the last administration and have begun to realize how screwn they are.

[GreenTea]

10. He's more than likely about 21% the same people who call themselves a dirty-filthy-slimy REPUBLICAN

Never use GOP, right-wing, or conservative to describe these corporate slime, they are republicans and they all vote republican and subscribe to the elitist sick greedy, hateful, lying republican ideology!!

"Democrats sue to make Rossi call himself "Republican" instead of "GOP"

OLYMPIA — The state Democratic Party filed suit Tuesday in an attempt to force Dino Rossi to list his party preference as "Republican" on the November ballot instead of "GOP Party."

Democrats say the Iraq War and low approval ratings for President Bush have left the Republican Party a damaged brand and that Rossi is trying to distance himself by using GOP as his affiliation.

Rossi is running against Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire. He lost to Gregoire by 133 votes in the 2004 election, and polls show this race to be close as well.

Polls by Stuart Elway have suggested many people don't know that GOP and Republican mean the same thing. One recent Elway poll indicated Rossi did better among voters if he used the "GOP" label instead of "Republican."

Republican is a bad name and greedy selfish person.

[ProfessorGAC]

47. GOP Party???

Doesn't the "P" in GOP stand for "party"?

So, he's in the Grand Old Party Party?

That's irretreivably stupid. Apparently, so is he.
GAC

[No Elephants]

78. A Democratic incumbent does not have a healthy lead against a Pub challenger in a blue state?

[Aslanspal]

11. Prediction: SMU will drop the Library

Why? The Torture trail entangles him more and more with a lot of pointing fingers coming out...SMU and others will be horrified and feel the pressure to drop or suspend his Library. Just my prediction , he could also get censored for an amount of time.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

14. Are you old enough to remember

when Duke University was going to house the Nixon Library? (He was a graduate of their law school.)

At the time - 1980-81 - I was working for the man who had been Harry Truman's Chief of Staff, worked in LBJ's White House, and was one of the founders of the Democratic Club here in DC. A great man, a North Carolinian, a Duke grad, undergraduate and law, and Charles S. Murphy hated Dick Nixon with all his heart.

Charlie loved his country and hated what Nixon had done to it.

So, Charlie, who was a Trustee at Duke, a friend of Terry Sanford, who was the president of Duke, notified Sanford that if they went through with this Nixon Library project, he would resign his trusteeship, withdraw all his financial pledges and endowments (which were considerable), and he would encourage others to do the same.

Sanford screwed up and said, essentially, to Charlie, "Sorry you feel that way, but we're going forward with it."

Charlie resigned, yanked his financial support, and started writing letters. (I wrote most of the letters.) He engaged EVERYONE who had gone to Duke, and they grew into a formidable group. I remember getting a call from William Styron, who was also a Trustee, and he was so angry, he could barely speak.

Charlie persisted, and have you noticed where the Nixon Library is located?

I hope some SMU grads will get their backs up like that, but I suspect they're fans of Chimpy ...........................

[Toucano]

18. Mmm! Tasty "witness to history" tidbits!

Thanks!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

22. You'll like this -

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=185ea3b83...

A young Charlie Murphy is on the right.

He used to send me - in our law firm's limousine - to Governor Harriman's mansion in Georgetown to get documents signed. (Charlie and Averell Harriman were both Directors of the Truman Scholarship Fund.)

It was while I was waiting to be escorted upstairs to the Governor's study that I spotted an amazing painting over a breakfront in the huge dining room. I was captivated. It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

After the Governor died, after his widow, Pamela died, I saw the painting again, at the National Gallery in Washington, DC.

It was Van Gogh's "White Roses."

[Toucano]

37. I do like that story.

Maybe you should do a memoir.

[avaistheone1]

49. That library will surely turn into a SMU embarassment.

[blm]

65. I doubt Poppy Bush's library would've survived if he and his cronies weren't protected from certain

exposure and impeachment after the BCCI report was released Dec1992. That protection he got throughout the 90s gave him the ability to polish his shit record into gold nuggets and all this nation got in return was Bush, 9-11, this Iraq war and a DC conventional wisdom mindset of the Reagan-Bush legacies that is ONE HUGE LIE.

[SpiralHawk]

12. "Is it because I screwed America's pooch? Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"I mean, so what if I slept through 9-11, ate cake and golfed during Katrina, lied the nation into a phony war, let my republicon oil cronies charge people $4 a gallon for gas, spied on American citizens, flushed the Geneva Convention down the crapper, divided rather than united, drove America into an abyss of debt, installed Totalitarian rights-destroying policies, smirked my way to failure and shit like that? Big freaking deal. You Americans just can't take a freaking joke. Smirk."

- XCommander AWOL (R - of course)

[CoffeeCat]

21. The reason those numbers dropped off...

...is because a portion of the nutjobs could no longer justify rationalizing
his failure. When Bush was prez, they felt as if they had to stick up
for him and toe the line.

Now, that he's just a poor, brush-clearing sap who lives in Texas--they've moved
on to rationalizing others--like Limbaugh and Gingrich.

At least they stopped. Can you imagine what kind of a person STILL supports
the worst President in the history of this country? Can't they see the mess
we're mopping up--because Bush was a complete failure of epic proportions?

[JHB]

48. Well, those people are wrong about Bush...

Now that he doesn't need the photo ops, the closest he comes to clearing brush is to "supervise" his hired landscapers.

[endarkenment]

25. Within a few years nobody will admit to voting for the turd. nt.

[harun]

82. Yep, but all 60 million of the morons know who they are.

[Stinky The Clown]

26. Poor George

(Imagine Ann Richards' voice)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

36. What I wouldn't give

to hear that sweet voice one more time ...........



And this one, too - now more than ever .............

[santamargarita]

30. Looks like the fascist 1/3 is dwindling...

however, 1 fascist is 1 too many!

[mrbarber]

32. Hopefull this will push him over the edge.....

Not that I give any stock to the tabloid's at the grocery store, but I remember a few weeks back a headline touting: Suicidal Bush's 3 AM phone calls to Rice"

If he isn't suicidal, hopefully this will push him over the edge. Not that I am hoping he kills himself-no, he's to incompetent to even do that right, but what a chuckle it will be, right next to him almost choking to death on a pretzel.

[DearAbby]

85. GOP SUICIDE HOTLINE....Please hold

[DebbieCDC]

33. I love it.

Maybe more people are finally finding out what we here at DU have known for a LONG time.

[anachro1]

34. Geeeeee.

I hope he kills himself out of shame for what he did to our country.

[winyanstaz]

40. Well more news about his crimes are now coming out too...

not to mention people are feeling safer about speaking out.
People are starting to feel his policies where it hurts..their wallets.
I think its all going to come out and it will be interesting to see it when it does.

[Trajan]

41. But ... but .... what about his LEGACY ?!?!?!?

Such a great man deserves the fanfare of a thousand generations to praise his name ....

A regular Ghandi, that man ....

ehem ....

[Algorem]

42. Jerk of jerks

the unflushed turd

[Quantess]

43. 26% is still way too high.

[Frank Cannon]

57. I agree. I don't buy it.

I never believed the "90%" approval rate after 9/11, and I am skeptical about this, as well. I work amongst Republicans. A sizable portion of my family are Republicans. And you won't find a single one who would piss on George Bush if he were on fire.

I'm thinking his true number is more in the realm of 10-15%, because you can never get rid of the left end of the bell curve. But one in four? No way.

[krispos42]

46. Wow, he keeps spiraling, doesn't he?

[unkachuck]

50. "...President Bush's popularity has dropped...."

....he was a failure as a President and now he's a failure as an ex-President....

....low numbers like these don't just happen, you have to work hard for them.

[sasquatch]

51. I think he'll have to move to some country without an extradition treaty with the USA

Never say never.

[Amonester]

52. 26% x 300,000,000 = 78,000,000 americans who R a "lost" cause.

approx.

[Liberal_in_LA]

55. kick!

[DCKit]

56. Who ARE these people?

I'm pretty sure some percentage of the people I know loved him to death, but only a few of those would be stupid or crass enough to admit it publicly.

Guess I should be more understanding. Statistically the 5% of true sociopaths have a following of 15%, so that explains it - Bully Worshippers. I just don't have any (willing) association with that 20% of the population.

[nichomachus]

63. Some of them are related to me

Basically, they support him just to spite "liberals." They have been listening to anti-"liberal" propaganda for 30 years now. They hate liberals and they will ridicule and oppose anything they perceive "liberals" as liking or wanting.

In fact, "liberal" is an epithet for them. Anything or anyone they don't like is a "liberal," just as some younger people use "gay" to indicate they don't like something.

Once, when I was teaching (college), we were having a discussion in class. One young woman was very outspoken and taking what I thought was an untenable position. I went to the board and wrote down some statistics that punched holes in her argument. She looked them, slammed her book shut, and said "Well, those look like liberal numbers to me." She then turned and faced the wall and wouldn't speak for the rest of the class.

[progressoid]

67. Related to me too.

I know people like the woman in your class. Anything (even undeniable truths) are liberal biases.

[TheWatcher]

61. And he still has yet to be held accountable for anything.

But at least he's unpopular.

Ah the crumbs of progress.

[krkaufman]

64. The Republicans should realize that going after the Bush Admin ...

... for torture would be a boon to bringing their party back into favor.

[yurbud]

69. that would be a great sell!

Then we could still people their ideas suck.

[blm]

72. amongst other things.....you're so right...IF they truly cared, exposing BushInc would definitely

make them heroes in this country and in the world. But....it's apparent most Republicans (and some powerful Democrats) SIDE with the fascist agenda that the Bushes have been leading for decades.

[4_TN_TITANS]

66. I love how that he's having to hide since leaving.

Except for showing up at a ball game and another local event, I've heard nothing about W. I don't even cringe anymore when someone mentions 'the President'. Love it!

[Moderate2008]

74. Is it possible that Bush could ever come back like Truman did? (nt)

[No Elephants]

80. No.

[BlueIris]

92. You just keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. nt

[No Elephants]

79. You mean, the Bush Legacy Project is not a success? Whodda thunk?

[radfringe]

83. :snicker:

[Enrique]

84. this is unfair to Bush

now that Obama is in office, people are reminded what a president is supposed to be like. How can Bush be expected to compete with that?

[Uncle Joe]

87. Give him a break, at least Bush is good at something.

If he maintains his momentum, I believe Bush could become the first President to break in to the - poll rankings.

[Infinite Hope]

88. They see Obama's actions and see what should have been the last 8 years...

then become every more upset with Bush.

[MilesColtrane]

91. My prediction for Bush's retirement years:

Cirrhosis