Dubya's Approval Rating Plummets And No One Notices (english)
a1, repost 6:24pm Sat Dec 28 '02 (Modified on 9:16pm Sat Dec 28 '02)
article#225606
The current Time magazine (in print) offers this from a Dec. 17-18 Time/CNN
poll:
In general, do you approve or disapprove of the way President Bush is
handling his job as President?
Approve -- 55%
Disapprove -- 37%
That's the lowest approval rating, and the highest disapproval, for Dubya
in the Time/CNN poll since 9/11.
His approval has sunk 9 points from just one month ago -- a stunning drop
considering he's coming off of a big election victory. But amazingly, no
other media outlet has picked up on the poll.
No wire story. No analysis. No pundits pontificating. Nothing.
Not even Time or CNN offers a link to it on their respective web sites. You
need to get the print version of Time.
Some other data from the poll:
Do you think Bush is a leader you can trust, or do you have doubts and
reservations?
Trust -- 50%
Doubts -- 48%
Do you think Vice President Dick Cheney is a leader you can trust, or do
you have doubts and reservations?
Trust -- 42%
Doubts -- 51%
In your view, have Bush's accomplishments in office been mainly because of
his team of advisers?
Mainly because of advisers -- 55%
Would have them regardless -- 35%
Based on the above, it would appear that:
1. The sense that Bush now has unbridled power in Washington did not
comfort the public.
2. While other recent polling indicates that the public views Bush as a
strong leader, this poll shows that there is a soft underbelly to that
perception.
3. Cheney continues to be a little-talked about, but real, political
liability (See Aug. 23) -- despite his political importance within the
White House.
Granted, these Bush numbers will be meaningless once the bombs drop.
But they show that the accepted storyline -- 9/11 transformed Bush into a
worshipped leader -- is, at minimum, oversimplified, if not flat wrong.
http://www.liberaloasis.com/archives/122202.htm#122602
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And if GI body bags start coming home? (english)
DL 7:04pm Sat Dec 28 '02
comment#225611
You'd better watch out, Mr. Pretzel-dent, and tell your Warlord Don to cool
it with his rhetoric about fighting both Iraq AND North Korea simultaneously.
For one thing, neither one of them is an easy picking as Afghanistan(for
starters, there's no "Northern Alliance" warlord armies that you can bribe
with $$ to be Pentagon's cannon fodders; for another, name one other "ally"
besides Ariel Sharon who'll send their youngsters to die for your Imperial
war for oil and regional hegemony?).
And if you think the economy is in dire straits now, wait till you start
the aggressive wars, and especially after BOTH Saddam and Kim Jong Il
retaliate with their stocks of WMD. How deep will the world economy slide
down your war-induced "Abyss of Evil" then?
My advice to you, Mr. Pretzel-dent, is to resist the "woeful-wits" of your
Administration's warhawks, and concentrate on re-building the
long-neglected economic infrastructure of the country, by putting more tax
$ into education, affordable homes, healthcare, etc. rather than spending
more on Halliburton Oil and Rumps-felt's Dept. of OFFENSE.
Nixon? (english)
Mark Seely 8:11pm Sat Dec 28 '02
comment#225619
Why am I reminded of Nixon when I look at this shit? I'm only 34, so I
don't remember Nixon. But suddenly I'm put in mind of the Tricky Dick and
Spirow Agnew puppets my parents had when I was a kid.
ABC News (english)
z 9:16pm Sat Dec 28 '02
comment#225628
ABC News has been spinning the plummeting approval ratings by heralding
Bu$h "the most admired man in America - and for two full terms." I guess
that's a pretty smooth way of covering up the fact that more and more
people are waking up to what the pRe$ident really stands for. Sort of like
selling rancid fish by marketing it as "Zesty tasting." It won't matter --
no matter how they spin it we all know this pRe$ident is rotten enough to
curdle milk at fifty paces.
