Herbert: For Bush, Bad News Is Bad News

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/opinion/25herbert.html?hp=&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=

Here's George W. Bush's problem. How does a president win re-election when all the news the voters are seeing is bad?

Polls show the president running even or slightly ahead of Senator John Kerry. But bad news is piling up like mounds of trash in a garbage strike, and that's never good for an incumbent.

The war in Iraq is a mind-numbing tragedy with no end in sight. Dozens of Iraqi army recruits were slaughtered Saturday in one of the deadliest attacks yet against the Iraqi security forces. Yesterday an American diplomat was killed in a mortar attack near the Baghdad airport.

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American troops have fought valiantly, but cracks in their resolve are beginning to show. "This is Vietnam," said Daniel Planalp, a 21-year-old Marine corporal from San Diego who was quoted in yesterday's New York Times. "I don't even know why we're over here fighting."

Here at home the stock market has tanked, in part because of record-high oil prices. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at its low for the year on Friday as world oil prices streaked ever higher. The cost of oil has jumped more than 75 percent in the past year. With the weather turning colder, the attention of homeowners - many of them voters - is being drawn to the price of home heating oil. What they're seeing is not pretty.

[Rowdyboy]

1. Yet Bush is still a serious candidate for president....It amazes me

His record is the worst of any president since at least Herbert Hoover, yet many people really want him to continue to destroy this country. the article you linked gives case after case after case where he's failed miserably, but he's not held accountable. I just don't understand.

God be with us all...

[sr_pacifica]

2. I understand

People that adore everything that Bush and Co. stand for are in denial. All this bad news isn't a reflection on Bush, is what they think.