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Posted by: Aidenag 2 years, 6 months agoIt's hard to say which is worse news for Republicans: that George W. Bush now has the worst approval rating of an American president in a generation, or that he seems to be dragging every '08 Republican presidential candidate down with him.
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GoldRush
May 5, 2007, 2:28 p.m.An opinion poll from Newsweek about George Bush is like asking democrats who they thought won the national 2000 election in Florida. It will start from a biased construct, continue with a biased methodology and conclude with the wrong results. And like the truth of both issues, the dems will remain angry.
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sideways
May 5, 2007, 3:45 p.m.Story says, "Perhaps that explains why Republican candidates, participating in their first major debate this week, mentioned Bush's name only once, but Ronald Reagan's 19 times."
'nuff said.
peace~
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zman
May 5, 2007, 3:56 p.m.Bush has only down to go - he has done nothing good historically to redeem himself and the sure Impeachment will only drag down his already richly deserved low position in history
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NoWayMan
May 5, 2007, 4:35 p.m.bush better get it together quick in afghanistan or he'll be the first and only president to lose two wars.
28% and dropping...
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Sabretooth
May 5, 2007, 4:50 p.m.What a shame, this guy had it all on a silver platter after 911, the good will of the world was with him. From there he made the mistake of listening to the wrong people. He went for the power grab and covered everything in a veil of secrecy and at every turn seemed to support or just turn a blind eye to the serious corruption surrounding all aspects of the Iraq war.
In my opinion he has taken the worst possible path in the war on terror and alienated almost every country on the planet in doing so. Radical Islam had no serious following before Iraq and probably could have been dealt with more effectively by increasing intelligence budgets and agents in the field.
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rimbaud
May 5, 2007, 6:24 p.m.I think they will pull those clowns Osama or al-Zawahri out of their hat.
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Twistoflex
May 5, 2007, 7:22 p.m.The most threatening thing to the Dumbya dictatorship is not the polls. The junta has played the Bible thumpers and NASCAR dads like a fiddle. They could care less about these disillusioned folks. What really concerns them beyond anything else is the prospect of criminal investigations.
In this the Repugnants and the Democraps are on the same page. Neither of the corrupt monopoly parties want criminal investigations. It would expose corruption from Wall Street to the WH. From their standpoint, why kill the goose that laid the golden egg?
That's why the worst criminal mass murder in American history was not followed by criminal investigations. America's nightmare could have been avoided if these investigations happened. Instead we have an acretion of lies and a false national dialogue - mass delusion - and a dangerous idiot at the switch.
It doesn't require rocket science to connect the dots.
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Obaku
May 5, 2007, 4:53 p.m.Recently, Dale Eikmeier published an essay in the U.S. Army War College's Parameters Magazine. The essay, titled "Qutbism: An Ideology of Islamic Fascism," suggests "five lines of operation" for attacking Qutbism, which he calls al-Qaida's "ideological center of gravity."
First: Attack the message -- an ideological offensive by moderate Muslims. Eikmeier says Yemeni Judge Hamoud al-Hitar has a particularly effective theological counter to Qutbism.
Second: Attack the Messenger -- "Many of Qutbism's proponents are individuals with questionable religious credentials."
Third and fourth: Attack Islamo-fascism's supporting institutions, and support mainstream Islamic institutions -- mirror images. Attack al-Qaida's educational, financial, and informational structures. Support those of Muslim moderates.
Fifth: Inoculation. Eikmeier says this requires education regarding the Qutbists' "anti-human rights and religiously intolerant agenda."
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B737Tech
May 5, 2007, 5:26 p.m.Is this very surprising for an arrogant boob who thinks he knows everything? It's just a shame that it took the majority of theAmerican populace so long to see what Bush really is.
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Obaku
May 5, 2007, 5:53 p.m.For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16:26)
Apparently, the "religious right" is too busy digging trivia out of Leviticus to remember this, and it applies to our country as a whole as well as to individuals.
Next time a 'Christian' quotes you some piece of the Torah to justify their bigotry, just ask them if they keep a kosher kitchen, observe Passover, or make their wife sleep outdoors during menstruation.
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Twistoflex
May 5, 2007, 7:11 p.m.With the help of the brain dead, sycophantic corporate media amnesia industry, the resurgence - much as they have resurrected and fantastically reconstructed the other Repugnant poltroon, Reagan - shouldn't be too far off. The teflon they'll throw on this idiot will even amaze some of the staunchest kool-aid guzzlers.
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donald51
May 6, 2007, 9:58 a.m.Newt provides insight here as he has said that it was before the Great Depression that the US last saw so much of the government controlled by Republicans. Also, it was Newt's lies in the Contract to America that helped deceive America to accept this atrocious leadership! Let's hope its more than 65 years before we have to face another incompetent like Dubya!
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agentX
May 5, 2007, 6:50 p.m.The poll makes it even harder for Republicans to get elected, as they are now 'a party of losers' or whatever term they used to call Democrats.
What's Cheney at right now, 18%? 12%?
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innocent-bystander
May 5, 2007, 7:22 p.m.Our most loved Presidents, who ended up with monuments, on mountainsides and with holidays, had the lowest approval ratings while in office. Most of them were involved in wars. Washington and Lincoln were both thought of as traitors and should be killed. If you don't believe me the do a search on copperheads. Lincoln arrested US citizens and suspended habeus corpus. He was also called a chimp. History repeats.
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rokkyrich
May 5, 2007, 7:25 p.m.In a democracy it is said that we will get the leadership we deserve. What I want to know is what the American people did to deserve such poor leadership. This bunch has governed to benifit party over country. Oh, the best laid plans of mice and men. They seem to have diminished both.
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monarie
May 5, 2007, 7:57 p.m.Nobody asked me about President Bush, but I think he is great and i hope he continues to stand up to the Demo party.
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scott4261
May 5, 2007, 8:05 p.m.George W. Bush is, by far, the most incompetent and the most intellectually incurious president ever to darken the doors of the Oval Office. And it surely is an oversight that Richard Nixon was not mentioned in this article... because these are truly Nixonian approval ratings. The great irony is that the Bush Administration makes the Nixon Administration look pretty good, by comparison.
....and Watergate is the event that got me politically engaged as a young man, so that is not a comment I throw out lightly.....
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bibbit
May 5, 2007, 8:15 p.m.Here are the averages from RealClearPolitcs:
Bush Approve: 35.7%
Bush Disapprove: 58.5%
Congress Approve: 38.0%
Congress Disapprove: 52.3%
The Dems control congress. How come I don't see any stories exclaming the coming Dem loss of congress? Because it doesn't fit the Newsweek story line.
From a May 2nd Opinion Dynamics poll:
Hillary Clinton Approve: 47%
Hillary Clinton Disapprove: 46%
Rudy Approve: 55%
Rudy Disapprove: 25%
Not too impressive for Hillary. In that same poll the 3 top RNC candidates beat the 3 top DNC candidtates one on one in all combinations.
It's so far from 11/08 that anything can happen. Folks who are already popping the corks might want to wait, oh, 18 MONTHS!
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not2needy
May 5, 2007, 8:26 p.m.(( which president showed the greatest political courageâ;;meaning being brave enough to make the right decisions for the country, even if it jeopardized his popularity â;;more respondents volunteered Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton))
So now repugs are using Bill Clinton as an example of a politically courageous president!!!!!!! OMG, they are really reaching for the brass ring aren't they, LOLOLOL??!!
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