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Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 1 year, 2 months ago in NewsWASHINGTON- President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
Congratulations to Dubya! The lowest approval in the history of poll taking! He can add this triumph to the recent poll of 109 historians in which 98% viewed his presidency as a failure.
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Beau78901 year, 2 months ago
In this poll, 69% disapprove of the job Bush is doing, and 28% approve.
That's proof that Bush is the most divisive president in history--only 3% didn't fall one way or the other.
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libsRfunny1 year, 2 months ago
Yet, Congressional ratings consistently lag even lower. Looks like a plurality prefers Bush.
Was it Not2Needy or Engineer who said polls are BS when Clinton overtook Obama nationally in the daily Gallup poll? I see Obama has regained the lead, but still can't get a simple majority in his own party.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS1 year, 2 months ago
I can't think of a single reason why anyone would approve of Le Muffette's record.
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obiefrommuskogee1 year, 2 months ago
Well,he finally succeeded at something. Being a total failure.
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mcgrievysr1 year, 2 months ago
Sadly the man will leave office much wealthier than when he came into it and, unfortunately, he will probably not be taken to task for his heinous offenses. What percentage of the American populace will have benefited from his administration? Can't be a very high percentage. In eight years he has managed to dissolve the middle class. He has bankrupted the nation both fiscally and morally. How in the hell does he retain even the historically small number of supporters? He's a total disaster.
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cushi1 year, 2 months ago
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Somewhere down the line, Bush either forgot this piece of scripture or rejected it.
He is paying the price and will pay an even bigger one in due season.
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SFCGuyW1 year, 2 months ago
Bush & many Republican Congressmen are trying to get a law passed that will give the President and his top administration members immunity from being charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. However, such a law would be unConstitutional because of the many treaties the USA has ratified which demand the prosecution of individuals involved in certain such crimes. These treaties trump any law Congress passes because the US Constitution gives them (the treaties) the same force as the rest of the Constitution. Besides that, making him immune would be spitting in the face of International Law & making the USA a rogue nation, subjecting our Pres. & past Pres. to arrest & trial & imprisonment if they leave USA shores - - the same thing we do to Serbia, Kosovo and several other nations.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
Bush just officially beat him- go Bush! (the sooner the better).
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fourthtunz1 year, 2 months ago
Radio, Bush may be the dumbest ever but they have all perpetrated some pretty heinous crimes for their masters. This is what I don't understand about my own countrymen. How is it that anyone, with the access that we now have to our own history, how can anyone believe that there was ever a difference between democrat and republican presidents? If you work forward from one of the absolute worst Presidents.. Wilson(got us into WW1 and helped the Fed Reserve come into being) how can anyone claim that there is a worst? They have all gotten or kept our country tied up in a war and bent over for the banking interests. They don't want us to agree because we would start a 3rd party and change things, why do people still believe the propaganda?
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Francisca1 year, 2 months ago
"Bush also holds the record for the other extreme, in September 2001 in the days after the 9/11 attacks Bush's approval spiked to 90%". To many people have been deeply disappointed by his lies and his incapacity!
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newbie04201 year, 2 months ago
"Bush also holds the record for the other extreme, in September 2001 in the days after the 9/11 attacks Bush's approval spiked to 90%". To many people have been deeply disappointed by his lies and his incapacity!"
Seems to me like too many people follow the mob mentality pushed by the media.
It's all about selling papers.
After 9/11 everyone wanted to read about how great our Country and President was.
Now that we've been at war, everyone wants to read about how much of an evil warmonger he is.
The fact that so many let the media lead them into this mob mentality shows how easily those same people can be controlled.
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getreal11 year, 2 months ago
He has always known. He just doesn't care. He has more than made his money. It is extremely hard for a lot of people to sit still on this but the Great maker will deal with the greed inside of him. I knew we would be to Iraq when I heard him say during one of his first campaign speeches that he wanted to go to Iraq and that was the first run. Loss of Oil, is loss of money to the Bushes on their personal income. I guess some people got to have it all.
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texangelwings1 year, 2 months ago
I am affraid that GW sees himself differently, than the rest of the world! So, he will just fluff this poll off as nothing!
Sad day in American history!
Thanks Radio!
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
I have to agree, even his most ardent supporters all through his reign have stopped their cheerleading everywhere except for a handful of obfuscation devotees here at Net-prop. Even William Cristol (an original neocon and PNAC signer.) says Bush bungled everything. (As if the PNAC plan would have worked if only an idiot weren't in charge?).
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crespi1 year, 2 months ago
If Obama gets in maybe we can put The Decider and The Unitary Executive in JAIL where they belong.
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ladylou41 year, 2 months ago
Thanks RFE for factual reporting. Infamous is another word that may describe the Bush presidency. If only the election could be held tomorrow to seek the change our nation needs.
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vor1 year, 2 months ago
Yet the Republicans have a quite legitimate shot at retaining the Presidency in November. Made the point several times that these folks would rather see the nation go down in flames than vote for a Democrat. They put that into practice in '00 and '04.
We try to promote a candidate of real change and he is lambasted at every turn from within his own party and from the Right. Maybe in five years you will look back and realize that you had your opportunity for change and now it is gone not to return for some time. It may be too late by then.
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blinkers1 year, 2 months ago
"Yet the Republicans have a quite legitimate shot at retaining the Presidency in November" -- I'd certainly have to go along with that point, V.O.R.
But McCain has asserted that he'll be only a one-term president (if victorious), and given his age I'd have to believe that.
Four more years of Bush-brand Republicanism would gift the White House to the Dems in 2012, would it not? If I'm wrong then I'd say America deserves no further opportunity for change.
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Poulenc1 year, 2 months ago
When I lie in bed at night, sleepless, I sometimes wonder if Bush is truly conscious of his soaring and embedded unpopularity, and thus of his failure.
One wants to cast him in the kind of story in which a wayward, wrong-thinking, or even dangerous figure sees the light, reforms (or at least accepts responsibility for his actions), and becomes "better" for it. The world is righted, and we all feel a bit safer.
Alas, my conclusion is that, given the nature of Bush's defensiveness, his blindness to is own "issues," his insulation from challenge, that disfavor doesn't make a dent.
Nothing has been learned. It's a tragedy without a tragic hero.
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blinkers1 year, 2 months ago
Sorry, Poulenc, just read your comments now, and realised I expressed a similar sentiment(though far less eloquently) much later than you, but positioned it earlier in the thread.
I fully agree, "disfavor doesn't make a dent" in the president's self image. Nothing has been learned, or will be learned.
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rimbaud1 year, 2 months ago
This is what you get when you act on principle, without regard for popularity. For 7 years, Bush has been implementing all the things Republicans have been whining for, all these years. Now, even THEY are ballking! They weren't such good ideas, after all? F'em! Bush was tired of this suit-wearing, double-talking gig, years ago, and can't wait to be out of there (the Presidency, not Iraq)! Hopefully, he won't fade into the sunset (of Paraguay or Uruguay), but will be free to speak his mind, without self-censoring himself!
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ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago
Since John McCain has turned himself into John McSame in order to get the man behind the curtain that is the New GOP to let him have a shot at being the Decider Guy, he should carefully parse through those numbers to calculate his odds of success.
72 million registered Democrats and 91% disapprove of Bush/McSame. So the Democrats get 65.52 million of that voting block and the Republicans get 6.48 million.
48 million registered Republicans and 66% like Bush/McSame, so McSame gets 31.68 million votes there and the Democrats pull away 16.32 million.
That leaves about 86 million independents. 72% of them disapprove of Bush/McSame, so the Democrats pick up 61.9 million to the 24 million for McSame.
Bush/McSame: 62.16 million
Democratic Candidate: 143.74 million.
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ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago
Now of course, not all registered voters are going to actually vote, so those totals are high. But the point they make in the percentage spread (Democrats winning by more than 2 to 1) may not even tell how badly McSame will loose.
The voters are hoping mad and this who are angry that their wages have been slipping against inflation. Massive foreclosures have left many homeless and depressed home values in neighborhoods filled with vacant, shuttered houses. Angry voters turn out at the polls.
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CANYONLIGHT1 year, 2 months ago
9-11 was Bush's Pearl Harbor and he's been ruleing the country (and the world) by fear ever since. I hope, and it should be, he goes down as the most hated man along with Hitler in history. When he does, I'm sure with his own bone headed selfishness, he won't even notice.
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jamesjajames1 year, 2 months ago
"Bush also holds the record for the other extreme, in September 2001 in the days after the 9/11 attacks Bush's approval spiked to 90%". To many people have been deeply disappointed by his lies http://mattressz.t35.com/ and his incapacity!"
Seems to me like too many people follow the mob mentality pushed by the media.
It's all about selling papers.
After 9/11 everyone http://mattressx.t35.com/ wanted to read about how great our Country and President was.
Now that we've been at war, everyone http://mattressc.t35.com/ wants to read about how much of an evil warmonger he is.
The fact that so many let the http://mattressv.t35.com/ media lead them into this http://mattressb.t35.com/ mob mentality shows how easily those same people can be controlled.
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joeblowe1 year, 2 months ago
You can really only blame GWB for the economic problem to the extent that it is being caused by the huge drain in Iraq. Oh, wait, that's pretty much ALL on GWB at this point. War time presidents are very seldom popular after the shine wears off the propaganda, but this sets the bar at a whole new level. He could probably salvage his image - at least somewhat - by FINALLY admitting that A) we have no business in Iraq B) We never really did C) Yes, it WAS a mistake in most respects and D) we are getting OUT starting NOW. We will help them, but essentially they are going to have to solve their own problems.
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getreal11 year, 2 months ago
Well there he is TV. NAFTA channel 240 direct. It is going to make it hard for Mexicans to work if we make changes in it. What about us? Gains I like to know what gains? Maybe them not us. Tell me this isn't real. Bush just hit bottom as far as I'm concern. What I could say I can not say. As it stands McCain, business as usual, Hillary, things need to be revamp in the NAFTA agreement. Obama, wants to give them driver's license even if they are illegal? George Bush waits till the voters of the primary are at the polls to pull this issue. Never mind the American people and their lively-hoods.
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jamesjajames1 year, 2 months ago
"Seems to me like too many people follow the mob mentality pushed by the media"
Nothing could be further from the truth. Fact is the President blew it. He had the entire country behind him and nearly all the worlds' http://mattressf.t35.com/ support in pursuing those responsible for the attacks. He could have used that momentumn to start http://mattressg.t35.com/ an effort to drastically reduce our dependence on foriegn oil. But what did he do. Told us to go shopping! And the he morphed the legitimate http://mattressh.t35.com/ effort to capture or kill those that were resposnsible for the 9-11 attack into the http://mattressj.t35.com/ invasion of an oil rich Arab nation that was not involved in the attacks. Then he bungled all the http://mattressk.t35.com/ decisions of the subsequent occupation and created the chaos and a civil war that raged across Iraq killing hundreds of thousands.
That's why his rating as so low, not because the newspaper want to make a profit.
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hamy1 year, 2 months ago
Not even his staunchest supporters are here to defend the evil that has been his presidency.
Luvmy...Alpha? Zeitgeist? Dropkick?...Anyone? Defend this P.O.S. for us! Give us some hope that this might not be the end of Bush!
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TrueProgressive1 year, 2 months ago
Some great posts here, really enjoyed reading them.
Newbie, stop smoking the Republican crack. It's ALL Bush's fault. Like it or not, Clinton left us with relative world peace and a budget surplus. It was as if he left the little bastard the keys to a finely restored classic automobile. Bush did exactly what one would expect of the family delinquent, he trashed the car.
Beyond that, I notice that we have a few sinks to this story. How does one "sink" objective and verifiable fact? I guess that's how the regressive mind works, deny facts, revise history.
hamy, I too notice that the usual group of regressives are absent here. But if you go to one of Alpha's posts, a Focus on the Family hit piece smearing Obama as a "baby killer," you'll find them there. Like flies on sh*t, the righties were all over that one. Nothing to send a bunch of regressives scurrying back under their rocks than the light of truth.
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ChrisTownsendIV1 year, 2 months ago
Frankly, it's amazing that anyone is still blind or stupid enough to believe in that idiot and his administration.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
Well for him and a handful of his family and friends, it is better.
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cleare1 year, 2 months ago
i honestly don't know what anyone who voted for Bush ever expected. the man circumvented his military obligations, and ran several businesses and a sports team into the ground before Karl Rove helped him cheat his way into the governorship, and then the presidency.
i really wonder who those folks are who still support him. surely the percentage who've profited must be small...why else would any one continue to support this colossal idiot???
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bluetexasvalley1 year, 2 months ago
Because a true Bushie never makes mistakes, never has regrets, and stays the course.
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chevydog1 year, 2 months ago
He is the Decider, and he has decided that he doesn't give a d**n. As long as he has his little band of acolytes, all is well. A disaster for the country and a disaster for Repubs.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
No doubt! Then they would post some more outrageous lies about Obama on propeller! Let's see, what is it today? Oh Baby killer!
Lets see we already had the disco-homo story (Whose source was a guy in a mental institution), the various hates his country stories, the secret Muslim, the secret racist, the secret elitist, both the fascist and the socialist, yesterday the former professor of constitutional law wanted to do away with guns! These idiots eat every ounce of it up, like flies on a ****!!!!
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hdthehn1 year, 2 months ago
President Bush visited an elementary school. He began to talk to the children and asked them to define the word ''tragedy.''
"Well," one girl replied, "If my mommy ran over my dog, Rover, that would be a tragedy!"
The President smiled at the little girl and said, "No, sweetie. That would be an accident! Can anyone else give it a try?"
A little boy sitting across the room raised his hand and said, "I know! I know! If our bus driver ran off of a cliff and killed everyone!"
The President shook his head and said, "No son. That would be a great loss! Doesn't anyone know of a good example of a tragedy?"
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hdthehn1 year, 2 months ago
A small girl raised her hand and said, "Well, Mr. President, if you and Laura were in Air Force One and it was hit by a missile and blown to smithereens, most people would think that that was a tragedy!"
"Very good," he said. "And what was your reason for that answer?"
"Well," she said, "It would not be an accident and it sure would not be a great loss!"
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HMMace1 year, 2 months ago
WELL- HE KNOWS THE PEOPLE DO NOT WANT NAFTA, BUT HE PUSHES RIGHT ON SHOVING IT DOWN OUR THROATS..
IF HE IS NOT REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE--WHO IS HE REPRESENTING??
BUSH IS ABOUT AS EVIL AS YOU CAN GET...
TRY HIM FOR TREASON FOR MAKING SECRET DEALS WITH THE SAUDIS--THE WORLDS ENEMY---
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
Q: How many Bush staffers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two. One to remove the perfectly good light bulb and give it away to a millionaire and one to steal a new bulb from the middle class.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
Q: How many Bush staffers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two. One to remove the perfectly good light bulb and give it away to a millionaire and one to swipe a new bulb from the middle class.
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jovial1 year, 2 months ago
Hello my fellow progressives. Great story today, huh? The polls are showing what we knew all along. I thought I would share this short flash movie with you I got from Amnesty International. It's recommended reading for those that think that waterboarding isn't really torture. (Like Bush and Cheney)
http://unsubscribe-me.org/films/blipesque-sof-4...
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hdthehn1 year, 2 months ago
Before the 2001 inauguration of George Bush, he was invited
to a get-acquainted tour of the White House. After drinking
several glasses of iced tea, he asked Bill Clinton if he could use his
personal bathroom. When he entered Clinton's private toilet, he was
astonished to see that president Clinton had a fancy solid gold urinal.
That afternoon, George told his wife, Laura, about the urinal. "Just
think" he said, "When I am president, I could have a gold urinal too.
But I wouldn't do something that self-indulgent!"
Later when Laura had lunch with Hillary at her tour of the White House, she told Hillary how impressed George had been at his discovery of the fact that in the President's private bathroom, the President had a gold urinal.
That evening, when Bill and Hillary were getting ready for bed, Hillary smiled, and said to Bill, "I found out who ******ed in your saxophone.
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jovial1 year, 2 months ago
A guy walks in and asks the bartender, "Isn't that Bush and Powell sitting over there?" The bartender says, "Yep, that's them." So the guy walks over and says, "Wow, this is a real honor. What are you guys doing in here?"
Bush says, "We're planning WWIII. And the guy says, "Really? What's going to happen?"
Bush says, "Well, we're going to kill 140 million Iraqis this time and one bicycle repairman."
The guy exclaimed, "A bicycle repairman!!! Why kill a bicycle repairman?"
Bush turns to Powell, punches him on the shoulder and says, "See, dummy! I told you no one would worry about the 140 million Iraqis!"
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jovial1 year, 2 months ago
A lady bought a new Lexus. Cost a bundle. Two days later, she brought it back,complaining that the radio was not working.
"Madam," said the sales manager, "the audio system in this car is completely automatic. All you need to do is tell it what you want to listen to, and you will hear exactly that!"
She drove out, somewhat amazed and a little confused. She looked at the radio and said, "Nelson." The radio responded, "Ricky or Willie?" She was astounded. If she wanted Beethoven, that's what she got. If she wanted Nat King Cole, she got it.
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jovial1 year, 2 months ago
She was stopped at a traffic light enjoying "On The Road Again" when the light turned green and she pulled out. Suddenly an enormous sports utility vehicle coming from the street she was crossing sped toward her, obviously not paying attentionto the light. She swerved and narrowly missed a collision.
"Idiot!" she yelled and, from the radio, "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States."
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blinkers1 year, 2 months ago
I especially liked the final frame -- a Time magazine cover, unfortunately a spoof, though.
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Truzseeker1 year, 2 months ago
but he is loved by the banker shills including his buddies profiting from wars, weapons, and the death of our kids.
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Lurch1 year, 2 months ago
you`re obviously one of those guys that lives at the all-you-can-drink Kool-Aid drink bar.
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 2 months ago
Not!
I think you meant to have included the word not.
The popular vote should count for something.
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ind061 year, 2 months ago
Considering after eight years the right wing is STILL carrying on about Bill Clinton your cry baby accusation holds little water. The moment I get through a week without hearing a reference to Monica Lewinsky's dress will be the point I buy that the right has something on the left.
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ADAGUY1 year, 2 months ago
Why not enlighten me? Tell me of all things I should be grateful to Bush for.
Then, when you're done, We can make a list of all the things Bush is responsible for that you should be mad about.
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 2 months ago
Bluenote:
I cast my vote for Obama today:
It was not a vote to a saint that represents all that I think a president should be.
I do not like that he says he will increase the size of the military.
I do not like that he says he will make small business carry the cost of health care.
If McCain should win?
It is cool that he has said he would shut down Gitmo.
I like that he considers the Pharma industry greedy.
I like that he believes that climate change is a real issue.
I placed my vote for selfish reasons.
I get paid well for what I do, but with 2 kids in college and a wife who has stopped working to care for her father (Alziemers). The money I have socked into mutual fund retirement accounts is worth less than what I put in.
I just plain think I will be better off.
I know I was before.
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NoWayMan1 year, 2 months ago
that bush is quite a record breaker, or is that broken record.
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NoWayMan1 year, 2 months ago
cons seem to love rasmussen, so you know they'll love their June 2007 poll that asked people to rate past presidents either favorably or unfavorably.
of all the past US presidents, only 2 were viewed unfavorably by at least 50% of respondents:
Richard Nixon
George W. Bush
maybe the cons are right, maybe rasmussen is the most accurate pollster in america.
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scott42611 year, 2 months ago
It is my belief that George W. Bush will be remembered as the worst president in the history of the United States of America.
God help us!
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THOMNH621 year, 2 months ago
come on Libs get it out you'll feel better. This is the place good old Libscape, tell us how you hate the Bush's and that Hillary will make everything all better for you.
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BronxBomber1 year, 2 months ago
US Soldiers said that one of the things that's keeping them going, and inspiring them is all the crayon-ladened letters they're receiving from schoolchildren around the country. Then someone explained that those letters are actually from George Bush.
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xiaomian11031 year, 2 months ago
President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
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blinkers1 year, 2 months ago
I saw a lot of angry, frustrated people, Endo, and a rich and entertaining range of comments expressing views, reactions and opinions on the abyssmal Bush administration currently governing America.
If you only saw lies and hatred then clearly you're one of the 28% who continue to support it.
Why?
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
Remarkably not honest BlewNote, conservatism by it's nature discourages all new thought, prefering to cling to old established institutions and ideas. Very few creative people are conservative, as creation itself is a threat to old and established ideas.
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quillyregnold1 year, 2 months ago
Do we really have a choice this year, I think they all suck!!
One good thing, the terrorists leaves the white house!
I am curious if any of the people showering G.W with love have children?? Surely if you do, they are not in the military. It is sad that our young have to die for a lie. What ever happen to the guy who was SUPPOSE to have attacked us?? Bin Laden is laughing at our leadership, as we attack people who made daddy bush mad. This war was about Oil, Money, and Revenge. Anyone who thinks we went to Iraq for weapons of mass destruction are truly as pinheaded as the guy running our country. The great sheep-herder and his nation of idiot sheep.
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2dumbfounded1 year, 2 months ago
I made a big mistake in 2002. I did not vote. Living in a solidly Republican state, I did not think it would matter, so I have only myself to blame for that outcome. I'm even more ashamed to say that I did it again in 2004, thinking it impossible for lightning to strike twice. No matter how encouraged you may be by the disapproval ratings for President Bush, look at the sad truth. The worst President in our history still has the support of 28% of people polled. I believe they will turn out to vote for a third Bush administration, in the guise of Senator McCain. Please do not make my mistakes in 2008. I won't.
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2dumbfounded1 year, 2 months ago
I agree, Candida
I think the answer to the implied question about why: "I've often been amazed by how many people can be convinced to vote against their own self-interest." is sad, simple, and true.
Someone else said it a bit differently, but the bottom line is that these sad, simple, voters are WANNABE's. They are not living pay check to pay check, so they think they are WELL OFF. They vote FOR knee-jerk, cliché ridden sloganism.
E.g. TAX AND SPEND DEMOCRATS.
What part of BORROW AND SPEND (BOTH BUSH'S) don't they get?
Only kidding. The BUSH WANNABE'S only want to steal as much as they can, as fast as they can, leaving the Victim's, their Victim's children, and their Victim's children's children to pay off the debt.
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2dumbfounded1 year, 2 months ago
Just as the Bush WANNABE'S are like THEIR heroes, so, I can only hope, are we.
My heroes shed not only their blood for the rest of us (USA.) They gave their LIVES. Say what you will about John, Bobbie, and Martin.
My heroes shed not only their blood for the rest of us (USA.) They gave their LIVES. Say what you will about John, Bobbie, and Martin. Giving your life for what you believe is a lot different from sucking the life blood out of non-WANNABE'S.
Sound too bleeding heart? Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
It tolls for the bloodless money suckers.
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hamy1 year, 2 months ago
He doesn't really believe in all that Jesus stuff. He used those people to get elected. He used Jesus to get elected. Rather, Rove told him to use Jesus to get elected.
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ChrisTownsendIV1 year, 2 months ago
Actually, McCain doesn't appeal to the neo-cons nearly as much as Bush did. McCain does have greater appeal the the mainstream republicans however. Regardless of what you think of him, he is a much better selection than Bush, and he will take much better care of the troops as well. He's frequently been at odds with the Bush administration and hasn't been shy about it. I'm not saying he should be elected, just that he's a smart, reasonable man, and is everything that Bush isn't.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
The McCain of pre-2000 was a decent man, however he has tried very hard since then to reverse this decency. He voted against the last Veterans bill, now reintroducing it with his name on it.... hmmm. I don't believe the McCain we saw before the 2000 election is the same man we have seen since. Best not confuse the two!
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Lurch1 year, 2 months ago
McCain is a vet-hating vet.
He has already shown his true colors by voting AGAINST military funding of the VA.
He also is against the new GI Bill.
Just like the current crop of Republicans, they`ll spend our money to help get the troops killed, but they`ll fight any spending to help the troops heal.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
BB- Ex-Governor Bush Called Former President Clinton one afternoon.
"Hello, Bill? It's Dubya. Say, I've been meanin' ta ask ya sumthin'. How did you do so well with the ladies when you were president?"
"I'll tell ya, George. The trick is to dazzle them with charm and intelligent conversation."
"Yeah, but what can I do?" asked Bush.
Clinton paused. "Well, George, if all else fails, try puttin' a potato down your pants. That works every time."
The next week, Bush called Clinton again.
"Bill? Dubya. Laura was in Crawford over the weekend and I got to go stag to the embassy ball. I tried the potato trick, but all the ladies kept their distance."
"I know, I saw the ball on C-SPAN," laughed Clinton. "Next time, try puttin' the potato down the front of your pants!"
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