Newsweek: 58% Polled Wish Bush Presidency was OVER!

[bdrube]

Check it out:

The president’s approval ratings are at their lowest point in
the poll’s history—30 percent—and more than half the country
(58 percent) say they wish the Bush presidency were simply
over, a sentiment that is almost unanimous among Democrats (86
percent), and is shared by a clear majority (59 percent) of
independents and even one in five (21 percent) Republicans.
Half (49 percent) of all registered voters would rather see a
Democrat elected president in 2008, compared to just 28
percent who’d prefer the GOP to remain in the White House.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16840614/site/newsweek/

[SaveOurDemocracy]

1. Only 58% ???

Maybe he should build a bigger house.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

8. The other 42% wish it had never happened...

ba-da-bing!

[rjstephanjr]

2. We need more people to vote

The only way this will happen is when the American public, as a whole, spend time voting for the President and less time voting on American Idol

[bdrube]

3. Amen, Brother!

[CJCRANE]

4. How many wish it had never happened?

:shrug:

[Cabcere]

5. Count me in on that one. n/t

[bdrube]

7. Guy in my office who voted Bush in '04 thinks he should be impeached.

[Peace Patriot]

6. I had a pang of sadness and pity reading this subject line. They just want it

to be OVER, please God. Make it STOP. I'll be good. You know I pay my taxes. You know I vote. I'll do ANYTHING, I'll even reduce gas mileage. But please....PLEASE...make this nightmare go away.

I sympathize. And I don't dis the American people, like someone just did upthread. They've tried. They really have. They are far better informed than anyone gives them credit for. FIFTY-SIX percent of the American people opposed this criminal's war, way back in Feb. '03, before it started--amidst the most relentless war propaganda any people has been subjected to, since Hitler. 56% resisted. We got rigged voting machines in '04, for that. They knew we were a'comin', ballots in hand, to throw these bums out, and they were prepared, and we were not. No ballots. Punch this button here--and let US "count" your vote. Heh-heh.

Well, we learned that lesson and outvoted the machines in '06, but still didn't get a fully representative Congress. And those heh-heh voting machines are still in place. But we're working on it, best as we can--as our federal treasury is looted, and we slip into poverty and debt, and can't find work, and grandma is sick again, and the kids need shoes. We had a good country once, where, if you did an honest day's work, you could make it, and you could trust that your kids would do better. Please God, end this nightmare of thieves and killers in the White House. Just let it be OVER, and give the good people in this country a chance again. That's all we ever asked for. Hope.

We added 20 million voters to the voting rolls in '04. You think they voted for Bush? I don't. That is WHY people want it to be OVER. Because it never should have been, and it is agony to endure this illegitimate toad acting like a king--with so many of the disasters that he has created needing urgent remedy.

[Cabcere]

11. You've pretty much summed up

my feelings with that first statement of yours. :( Sometimes I just can't help thinking, "I want him to be out of office so he can't hurt anyone anymore!" Because he IS hurting people. Not the "terr'ists," not the "bad guys," but Iraqi civilians and Americans and anyone who even thinks about getting in his way. :cry: It really does make me sad. Has there ever, in the history of the United States, been a President more destructive to his people, to his country, to the Constitution he is sworn to protect, than George W. Bush? :(

When I was seventeen, for the first time in my life, I did not feel 100% proud to be an American. That was the year we went to war with Iraq (and for what? WMDs? Terrorists? Saddam? Oil? The president's ego? We may never know the real reason), and I was against it from the very beginning. I thought that it would accomplish nothing, that there was no way we would catch Saddam, and that going against the UN was a stupid move. I was wrong about Saddam - we did catch him, and I admit that I was glad to hear that news. But that doesn't change the fact that we pretty much flew in the face of the UN and sent a big FU to the international community. Some people saw this as being "brave," or "daring to stand up" to "those wimps." I didn't. I thought it was an enormously foolish, wrongheaded, and arrogant thing to do, and it hurt me that this president seemed to be willing to drag our country's name through the mud just to satisfy his own selfish delusions of grandeur. It still does. Over the past four years, this president has proven to be more corrupt, more cruel, more self-serving, and more disrespectful to the very foundations on which this great country was built than I ever thought possible. I cannot imagine the horrors and injustices he will bring in the next two years, nor do I wish to. I just want him out of office...so he can't hurt anyone anymore.

[PresidentObama]

9. I'm surprised it isn't 98%, not 58%

President Kerry and President Gore sound a lot better right about now!

[Cabcere]

12. At this point,

President Just-About-Anybody-Else sounds a lot better. :(

[A Brand New World]

10. I wished it was over the second it began!

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