Wave of Anti-Bush feeling becoming a Tsunami (Big Time!)

[Sgt. Peppers]

Wave of Anti-Bush Feeling Becoming a Tsunami (Big Time!)

AP: "In Arizona, Judy Donovan says she feels desperate for a new president. In Tennessee, Robert Wilson says he finds the president revolting. In Washington state, Maria Yurasek says she'd vote for a dog if it could beat Bush. I've never seen anything like it," says Ted Jelen, a political science professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. "There are people who just really, really hate this person." "I've never seen a Democratic Party more unified and more focused, and the anger helps do just that," said GOP pollster Frank Luntz. "The intensity level is just so high. They're using four-letter words to describe him." Other Repugs are less rational. John McAdams made the asinine statement that "liberals" only hate Bush because he is a Christian, a conservative and from Texas"! Wrong -- most people hate Bush because of his POLICIES and ACTIONS! It was the rightwingers' hatred of Clinton that was largely personal, due to the Rightwing Propaganda Machine's use of identity politics.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=5&u=/ap/20040222/ap_on_el_pr/angry_at_bush

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Iraq, economy, education

It would impossible to imagine how a "leader" could have messed up things anymore than this asshole.

I remember when he said back in Jan 2001 "I'm ready to lead". Jesus,
this clown will go down as the worst "president" in the history of the US.

It is almost as if we are living in a "back to the future" scenario where, because of the tampering with the outcome of the 2000 election, everything since then as been cast into some kind of bizarro world where nothing is right.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Church & State, health care, environment, class warfare,

energy policy (or lack thereof), lack of transparency, etc!

[sadiesworld]

2. Luntz is such a whore.

[Wapsie B]

3. Let's hope so.

My brother echoed McAdams statement the other day. The repugs are projecting again. I just can't believe how some of his core voters are frothing at the mouth trying to defend him. They hitched their wagon to someone who is probably the biggest loser in the history of the Presidency. It's tearing them up inside.

[barbaraann]

5. If this was before the Gay Marriage amendment,

it's even worse now!

[RainDog]

6. there are more than 1,000 comments to this article.

make sure you add yours... :)

[Bandit]

7. "They're using four-letter words to describe him." ~ Like.. LIAR

How is that four letter word for being descriptive. LIAR

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. *lol* Good one

[Brotherjohn]

8. The thing is, he HAD these people behind him. Over 80% approval.

Even most of those who thought he won in 2000 under questionable circumstances backed him after 9-11. He was given the longest rope any president ever has been given. Problem is, he hung himself with it. He has revealed himself to be the most divisive and radical president in modern history. He has only his own actions to blame for losing the support of the millions who now "hate" him.

[lapislzi]

9. Just like he pissed away the goodwill of the entire planet

It's almost mind-boggling how he manages to piss off so many people, and so thoroughly.

[Brotherjohn]

14. An example: my own "hatred" of GWB...

RANT COMMENCING:
I never liked Bush on a personal level. He always seemed like someone with subpar intelligence who got by on connections and, worse, didn't even appreciate that fact. He oozed this sense of entitlement that rankled me. I based this on just my general impressions of him.

I also thought, based on his team's actions and words, and studying Florida election law like I did, that he stole the election. I based this on the facts as I saw them.

That being said, I was willing to put aside personal impressions and the 2000 election. The fact of the matter was, he WAS the president.

So I had hopes that he would indeed be "a uniter, not a divider". I had hopes after 9-11 that he would pull the nation together and proceed in a way that capitalized upon and nurtured the goodwill and sympathy we received from the world, perhaps resulting in greater understanding among nations, and between those within our own nation. Even fairly late in the game with Iraq, I was hoping that the threat of force was a measured action to convince Hussein to cooperate with U.N. inspections. Perhaps we couldn't afford to not know the status of their WMD programs, and if it took such threats (even to the point of continuing to talk tough after the U.N. was seemingly revealing the lack of WMDs in Iraq), then so be it. I had hopes that Bush would pull back from the brink and say: "There. Once we applied enough military pressure to Iraq, we knew they would cooperate. Now everyone can rest safely knowing that Iraq doesn't, in fact, have WMDs."

But of course, Bush's own actions have betrayed him on every count. His policies have made me, time and time again, side against him. And I have done so more and more forcefully, as the policies have gotten more and more extreme. Call that anger, call that hate... but whatever you call it, it is not irrational. And it stems from the man's own actions.

[West Coast Democrat]

10. It never ceases to amaze me that MSNBC uses such a biased pollster

Frank Luntz is a Republican pollster, and should be identified as such by MSNBC and the rest of the media. He is not just some independent, unbiased pollster!

from the article:

In a recent focus group that Luntz conducted for MSNBC, technicians had to adjust the volume levels because the Bush-haters were "so gosh-darn loud" they were drowning out the president's supporters, who were more numerous, Luntz said. "It was a real problem."

***
Now why would Luntz gather a focus group in which Bush* supporters were "more numerous," I ask you? The latest mainstream polls all have * approval numbers at 50% or less.

[lapislzi]

11. Putnam County, NY = Republicanland

I used to be the only Democrat at the party. Sometimes I didn't even know who (if anybody) was running on the Democratic ticket for local office.

No more.

Friends, neighbors, other moms from school, are calling me (lil ole me!) because they know me to be a loudmouth progressive, and asking, "what can we do? How can we help? Bush must be stopped!"

It is gratifying, but we have a long road ahead of us.

[Missy Vixen]

19. Duvall, WA: Former Republicanland

>Friends, neighbors, other moms from school, are calling me (lil ole me!) because they know me to be a loudmouth progressive, and asking, "what can we do? How can we help? Bush must be stopped!"<

lapislzi, good for you, and I agree.

We're getting the same phone calls. City Hall personnel called me before the recent caucus to ask where and when it was; they had received so many phone calls that they were also asking permission to give our phone number to people who had questions.

Let's all be "loudmouth progressives". In the meantime, I urge everyone here to spend a couple of hours registering people to vote at the local grocery store every month before the election.

Julie

[Bridget Burke]

12. When Mallard Fillmore goes anti-Bush....he's got a problem!

I generally avert my eyes from that strip--it's just not funny. However, this is today's:

[KCDem]

13. lol, go Mallard!

Usually, that comic sucks, but it has its moments. (Which is more than I can say for Dennis Miller).

[Brotherjohn]

15. Hope you don't mind, but I'm gonna post this as its own thread.

It's just too good. If even Mallard Fillmore has turned against Bush, he's in trouble!

[Bridget Burke]

22. No problem.

I found it quite amusing.

[Sandpiper]

16. If not for 9/11, Bush would never have had a mandate

from the voters. And as more time goes on, more people are starting to remember, "wait a second, I never liked this asshole."

I can't wait for this Tsunami to crest and come crashing down on him in November.

[yellowcanine]

18. Check this out.

"In a recent focus group that Luntz conducted for MSNBC, technicians had to adjust the volume levels because the Bush-haters were "so gosh-darn loud" they were drowning out the president's supporters, who were more numerous, Luntz said. "It was a real problem." '

Why did they adjust the volume levels? Seems the Bush supporters were more lackluster. So they skewed the results by adjusting the volume on the Bush opponents.


"Bush was asked about the anger in a recent interview on NBC and said he found it perplexing and disappointing. "When you ask hard things of people, it can create tensions. And heck, I don't know why people do it," he said. "

Bush doesn't understand why people don't like him. Ain't that a shame?

[catmandu57]

21. Every time I hear how close this election is going to be

I have to wonder what planet these people are living on. This moron* is now a known quantity, and the more people see the less they like.

[KansDem]

20. Message to the Supreme Court...

Never send a boy to do a President's job

[Auntie Bush]

23. Never send a LIAR to do a presidents job.