The majority is wrong about Bush

The Charleston Gazette ^ | 4-16-06 | Don Surber

[jdm]

Good read, thanks!!!!

[Tribune7]

Bump.

[Izzy Dunne]

if Gallup asked, 60 percent would disapprove of his handling of the weather.

I'd like to see that poll done.

Not an online poll, but an official "scientific" poll.

The results would be revealing.

[Huck]

Were they wrong when they voted for him, or are they only wrong when they disagree with the author? I'll bet when the polls agree with the author, he's got a few hackneyed cliches about the "wisdom of the American people ready to go."

[princess leah]

Something else nobody notices and that is they don't tout their title to get personal bennies. Laura Bush went to Yosemite with friends back in the early 90s and she put her name on a waiting list. We know what Theresa Kerry or Hillary Clinton would have done in that same situation!

[deport]

People today tend to live in the present and forget about the long haul. Solutions to some of our problems require the long haul approach.

[Old_Mil]

It's the border, stupid. New York City is getting ready to pass legislation allowing illegals to vote in municipal elections. San Francisco is getting ready to do the same i some municipal elections. Any conservative who isn't behind the wall, opposes amnesty, and opposes guest workers simply doesn't understand what is at stake here.

[Ticonderoga34]

I agree with the author that overall, Bush is doing a good job. I think there are two reasons why Bush's poll numbers are so low.

One reason is that Bush is constantly bashed by the mainstream media. A steady stream of negative news stories has to have a impact on Bush's popularity with the general, non-political minded public.

The second and more important reason that Bush's numbers are so low is because of Bush's reluctance to get tough on the issue of illegal immigration and border security. Bush is losing his base on this issue.

[quantim]

No matter how low the President's poll numbers go, that of congress' will always be lower.

[Rennes Templar]

Hallelujah

[USS Alaska]

These polls are bullship. Rasmussen just had President Bush at 45% approval but you won't see this quoted in the msm. He is doing the best that he can and his first priority is National Security. When the second set of airplanes flew into the Sears towers in Chicago on March 2, 2002..... oh it didn't happen? Why not? When the jihadists smuggled the dirty bomb into San Francisco on June 5, 2004.... oh it didn't happen?

If anyone can truly say that on September 11, 2001 they really thought that we would go five years without another major attack on the USA, they would have been committed.

[wrathof59]

I disagree, Bush is doing a terrible job and will rate as one of the worst presidents in US history.

We are in a time of war and being invaded by tens of millions of anti-american aliens, yet the last time I saw Bush, he was rock climbing with Vincente Fox.

I regret that I ever voted for Bush.

[Dick Bachert]

[veronica]

The xenophobic, isolationist right is blind. The obsession with immigration will sink the GOP if things continue this way. I am a lot less concerned about Mexicans than I am about Muslims. Mexicans did not fly planes into buildings on 9-11.

[Savage Beast]

"According to...Ahmadinejad's strategic guru, Hassan Abassi, known as the 'Dr Kissinger of Islam', President George W Bush is an aberration, an exception to a rule under which all American presidents since Truman, when faced with serious setbacks abroad, have 'run away'. Iran's current strategy, therefore, is to wait Bush out. And that, by 'divine coincidence', corresponds to the time Iran needs to develop its nuclear arsenal..."

"The Frightening Truth of Why Iran Wants a Bomb"
By Amir Taheri
The Sunday Telegraph (UK)
April 16, 2006

[tlb]

I didn't know Pat Buchanan had an account here.

[veronica]

The Pat Buchanan right is as poisonous as the Daily Kos left. Same sort of mental cases, IMO.

[manwiththehands]

What a boatload!

By leaving out unpleasant details Don Surbur has actually justified the nation's displeasure with President Bush.

First he calls US a nation of "ingrates". It's Bush who is the "ingrate".

Surber's first order of business is to shoot down the misconception that "people don't vote for principle, they vote for whoever will give them the most 'pork'" while also illustrating that giving money back to us in and of itself doesn't make us "happy". Bush can't buy my vote or my support any more than he can buy the support of voters in Marin county.

And then he proceeds to illustrate why Bush blew it big time with Katrina. Bush rewarded the corrupt and irresponsible governments in NOLA and LA by giving them billions of our money and then put the blame on his FEMA director by firing him.

CODE BLUE!