Yes Bush was savaged by the media, which affected his poll numbers. The maddening thing about Bush, however, was that he never attempted to defend himself or fight back against the savage attacks of the Left & its media. He didn't use the resources he had at hand to respond and clarify the facts to the American public. If he had, his poll numbers would not have been so low. Obama, on the other hand has the entire MSM, the Democrat party, and sheer power to manipulate the news and the facts. That his numbers are so low despite all of the help he has certainly speaks volumes.
In the end, Bush did a few good things but created the foundation for OBOZO's election with his RINO liberalism.
Yeah, I'll say it does. The fact that the American people can be so stubborn and opinionated, despite all their attempts at brainwashing must really throw them for a perennial loop.
In truth, they have only as much power as we are willing to give them, and we the unwashed are beginning to wake up to that ourselves. When normal, common-sense Americans are insulted at the town meetings by the likes of Pelosi et. al., it only makes the citizenry (who generally choose not to involve themselves in politics) hopping mad!
We see the American people as a whole being attacked by our own government. People are getting sick of being treated like children and lied to by those patronizing liberal elites who think they know what's best for us when the results show that they've driven this country right into the ground. The truth of that is starting to catch up.