The Unofficial PriusChat Bush Approval Rating Poll

tieonhar -- sad, but funny.
bagwell -- Michael jackson has advisors. The shrub has handlers.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bagwell @ May 14 2006, 08:17 PM) [snapback]255493[/snapback]</div>

A friend of mine says that it's an act: Bush wants to sound stupid, to appeal to the anti-intellectual vote. I disagree with my friend. I think Bush really is an utter moron. But my friend does make a plausible argument.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ May 15 2006, 09:01 AM) [snapback]255699[/snapback]</div>

Daniel...pleeeese don't take this the wrong way, but if a stranger came up to me and told me what your friend told you...I'd think that HE'S the utter moron. I already know that Bush is a moron.

 

Those are my choices? How about "The worst president in US history?"

 

I was driving home tonight and I had NPR on the radio. Karl Rove was being interviewed (why anyone is even talking to this guy- who word is will be indicted in the next few days- is beyond belief), and he was asked about Bush's low approval ratings. Karl Rove's reply was, "the people like President Bush. His approval ratings are in the 60's." I nearly ran off the road!
Perhaps I was wrong- Karl Rove shouldn't be sent to prison, but rather to a treatment center because he is clearly on crack! Does he really believe that Bush's approval rating is in the 60's (when all the reports in the media say that it has gone below 30%), or does he think that if he repeats nonsense like that, the faithful will believe him?

So tonight I turned on CSPAN to hear what kind of crazy plan for nuking Mexico or whatever that Bush is proposing, and after Kennedy's speech they show Karl Rove's speech at the American Enterprise Institute. Karl Rove was introduced as a man of "intellectual depth and strength of character." Am I in some kind of bizarro world??

 

Yep, I think it was Abraham Lincoln that had the lowest approval rating of any US president, half the country left then half of the rest didn't like him, 25%....now he's rated by scholars and the best ever. Worst approval after him I'd guess Carter, Nixon, Truman then Bush ?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(eyeguy13 @ May 15 2006, 10:06 PM) [snapback]256045[/snapback]</div>

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I came back from walking the dogs- I had left CSPAN on, and Rove was still talking at the AEI forum (and my dogs take a long walk.) Damn if Rove didn't say the same thing in response to a reporter's question- "The people like President Bush. Our polls show his approval rating in the 60's."
ARGHHHHHH!!!!!!!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Karnac @ May 15 2006, 07:19 PM) [snapback]256053[/snapback]</div>

When asked about being the worst president in history, W replied: "heh..heh... Naw, I might have been bad at math and english but I was never the worst in history."
Regards, Mike

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IFixEm @ May 15 2006, 11:12 PM) [snapback]256081[/snapback]</div>

Chuckle... :lol:
Thanks for this. I will be using it during some conversation in the near future, I assure you!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ May 15 2006, 10:50 PM) [snapback]256066[/snapback]</div>

Implausible deniability--used by this administration consistently. And somehow, it works. :huh:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IFixEm @ May 15 2006, 10:12 PM) [snapback]256081[/snapback]</div>

Excellent ! ..............:lol:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IFixEm @ May 15 2006, 11:12 PM) [snapback]256081[/snapback]</div>

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

There is a lot more wrong with being a righty than a lefty.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(grasshopper @ May 14 2006, 07:33 AM) [snapback]255124[/snapback]</div>

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Bob Allen @ May 15 2006, 06:33 PM) [snapback]255934[/snapback]</div>

History will settle this topic 100 years from now, the same way it will judge Clinton.

The problem with making a decision is making the decision. Clinton took the easy way out - probably much to our misfortune, by never making a decision (except to get that hummer in the Oval Office). It is easy to govern by polls and not stir the pot.

There is no doubt in my mind that FDR or Truman, or Kennedy would have acted differently given the same set of circumstances Clinton faced -- WTC I (1993, 6 Americans murdered and 1,000+ injured), the embassy bombings, Somalia, or the USS Cole attack.

I still wonder why Clinton did absolutely NOTHING as Americans died on his watch?? I wonder why he let the nuclear jeanny out of the bag THREE times? I wonder why he limited American involvement in Kosavo to 15,000 feet, I wonder why he let Darfur brew, I wonder why he let Afghanistan turn into a terror camp, I wonder why backed Palestinian terror and hindered Israeli attempts at self-defense, I wonder why he did not take OBL when he had the chance 4+ times, I wonder why he constructed the wall between CIA and law enforcement, I wonder why he decimated US intellegence capacity, etc, etc, etc.

We shall see how history judges all - long after we are gone.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BellBoy @ May 15 2006, 01:02 PM) [snapback]255856[/snapback]</div>

How can you be so certain? Take a competent actor, give him the role of moron, and he can be reasonably convincing. I do think that Bush is a moron. But it's one of those things that we can never be absolutely certain of. It could be an act.

I think my friend is mistaken (when he asserts that Bush's idiocy is an act) but my friend is not stupid, and his argument is plausible.

There are things we can know, and other things we can only believe. It is easy to believe that your beliefs are certainties. We can be quite certain (based on his personal history) that Bush is a stupid man. But harder to be certain that he is a moron. He could be a stupid man who knows he's stupid, and plays the political advantage of being stupid by playing the utter moron in order to maximize his appeal to the anti-intellectual voters. This also gives him an excuse for his failures.

 

Boy, you'd almost think the second it was announced that Bush was re-elected ( ), a veil of oppression suddenly fell upon the libs....

I have to say though, whenever y'all feel Bush is somehow this evil overlord out to throw everyone who looks at him the wrong way in jail forever, you should get a taste of what life is like in Saudi Arabia, where Bush is considered an extreme LEFTIST!...:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/16/...reut/index.html

Y'all have NO idea what REAL conservatism is...

:lol:

 

When you lower expectations to ground level ANYTHING you do is better than expected. Therefore you are a genius. *(Page 1 of the Rove "Presidential Guide For Dummies") **How low can you stoop? It's LIMBO time!

 

I find it absolutely astounding that as of this writing, 20 Prius owners/drivers think that Bush is doing "an excellent or pretty good job", primarily because the Prius seems to be the best candidate for current, tree-hugging 'lefty-mobile'.

Most 'Dubya' bumper stickers I see are on big, expensive, full-size vehicles of some type (pickup trucks, SUVs and cars). I rarely see one on something small and/or even remotely fuel-efficient. Maybe someone can provide a picture of one on a Prius.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(eyeguy13 @ May 16 2006, 11:39 AM) [snapback]256269[/snapback]</div>

I would certainly lie about getting a hummer! Those things only get about 10 MPG! How embarrassing! B)