Poll: Bush approval mark at all-time low
Y’all will have to pardon me…not to mention indulge me. Normally, I’m not one to find enjoyment in the suffering of others, but I’m going to make an exception here. When you steal an election, lie your way into an immoral, pointless, war of occupation, and then have the balls to accuse your opponents (with a straight face, no less) of engaging in revisionist history…well, let’s just say that, yes, karma can be a real bitch. In this case, George W. Bush is getting no less than exactly what he deserves. Excuse me, but I plan on savoring the experience…and those of y’all who are offended by this can go pound sand.
For five years now, we have watched Our Glorious Leader and his cronies gradually dismantle the accomplishments of the Clinton Administration…and to what end? Gas prices are at all-time record levels, oil companies are making record profits, seniors are taking it in the shorts, we’re engaged in this generation’s Vietnam, and we are universally hated around the world. Gee, now there’s a record to be proud of, eh?
(CNN) — Beset with an unpopular war and an American public increasingly less trusting, President Bush faces the lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to a national poll released Monday.
Bush also received his all-time worst marks in three other categories in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. The categories were terrorism, Bush’s trustworthiness and whether the Iraq war was worthwhile.
Bush’s 37 percent overall approval rating was two percentage points below his ranking in an October survey. Both polls had a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
And now, the spin. Wait for it….
The White House has said it doesn’t pay attention to poll numbers and the figures do not affect policy.
“We have a proud record of accomplishment and a positive agenda for the future,” White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters Wednesday.
“We look forward to continuing to talk about it. I mean, you can get caught up in polls; we don’t. Polls are snapshots in time.”
“A proud record of accomplishment”? Now, I realize that McClellan’s job as press secretary means that he is a well-paid apologist for the Prevaricator in Chief, but I’d be interested in finding out just what McClellan defines as “a proud record”, and, more than that, “accomplishments”?
Yes, I understand that politicians cannot get caught up in chasing poll numbers. Being President is not a popularity contest. Nonetheless, when your approval ratings are as low as Our Glorious Leader’s, you’d think that someone in the Administration would be trying to figure out what is going on and why the numbers are what they are. When you have fully two-thirds of the electorate questioninly the honesty and truthfulness of the President, there is a very real problem in Paradise.
The C Student in Chief has brought these low numbers and the attendant problems on himself through five years of lies, prevarications, and catering to well-heeled Republican donors and the industry’s they run (e.g.- the oil industry). It now appears that we are going to be subjected to three more years of an inept, ineffective naked Emperor who will be furiously spinning the truth in a vain attempt to convince Americans that he really is fully robed.
There is a message to be found in these abysmal poll numbers. An intelligent President would be able to discern the message and try to convince the American people that their fears and misgivings are misplaced. Sadly, our intellectually-challenged leader seems incapable of even this simple analysis and self-examination. Before you go blaming Our Glorious Leader for being a total screw-up, you might trying looking in the mirror. If you’re one of the 51% who voted for him last November, YOU are every bit as much to blame for this fiasco. After all, you are one of the 54 million who voted the Prevaricator in Chief back into office. I guess that’s what you get for not paying attention, eh?
