(CNN) Poll: First lady embraced, president not

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/29/bush.popularity/

Poll: First lady embraced, president not
Nearly three-quarters have a favorable opinion of Laura Bush


(CNN) -- Far more Americans think highly of first lady Laura Bush than they think of her husband, a poll released Thursday said.

Fewer than half of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of President Bush and his top aides, about the same number who said that last summer, the poll found.

But nearly three out of four (73 percent) said they have a favorable opinion of Laura Bush, the CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll said. Thirteen percent described their opinion of her as unfavorable.

...

Asked their opinions of the president, 46 percent said they were favorable, a figure statistically equivalent to the 48 percent who gave that response in a July 25-28 poll.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

1. I belong in the 25% group...

..."Those Who Do Not Necessarily Think 'Highly' Of First Lady Laura Bush"...

[ixion]

7. right there with ya... I would not embrace the Queen of Stepford

if she were the last female on Earth.

[HockeyMom]

29. Second that one

As woman of HER AGE.

[Tight_rope]

15. I too belong to the 25% that think "Pickles" sucks!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

19. That's what....

...Poppy says.

[babylonsister]

2. Again, you have to wonder who's being polled.

What exactly has Laura done for anyone lately besides stare vacantly and smile woodenly? I pity her, but surely don't embrace her.

[underpants]

3. Pity vote for Pickles-check out how CNN tries anything to raise W's number

Asked their opinions of the president, 46 percent said they were favorable, a figure statistically equivalent to the 48 percent who gave that response in a July 25-28 poll.

Too funny

[last_texas_dem]

17. Yeah

Remember how the MSM was all over that "bump" in Shrub's poll numbers when he had a statistically insignificant increase of one-percent a couple of months ago? The shameless whoring continues...

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. CNN's new themesong: Ya gotta axe-cent-tuate the positive

Who gives a fuck about the First Lady. She hasn't done a goddamn thing but stand there smiling like a mental defective since she first got there. I mean puh-fuckin-leez.

[cdb]

9. She's had opportun ities to divorce him...

or smother him with a pillow. She is just as bad as he is, maybe worse for enabling him.

[0007]

10. LOL!! Who gives a running jumping humping puffing fuck

about what CNN thinks?

[Vickers]

5. "Thirteen percent described their opinion of her as unfavorable."

Woo hoo, I finally belong to a semi-exclusive club!!! :crazy:

BTW, I *loved* her in the first Batman movie.

[fooj]

6. Oh yes. She's a wonderful ambassador for troubled teens, right?

What's not to love?
:puke:

[benddem]

8. based on what

those wonderful daughters, her phenomonal wardrobe, her helmet hair, her texas accent? I find a lot more people to admire than pickles.

[saigon68]

13. I admire this woman more thna her

She has a fine sewing hand




A US soldier gives the "thumbs up" sign as she appears to be stiching up a prisoner's leg wound.
It is unclear whether the injury was from a dog bite.

[VaYallaDawg]

11. Count me in the 13% unfavorable.

She gives the word "dingbat" a bad reputation.

[SomewhereOutThere424]

12. Her little katrina photo ops cost people their lives

Due to red cross having to shut down a day while the first lady arrived. What's there to respect? Bush is the injury to this country, SHE is the insult. I've done good things for people too -- you don't see people at this forum running to tell ME I'm so great. The american people in majority do nice things for people -- she's not special because of that. She's just a figurehead.

[CBHagman]

14. You know, I suspect people just project things on to Laura Bush.

I work for a newswire, and even after hearing Laura Bush speak and the like, she is still pretty much a cipher to me. I have impressions and opinions about various officials, elected and appointed, but still only the vaguest understandng of what Laura Bush is about.

I suspect that non-controversial is good enough for most people and that they just fill in the blanks otherwise. She's not a very public first lady.

By the way, I think she showed some of the famous Bush family ill will when interviewed by Time magazine during the the election of 2004. She was asked about the swift boat ads and opined that she didn't really think they were unfair, because -- wait for it -- her husband had been attacked a "million" times.

But I'll bet good money that Bush's ass never came within a mile of the Mekong Delta.

[DainBramaged]

16. Laura Bush, she makes the "E" in edema forgettable

[Media_Lies_Daily]

20. Herr Busch never got within the Pacific Ocean of the Mekong Delta....

...while he was protecting the borders of Texas.

[daleo]

18. Many people probably feel sorry for her, for being married to Bush.

Regardless of her role in the marriage.

[buff2]

22. I don't understand why anyone should feel sorry for her.......

Staying married to that moron America hating idiot is HER choice. If she had any self respect she would dump him. She hates America too,evidently. :puke:

[daleo]

24. I don't think the pity would be rational.

I am no fan of her personally. I agree that she made a deal with the devil (BFEE).

But I think the (reported) relatively high favorable ratings must reflect something like pity.

[Ben Ceremos]

34. L.Bush is a viper.

She is equally malicious and dangerous as the senior Bush female and she is the reason America is saddled with this dishonest dry drunk. If she was a good person, would her husband be such a total waste of space? What exactly caused her to "accidentally" kill her ex-boyfriend? The partner one chooses reveals one's deepest values and desires.

May they both be imprisoned together and receive a lovely Ceaucescu moment at the hands of American patriots...

[Tempest]

21. Same poll: Bush approval rating at 41%

A CNN/USA Today Gallup Poll, also conducted December 16-18, found Bush's approval rating -- which measures how well the public believes a president is doing his job and is different from his favorability rating -- stood at 41 percent, while more than half, or 56 percent, disapprove of how the president is handling his job.

[justjones]

23. Both of them can kiss my ass. n/t

[MrPrax]

25. CNN can't be that bad?

Why would a credible news service of ANY kind bother to poll something like this? Are they serious? Maybe they just don't care anymore about appearances.

What precisely is learned, other than suggesting to Chimp that he should send the Lump out more often?

why am I thinking on a picture I saw years ago in a book of Third Reich domestic propaganda, where Hitler is seen tasting the winners? of a some HouseFrau 'bake off'

Three years to go of this shit...? Someone give Bush a blow job, so we can impeach him...

[agincourt]

26. The most infuriating thing about it,

I've known people who vote for Bush because they like her. Not that they like W, no, they liked her better than Theresa so they voted for Bush. Again, people who shouldn't be voting because they know nothing about policy.

[Judi Lynn]

27. That's just so sad. No wonder we ended up with Bush in the White House.

People have been lulled to sleep. They've been kept totally ignorant of what our Republican Presidents have really been doing to other people, other countries.

I'm certain it's Republicans who've been spreading the lie Republicans and Democrats are the same, or Democrats who haven't been paying attention may be guilty, as well. The upshot is people can't be bothered to think too much about anything.

Ignorance is bliss, right? Very, very sad. When they wake up, it may be too late.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

28. Oh for goodness sake she's been the greatest non-entity of a First Lady

that the US has had in a long time. All she does is travel the country shilling her husband's jingoistic and cliched talking points and latching on to a few themes that KKKarl thinks it necessary for a good Republican First Lady. She has no substance. She'd have been better off remaining true to her principles when she worked for Gene McCarthy's campaign in 1968 and not allowing herself to be in the position she is in now

Even Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan or Barbara Bush had more of a personality as First Lady than this one does

[Thor_MN]

30. Vehicular manslaugther? Doesn't stick to her.

Both my mother (didn't surprize me) and my brother (shocked the hell out of me) were unaware that Laura killed her then boyfriend in a head-on collision. My mother was convinced that the GOP was just and moral, now she's having doubts. My brother detests the conservatives in DC - he lives there.

I wonder how she would poll if people were aware of what she really is - a vapid, privledged non-entity that exists only to provide cover for *.

[Miss Chybil]

31. Now, she'll be on every tv channel - network and cable.

Lord, help us.

[A Brand New World]

32. She has horrible taste in men and for that I cannot stand her!

And yes, I predict she'll be in every magazine and on every TV show now. She was featured in the latest edition of Good Housekeeping. I will not be reading that article. Yuck!

[Nomen Tuum]

33. I guess people like to be run over.

The same slime that embraces Pickles accused Hillary of killing Vince Foster.

Let's remember Pickles KILLED to get where she is!