Bush faces angry, dissatisfied electorate in speech (CNN Poll 67% Angry at Bush)

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/23/bush.sotu/index.html

Bush faces angry, dissatisfied electorate in speech

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- When he gives his sixth State of the Union address Tuesday evening, President Bush will be facing an angry citizenry dissatisfied with his leadership by a 2-to-1 ratio.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, released on the eve of the speech, found only 34 percent of respondents approved of Bush's job performance while 63 percent disapproved.

Two-thirds of respondents say that Bush has done something to make them angry -- a figure that has grown six points since last year and 16 points since Bush's State of the Union in 2004.

Fifty-five percent of respondents said Bush's presidency is a failure, and 51 percent said they trust Bush less than they trusted his predecessor in the Oval Office, Bill Clinton. (The numbers on trust -- PDF)

[Binka]

1. The Malignant Narcissist Doesn't Give A Shit

He is going to be his same petulant, passive-aggressive, ignorant, disgusting SELF.

[Virginia Dare]

2. He thinks he's a cross between..

Abraham Lincoln and Jesus. :banghead:

[Demit]

3. He can't stand in an empty studio to give his speech this time.

He will be facing an unfriendly audience of people who now have power to stand up to him. Not his usual prescreened adulators or soldiers who must stay silent. The doctors must be furiously adjusting his medical cocktail for this one. Little Boots does NOT like what he perceives to be disrespect for the greatness of his person. It upsets my stomach to watch him, but this one could be interesting.

[Tansy_Gold]

11. I may watch with closed-captioning on and sound off

just so I can see his facial expression and body language.

If I had to listen to that phony nasal twang of his while he eviscerates the English language, I'd turn it off. I can much more easily watch him than listen to him.


TG

[FreeStateDemocrat]

4. Secret Service must be extraordinarily busy.

[gratuitous]

5. And even with all this public sentiment

CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox all feel the need to prop up Little Lord Pissypants, treat every utterance out of the White House as if it meant anything other than more cynical manipulation, and even the most ludicrous statements are given serious consideration.

When this was happening four and five years ago, those of us in the bare minority were told (1) you lost, get over it; or (2) well, we're reporting on what the majority of Americans want to hear; or (3) you're a traitor if you don't support the president, even though secretly we don't think this is a very good plan, either.

Now, the major media outlets feel vindicated if they can point to a paragraph here or a 30-second spot there that didn't slavishly parrot the administration line from those days. See? We knew all along! And yet, with Bush's numbers below freezing, they still can't bring themselves to call a lie a lie, or evince any skepticism at all.

[Javaman]

6. Not miffed, not saddened, not perturbed, but angry!! I love it!! :) nt

[Az_lefty]

7. I'm waiting to see how fast he blinks his eyes...

[truthisfreedom]

8. How are they going to do this one? They can't pre-record it... it has to be delivered

in front of hundreds of his most vehement critics. This is rich.

[Generator]

9. Bush against the mob!

There's a TV game show I actually like called 1 versus 100. They majority on it are called the mob. When I read the headline that's what it sounded like. Bush against an angry dissatisfied mob. Bummer, el capitan.

[spinbaby]

10. We're already pissed...

...so he's going to tell us we're using up too much health care and gasoline.

:grr:

[MasonJar]

12. Y'all will have to tell me because I have (literally) a very weak

stomach which retches at the sight and sound of the pretender-in-chief.

[Toucano]

13. Why are Democrats so ANGRY?

Isn't that what they kept saying in 2004?

"Howard Dean is so ANGRY!"

So now what's their excuse? Now that it's EVERYBODY?

[Peace Patriot]

14. Well, we of the 67% angry mob had better reserve one foot for kicking

ourselves in the pants, for letting this Junta get as far as it has. And I include myself among those who deserve some self-kicks. I remember back in '02 or so, when an initiative was placed on the California ballot, to fund electronic voting machines, which I knew absolutely nothing about--and I voted for it. Big kick of my own behind on that one! Americans are going to be paying dearly for decades and possibly centuries for our lack of vigilance.

(You gotta do yoga, though--to be able to kick yourself).

Note: This problem--fascist cabals taking over our country--will not be solved merely by Bush/Cheney's removal. It will only begin to be solved by the restoration of transparent vote counting. Step one.

[superconnected]

15. "angry citizenry" is a nice euphism for "would-be-lynch-mob"

because many voted in November to have congress to impeach and try Bush for war crimes on the hope that he gets sentenced to pay for his crimes by way of Saddam.

That was certianly on my agenda when I voted, and I constantly remind my congress woman of that.

*chants* try bush, try bush, try bush, try bush.... do it legally, and sentence him like any mass murderer.

[beltanefauve]

16. Is it

torch and pitchfork time yet?

[pat_k]

17. Hey Nancy! Give voice to the outrage! Impeach! An unprecedented opportunity . . .

. . .to demonstrate the strength and principle that Americans respect (and to challenge the Biggest problem Dems face: the perception that they are impotent wimps).

Not to mention that you have a sworn duty to defend against the war Bush and Cheney are waging on the Constitution.