Bush honesty rating drops to lowest point

[helderheid]

Bush honesty rating drops to lowest point
NBC/WSJ poll: Iraq replaces jobs as most important American priority

By Mark Murray
Political reporter
NBC News
Updated: 6:35 p.m. ET July 13, 2005


WASHINGTON - The last two weeks certainly have been eventful ones in America and across the globe: President Bush gave a prime-time speech on Iraq and attended a G-8 summit in Scotland; Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement from the Supreme Court (with perhaps another retirement on the way); and suicide bombers killed approximately 50 people in London. After these events, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that Bush’s overall job rating has slipped and that his rating for being “honest and straightforward” has dropped to its lowest point.

Regarding Bush’s upcoming pick to replace O’Connor on the court, moreover, the poll shows that strong majorities believe Bush would be taking a step in the right direction if he appointed a woman and someone who supports references to God in public life. But a majority also thinks that Bush would take a wrong step if he chose someone who would vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

The survey, which was conducted from July 8-11 among 1,009 adults, and which has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, finds that respondents, by a 49 percent-to-46 percent margin, disapprove of Bush’s job performance. That’s a drop from the last NBC/Journal poll in May, when 47 percent approved and 47 percent disapproved. In addition, the only time when Bush’s job rating has been worse was in June 2004, when 45 percent approved of his performance.

Furthermore, only 41 percent give Bush good marks for being “honest and straightforward” — his lowest ranking on this question since he became president. That’s a drop of nine percentage points since January, when a majority (50 percent to 36 percent) indicated that he was honest and straightforward. This finding comes at a time when the Bush administration is battling the perception that its rhetoric doesn’t match the realities in Iraq, and also allegations that chief political adviser Karl Rove leaked sensitive information about a CIA agent to a reporter. (The survey, however, was taken just before these allegations about Rove exploded into the current controversy.)

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[etherealtruth]

1. How does that corny old joke go?

Q: How can you tell when he's lying?

A: His lips are moving.

Sad, but that's how I feel.

[FreedomAngel82]

2. Sad indeed

This is nice though. It means that the American public is fed up with this crap.

[etherealtruth]

4. FreedomAngel ...

You can always find something positive ---- in this case you are right; at least people are becoming aware of his idiocy!

[Arugula Latte]

6. Except, how do you know when his lips are moving?

He doesn't really have lips. He's just got a piehole, like his father.

[Booster]

3. The 41% that give him good marks for honesty haven't seen a

tv program or read a newspaper in 5 years, or else they are just as honest as he is.

[etherealtruth]

5. ... or just as smart! n/t

[Il_Coniglietto]

7. Hahahahaha!!

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy! And those results are from before the Rove story really hit it big, huh? Whichever direction Rove was planning for this investigation to go in, I'm thinking this wasn't it. Looks like he ain't no "genius" after all. :dunce:

This should be fun. :popcorn:

[helderheid]

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