Survey: Anger Toward Bush Intensifying

[G_j]

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

Reuters

Tue, Feb 24, 2004     
Survey: Anger Toward Bush Intensifying
   
Sun Feb 22, 3:29 PM ET

By NANCY BENAC, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - 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 President Bush (news - web sites).

A subtext to this year's presidential campaign is the intense anger that many Democrats are directing toward Bush, an attitude that has been growing in recent months.

"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."

Fully a quarter of Americans, mostly Democrats, tell pollsters they have a very unfavorable opinion of the president, more than double the number from last April. When only Democrats are polled, more than half report they feel that way.
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[kanrok]

1. Hey! Wait! Chimpy told us he was a uniter, not a divider!

n/t

[Bundbuster]

4. You betcha!

The resemblance to pat robertson is becoming more than disturbing.

[NewJeffCT]

9. he is a uniter - we're divided because...

Bush is a uniter, we're divided, of course, because of Bill Clinton getting a b/j in the White House!

[mhr]

2. It's About Bloody Time!

eom

[bryant69]

3. How will that translate

Obviously that is good news; but I do hope that whoever gets the nomination is able to run as more than "Not President Bush." Because if whoever wins, wins mostly because people are mad at President Bush, he won't have much of a mandate. Now he could act like President Bush and pretend he has a mandate, but I don't know if that will work as well. So I hope our candidate gets elected at least as much on his own merits and programs, as on disdain for President Bush.

Bryant
check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[G_j]

5. plus they are going to inherit

a horrific situation. Quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan, huge deficits, disappeared jobs, a health care crisis, the list is too long to write here.
What a mess!

[EstimatedProphet]

8. Exactly

Part (a BIG part) of why people now hate Bush* is that he acted like he had a mandate, even though he knew he didn't. In fact, that was the first thing he said when he got into office: "I will act as if I have a mandate, so I can get things done."
Way to go, Georgie.

[Pobeka]

25. "Not President Bush". Pretty good slogan if you ask me.

In every situation, ask yourself "What would Bush do?".

Then, eliminate that as one of the possible choices.

On net, the world would be a much better place if we just didn't do what Bush does.

:bounce:

[calimary]

6. Don't know if you guys saw the latest Dem debate in L.A. but

this was clearly reinforced by audience reaction. There were many moments of cheering. BUT, one of the biggest roars and cheers of all came in reaction to Al Sharpton. He was talking about the Marriage Discrimination Amendment (YES, we should be calling it that, formally, because DISCRIMINATION is what it is all about) and questioning having amendments to our Constitution that involve the 10 Commandments. He said (paraphrasing here) why stop with the marriage one - why not do amendments for other commandments, like "for presidents that LIE." The crowd went nuts. Probably the biggest cheer of the night.

[rogerashton]

7. The Repubs and the Right have been

hate-mongering against Democrats, especially successful ones, and "libruls" for years. Sooner or later that tends to piss people off, even nice, thoughtful, reserved people like us.

That said, somebody needs to point out that Bush* is NOT the problem. The problem is conservatives. I'm old enough to remember Barry Goldwater. Hell, I supported him in 1960 -- OK, I was 17, and I grew up some in the next four years. Wasn't it Barry who said he wanted to saw New York off and let it drift out to sea? Hey, Barry, New Yorkers are Americans, OK? I don't think it is a coincidence that Bush*, who is more extreme than Barry was, stiffed New York on the help he promised them after 9-11. Tim McVieh was a CONSERVATIVE terrorist. So far as we know, ditto the Anthrax mailer and the Ricin mailer. Not all conservatives are terrorists, of course, but conservatism in America today is a divisive idea, friendly to hate and conducive to terrorism. There is no such thing as a respectable conservative.

What is wrong with Bush* is that he is such a perfect conservative.

[izzie]

11. I do not think we can talk about home grown terrorist!!!!!!!

Is that one of the amendments Hatch has passed?

[izzie]

10. Well I may go with Holt but hardly McAdames

I think it is what he has done. He seems to be every where and into every thing to make it as he thinks right. I am for bottom up govt and not top down. Put him back into his double bubble. He is trying to make the polls come up, so is every place, and it just makes me hate him more. And the rest of the country also.

[Ishoutandscream]

12. Once again saw someone say that Bush is "likable"

And I believe it was Tweety. Where the hell is this coming from?

[G_j]

13. still there are people who

realize that being "likable" :shrug:
doesn't mean a person can chew a pretzel and think at the same time.

but hey, my dog is far more likable AND would make a better president.

[ShimokitaJer]

14. The real news is many Republicans' anger at Bush

Bush is managing to alienate every faction except the religious fanatics in his own party, and that's what's going to guarantee his quick departure from the White House in November.

Some former supporters may never vote Democratic, but they just might stay home... and that's good news for Congressional seats as well, since the primary turnouts suggest that Dems are going to be showing up in record numbers.

[loudnclear]

15. This translates into another "terrorist" attack somewhere.

they are getting desparate!!

[Octafish]

16. Less than a nothing...

... is good for nothing.



"Lucky me. I hit the trifecta."
- - George W. Bush, shortly after 9/11,
as quoted by Bush Budget Director Mitch Daniels
on 11/28/01

[historian]

17. if clinton had said that...

Can you even imagine the furor that wouold have caused? How righteous all the repukes would have suddenly become?

[Octafish]

22. Oh, yeah! What it reveals is criminal duplicity, at least.

Criminal complicity, most likely.

Trifecta, indeed. Bush has never made a bet that wasn't fixed beforehand in his life.

[Trajan]

18. A related thread and story ...

Crowds voice displeasure

About 1,000 speak out on president

By JOSEPH GERTH
[e-mail]
The Courier-Journal

In all her 67 years, Ann Hall has never protested anything
— until President Bush came to Louisville yesterday.

Fed up with the president's positions on education, the
economy and a host of other issues, she went downtown
with a couple of friends to voice her displeasure.

"He cares nothing about the common person," said Hall, of
Louisville. "We decided we're just tired of it, and we needed
to do something."

So, carrying a sign that referred to the president as an "idiot,"
she; Lori Eisenbeis, 68; and Midge Ostendorf, 72, took their
place among 1,000 or more protesters who gathered half a
block from the Galt House. Sprinkled among the crowd was
a handful supporting Bush.

more
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/02/27ky/wir-front-protes...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x388258#388344

[opihimoimoi]

19. When people finally get it, that they got HAD by the Pub Idiot

They arew very unforgiving.

Fool me once and you are TOAST

People are pissed.

No one like to be fooled.

[raysr]

20. Two qualifiers for being conservative

pro-life, pro-gun. Nothing else matters.

[historian]

24. pro life only in the womb

once the baby is born to some uneducated illiterate girl of 15 the pro lifers suddenly leaving her to fend for herself and the child she knew she couldnt support
puke

[Zinfandel]

21. Kind of complete bullshit, no...keep us off balance...

[OneTwentyoNine]

23. Har !! "There are people who just really, really hate this person."

Yeah...no kidding. About 30,000 around here plus Mike Malloy!!

David

[ecstatic]

26. But did you guys read the explanation of why?

John McAdams, a political scientist at Marquette University, said resentment of Bush is particularly strong among liberals who already hold three things against him: "First, he's a conservative. Second, he's a Christian. And third, he's a Texan. When you add all of those things up, that invokes pretty much every symbol of the cultural wars."

Thats the biggest load of crap!

[Skittles]

27. he left off and fourth, he is destroying America

how convenient

[Timefortruth]

28. The reason I can't stand him is that he is NOT a Christian.

That is a convenient rallying point for the right, Chimp is the object of religious persecution.