Check it out! Pew Poll results for "one word that describes George W. B*sh"

[npincus]

http://people-press.org/reports/questionnaires/304.pdf (page 2)

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Question as written:

"Please tell me what one word best describes your impression of George W. Bush. Tell me just the ONE best word that describes him. (OPEN-END. PROBE ONCE IF RESPONDENT ANSWERS “DON’T KNOW”. ACCEPT UP TO TWO RESPONSES, BUT DO NOT PROBE FOR SECOND RESPONSE)."




DUers, how would YOU answer this question? :evilgrin:

[LeftishBrit]

1. Evil bastard (oops, that's two words)

[npincus]

3. is "dumbass" one word or two?

[AndyA]

2. CORRUPT. It's not even on the list. n/m

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. Criminal. eom

[waiting for hope]

5. Let's see:

Is youareafuckingassholeandyourgreedycabalisdestroyingthiscountryhowmuchfurtherdoyouneedtogobeforesomeonedecidestodestroyusall

a word?

[rock]

15. Apparently it is

I looked it up in the dictionary, and they had a picture of george w bush under it.

[waiting for hope]

18. Was this the picture?

[rock]

19. Made me laugh!

Literally.

[Tyler Durden]

6. "Dangerous"

Takes in most of the bad.

[demnan]

7. Motherfucker is not on this list

n/t

[AllegroRondo]

25. Technically, its two words.

:)

[mmonk]

8. My word

I could have a lot of fun with that.

[Imperialism Inc.]

9. Interesting that "Christian" has completely disappeared from the list

[all.of.me]

32. well, at least SOME people are waking up!

yea!

[Buzz Clik]

10. "Weed"

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Treasonous bastard

Oops! Two words.

[Richard Steele]

12. "Deranged" would seem to cover all the bases fairly well.

[izzie]

20. that is better than incompetent which I am sure he is.

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[TahitiNut]

27. Yep. Good one ... slightly better than psychopath, I think.

It's interesting that he never got more than 6 people saying "pResident."

[Rydz777]

40. Deranged trumps irresponsible

I was going with irresponsible but that is too mild. Deranged is it.

[KansDem]

13. Hmmm..."Liar" move from fourth place in March 2006 to 24th in February 2007

I guess the "Whaaa...!!! I got bad intel!" mantra chanted regularly in the Corporate Media regarding everything he's done (9/11, Iraq invasion, Katrina, etc) is finally paying off.

[donkeyotay]

35. I noticed that. They've been successful in making the public forget

that bush LIED for this war. Maybe the upcoming Cheney trial will refresh their memories. It's always seemed like a big deal to me. Lying for war. All the blood, the suffering, the looting of the treasury, the harm to our national reputation, our security... oh, LOOK! Some lady with tits died...

[AlinPA]

14. Stupid.

[blm]

16. Up until Katrina, the corpmedia pushed Bush as completely 'honest' and the polls reflect that.

It took a fockin' category FIVE hurricane to blow back some of that mediaspin to give the people the chance to see what the media had been hiding from them.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

39. That's what blew my mind

Not that people see him in a bad light now, but that they saw him as "honest" for years. How stupid and blind are some people?

[blm]

42. As stupid and blind as the corporate media wanted them to be. It was almost the entire presscorps

in DC who pushed the idea that Bush was a 'straightshooter' and a man of integrity and completely honest. I can remember David Gergen saying that 'everyone agrees that Bush's character is sterling' .... I thought I would just croak after hearing that during the 2004 campaign.

[tularetom]

17. "Asswipe" is the first word that comes to mind

followed by "needledick" and "mama's boy". BTW, what happened to "christian"? I notice it has dropped completely off the 2007 list.

[patrice]

21. :-(

Feb 2007:
Positive adjectives 19
Negative adjectives 14

[Imperialism Inc.]

24. I threw out President and Conservative as neutral and

came up with 143 respondents who used positive adjectives and 148 who used negative ones. So, there may be less negative adjectives but more people chose them.

[patrice]

26. Yes, I threw out pResident, but not Conservative.

Of course, yours is a better way to do it; count the number of respondents rather than the number of responses, because more than one person can respond with the same word.

Thanks, I feel better now! :)

[donkeyotay]

37. You gotta at least throw out President, because those people were guessing

Uh, Bush? Isn't he the president?

[badgerpup]

22. I didn't see "Disaster" or "Calamity" on the list...

Those were the first words that sprang to my mind...:shrug:

[npincus]

23. "Christian" fell off the 2007 list!

:rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

30. That's what jumped out at me, too.

Maybe the people who used to think he was a "good, decent, Christian man" aren't as completely braindead stupid as I thought.

[jeanarrett]

28. "Sociopath" seems to fit well. n/t

[mithnanthy]

31. Sociopath...

is the first one that came to mind.

[Cosmocat]

29. What is just absolutely mindboggling ...

Is that from day one, a certain segment of the population had it put in their minds that he was "honest" and that was something that just has stuck all along with them ...

My god, I NEVER have felt he was "honest" ... After competent, honest would be the last word I would have ever used to describe him ...

[WritersBlock]

33. Can "war criminal" count as one word?

I don't want to use up both of my alloted words, because I'd need to put "traitor" in there, too, if I was going to accurately describe him.



On edit: Drat. Just re-read it and realized I only get one word in total. Not sure I could choose between the two, though.

[PhilipShore]

34. Bush is a warmonger

Warmonger
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warmongers

This article is about the word. For the novel, see Warmonger (Doctor Who).

A warmonger is, pejoratively, someone who is anxious to encourage a people or nation to go to war. It is often used to describe militaristic leaders, or mercenaries, commonly with the implication that they either may have selfish motives for encouraging war, or may actually enjoy war.

By etymology a warmonger is literally a seller of war, from monger used as a transitive verb, meaning a peddler.

[verse18]

36. Malignant. Narcissistic. Sociopath.

Just three words that come to mind.

[Pyrzqxgl]

38. How about "Dingleberry"?

[understandinglife]

41. It's spelled - T R A I T O R

Simply.