Awwww...poor Bush "battered by US pessimism"...the BASTARDS!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush battered by US pessimism, leadership doubts

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent Thu Mar 16, 12:32 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060316/pl_nm/bush_politics_dc

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. "His strong points as a president were being seen as personally credible, as a strong leader. That has all but disappeared," said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, whose latest independent poll found a dramatic decline in Bush's credibility.

[Redstone]

1. Poor boy...now he's going to have to spend a month vacationing at

his ranch and work off his depression cutting brush and falling off bicycles.

While someone cooks all his meals, does the shopping, drives him around, and so on...poor boy.

But it's hard work!

Redstone

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

2. Gee, That's too bad. Pass those failure fries...

[Burried News]

3. The fickle finger of fate? Nope

Chickens home to roost.

[brook]

4. Sob.

(And you can take that anyway you wish).

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[Mz Pip]

5. It's all my fault???

Wow. Bummer. WHo knew I had such power?

Sorry George. Please do something to inspire confidence. Until then please stop bombing countries to get your Mojo back.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[jbnow]

6. I don't know how he was ever seen

as "personally credible, as a strong leader".

Anyone who watched debates (back in 2000 as well as 2004) should have seen he is...shallow. Lack of depth, understanding, curiosity, wisdom, leadership. A man of lack.

I am no whiz at reading people. Actually after bush was selected I felt a little better that at least cheney was there. Talk about lack of judgment, I had no clue how bad cheney was.

But bush was right out there. Were people duped by one good line after 9/11?

I really don't understand. I would never have guessed he'd be as horrible as he has but I thought he's be a weak, ineffective 1 term guy without merit. SCOTUS and the environment were my main concern...again, I am no seer. But I sure saw he was not credible, was not a strong leader.