This poll is over a 3 day period. If it was just the speech, it won't be evident until next week. If you go to the website you'll also see how the president has a 60% approval rating with veterans, and yet Kennedy and Kerry said it was regrettable he gave this speech on Veteran's Day. It's only regrettable for them. I've only heard praise from the veterans I know about the president's speech. I suspect these numbers will go up.
Even in a democracy, leadership is not just a popularity contest.
Some things are factual, and some things are opinions.
People who are effective, tend to be in touch with factuals. People who are dysfunctional, are tyrannized by opinions -- not of their own, but of others.
What liberals and the mass media tries to do, is superimpose the tyranny of opinions over the realm of facts and realities. Dysfunctional and ineffective people think that modifying just the perception is the same as modifying the actuality -- and so thats all they do -- try to manipulate your opinions rather than the actualities.
And they want us to buy into their reality. The mass media is a mass illusion.