Show of hands--who knew, back in 2001?

[Arkana]

Back in 2001, after 9/11, King Turd's approval ratings were around 90%. My question is for the 10% who NEVER approved of him--and I can proudly say I was one of them.

Did you know that King Turd's presidency would ultimately end up like his father's--failed, marked by unrest, massive political divides, and political scandal? Or was it a shock to you when the shit started to hit the fan on them?

[Guy Fawkes]

1. I'm still not surprised by how bad he is...

I, for one, bet his approval ratings were a sham. Even now, I bet his approval is way lower then we're told.

[Aimah]

2. I knew before he was elected that if he won this would happen.

He's completely incompetent.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. I knew it during the campaigns, that if that shithead imbecile useless

criminal fuck was allowed to run the country, he'd fuckin destroy it, turn it into a facist form Christian domionionist shithole theocracy, and ruin everything he touched. Just like every business he ever ran - they all ended up dead, and only survived as long as they did because his dad would pull in favors from the rich Saudis and they'd prop him for a year or two.

I knew, absolutely, that Fuckstick would do nothing but damage to this country, and massive amounts of it.

The only thing I didn't see was America willing to bend over twice for that anal raping piece of shit. I knew Americans were fucking stupid, but even I didn't think they were that goddamned stupid.

[RevCheesehead]

14. Rabrrrrrr.....

I really wish you'd work on expressing your feelings more. ;)

[ikojo]

25. Rabrrrrrr.....I so enjoy your posts

Please don't hold anything back.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. I knew it was going to be bad...

but I never expected it to get this bad. Bush & Co. have wrought more damage on our country and our planet than any other administration I can remember.

They are truly in a league of their own.

There have been so many times I feared they would never topple. At this point, I would be thrilled if we were to make him completely ineffectual for the remainder of his term.

[Floogeldy]

5. Yes. I knew.

I knew he was an idiot and a liar.

Honestly, it only took me about five seconds to figure that one out!

[LizW]

6. I knew Bush was bad, but

I had no idea of the monolith of evil that is the GOP. And even though I am much wiser and more informed now, I am still shocked at their single-minded, relentless looting of the nation, their maniacal transfer fo wealth from the middle to class to the super rich, and their completely evil, soulless, disregard for the less fortunate. That still stuns me daily.

[hippywife]

7. I knew it was going to be bad...

but I had no idea just how bad and evil it would be.

[Omphaloskepsis]

32. Ditto..

[MrScorpio]

8. Me

I knew that it was only a matter of time

No shit

[chknltl]

9. Yes I did.

I knew in my heart that his crap would catch up with him, what surprised the hell out of me was how long it took the American people to wake up. I honestly expected him to lose the last election.
I have said from day one that the shrub could not lead me out of a burning building... It pains me that my fellow Americans have been so gullible. This does not mean that I am any less gullible than anyone else or smarter. I had an intuitive feeling about this idiot which has never changed: He was not, is not and never will be fit to be the President Of The United States Of America.

Perhaps it could be said that I was "briefly skeptical" during his State of The Union Speech prior to the war but "briefly skeptical" is as close as I have ever come to actually believing ANYTHING he has ever spoken. I told my kids prior to his first election that if he becomes President that would be the end of Democracy as we know it. I knew it would be bad but never in my wildest imaginings could I have seen it get this bad. I held the American public in higher regard than this. Silly me huh?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

10. Count me among the 10%ers.

I thought he sucked before, during, and after 9/11.

[Mz Pip]

11. I was a 10%

and I really really really wanted to be proven wrong. I did not want war, I did not want world scorn, I did not want religious crackpots wearing out the rug in the oval office.

I really wanted to be wrong. But sad to say I was right. THere is no comfort in it.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Aristus]

12. I've been against him since 1999 when I first heard that the

putrid little fuckwad was going to run for President. Since then, I have NEVER said "Well, maybe he's not so bad..." or "Hey! He did better than I thought he would!" or "Wow! I guess God made him President to guide us through September 11th". None of that shit. I've despised the brainless non-testicle-bearing runt since day one. I'd be happy to be vindicated for recognizing his arrogance, idiocy, incompetence, pettiness, soullessness, odiousness, disingenuousness, dishonesty, selfishness, mean spirit, and stubbornness, if it weren't for the fact that Americans and Iraqis are dying because of all of that.

I don't want to fight him to the death; I want to fight him 'to the pain'. I want to leave him in anguish. Wallowing in freakish misery forever.......

[Arkana]

16. Please, tell us how you really feel.

:P

[Aristus]

17. Yeah, I know.

Ambiguity is one of my failings. B-)

[hfojvt]

19. there was one point for me

in January of 2003. All that sabre rattling and massing of armies seemed to have worked - it got weapons inspectors in and enforced co-operation. If he had listened to our "focus group" and if the Byrd resolution had passed. If there had never been a war, I would have had to admit he did something good. But, of course, he started the war anyway, and so far has gotten away with it. I am not sanguine about 2006, yet. Too many Senators are running for re-election in red states. I have not even heard yet who is running against Ryun or Talent.

[johnnie]

13. I think his 90% approval was bullshit

There were still a hell of a lot of people I know that still thought georgie was an idiot on 9-12-01.

I never once thought he was doing a good job. He is a pea-brained imbecile that did to America what he did to Texas.

[6000eliot]

37. I agree.

Almost everybody I knew still hated him even on 9/12/01. Especially after his cowardly running away.

[NMMNG]

38. I agree

I believe it was creative, selective polling--if not outright fabrication. Anything to keep him looking like a saint so he could push his "War on Terror" through. :puke:

[MarianJack]

His 90%...

...was American unity.

MANY of those polled would have also said that they would NEVER vote for him or would have been happier with Clinton in the White House on 9/11.

If, of course, they'd been asked!

[MarianJack]

44. His 90%...

...was American unity.

MANY of those polled would have also said that they would NEVER vote for him or would have been happier with Clinton in the White House on 9/11.

If, of course, they'd been asked!

[Orsino]

15. I didn't know.

I assumed we were on our way to 1984, and that there was no turning back. I'm still afraid that our little experiment in democracy is ending, but now I see a glimmer of hope.

[LaurenG]

18. I knew

and I have felt a sense anxiety ever sense. The fact that he's finally been busted (and I think he'll be busted and outed VERY soon)is not one bit surprising. It has been agonizing and has traumatized me ever since he was selected the first time.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

20. Count me in. I knew on 12-10-2000 that this f*cktard

was going to be disastrous for my beloved country.

I still shake my head at how stupid some Americans can be. There are still members of my family that think Chimpy hung the moon.

Needless to say, I don't communicate with these relatives at all anymore. I can't be bothered wasting my time. Let them wallow in their ignorance.

[knowbody0]

21. i knew and predicted he would start war in the middle east

[Arugula Latte]

22. Proud Ten Percenter here.

I remember getting in vicious exchanges with neanderthal Bushbots on AOL message boards in the days following 9-11.

Those of us who always knew he was a shitty excuse for a human, an inept leader, a coward, a chickenhawk, a liar, a corporate fascist, a dimwit, and a crimial squatting in the White House WERE RIGHT ON ALL COUNTS!

[LeftyMom]

23. I had a gut feeling in 2000 things would be this bad under *

which was a scary thought, nobody wants to be pregnant and fearful of the future.

[ikojo]

24. I did not drink from the 9/11 Kool Aid

I NEVER thought * was a good leader. I KNEW that he and the pug party would take ahold of 9/11/01 and use it for partisan political gain, a tactic if done by the Dems would probably have led to impeachment for Clinton.

I assumed, now correctly, that the rotten apple did not fall far from a really rotten tree. The roots of rotten-ness run deep in the Bush family tree. It's genetic.

[electron_blue]

26. I never liked him, never approved of him, never approved of war,

not even in Afghanistan. I am not surprised that the country has become divided over his administration, it already was significantly divided before he took office.

However, I am surprised at how idiotic and blatantly egocentric Bush & his administration have been. I never thought they would be this stupid. I think they took their power for granted.

It ain't over til it's over, folks. Til he's out of office, don't count him out. Another massive scare in the country and he'll have approval ratings above 50%, maybe even 75%.

[HughBeaumont]

27. It really kind of made you wonder WHY

they were so DESPERATE to steal the 2000 election. Like they wouldn't concede under ANY fucking circumstance whatsoever. That bunch of portly page nerds who made up the Brooks Brothers Riot, those fat friars yelling "PRESIDNT BEWSH! PRESIDNT BEWSH!" on F911. . . I knew from that moment that this country would take a steep nosedive off of a cliff as far as anyone making under $300,000 per year was concerned, just as it did for EVERY Republican administration since 1980. And damn if I wasn't right.

[Telly Savalas]

28. "Like his father"????

Jeez-Louise. Dubya makes his father look like a perfect synthesis of the best qualities of Mahatma Gandhi, Abe Lincoln, FDR, JFK, and Winston Churchill.

[Lady President]

29. Proud 10%er

I NEVER approved of him, and I had some heated arguments because I believed Gore would have handled post-9/11 better. (Clearly, I was right.)

I'm stunned that thing have gone south. I really felt that they would keep MSM quiet and keep pumping out lies. I'm pleasantly surprised at his approval numbers.

[LibDemAlways]

30. When I first heard he was running for

President, I thought it was a joke. Then, after he was nominated, I thought, "Gore's a shoe-in. Bush is a moron. How many idiots could there possibly be who would actually vote for the cretin?" Then when it became clear that the SCOTUS was going to defy the will of the people and install the jerk, I thought, "That's it. We're fucked." I've never wavered and I stand firmly behind my first impression.

[AtomicKitten]

31. My disgust for him has never wavered.

9/11 didn't change my opinion other than accentuating his incompetence. Standing on a pile of rubble with a bullhorn was as meaningless as it was pointless.

[fortyfeetunder]

33. I was worried in 1999 - a year before the election

when he had already amassed ~100MM in campaign funds. I thought "he's buying this presidency....what next?"

[Hardrada]

34. He was haunting us in Iowa starting in 1999 or so and I KNEW

he was the Chosen One of the fascists and that he had to be stopped because nothing would ever be any good anymore if he should get in office. I KNEW he was omened to bring disaster. Anyone who could not see that in his fake-humble appearance was not looking very closely. How soon can we be rid of him? How soon can we be rid of him? How soon can we be rid of him? How soon can he be imprisoned forever for bending whatever was good about our country into hideous shapes beyond all recognition? And for so wrecking and defiling any and all basic principles of human conduct that you want him in Hell as your first thought in the morning? Our collective wishes should be strong enough by now to wish him magically out of office at once. Our wishes alas are not strong enough so we need impeachment, trial, an international court and permanent detention in an underground dungeon which I volunteer to guard to make sure Shrub and none of his war criminal colleagues ever see the light of day again!!!!!!!!!

[Broken_Hero]

35. I was in

the 90% after 9/11...I thouhgt after such a brutal attack, that our politicians would put bickering aside and stomp a damn mudhole into whomever attacked us, and since that day, I have sunk into the % of people who think GWB is a callous ignorant leader, with no regard or respect for anyone but his cronies...

[henslee]

36. I do business with two nice guys -- conservative types who were amused

and would tease me about my venomous feelings during this last election. They are both great guys, olderm from a diff. generation. They thought Kerry was a stuffy jerk and that I was a sore loser lemmings jumping on the crybaby election conspiracy bandwagon. Now, neither wants to discuss politics but we all sure as hell know what the deal is. I truly think that some folks have better bullshit detectors/intuiton and it has nothing to do with being informed really. It's more of an intuitive IQ.

[AntiCoup2K4]

39. I knew Junior would be the worst thing to ever happen to this country.....

...when he announced his candidacy in 1999.

And he has exceeded my expectations far worse than even I thought possible at the time.

[LisaL]

40. Never in any doubt.

[NMDemDist2]

41. !

I read Molly Ivins book, she warned us all.....

[AirmensMom]

42. I was afraid when he was running in 2000.

I knew he would find a way to go back into Iraq. I was as angry as I could get that he stole the election. I voted the butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County, FL, and I know exactly how someone could have a problem with it. (I still have my sample ballot, too.)

I wasn't too shocked that the people I worked with liked him so much b/c they all acted like sex was the biggest sin known to man when Clinton got caught with his fly unzipped. We're not in touch anymore, so I don't know how any of them feel about bush* now.

I knew from day one that his presidency would be a disaster, but I didn't know anyone else who agreed with me. The only thing that's shocking is how long it took for the shit to hit the fan.

[MarianJack]

43. ChicaAzul and I were ALWAYS In the "8%"

When we were being told by all not to criticize the moron because of 9/11, we always stood with our convictions!

We knew he was a shithead the day he announced, the day he was appointed, and on 9/11 when ChicaAzul and I were asking each other "Where's the pResident?" long before Peter Jennings did.

We knew from the word go that this administration was going to be a DISASTER!

[VelmaD]

45. I'd had him as my governor for a while so I knew...

exactly how much he would fuck things up way before he ever got selected pretzeldent. I tried to warn people.