Bush battered by US pessimism, leadership doubts

[PhilipShore]

ABC News/Reuters
Bush battered by US pessimism, leadership doubts
Mar 16, 2006

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1733180

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deep doubts about the Iraq war and pessimism about America's future have shattered public confidence in President George W. Bush and helped drive his approval ratings to their lowest level ever, pollsters say.

As Bush launched a series of speeches to drum up support for the war, a new round of opinion polls found growing skepticism about Iraq and distrust of Bush. His image declined sharply, with one poll finding "incompetent" to be the most frequent description of his leadership.

Bush's approval rating dipped as low as 33 percent in one recent poll after a string of bad news for the White House, including uproars over a now-dead Arab port deal, a secret eavesdropping program, a series of ethics scandals involving high-profile Republicans and a bungled response to Hurricane Katrina.

The political storm has left Bush's second-term legislative agenda in tatters, threatened Republican control of the U.S. Congress in November's elections and shredded his personal image as an effective leader.

[acmavm]

1. The use of the word 'incompetent' has a lot to do with why

we are bombing the absolute shit out of innocent civilians around Samarra as we type.

[NastyRiffraff]

38. Must be Clinton's fault

Yeah, that's it. The contrast between his administration and Shrub's is just SO UNFAIR!
:sarcasm:

[Options Remain]

2. aww is weality sinking in widdle boy?

.

[fooj]

3. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BROKE THE LAW.

Batter on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

peace.

[0rganism]

31. ...should be the goddam headline on every paper in this fading nation

Above the fold, in bold type, very simple.

Not only did his cronies break the law, they fucking admitted it and went on to blame the law. That bullshit wouldn't even fly in traffic court, and I dare to think it wouldn't sit well with the public, either. IF THE MEDIA WOULD DO ITS JOB FOR ONCE.

[Vincardog]

4. shredded his personal image as an effective leader. because the truth will

shine thru any BS given time.
The image was propaganda anyway.
The miserable failure comes shining thru again.

[leftchick]

5. That is the best headline ever!

except for US troops come home.

[0rganism]

32. Nah, it's just blaming the public for battering the poo' widdle pwesident

"What's the matter with you people, can't you see he's a WARTIME pwesident?"

[leftchick]

33. yes, yet who is the CAUSE of the US pessimism???

why none other than the war time pretzeldent!!! :)

[0rganism]

37. could it be the "liberal" media elites?

I'm not sure how effective that spin is anymore, but it's the GOP's tried & true method of deflection.

If they can successfully blame the press and the people, then just maybe W gets off the hook.

[formercia]

6. Fearless Leader thinks peception more important than reality.

Thus, he is hung by his own petard.

[pscot]

18. Hoist

Hoist by his own petard (bomb). With any luck, Dick Cheney will be standing next to him when the damn thing goes off.

[formercia]

25. The fuse gets shorter every day n/t

[0007]

19. junior is choking on his own snot and I love it!

Every fucking second of it.

[baby_mouse]

30. Fearless Leader isn't QUITE sure what people MEAN when they say "reality".

The poor dear's confused.

[Bob3]

7. This article's tone implies that * had nothing to do with the

pessimism and doubts - that somehow it's our fault that this fine leader is now foundering. WTF is up that that? Who's writing this carp?

We're pessimistic cause the past is prologue and we've still got three more years with tit-brain as the dummy in the oval office.

[boddhi]

8. jeez - ya think?

i mean, nothing that he's done has turned out the way it was promised. i wish it had happened sooner, but it couldn't happen to a nicer guy....

[keta11]

9. Its taken six years for people to determine he is incmpetent!!

I saw incomptence and stupidity the first time I laid eyes on him and heard him speak back when he was campaigning in 2000.

[MadMaddie]

20. I knew when he was Governer of Texas...

[sweetheart]

34. yea!, how long does it take

to figure out that he is thick as a board! Gosh, darn, people really have not got common sense.
He was as obviously a skiver fuckup rich kid who's never turned a competent act in his life.

And they are shocked at the incompetence.!!! uuhggghhh! offf fucking course geeze brain leak!
He's an idiot, a moraon, an ignorant evil man who belongs in a burger joint, were life really a
meritocracy.

You are like plato's navigator, who knows the right deal, but is obscured by a populism of
media that keeps the ship's blind captain listening elsewhere. And fact, democracy is a
blundering irresponsible blind man at best... we've accepted our own foible.

[fooj]

10. He's a lying, treasonous, rat bastard...

bet that's got something to do with it...:banghead:

Peace.

[peacetalksforall]

11. So who do you call?

Creatures who are oblivious to death and our future.

They are saving George by killing in a far off country with no regard for innocent people.

[Double T]

12. bush was never an effective leader and has always been incompetent........

why does it take so many people so long to see the real truth about this WH?????

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. leadership doubts? I have had no doubt since 1999.

[thereismore]

14. That's why he attacked that little hapless Iraqi town today,

operation Swarming or some such shit. It's a new Fallujah in the making, if you ask me.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

15. How long has it been...

Since the last REALLY big march on Washington?

And could one be formed without ANSWER tainting the whole issue?

[Benhurst]

16. I, for one, have no doubts about his leadership.

He is the sorriest piece of crap to ever steal his way into the White House, of that I'm certain.

[Mandate My Ass]

17. US battered by 5+ years of Bush criminal activities,

at home and abroad, including but not limited to the unrepentant murder of innocents in Iraq and disregard for military he sent there.

[warrens]

21. I was hoping that was literal, not figurative

Let's face it, the boy can't even eat a pretzel or ride a bike. As foghorn leghorn used to say, "that boy ain't right."

[MurrayDelph]

22. OK, so he's battered;

when do we get to fry him?

[Critters2]

27. !!

:spray:

[featherman]

23. Elect an obvious incompetent as leader and you get....

INCOMPETENT LEADERSHIP. Civics 101.

The most destructive legacy of 9/11 was to transform this obvious incompetent into a "strong leader" in a drum beat of propaganda from a profoundly shaken media and into the hopeful hearts of much of a terrified American public wildly searching for any port in a storm. The result has been this two term nightmare of incompetence and wide ranging destruction.
Ain't bizarre historical events a bitch sometimes?

[Orsino]

24. "Pessimism"? After five years of *, it's called REALISM. n/t

[bluestateguy]

26. I want his presidency to fail

I make no bones about this.

I promised my conservative friends that I would be as fair to their boy as they were to Bill Clinton for 8 years.

Payback is a real bitch.

[llmart]

36. Me too.

It already has, but I've been hoping for it from day one. I love gloating to those idiots who thought he was wonderful. I do it every chance I get. I rub their noses in it. I don't give a shit.

[Megahurtz]

28. Yeah, WTF is there to be so optomistic about? n/t

[baby_mouse]

29. "Bush Battered by Chinese Chef and Sauteed in Wok"

Locals Praise Initiative etc.

[roseBudd]

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