Overall, do you approve, disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling his job as President?
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Overall, do you approve, disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling his job as President?
AP/Ipsos poll results:
Look at the bright side. There haven’t been any nuclear accidents in the USA under Bush’s leadership.
Not unless the nukes the CIA gave to some bandit in a cave return to conviently blow up so they can justify some stone age country being blown back into the stone age.
[quote=“Toe Tag”]Overall, do you approve, disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling his job as President?
AP/Ipsos poll results:
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I think plenty of people are wracking their brains trying to figure out something, anything that Bush has done that can be termed an indisputable success or even just matches up to expectation set up by his own rhetoric.
Curbing spending and growing the economy? Nope.
Nation building in Iraq? Nope.
Capturing Bin Laden? Nope.
Ensuring the homeland is secure? Nope.
Improving education? Nope.
These are his own projects. Let’s not even talk about other causes that would be beneficial to the majority of the country.
He is not too bad, actually have picked a good crew to run the ship.
Look at all the other silly, stupid, and/or incompetent leaders you find around the world.
He is not bad, and not perfect - but who’s perfect?
[quote=“X3M”]He is not too bad, actually have picked a good crew to run the ship.
Look at all the other silly, stupid, and/or incompetent leaders you find around the world.
He is not bad, and not perfect - but who’s perfect?[/quote]
Now that I’m too far down to bias the above poll, I’ll let you know my opinion.
History will judge Bush as the worst US presidents and one of the worst leaders of any country in recorded history.
[quote]Bush breaks through 40 percent floor
Overall, do you approve, disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling his job as President?
Strongly Approve 20 (23)
Somewhat Approve 11 (10)
Lean Toward Approval 8 (9)
Lean Toward Disapproval 14 (13)
Somewhat Disapprove 5 (5)
Strongly Disapprove 40 (38)
Total Approve 39 (42)
Total Disapprove 59 (55)
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(I would add though that even though Bush musters 39% (and falling) in terms of strong feelings disapproval is 2 to 1)
You will never be a prophet in your own country.
History will be the judge.
This is quite likely true, although I don’t really give Bush the credit for anything, bad or good, that the current administration does.
There is the chance,though a very slight chance, that the middle east may actually get it’s act together in the coming decade or two. Bush could possibly recieve credit as the initiator of the process and go down in the history books as a great president. I don’t think this will actually happen, but it is food for thought.
I personally don’t believe Bush has the ability to run a lemonade stand, nevermind the largest empire the world has ever known. He’s a pawn of the real power players, and who they are we can only speculate.
I think the key to GWB’s legacy will be not how the US changed under his presidency, but how the world changed, esp the Middle East.
If he was any good then Colin Powell would still be with him. Powell for president.
gee…what a surprise these results are on this board… 
It must be frustrating. The harder you dig, the deeper . . .
Very well put! 
If Colin Powell was any good he’d have made a stance when it counted, as it was he sucked eggs, and as a result we did too.
[quote]gee…what a surprise these results are on this board…
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Democracy getting you down TC. You guys have had plenty of opportunities to argue you case. What’s happening? Please explain.
Ha ha ha!!! 
Facts man, facts . . . where are the facts?
HG
[quote=“Fox”][quote]gee…what a surprise these results are on this board…
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Democracy getting you down TC. You guys have had plenty of opportunities to argue you case. What’s happening? Please explain.[/quote]Fox -
I was not aware you were looking to me for political guidance.
My views are posted with regularity. And in clear language.
If someone fails to understand perhaps they should review their educational accomplishments. Or personal cognition abilities.
Either way - the results of this poll on Forumosa come as no surprise. (As I commented previously)
Guy 1: “Brrrr! What’s that in the air? Did you feel that?”
Guy 2: “Yeah, it’s getting s bit snippy in here.”
Guy 3, who happens to co-mod this forum: “Be nice. Sarcasm is hard to detect online. TC, here’s some poor sap* ASKING you to give him your political viewpoint! Take the ball and RUN brother!”
keep it civil folks.
jdsubtle
*sappy in a good way 
[quote=“Fox”][quote]gee…what a surprise these results are on this board…
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Democracy getting you down TC. You guys have had plenty of opportunities to argue you case. What’s happening? Please explain.[/quote]
You’re kidding, right? It’s democracy that elected Bush TWICE, and the second time by a stronger majority than the first (well, electoral vote majority the first time at least). All this is despite the predictable nature of results of this forum’s little poll.
Look at almost any leader in the world and you’ll find that, come election day, the incumbent turns out to have much more support than he is believed to have in the days leading up. Recent examples: Koizumi had approval ratings of 51% before the election (OK, pretty good ratings already), but he ended up with a much bigger % of the vote. Tony Blair also had faltering support but ended up with a clear (albeit reduced) mandate, a good deal above his pre-election approval level.
Too bad you won’t have a chance to prove me wrong on this one, Fox. Bush has already won TWICE and won’t be able to stand a third time. But that’s a subject for another thread.
Let me add that I am not a Bush-supporter, although I am conservative in my viewpoints and therefore chose “Lean toward Approval”. It just miffs me no end that people come on this forum and say Bush is anti-democracy, or his admin is not democratic when
a) this administration has been more outspoken about democracy than any Democrat administration I have ever seen (most notably the limp fish admin of the former president)
b) the president WAS elected DEMOCRATICALLY twice, by the American people, whether that embarrasses you or not.
That Bush’s approval rating has been falling in a straight line (I’m not kidding) ever since 9/11 and is now in the 30’s comes as no surprise, either.
There is something else that’s been growing in a straight line with no sign of slowing, and I think people have noticed:
Cumulative US hostile fatalities in Iraq:
Cumulative US fatalities in Iraq is now 1896, coalition fatalities at 2093. Both are growing similarly.