Remember when George W. Bush was a "popular wartime president"?

[bluestateguy]

Seems so long ago, yet it wasn't.

[uppityperson]

1. No. I don't remember this. I remember the claims, but not the fact

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. what you said.

[Cleita]

16. What you said as well.

The first time I heard it, I was catching flies because my mouth was so open in disbelief.

[MadMaddie]

2. The thing is....is a president popular with 50 % support...

The media hyped him and his so called popularity.....

I think it was more Propaganda!!!!

[hyphenate]

3. Perhaps in the minds of some truly warped

individuals, but I honestly can not say when he was popular to me at all. :)

Don't you just LURVE the way Rove manages to spin everything? Right now, the ports debacle is being spun as the hindsight of some Democrats who don't like their utterly repugnant POTUS. I really can't wait for the Dems to take over again. Because if I have to get on top of the Empire State Building and threaten to kill myself if they don't prosecute these fucking criminals, I will do it. If our country doesn't get on Congress to punish these fuckers as they truly need to be punished, there is no sense in remaining in this world. If not for OUR sake, then for the sake of history, and what letting them go will signify. It will mean that a blowjob is an impeachable offense, but that lying, stealing, corruption, collusion, stupidity and greed are not.

[MadMaddie]

5. You know where the Democratic party has failed....

to paint Carl Rove as a traitor to America....all of his actions have been traitorous....He must be demonized and shown for what he is.....

[hyphenate]

9. Agreed

But it's obvious he's like a ventriloquist--he makes it sound like everything that comes out of his mouth is heard from everyone else's mouths. I just wish Fitz had enough to throw him into Plamegate, or if otherwise, Abramoffgate.

I have to say, the only "gate" I'm not tired of is Stargate!

[MadMaddie]

11. I haven't given up on Fitz.....

I never really got into Stargate...

But if you want to talk about Battlestar Gallactica.....

[hyphenate]

14. lol!

I am afraid I don't care for the new BSG. I enjoyed the show the first time around, but I can't get into the new one. I lose interest in SF shows that try to get too earnest and too melodramatic.

[slor]

4. I sure do...

I always assumed, based on the utter lack of fact-based news coverage, that the poll was conducted only among those journalists on the white house payroll.

[WI_DEM]

6. The disgusting thing is that the media kept saying he was "popular"

even when he was between 45-50 percent. That is not popular that is below average to average. That means a significant minority didn't care for him. Furthermore in 2004 when he "won" with 51% of the vote they tried to call it a "mandate". A mandate is if a candidate wins by 10-points or more--at least that is how it used to be before the Bush apologists took over the media.

[unblock]

7. it was false then just as it's false now. the interesting thing is,

what's changed?

a president with a 49% approval and a war with a 39% approval then has become
a president with a 39% approval and a war with a 29% approval now, give or take.

it was a lie then, just as it's a lie now. the interesting thing is, WHY have they stopped lying? just because it's slightly more obviously false now? i don't think so.

i think it's all about shrub being the lamest duck in the west. he's politically toast. it took enormous amounts of money and energy on the part of banana republicans to prop him up, and with elections ahead of him, it was worthwhile for them. but now that his last election is behind him, no one has a compelling interest in continuing this herculean effort.

so he's left to flounder, and reality is slowly setting into the public consciousness.

[radio4progressives]

10. "Popular Wartime President" - says alot about the mentality of

my fellow countrymen.

how can anyone identifying with being a War Monger be "popular"..

oh yea, everything changed after 9/11...

i forgot.

[SoCalDem]

12. Chrissy always added YOUNG to that phrase

and his eyes twinkled when he casually mentioned how GOOD Bush looked in Jeans:)

[...of J.Temperance]

13. I don't think Junior was ever that popular

I think it was more horsecrap from the mediawhores. If he was so popular, why couldn't he go anywhere where regular people were? Of course he still can't go anywhere where regular people are?

On the other hand, President Clinton could stand on pretty much any street, with minimal security and he'd be mobbed by people.

[misternormal]

15. President by theft...

...poupular, unlikely... war prez... he wishes...