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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
What A Legacy
A summary of polls shows that approximately 29% of adults disapprove of the way Bush is handling the job of being president.A more recent poll shows that
1 out of 4 Americans think that Dick Cheney is the worst vice-president ever.Dick Cheney's response? "Go F^%#k yourselves, Americans. And wipe up the mess with your G*&$&@n Constitution."
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Obama 73, Bush 29
President-elect Barack Obama is entering the White House with an enormous reservoir of goodwill from an American public that is rooting for his success in the face of bad economic times, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.
The mood presents opportunities as well as perils for Mr. Obama, who confronts a series of challenges amid expectations he will handle them well.
Overall, a majority of Americans are confident in Mr. Obama's ability to govern and unify the country, with many who didn't vote for him now seeing him in a positive light.
The poll found that 73% of adults approve of the way he is handling the transition and his preparations for becoming president.
President Bush: Overall Job Rating In National Polls
PollingReport.comSurvey Dates | Approve % | Disapprove % | Unsure % | Approve minus Disapprove | |
| FOX/Opinion Dynamics RV | Dec 9-10 | 30 | 65 | 5 | -35 |
| NBC/Wall Street Journal | Dec 5-8 | 27 | 67 | 6 | -40 |
| CBS | Dec 4-8 | 24 | 68 | 8 | -44 |
| AP-GfK | Dec 3-8 | 28 | 66 | * | -38 |
| Gallup | Dec 4-7 | 32 | 61 | 7 | -29 |
| Pew | Dec 3-7 | 24 | 68 | 8 | -44 |
A summary of those polls shows that approximately 29% of adults disapprove of the way Bush is handling the job of being president.
Labels: approval, approve, bush, disapproval, disapprove, obama, polls
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
Legacy
-- CBS News, 9/29/08
Labels: bush, george w. mccain, john mc bush, national debt
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Support The Troops. Really Support The Troops
Rebuke the ones who stick removeable yellow ribbons on their SUVs and accuse others of not supporting the troops, and then commit a sin as shameful as enthusiastically supporting the 'leader' on whose watch Wounded Veterans returned to the States to recover from battle injuries by conveleascing in a hospital featuring amenities such as
- moldy walls
- rats and cockroaches
- general filth
- no free phone calls to families
- charges for room and board for stays that exceeded the medical justification, but in which the Wounded Veterans' discharge paperwork had not been completed.
Labels: bush, cockroaches, hospital, mold, support the troops, veterans' administration
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
About That So-called "Liberal News Media"
November 27, 2002
[ Who is responsible for the following? News media with a liberal bias, or news media with a conservative bias ]
Josh Cowan did a Lexus Nexus search [ far more thorough than Google, Yahoo. or MSN ], comparing the mainstream news media's coverage of Bush and Gore on a variety of issues during the 2000 presidential campaign.
Stories about Al Gore
- 704 stories in the campaign about this flap of Gore inventing the Internet. The fable has since been discredited - he never claimed such a thing, and no one could pin down actual, verifiable evidence that he did say so.
- Over 1,000 stories -- Nexus stopped at 1,000 -- about Gore and the Buddhist temple. This was a non-story that turned out to be wildly exaggerated and again, proven untrue. Besides, who really cares, anyway? It had no bearing on his integrity or his qualifications as a leader.
- 347 articles about Al Gore wearing earth tones. Somehow it became news-worthy to report on his clothing, as if that had, as above, bearing on his integrity or his qualifications as a leader.
News reports about Bush and Cheney
- 13 stories about Bush failing to show up for his National Guard duty for his last year of service. There were dozens of official documents and sworn witnesses who confirmed the story. The only chink in the armor was one document whose authenticity could be neither proven nor disproven. All of the other evidence was solid - George W. Bush did not take a required physical pilot's examination; subsequently he simply did not show up for duty.
- 12 articles about Bush being accused of insider trading at Harken Energy. No one in the "liberal news media" bothered to take the evidence and run with it.
- 10 stories about the fact that Dick Cheney did business with Iran and Iraq and Libya. And that's a fact, Jack! A vice-presidential candidate violated several laws regarding dealing with the enemy - countries he asserts are sponsors of terrorism - and the "liberal news media ignored the story."
- 0 - zip - nada - zed - no stories about either man's wardrobe.
The lies about Al Gore ALWAYS started with a misquote or something taken out of context. The "liberal news media picked up the story because it sounded juicy; rarely did any "reporter" actually investigate any of the allegations. Then the right-wing smear machine kept the false story alive, and the "so-called liberal" news media continued to repeat the lies.
If the news media actually had a "liberal" bias, all of the above stories about Gore would have been buried, and the stories about Bush and Cheney would have been highlighted constantly. The opposite happened. Clearly the news media's bias leans heavily to the right.
Labels: al gore, bias, buddhist temple, bush, cheney, conservative, discover love canal, harken, invent the internet, liberal media, national guard, news, right-wing, smear, wardrobe
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
What If Barack Obama Did This?
The TV political pundits and so-called 'news' broadcasters would spend days and days analyzing this to death and come up concluding that he's an elitist, unpatriotic, uppity Negro.
Labels: barack, bush, disrespect, elitist, flag, Negro, obama, unpatriotic, uppity
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
Disaster
-- Argus Hamilton
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
When The Oil Men Took Over
When Oil Men Took Over The USA In 2001:
Oil was $27 per barrel.
Gasoline was $1.46 per gallon.
You do the math.
Just sayin'......
Labels: big oil, bush, cheney, foreign oil, gasoline price, oil, oil price, rip-off, ripoff
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Why Are We Still There?
Labels: accomplished, bush, iraq, saddam, to do list, wmd
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Pick Your Battles (Part 31874)
- successfully not hunting terrorists in Afghanistan
- only slightly more successful at Kabuling Together (bad pun for 'cobbling together') the Karziad government (supposedly the new national government) in tiny corner of Afghanistan
- struggling against insurgents after the damned fool said "BRING THEM ON" (July 2, 2003)
Propping up a foreign regime? 2:5
Labels: afghanistan, bush, cheney, civil war, dumb idea, iraq, rumsfeld, stupid idea, war
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Civil War, Presidents, and Ford's Theater
-- Argus Hamilton
Labels: argus hamilton, bush, civil war, humor, joke, last year of presidency
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Monday, June 9, 2008
Shooting Fish In A Barrel
Here's a make-up offering:
Senator McCain takes all the sport out of poking fun at politicians.
In his first TV ad of the real campaign season, he states:
"Only a fool or a fraud would romanticize war."
"I must say, I'm a little envious," Bush said. "If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed. It must be exciting for you ... in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You're really making history, and thanks," Bush said."
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1333111120080313?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews -- George W. Bush, March 12, 2008
So, John....
is the President a fool or a fraud? Or both?
That hug is not a cursory, obligatory hug. That hug shows gratitude and admiration - perhaps even LOVE .John: who is that guy hugging the one who romanticized war?
Who is that guy hugging the 'fool or fraud'?
Senator McCain: who was the guy who parodied a Beach Boys' song at a political rally? He was groveling in front of potential partisans, trying to drum up support for his candidacy. He sang for us, "Bomb, bomb, bomb. Bomb, bomb Iran." Gee, that was hilarious. Since we were not at war with Iran, isn't that an act of glorifying war and what we do in war? That sounds to me like "romanticizing" war.
So which are YOU, John? Fool or Fraud? Or both?
I could go on, but this is way too easy.
Labels: bush, fool or fraud, george w. mccain, hug, john mc bush, romanticize war
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
So much for the "Land of the Free" part......
—- G.W. Bush, Milwaukee, WI Oct. 3, 2003
Um, Mr. Prez.....
We have attacked (without provocation) several countries in the past few decades: North Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Sudan, Iraq - to name a few. [ I did not list retaliatory military actions, including Afghanistan ]
We have developed more WMDs than any nation in world history. In fact, we have developed more WMDs that all other nations - in all of history - combined.
Therefore, according to you, Mr. President, we are not a free nation. In fact, since we lead the world in both categories, it would follow that you consider us to be the least free nation.
Don't you hate it when that happens?
Labels: bush, Free nations, Free nations don't attack each other, land of the free, least free nation. more WMD, weapons of mass destruction
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