Wall Street scandals take toll on Bush GOP trembles as election nears; (Barf alert!)

SF CHronicle ^ | 7/17/02 | Marc Sandalow

[randita]

Washington -- It was about the time President Bush started speaking about corporate accountability last week that the stock market began a steep decline.

Bush is finding his own poll numbers tumbling in the same direction.

In a political confluence from hell, the president and a handful of top administration officials are facing questions about their personal corporate transactions that made them very wealthy men at precisely the time when millions of Americans are receiving quarterly statements that report devastating losses in their retirement and stock portfolios.

[OldFriend]

Ah, San Francisco, where reality is what the media dreams up on any given day.

[Pete]

Mr. Sandalow is going to be bumming when he picks up his Washington Post this morning and sees this:

Poll Shows Bush's Ratings Weathering Business Scandals

The recent barrage of congressional and media criticism directed at President Bush for his handling of the widening corporate financial scandal has failed to damage his popularity, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

[gaspar]

Sandalow should stick to reporting on AIDS, San Francisco gay parade, novel perversions, and other subjects which he knows more about. He is so predictably left, and his writing is so devoid of anything that offers a new insight into political affairs, that even the Left doesn't bother to read him any more.

[Coop]

Not only is the basic premise of Bush's tumbling ratings wrong, but everyone in the GOP from Day One has been emphasizing that they cannot rely on popular Presidential ratings to provide coattails.

[Senator_Blutarski]

The press seems to have concluded that the Democrat lies, even when carefully amplified by the liberal press, will not be enough to bring down GW Bush.

It seems that the press now feels that they need to take matters into their own hands and develop spin of their own to bring down Bush.

Is there anyone else out there that can't listen to the so-called "news" recently without getting angry at the media spin? The press seems to be quickly moving toward a point where they no longer even make a pretense of objectivity.

[Blue Screen of Death]

Let's only use people in governemnt that know nothing about what they are doing. No business people, no one with any experience in the real world. Only politicians, university professors and reporters for left wing newspapers. That will solve all of our problems... yup.

[JessicaDragonet]

I understand the Secret Service guys are training Dubya on how to duck kitchen sinks....it's the only thing the media/socialists/liberal have left to throw at him.

[section9]

Mr. Sandalow is going to be bumming when he picks up his Washington Post this morning and sees this:

Poll Shows Bush's Ratings Weathering Business Scandals

And a good reason for Sandalow to be depressed, indeed! There is no, nada, zippo reason for a liberal rag like the Post to skew its polling in favor of Bush.

Bush will not only weather this storm, but come out on top.

Be Seeing You,

Chris