The president's approval rating is 36 percent.
That's as bad as any president has ever had.
Except for Nixon, no president at this point in his second term has
been less than 50 percent.
I recently came across the following commentary on the president's 36
percent approval rating that I found amusing, or scary, depending on
how you look at it:
"Those are pre-coup numbers," the pundit wrote.
"That's when a politician in a third world county becomes so unpopular
that a couple of generals decide to show him the door. Nixon at the
height of Watergate was at 39 percent, three points higher than Bush
is right now. And people despised Nixon.
"To say ‘people like Bush' under these circumstances is to be so
inaccurate that I have to question either your intelligence or your
motives. How much cognitive reasoning ability do you need to figure
out that 36 percent approval rating means people don't like George
Bush."
From The Suffolk News Herald, 8/30/05:
http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/articles/2005/08/30/virtual_suffolk_-_editors_blog/blog966.txt
Who's speaking for the majority? Aug. 28, 2005
By Andy Prutsok
George Bush's most vocal supporter in Suffolk, Chuck Fisher, had
another missive in the News-Herald Sunday blasting me and the
News-Herald, mostly me, over what he sees as a somewhat anti George
Bush tilt in opinion pieces written by me.
Mr. Fisher's implication is that I'm somehow unpatriotic and out of
step with public opinion.
Obviously, Mr. Fisher has not turned on his television for a couple
months.
The president's approval rating is 36 percent.
That's as bad as any president has ever had.
Except for Nixon, no president at this point in his second term has
been less than 50 percent.
I recently came across the following commentary on the president's 36
percent approval rating that I found amusing, or scary, depending on
how you look at it:
"Those are pre-coup numbers," the pundit wrote. "That's when a
politician in a third world county becomes so unpopular that a couple
of generals decide to show him the door. Nixon at the height of
Watergate was at 39 percent, three points higher than Bush is right
now. And people despised Nixon.
"To say ‘people like Bush' under these circumstances is to be so
inaccurate that I have to question either your intelligence or your
motives. How much cognitive reasoning ability do you need to figure
out that 36 percent approval rating means people don't like George
Bush."
That about sums it up.
I'll leave Mr. Fisher to come to his own conclusions, but I think I'm
in pretty good company.
It's not so much, really, that I hate President Bush.
I don't.
In fact, as an American, I need and desperately want President Bush to
be successful.
I have a son who will soon be of military service age and I'm also in
a big mortgage.
I want us to win in Iraq (whatever winning is) and for the housing
market to continue to blaze, but I have my doubts that either will.
Nonetheless, I believe he has mismanaged the Iraq war and has done
more to undermine the freedom and security of the United States than
anything a terrorist could have done.
Apparently a lot of other Americans think so, too.
Mr. Fisher even goes beyond his normal Prutsok bashing in this piece
to take jabs at Cindy Sheehan, the woman who's son was killed in Iraq
and whose individual protest has single-handedly brought the
president's poll numbers to the dismal point they are at now.
If I'm correct, he implies that she is a socialist and other such
nonsense which has no bearing on the fact that her son was killed in
Iraq and she would simply like to know why.
What Mr. Fisher and the shrill minority (36 percent) seem to forget is
that in America, we n the 64 percent of us who disappove of the job
the president is doing, have a right to that opinion and to express it
in both newspaper articles and by camping out at the gate of the
president's ranch.
That's what America is about.
I'm not sure what the America is that Mr. Fisher envisions --
apparently one where citizens are duty-bound to slime anyone who has
an opinion on an issue that differs from Sean Hannity's and Rush
Limbaugh's, but I don't think I want to live there.
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Andy Prutsok, ladies and gentlemen.
Harry
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