White House: Polls are flawed, Bush sees a ’shift in attitudes’ toward him.
White House: Polls are flawed, Bush sees a ’shift in attitudes’ toward him.
Despite polls showing record levels of dissatisfaction with President Bush, U.S. News reported on Friday that the White House is in an “upbeat mood” and that aides “see a president who still gets his way.” According to the magazine, the administration’s positive demeanor is a result of Bush sensing less “antipathy” than he used to in crowds:
When he travels around the country, Bush feels less “antipathy” than he used to in the crowds, along the motorcade routes, and expressed by the individuals who talk to him at his events. “He feels there has been a shift in attitudes out there that’s not reflected in polling data,” the aide says. [...]
Reinforcing his point, the latest AP-Ipsos poll, released in mid-June, found that only 29 percent of Americans approved of Bush’s job performance, one of the lowest presidential ratings ever. White House officials, by the way, say they aren’t sure such polls should be believed because the questions are biased and the population samples are flawed.
U.S. News reported in January that aides “are predicting a remarkable poll shift to about 45 percent favorable by the time he leaves office next year.”
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Talk about living in a bubble.
He must be thinking about when he travels to Europe and people ignore him instead of protesting his presence like they used to.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:51 pmKeep clapping for Tinkerbell there monkey boy, keep clapping.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pmIn other news monkeys have started flying out of bush’s butt.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:55 pmOh please….
And get some big boy shoes.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:55 pm**eyes rolling**
But, but polls don’t mean anything, and georgie doesn’t read anyway.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pmHow would Bush know whether public opinion about him has changed, since he doesn’t read newspapers and since his handlers don’t allow protesters to get anywhere near him or ask him questions? From Bush’s perspective, the people who come to his appearances are uniformly friendly and obedient.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pmSnicker, giggle, burst out laughing – Yeah, Right and Daryll the flying monkey is gonna get his wish and Phuckabee is gonna be pres.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pmSo chimpy’s sycophants say he is having a successful last year in office because he is willing to tell the vast majority of his constituents to f@ck off every time he vetoes a popular bill? I see this delusional clown spending his final days watching an endless tape loop of his “mission accomplished” speach muttering “someday they’ll appreciate me.” Fitting.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:57 pmGosh Georgie, come by my house if you want to see a lack of apathy. We feel very strongly about you. You want an approval rating above 20% when you leave office? Commit sepuku while apologizing to our country for the harm you have done in 8 years.
At least you would have some honor. 75% of Americans at this point regard you at the same level as a week old Depends left by grandpa. The other 25% are lying.
No, no apathy here.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:59 pmWow, what a job find anything for georgie to have a legacy on. Wonder if SMU will decide if georgie can have his library or not, it is July. Well, a few million from his oil friends will decide it.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:00 pmDid Bush EVER feel any “antipathy” in crowds? I don’t remember any other president in my lifetime who has gone so far out of his way to ensure he doesn’t have to come within 500 feet of anyone who isn’t a mindless glazed-over sycophant.
This guy has banished all dissenters to “free speech zones” far away from wherever he is, he has required loyalty oaths from those who attend his rallies, he doesn’t read the papers, and members of his staff are scared to death to give him any information that would make him unhappy.
I assume that his “upbeat mood” is just the latest symptom of delusion. And I predict that “The polls are flawed! Bush said so!” will be the next tiresome talking point by the trolls.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:00 pmNot so SMart thinks Bush is a great President…
HAHAHAHAHAHA….Worst Ever, FOOL!!!!
June 30th, 2008 at 3:00 pm45% for Busch by next year?
I guess it’s possible, after all, he is half way there.
_AIO_
June 30th, 2008 at 3:00 pmU.S. News reported in January that aides “are predicting a remarkable poll shift to about 45 percent favorable by the time he leaves office next year.”
with a healthy assist from a compromised and lying cabal of national political press whores.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:01 pmShitforbrainsMart,
WTF are you talking about? Civil War? Your bitterness is showing little guy. Get a life.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pmHis sole indice:
When he travels around the country, Bush feels less “antipathy” than he used to in the crowds, along the motorcade routes, and expressed by the individuals who talk to him at his events.
People don’t have time to protest a has-been.
What he’s mistaking for “less antipathy” is in fact the public’s indifference to someone who’s politically irrelevant.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pm# 8 You are kidding aren’t you ?
June 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pmYou are correct in one sense S(ubnormal i.q.)Mart. Even though his importance derives solely from serving as a horrible example of how not to lead, one cannot screw up the country and the world as badly as chimpy has without being deemed an “important president”. Kind of similar to how Nero was an “important emperor.”
June 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pmYeah, I got your “Shift”, right here!!!
June 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pmI still want to impeach Bush and Cheney, but I expect most people have already put this administration behind them, the same way they treat the Iraq occupation as over and done with.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pmS_Mart Says:
Thanks to this man we are not in the middle of a civil war!
June 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
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That’s right! We’re in the middle of at least three that we know of: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:03 pmS_Mart Says:
Thanks to this man we are not in the middle of a civil war!
Yeah, that war ended in 1865. You gotta go pretty far back into history to highlight something which Bush didn’t screw up. What next; giving Bush credit for lighter than air vehicles?
June 30th, 2008 at 3:04 pmI wonder whether S-Mart-as-a-bowl-of-rocks has oil stock, defense stock, Haliburton stock or is part of al queda. These are the only people who would make such an asinine statement.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:04 pmS_Mart Says:
Thanks to this man we are not in the middle of a civil war! Thanks Bush for appointing the proper judges to keep the 2nd amendment in place. He will go down as one the most important presidents in modern history.
in our the hearts
and minds of americans everywhere
he’ll always come in
second place to
warren g. harding.
think about it.
*
good luck.
¶
June 30th, 2008 at 3:05 pmBut I thought he doesn’t pay attention to polls. Freudian slip much Bushie? You just wanna be liked, huh Monkey Boy? It’s a pity you’re such a sadistic cocksucker, otherwise you might be liked.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:05 pmS_Mart Says:
If the Supreme Court would have not ruled they way they did, this country would have been a war zone.
your mind is a war zone.
and your side
is losing.
:)
good luck.
¶
June 30th, 2008 at 3:06 pmIf the Supreme Court would have not ruled they way they did, this country would have been a war zone.
Which would have lasted about three minutes, after the righties all dropped their guns from their cheeto-greased fingers.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:07 pmS_Mart Says:
Thanks to this man we are not in the middle of a civil war! Thanks Bush for appointing the proper judges to keep the 2nd amendment in place. He will go down as one the most important presidents in modern history.
You are a great comedian, s-mart. But a small error in your post: Dubya and his NeoCon war-mongers HAVE put us right in the middle of a f’ing civil war, in Iraq!
Please get your facts straight before you post, K?
June 30th, 2008 at 3:07 pmthat’s right,
i said a war zone.
:)
June 30th, 2008 at 3:07 pmIt’s Captain Irrelevant!
June 30th, 2008 at 3:08 pmS_Mart Says
June 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
He will go down as one the most important presidents in modern history.
____________________________________________
You appear to be as delusional as Bush.
I don’t know if I would go so far as to say that Bush’s presidency will be regarded as important by historians. It may however be regarded as significant — sort of in the same way that Belshazzar was significant to the history of ancient Babylon.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:09 pmupside99 Says:
S_Mart Says:
Please get your facts straight before you post, K?
s_mart,
ignore that last remark.
keep to doing what you’re doing.
it’s a big help
to liberals and progressives.
everywhere. thanks.
ª
good luck.
?
June 30th, 2008 at 3:09 pm19 Paleolib:
Remember Bush still has almost 7 months before he’s shown the door. That’s plenty of time for him to screw up even further. Like assisting Israel in bombing Iran and truly creating WWIII before he leaves.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:10 pmGuess school is out all over the country and the kids are playing at being informed. I’d like to know where the Polls even find 27% or 23% everyone around here is counting the days til this administration is gone, gone, gone. And McSame as well.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:11 pmBush may be right in one sense. Americans and others are feeling a certain sense of relief that in another 6 months the Boy President will be gone. Instead, people are focusing on his replacement.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:12 pmS_Mart Says:
“If the Supreme Court would have not ruled they way they did, this country would have been a war zone.”
I disagree with you, S & M. I don’t think President Gore would have dragged us into a personal war for oil, isolated us from the rest of the modern world, shunned science, ruined the economy, stacked gravely important jobs with unqualified sychophants, dessimated our military or politicized every branch of government. How would President Gore turned this Country into a war zone exactly?
June 30th, 2008 at 3:12 pmNo. 8 S Mart says, “He will go down as one the most important presidents in modern history.”
This is the President that scorns the Constitution of the U.S. and called it only a gd piece of paper.
Arrogance, Lies, Deceit, Greed, and Total Incompetence are and will be the hallmarks of this Administration forever.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:12 pmGood. Then. let’s see how many candidates of the GOP will let Bush stump for them in the upcoming GE.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:14 pmThought so. HE IS TOXIC. Based on prior history, anything from this WH is pure propaganda
S_Mart Says
June 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
He will go down as one the most important presidents in modern history.
I agree with your statement. Bush is important. Historians the world over will study this presidency. What they will study in particular is absolutely what NOT TO DO when your stated goal is to rid the world of terrorists. Bush is important – important that we never do again as he has done to us during his reign of error.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:15 pmAww, c’mon guys! Give s-mart some credit, Bush WILL go down in history as one of our most important Presidents. We have to have one to point back at and tell future presidents that Bush is the perfect example of everything a President should NOT be.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:15 pmStratrat, great minds…
June 30th, 2008 at 3:18 pmHey if smart (not) is so supportive find an recruiting office and put your feet where your mouth is. Enlist for your idol. Oh, that’s right your man, never finished his duty as a soldier. Pretty much the way he ran his companies, Governorship, Presidency right into insolvency. But hey, McSame gets in you won’t have to enlist, a draft will be coming your way.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:19 pmguys you’re wasting
your time trying to
reach s_mart.
he’s upstairs in his mom’s
kitchen having his lunch.
a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
with a glass of chocolate milk.
•
try him again latter.
•
June 30th, 2008 at 3:20 pmbush cheney, rumsfeldt, pearle all the architects will be infamous in the history books for the murders they did using lies and deceit. An example of a country that let dictators rule, just like Germany, Darfur .
June 30th, 2008 at 3:21 pmThe dems who keep pretending to be against him are much more irrelevant…
June 30th, 2008 at 3:23 pmYeah, he’s a yew nitre, all right.
A collective sigh of relief is all he’s gonna hear as his helicopter whisks him off the White House Lawn for the last time on Jan 19, 2009.
The damage his cabal has inflicted on this nation is going to take a damn decade to repair.
So repukes, don’t get your effin hopes up of having one of your own inhabit the White House for say, the next 24 years or so.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:23 pmAnd once again, rozeyzees proves that chimpanzees are more intelligent than trolls, and more relevant.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:25 pmYou mean like the shift from:
“I really don’t like what the president is doing,” to
“I hate his guts” to
“This is the worst president in our nation’s history and I wonder how many decades it will take us to recover – thank God he’s gone in January?”
That kind of shift?
June 30th, 2008 at 3:25 pmIt is a good point that the only way bush will be positively remembered is by blatantly false facts and fairy tales.
Like how he defeated the Chinese by riding bare horseback through the western front lines when they invaded California in ‘06…
June 30th, 2008 at 3:26 pmDr Matt, thanks for the translation. My universal trollspeak translator is still in the shop, behind my TrollBlatherGrammarCorrector in line for repair.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:27 pm“White House officials, by the way, say they aren’t sure such polls should be believed because the questions are biased and the population samples are flawed.”
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They may have a point, in a kind of “fair and balanced” kind of way about biased poll questions.
The question that is used by LA Times/Bloomberg, Gallup, USA Today/Gallup, Fox News/Opinion Dynamics, and ABC News/Washington Post is “Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?”
This question is obviously biased, because it gives an opening for the responder to say he/she disapproves of the job Bush is doing as president.
A non-biased question would be “Do you approve of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president, or are you siding with the terrorists?”
/snark usually on these days
June 30th, 2008 at 3:28 pmIs there any chance at all that Bush could wear Presidential Seal lederhosen to hide those spindly white legs? Please? Thank you for your prevention of eyesickness.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:29 pmI can only assume Bush’s guage came from his latest trip to Europe, where much smaller crowds gathered to show their distate for his politics and world bleedership.
While his poll numbers continue to plummet, George W. attributes the lack of protesters to “they like me, now”. Sorry, they’ve written Bush off, as in completely. He can’t go away fast enough.
Here’s the litmus test for George. After bombs start falling on Iran, tour Europe again. That should confirm or deny his theory.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:30 pmThe rotten eggs, overripe fruits and vegatables now have to be saved to eat and cannot be wasted by throwing them at the WORST PRESIDENT EVER.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pmSomeone prior said it best, his handlers keep any and all protesting away from him so he an continue his bubble policies. Where is Laura she used to have a brain.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:37 pmHoly crap!
Yikes. If *I* were that delusional, they’d lock me up…
June 30th, 2008 at 3:38 pmThere is no way that a person can willingly be a part of what he has been and not be the recipient of the wrath of those actions. It’s coming for you georgie. Wait for it.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:38 pmI totally agree the guy is a disaster. And he has run all the red lights. An absolute criminal. But, America has gone through a process of adjustment (painful process but much needed). Thanks to that many of us have had a chance to adjust and grow spiritually. We are also more knowledgeable about the NEW WORLD ORDER. What lies ahead for humanity, and how the entire Bush 9/11 post nightmare fits into the picture. Freemasonry, the Illuminati, the Aquarian Age, the entire setup of buildings in DC, Peak Oil and the descent into Fascism. The economic after-shock of 9/11 and now hyperinflation looms in the horizon. The message is PREPARE!Rise above, detach yourself from your needs (control and adjust).
June 30th, 2008 at 3:39 pmbush is like the rash which signals the real disease, but until the rash spreads it will be allowed to be.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:45 pmKeith ~ Der chymperor’s karma is jet, inky, ebon, suphurous black.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:47 pmAnd it’s coming to get him.
Ahh rats, I’m too late to the party and the infamous post #8 has been deleted.
Followers of Chimpo don’t see Iraqis or anyone else who’s not just like them as human beings. It’s okay if they die as long as your own a$$ is safe. What makes you superior to anyone else?
Newsflash: Jesus was not wearing a US flag pin.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:53 pmI would say when bushie leaves office there will be a wild dancing in the streets with joy. Horns will blast, sirens go off and drinking until the wee hours of the morning.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:55 pm“When he travels around the country, Bush feels less “antipathy” than he used to in the crowds, along the motorcade routes, and expressed by the individuals who talk to him at his events.”
What crowds?
June 30th, 2008 at 4:02 pmWhen the motorcade routes are blocked off for a mile on either side, you’re not going to notice much of a reaction as you go by, Dufous…
#68 BINGO !
June 30th, 2008 at 4:06 pmI gather that the troll was saying the recent DC gun law decision prevented a civil war. I could be wrong–it takes troll-reading ability.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:07 pmI would like to point out that Bush’s approval rating is not 29%. The latest poll was done June 19-23 by Bloomberg and the L.A. Times, and shows the Liar-in-Chief with a 23% approval rating.
Oddly enough, this has gotten no attention from the media. The L.A. Times itself buried the lead when they wrote about their own poll. Imagine that!
June 30th, 2008 at 4:08 pmBuckarooBanzai Says:
Remember Bush still has almost 7 months before he’s shown the door. That’s plenty of time for him to screw up even further. Like assisting Israel in bombing Iran and truly creating WWIII before he leaves.
That’s how he plans to achieve his 45% approval rating. After WWIII, which will be over quickly, the only people left alive will be Bush and his cabinet hiding in the bunker. I guess he figures he can get 45% out that bunch.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:11 pmNevar Says:
What crowds?
When the motorcade routes are blocked off for a mile on either side, you’re not going to notice much of a reaction as you go by, Dufous…
Maybe he sees dead people.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:14 pmOn a scale of 1 to 10 on the “manly” scale, I’d give “Gov”. W. an 11, in this picture. He’s so studly in those shorts and socks and Crocs.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:14 pmHow pathetic is it that we have some of the brightest minds in the world, yet we end up with Bush and possibly McCain as our so-called leaders? Two academic, morally bankrupt LOSERS who toss how many lives down the toilet all to benefit a few of their rich friends?
June 30th, 2008 at 4:17 pmHow many houses can you live in? How many cars can you drive? How many Rolex watches do you need to war? wHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH?
Only with a crystal ball could he see this.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:18 pmThe fool mistakes public sentiment — they are simply relieved that they can see the end of the line with him — 200 more days and counting.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:21 pmWell see, that’s the problem right there. Get out of the car and see how well you’re liked.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:26 pmIt is tough when you’re despised by 95% of the people on the planet. So whatever metal defect Nixon had afflicts our little chimpanzee.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:26 pmBecause I hate this prick so much, a bonus is that his extended family is in agony over the shame he has brought to the bush name. Nice.
yep, he’s drinkin’ and druggin’ again…
June 30th, 2008 at 4:27 pmBush, with his hands cupped firmly over his ears while shouting “LA LA LA” at the top of his lungs, says he never hears ANY complaints about his miserably failed presidency.
Is any one surprised?
Chimpy’s arrogance doesn’t alter reality. He’s still the WORST PRESIDENT EVER, even if he doesn’t have the guts to admit it.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:34 pmIf Bush bombs Iran (whether preemptively or after war-hawks in Israel launch an attack) then his approval rating will no doubt go down below zero, especially if Iran retaliates and there is a terrorist attack (large or small) inside the United States.
People will realize that no bombing would have meant no terrorist attack.
Bush and Cheney will both be impeached, and charged with war crimes.
And yet, I would much prefer that Bush and Cheney don’t bomb Iran, but instead give diplomacy a chance, like that given to North Korea and Libya.
Of course, the wild card is still Israeli war hawks.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:48 pm“…the questions are biased and the population samples are flawed.”
ABSOLUTELY!! How else could they get the numbers all the way up to 29%?
June 30th, 2008 at 4:50 pmI’ve got to give him that if antipathy changes to hatred, there is indeed less antipathy.
While, as a gut instinct I don’t believe this to be the case, it could be that those who had antipathy have stopped showing up for his events.
OTOH – don’t flame me. I admit that I’m giving him credit for being observant – a non-starter as far as I’m concerned.
June 30th, 2008 at 5:02 pmHey Bush: You suck!
There’s my “antipathy.”
June 30th, 2008 at 5:48 pmThis clown has a big problem in the waving department. He waves at every cockroach that walks by. What’s his problem? And no one waves back, even the cockroaches.
Yes, Mr. President, there is a shift in attitude. Instead of wasting time and money on a trial, Americans now believe that we should go straight to the rope and oak tree.
June 30th, 2008 at 5:51 pmLOL our mentally ill president. What a dumbass
June 30th, 2008 at 6:32 pmLoathing has turned into indifference. Ah think that means ah’m winnin’ with the people!
-G.W. Deluded as a Mofo
June 30th, 2008 at 6:41 pmAttempting mind control? Say it and make it so?
June 30th, 2008 at 6:51 pm#86, that is funny as hell. HAHAHAHAHA
chimpy will continue to see the percentage drop even when he’s out of office. It will written in history. he’s a war criminal.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:06 pmBush has been such a coward that he would never be in situation that he is challenged. What a loser.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:34 pmWhen the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the United States became the only national superpower on earth.
George Herbert Walker Bush understood what that meant. So did Bill Clinton.
Careful coalition politics combined with judicious use of force could lead to a new and better world, and a world of unprecedented American influence and leadership.
For a while, it really looked like it might happen.
Then a bunch of American imperialists, showed up, slavering for a REAL American Empire, based on militarry power, economic clout, and the patented ignorant arrogance for which the term ‘jingo’ was coined.
And what Bush and Cheney have done is sink the prospects for the next half-century, if not permanently.
They pushed us from the champion of civil liberties to the advocate oftorture, pre-emptive war, and a full sledged Secret Police complete with tropical Lubyanka.
They turned us from an overwhelming military force to an overextended cracking military failure that Osama bin Laden can taunt publicly.
They turned an economic dynamo into a country whose middle class can’t afford to get sick, drive their cars, or own their own homes.
They turned a country pre-eminent in science into a yahoo-ocracy where ignorant TV duckspeakers call the world scientific community Nazis, where uneducated party political officers rewrite eminent scientists’ papers and keep them from making public statements, and where other eminent scientists are denied visas because the hold opinions contrary to the regime.
Even if we have a string of brilliant–Democratic–presidents, the Bush-Cheney junta have destroyed what cannot be rebuilt–trust.
Add to that the fact that they’ve thrown away all our cards–military, civil libertarian, economic, technological–leaving us able to compete how?
We could have really done something interesting–but thanks to these stupid, greedy, arrogant, pseudoaristocratic thugs, we may have turned the corner to, in fifty years, being a charming tourist destination, with wonderful natural monuments, a plethora of charming churches, and a smiling, open population that makes you feel right at home.
July 1st, 2008 at 1:20 amAnd they happily take euros!
Nixon used to refer to the “great silent majority” that (supposedly) was quietly supportive of his misdeeds in Vietnam, Cambodia and elsewhere. This inspired a bumpersnicker:
July 1st, 2008 at 1:47 am
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R E M E M B E R:
The motorcade rout of the President of the U.S.A. is NOT ZONED for free speech…
… especially IN America!
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July 1st, 2008 at 2:30 amThe president does still get his way, in Congress with the new FISA bills supporting his illegal spying, blank checks for Iraq, etc.
About the only people who still support President Bush are Democrats in Congress.
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