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Post by CMF Newsman on May 23, 2007 8:57:49 GMT -5
After three straight days at the lowest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports, President Bush's Job Approval ratings slipped another point to another new low on Tuesday. Just 33% of American adults now Approve of the way that George W. Bush is performing his duties as President. Prior to this past week, the President's ratings had never slipped below 35% and had only reached that level for a day or two at a time. Now, his Job Approval has been at the 35% level or below for six straight days. Rasmussen Reports updates the President's Job Approval ratings every day by noon Eastern. story
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Post by Justin Thyme on May 23, 2007 9:07:04 GMT -5
And even with such low job approval rating he can still bully the democrats into caving in on their demands for timetables in order to fund the military war efforts.
What a man!
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Post by daworm on May 23, 2007 9:17:43 GMT -5
The news isn't that Bush is such a bad president.
The news is that the media has done such a good job convincing the nation that he is a bad president.
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Post by BlackFox on May 23, 2007 10:20:04 GMT -5
The news isn't that Bush is such a bad president. The news is that the media has done such a good job convincing the nation that he is a bad president. Wow.
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Post by gridbug on May 23, 2007 11:36:46 GMT -5
ROFL! Sorry, Bush beat the media to it!!
This is hardly worth reporting - must be a really slow news day.
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Post by Copperhead on May 23, 2007 11:42:06 GMT -5
Do the announcement of low approval ratings influence future influence ratings?
Does anyone really care what the approval ratings are? Is it at all germane to the President actually performing his duties?
Definitely a slow news day.
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Post by el Gusano on May 23, 2007 13:44:57 GMT -5
Funny thing about it is that it's still 4 points higher than Carter's approval rating was.
Yet Carter had the gall to talk about how bad a president Bush is.
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Post by BlackFox on May 23, 2007 13:50:40 GMT -5
Funny thing about it is that it's still 4 points higher than Carter's approval rating was. Yet Carter had the gall to talk about how bad a president Bush is. Yes, he's slightly more popular than Carter. All is well.
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Post by daworm on May 23, 2007 13:55:33 GMT -5
Yeah, it's all about popularity. That's what's important. Don't forget to watch American Idol tonight.
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Post by Justin Thyme on May 23, 2007 14:00:28 GMT -5
And he's still kicking the democrats butt!!!
Lest any of you think I'm saying this because I approve of George Bush's job performance, I'm pointing this out because it makes me angry that the choice seems to be the lesser of two evils and, according to the polls the Democrats are not the best choice even under those terms.
Look at how incompetent the Democratic leadership is turning out to be. They go up against a lame duck president with no, 0, zero political capital and he shuts them down. On top of this name one thing they have managed to achieve since taking power.
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Post by gridbug on May 23, 2007 14:23:57 GMT -5
So Bush is really doing a good job and anything stating the contrary is a conspiracy of the liberal media?
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Post by Justin Thyme on May 23, 2007 14:26:29 GMT -5
No, it means that congress is even more incompetent.
I think this is the result of letting just anyone vote.
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Post by daworm on May 23, 2007 14:53:24 GMT -5
In most respects, Bush is doing if not a good job then at least an adequate one. I find a few glaring faults that others find fatal, such as allowing Rumsfeld to talk him into going into Iraq on the cheap, and a few of the Patriot Act provisions. Economically, he's been a very good president, considering the times (globalization is here, and nothing will change that). He's certainly not the buffoon that the media portrays him as, unlike Carter, who was portrayed as a buffoon and continues to show why.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2007 17:40:50 GMT -5
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Worm, you're starting to type as well as I.
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Post by TNBear on May 23, 2007 19:55:52 GMT -5
Bush is doing if not a good job then at least an adequate one. Oh hell yes, I'm sure happy that our country has an 'adequate' president.
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Post by gridbug on May 23, 2007 20:10:17 GMT -5
Hmmm - I need to find a dictionary with this new definition of adequate. It must now be a synonym of enema.
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Post by mikeydokey on May 23, 2007 22:34:24 GMT -5
Jimmy Carter and his complete lack of action during the Iran hostage crisis is what started all this pomposity and this reign of terrorism and terrorist in the Middle East. If he would have acted surely and swiftly, rescuing the hostages and killing the captors, he would have gone a long way in teaching the entire world that the United States is not a force to be played with.
I believe the Carter administration could adequately be described as enema-tic.
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Post by Longshot! [ Saint ] on May 24, 2007 0:01:26 GMT -5
(*Have I mentioned recently my undying love for All Things Worm?)
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Post by Dreamwebber on May 24, 2007 0:26:30 GMT -5
I am just wondering who the 33% are? lol
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Post by daworm on May 24, 2007 8:57:33 GMT -5
Probably the few that have something approaching reading comprehension, the few who can sort fact from allusion and innuendo, and who can draw their own conclusions based on those facts, rather than blindly accepting those the media is trying to spoon feed to them. I'd say that counts for most of them.
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Post by BlackFox on May 24, 2007 10:01:11 GMT -5
I am just wondering who the 33% are? lol Mainly old people, and others who are blindly loyal to their party, and to the President just because he's the President. Mark Twain said "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and the government when it deserves it". I love my country, but I think our current government, Democrats and Republicans, are nothing but criminals.
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Post by Felix on May 24, 2007 10:03:14 GMT -5
Regarding who is the 33% of those polled giving positive responses to the President's performance, Da Worm asserted that they were: Probably the few that have something approaching reading comprehension, the few who can sort fact from allusion and innuendo, and who can draw their own conclusions based on those facts, rather than blindly accepting those the media is trying to spoon feed to them.You know, Worm, it is always possible that among the 67% giving the President a thumbs down there are a few who answer the description you give above. If you wish to believe that George W. Bush's detractors are all mindless idiots, with opinions imposed by a monolithic liberal media, that is your prerogative. Even a blind follower of the media like me will grant you that.
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Post by Justin Thyme on May 24, 2007 10:06:08 GMT -5
I am just wondering who the 33% are? lol Whoever they are they are one out of three. Look around your office. Do you have ten people there? Three of them, possibly four, approve of the job the president is doing and I'm going to bet that at least one of those three is a manager.
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Post by daworm on May 24, 2007 10:19:14 GMT -5
Of course, and I don't deny that. However, look at the percentage of the population who fits my description versus those that do not. What would you put it as? 40 million people watched American Idol, 45 million watched the last State of the Union speech. One could call it roughly 50/50 based on that. So, if 50 percent are sheeple, and 50% think for themselves, I'd expect Bush's approval rating to be more like 25% (50% against because they don't think for themselves, 50% of the remaining 50% against and the rest for) if he were doing no more than a mediocre job.
Of course, some of the people that watch American Idol might also think for themselves. I have seen little evidence of that, though.
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Post by gridbug on May 24, 2007 10:28:52 GMT -5
I must not understand those comments because I obviously lack reading comprehension. No point in replying if I can't tell what I am replying to...
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Post by legaltender on May 24, 2007 11:03:11 GMT -5
People need to feel their leaders have fixed mistakes, isolated a productive track and that they own a tiny stake in a brighter outcome.
It's noble to be stubborn and goal-oriented; people will down the castor oil if they see the dim outline of a plan. They now demand to know whether we dampen or increase extremist recruiting by staying engaged. The inability to articulate or even understand what kind of war we’re fighting in Iraq has withered people's spirits and pushed the Army and Marine Corps to the suburbs of disrepair.
The reality is that not a lot has changed since Jon Stewart apologized to graduates in 2004:
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Post by Dreamwebber on May 24, 2007 12:07:24 GMT -5
Hey, I like American Idol and I like C-span when there is a state of the union I watch...Mainly because Bush reads from a teleprompter with a speech someone else wrote for him and I don't have to be embaressed by his Bushisms...(btw, that is not why I feel he should have a low approval rating...it's just a side note)
What kind of category do I fit in? Those generalizations are insulting IMO. I don't take them personally because I am on of the 67% who would have not approved of the President. If there had been based on evidence 67% approve and 33% not I would have been in the 33%...but, that is just me.
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Post by el Gusano on May 24, 2007 14:56:26 GMT -5
In reply to the Worm-Marvell exchange:
Isaac Asimov, an avowed liberal, was of the belief that it would be quite fair to change the voting system so that every citizen got 1 vote just by being a citizen, but could earn extra votes (his arbitrary number was 10, but just for the discussion, not because that's some magical number) by doing things such as passing reading comprehension tests, political awareness tests, college degrees (education), etc.
Although he felt this was quite fair, he also felt that it would hurt his liberal causes greatly because in the grand scheme of things, most intelligent, well-educated people are quite conservative. Not all, by far, just by using him as an example.
There are people who are dumb as rocks on both sides, but the intelligence scales weigh heavily in favor of conservatives, and until a conservative comes along to run, a moderate like Bush will beat a whacko like Kerry, Gore, or Obama any day.
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Post by plasticone on May 24, 2007 16:48:57 GMT -5
I find it interesting that there isn't any heavy media coverage about the approval rating of the congress being 33% also.
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Post by legaltender on May 24, 2007 17:47:58 GMT -5
Isaac Asimov, an avowed liberal, was of the belief that it would be quite fair to change the voting system so that every citizen got 1 vote just by being a citizen, but could earn extra votes (his arbitrary number was 10, but just for the discussion, not because that's some magical number) by doing things such as passing reading comprehension tests, political awareness tests, college degrees (education), etc. Although he felt this was quite fair, he also felt that it would hurt his liberal causes greatly because in the grand scheme of things, most intelligent, well-educated people are quite conservative. Not all, by far, just by using him as an example. Still another urban legend: I heard Isaac Asimov couldn't change a toilet paper roll.
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