Even Texas doesn’t like President Bush anymore.
By on Oct 31st, 2008 at 9:52 am
Even Texas doesn’t like President Bush anymore.
Though President Bush was once “Texas’ favorite son,” the Lone Star State has now joined “the rest of the nation in registering sharp disapproval of his job performance as the nation’s chief executive.” In a new survey by the University of Texas, only 34 percent of Texans said that they “approved of Bush’s handling of the presidency, with just under 10 percent approving ’strongly.’” Fifty-five percent said they disapproved of Bush’s performance, including 38.7 percent strongly disapproving.
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Even a Texan better not mess with Texas.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:54 amSux to be you Texas. You get him back in 2 1/2 months whether you want him or not. If you don’t want him might want to send him hunting with Cheney.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:57 amAnd yet, they plan to vote for McBush. Go figure.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:57 amWonder what Botch’s popularity rating is in Paraguay?
October 31st, 2008 at 10:01 amThough President Bush was once “Texas’ favorite son”
So Texas’ favorite son is an adopted New England plutocrat? Whoda thunkit.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:03 amBush epitomized everything that Texans hold dear.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:04 amTEXAS-A place where so many regular folk want so bad to give rich folk a leg up, or a presidency, as long as they promise not to give anythang to them ‘OTHER’ folk. Got to love my state and all the dumbasses that reside here. oh yes, 1 of 4 here still think Obama is a Muslim. 2 of that 4 think Muslim is muslin and you find it in sheets. sheets they wear no doubt…..another story for another time.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:09 amI hope Texas likes pirates because Bush and crew are going to steal everything down to the last acorn before they sail off.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:43 amBack when the “shrub” was elected as a Texan, I was delighted. He wouldn’t be our governor anymore! Bush is an embarrassment to our state and his legacy will take many years to wash off us Texans. Him and his fake Texas accent need to move back to Connecticut where he is really from. Then again I hear Paraguay is lovely in the Winter!
October 31st, 2008 at 10:45 amWelcome to our reality, Texas.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:47 amHardest part about life….having to live with idiots who still think GW did a good job.
What would the world be like if the other third were educated??? hmmm
October 31st, 2008 at 10:48 amDon’t like him when? Now? How about this Texan never liking him ever.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:49 amThey’re a little slow–maybe it’s the summer heat?
October 31st, 2008 at 10:57 amWhat are those 10% who “strongly” approval of his performance smoking? Did they bring enough for everyone?
October 31st, 2008 at 11:06 amDoes this include the 23% of Texan idiots who believe Barack Obama is a Muslim? Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
October 31st, 2008 at 11:11 amAre these the same 1/3 of Texans still thinking Obama is a Muslim?
October 31st, 2008 at 11:11 amI guess Texas finally figured out that Junior really was a cheerleader for Yale instead of a student cowboy from the University of Texas.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:12 amThey better watch out, bad mouthin’ the rich little brat.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:15 amHe’s liable get his warmonger friends to buy the whole state and kick everybody out.
Not only are Bush and Cheney leaving a foul lingering stench on the entire Republican party for years to come. Imagine the utter uselessness of the 43rd President to Republicans the coming years. In contrast to the 42nd to Democrats. Clinton and Gore ar both very popular, Clinton campaigning full speed for Democrats all over the country
October 31st, 2008 at 11:16 amWell, that’s it, there is no place left for Dubya to go. He must roam the earth for eternity looking for some one/place that loves him – good luck with that.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:32 amBush is a native of Connecticut. Fake as all get out.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:52 amGiven the lasting black eye Dumbya has given to the state, I’d have thought texans would be even more pissed at him than the rest of Americans are.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:55 amI’m a Texan born and bred; and we in Texas do not bestow that right on just anyone. In order to be a Texan you must have been born here, period; Bush is a Yankee fool playing to the bible belt which there are plenty of here.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:03 pmI stood in line for 2 hours to vote this week along with my fellow Obama supporters. I think America will be quite surprised at the Obama numbers from the large cities here in Texas. I even think Obama may win DFW, Houston, San Antonio and El Paso. Austin is a given; it’s just the rural areas that will be the question.
A whole bunch of us in a little town in ME don’t like him either…
October 31st, 2008 at 12:18 pmstormkrow Says: “Austin is a given”
Yep, Austin, a blue oasis in a red state.
Only place in Texas worth living in.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:20 pmI never did.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:44 pmAnd this does help McCain since he is running the same policies as the clown President. Bush will go down in flames as the man without a country.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:54 pmLife has always been hard here in Texas. So hard, in fact, that we don’t have enough energy left at the end of the day to waste any thinking. That’s why we always let others do our thinking for us – preacher, politician, neighborhood gossip – it don’t matter who, as long as they don’t have much in the way of book-learnin’. If you doubt that, look up the grades of our favorite son, the Shrub!
October 31st, 2008 at 2:19 pmYeah, but how does that compare to the rest of the nation?
October 31st, 2008 at 2:45 pmWell it turns out those 3 dumb blondes from Dallas knew a hell of a lot more than a lot of Texans DIXIE CHICKS RULE !!!!!!!
October 31st, 2008 at 3:21 pmBush is not from Texas!!! He was born and educated in New England!! His parents are Yankees too. I don’t know how many times this has to be said before people get it through their thick heads. Just because you move here and put on a cowboy hat doesn’t make you a Texan. It’s amazing to me that the same people calling everybody in Texas an idiot, can’t absorb this simple fact.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:16 am