Bush's Rating Falls to Its Lowest Point, New Survey Finds

[GreenPartyVoter]

President Bush's job approval rating has fallen to the lowest level of his presidency, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. The poll found Americans stiffening their opposition to the Iraq war, worried that the invasion could invite domestic terrorist attacks and skeptical about whether the White House has been fully truthful about the war or about abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison.

A majority of respondents in the poll, conducted before yesterday's transfer of power to an interim Iraqi government, said that the war was not worth its cost in American lives and that the Bush administration did not have a clear plan to restore order to Iraq.

The survey, which showed Mr. Bush's approval rating at 42 percent, also found that nearly 40 percent of Americans say they do not have an opinion about Senator John Kerry, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, despite what have been both parties' earliest and most expensive television advertising campaigns.

Among those who do have an opinion, Mr. Kerry is disliked more than he is liked. More than 50 percent of respondents said that Mr. Kerry says what he thinks voters want to hear, suggesting that Mr. Bush has had success in portraying his opponent as a flip-flopper.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0629-02.htm

[BootinUp]

1. I take issue with "Bush Admin did not have a clear plan"

to restore order.

Its clear that their plan is...to start blaming it on the Iraqi Interim Government.

[KalamazooKid]

2. My take on this is...

that they will slowly decrease coverage on
Iraq day by day, week by week, until in a month or so, its not being covered at all by the mainstream media. They are counting on our memories being short. They've been right before.

[Skittles]

3. the fact that he is considered a viable canidate just boggles the mind

there are still a lot of stupid, deluded people in America.

[stellanoir]

4. I invoke all divine forces. . .

(whatever that might entail) that the Kerry campaign shoots bazooka sized holes in this flip flopper portrayal, when * has hardly embodied the symbol of consistency. It truly makes me cringe. I really hope at the convention they focus on dispelling this myth.

Without going into every flip flop committed by * the best rebuttal I've heard is that if Kerry has been the most constitantly liberal voter. . .then how can he be a flip flopper. . . ?

Or. . . is it inherantly more in the nature of a "liberal" to adapt than it is for a conservative to "stay the course". . .?

I loathe both of these labels so I've really no clue.

I just know propaganda when I see it.

[Zero Gravitas]

5. Na na na Na na na na

HEY, HEY
GOODBYE

[opihimoimoi]

6. My favorite KAHUNA sez BUSH is TOAST