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Originally posted by Dravyk
Speak for yourself on this. As the typical Amercian does NOT think Bush is a good president.
1. The popular vote was for Gore, not Bush.
2. Copied from a news article just last week: "Bush's overall job approval was at 50% in the CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll, with 47% disapproving of his job performance."
For a comparison: Clinton *during the bullshit impeachment proceedings* had an approval rating of 89%. Most presidents are usually at 65-75%. Not only is Bush's rating low compared to almost anyone before him, for a president during a "war time" his is the lowest of any American president ever!
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I hope you are right. Wait until King George spends his huge war chest on sound bytes and uses his Presidential powers to influence the next election. I promise he will paint an image that a vote for whom ever runs against him is a vote against patriotism and the American way of life. He has some of the most masterful media manipulators on the planet working for him, huge war chest and a bully pulpit.
A snipit from a speech by the man who should be president given on 9 November.
"But President Bush has stretched this new practical imperative beyond what is healthy for our democracy. Indeed, one of the ways he has tried to maximize his power within the American system has been by constantly emphasizing his role as Commander-in-Chief, far more than any previous President ? assuming it as often and as visibly as he can, and bringing it into the domestic arena and conflating it with his other roles: as head of government and head of state ? and especially with his political role as head of the Republican Party.
Indeed, the most worrisome new factor, in my view, is the aggressive ideological approach of the current administration, which seems determined to use fear as a political tool to consolidate its power and to escape any accountability for its use. Just as unilateralism and dominance are the guiding principles of their disastrous approach to international relations, they are also the guiding impulses of the administration?s approach to domestic politics. They are impatient with any constraints on the exercise of power overseas ? whether from our allies, the UN, or international law. And in the same way, they are impatient with any obstacles to their use of power at home ? whether from Congress, the Courts, the press, or the rule of law.
Ashhahahahaha has also authorized FBI agents to attend church meetings, rallies, political meetings and any other citizen activity open to the public simply on the agents? own initiative, reversing a decades old policy that required justification to supervisors that such infiltrations has a provable connection to a legitimate investigation;"
Full text and at
http://www.moveon.org/gore/speech2.html