Bush approval rating down to 44%-- surprised it took this long!

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

Abraham Lincoln once said that "you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Indeed, try as they might, Bush and the neocons couldn't delude the US public forever (though it's disturbing how many they're still able to dupe): http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=17584

Two years of a failed and unnecessary war in Iraq in which we're staring at our second major defeat after Vietnam, and still shedding American blood to put a pro-Iranian Talibanesque woman- and Christian-hating Shiite theocracy into power; a bloated and worsening budget deficit; neoconservative crazies in the Pentagon and State Department expanding US commitments in the Middle East and elsewhere; endless xenophobic bashing of France and Germany for trying to talk common sense to us; cruel and harsh cuts to Medicaid and veterans' benefits which hurt the neediest Americans; Dispensationalist evangelical religious fanatics in power who seem intent on starting World War III based on their beliefs; vile xenophobia towards China; and, of course, the worst destruction of the North American forests, wetlands and environment in general since the US was founded: The chickens are finally coming home to roost.

It's about damn time that Dubya and the neoconservatives saw their mad plans blow up right in their faces.

[William769]

1. I wonder whats he going to do to raise his ratings?

[Benhurst]

2. Prince Charles's ratings went up when he got engaged to

Diana.

Maybe Dubya's would go up if he ran away with Jeff Gannon. :silly:

I'm certainly in favor of his running away, with Jeff or not.

[Vickers]

3. Maybe George can take Jimmy/Jeff to Mars!

:crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy::crazy:

Frankly, I can't believe that 44% of the people are still so fucking clueless about this nitwit.

[xxqqqzme]

14. 44% does boggle

the mind. I can't understand why it is that high. It should B in the teens cuz he's got that fundie thing in a lock.

[McCamy Taylor]

11. LOL. He should stop trying to raise his ratings.

THAT might work. Everytime he TRIES to raise them, they fall again.

[zalinda]

4. It's the media...............

what do you expect when the media is playing rah, rah with the Bush people. I'm surprised this many people actually could find out about him.

zalinda

[Old_Fart]

5. It has to be less than 44%

If 44% is what they are reporting then its probably more like 15%. Fox wouldn't let their mans true colors show through.

[Clark2008]

6. Not that low.

But, it probably is more like 35 percent, no shit.

There are about 25 percent who are so deluded that they will adore Bush no matter what he does and then another 10 percent who are so out of the loop, they probably think the Beatles are still together.

[Old_Fart]

7. ROFL

They probably think that Bush Sr is in office ;) I think that he is :spray:

[Erika]

8. You're right about Bushbots

They are so blind and gullible that they would defend W if he told them Christ was a traitor. After all, Christ preached peace, love, forgiveness and taking care of the needy.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

19. ROTFL-- yeah, I'll bet almost all of those 35%

continue to buy into the fiction that Saddam was behind the 9/11 attacks and that all the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqi. The other part of Lincoln's sarcastic quip is that "you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time" and it's obvious that the Bushies have indeed managed to fool a large segment of the population more or less permanently. (Either that, or these supporters are so deluded-- or brainwashed by fundy demagogues-- that they'd support Bush if he claimed planned a preemptive attack on the moon.)

As far as being out of the loop, I'm continually amazed at the extent to which so many Bush supporters either willfully deny the obvious reality of the Iraq disaster, or still drone on about Saddam's WMD's and how they're hiding out in Syria, Iran or somewhere else on the neocons' hit list. They're so hopelessly clueless that not only have they missed the part about the Beatles break-up; they're probably still wondering when they can get autographs from Robert Plant and John Paul Jones at the latest Led Zeppelin concert (heck, they probably still think the Yardbirds are going), or where they can buy the newest Pet Rock paraphernalia. Exemplary "useful idiots" to the Bushies, I guess.

[wli]

15. I suspect likewise

The freepers are pretty vocal, but my significant other seems to say that the man on the street is completely terrified of BushCo, with zero observable exceptions.

[movonne]

9. One of the other polls had him at 41%...it is the poll that starts with a

"Q"....I can't remember the name.

[rockymountaindem]

12. Quinnipiac.

I think that's how you spell it.

[Dawgs]

10. Well we were stuck on 43% for awhile, then 42% came along...

Now 41%!!!

Pretty soon we'll be down to 39%...

[mrdmk]

13. The only reason Mr. Bush Jr. got this far is because of 9/11

He just benefited from the circumstances. Mr. Bush Jr. and his administration is not really that good and they know it. Why do you think they as a group are so thin-skinned?

[youngred]

17. yup

the morning of September 11th was the first time polls had him slipping to 48%, then up to 96%. He drained that with partisanship down to 53% just in time to ramp it back up with the Iraq war only to see it begin to fade again.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. It's not that surprising, considering how the MSM fawns all over him.

If we really had a free press his numbers would have been a lot lower a lot sooner. The likes of CNN and Pox News have been telling us the sun shines out his ass for so long -- it takes time to cut through the noxious fog produced by media bullshit.

[Nikki Stone 1]

18. Suprised it's this high

We must have a lot of people with their heads in the sand.

[Andrew Smith]

20. Awesome!

I'm surprised it took this long. THe man's an idiot and it doesn't take much to realize it.

I hope this administration crashes and burns, well, it has been a failure, but not enough people realize that it is.


By the way, awesome site! This is my first post and all, and am glad that there is somewhere where I can post my opinions without having to deal with a bunch of Dubya worshipers.........