Has anyone seen or heard anything about how 7-7 may affect Bush's ratings

[Iris]

regarding how he is "handling terrorism"?

I'm wondering if this will make people think he is doing the right thing or if it will make people even more weary of the whole endeavor.

[Melodybe]

1. HE WILL DROP DROP DROP!!!! The world is not safer, no matter how many

times he says it.

Fuckers, and with confiedence in the media at an all time low, I doubt that the media will be able to hype him effectively. You can't hype if no one is listening.

[Iris]

2. Well, you and I know that, but I'm never too sure about

the rest of our fellow citizens.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. I think commander-in-chief fatigue is setting in.

It use to be that when you saw the 24th Cavalry charging over the hill crest, it meant there was an end to the movie in sight, but now all we have to look forward to is bad sequels.

[Iris]

7. I hope so. I'm really trying to hope so.

But, like I say, I'm just not that confident in my fellow Americans anymore.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Rush's under playing this should tell you

it won't play well in Peoria

[Iris]

5. So, Rush isn't pounding home the idea that this is why we're in Iraq?

As opposed to the idea that this is because we're in Iraq, which I would hope people could see for themselves, but I've pretty much given up on the average citizen actually thinking for himself.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. nope the thread is on DU

he is not pounding the this is why we are over there.. it ain't polling well but they are not using a wet finger to the air

Here is the thread by the way

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1914463

[Iris]

9. "40 people is not a successful terrorist attack"???

Yikes!

Disgusting.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. the fact he is donig that speaks volumes thiough

[Iris]

11. I guess. But won't he just up the rhetoric and turn it into

an unsuccessful attack as the result of W's great leadeship in the "war on terror"?

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. they may try, but what he is doing is telling

and it is our job to try to prevent from doing this

[WhoWantsToBeOccupied]

13. If 9-11 was LIHOP or MIHOP, it was "catastrophic success" carnage-wise

From a terrorist's perspective, 9-11 set the bar very high. People's expectations adjust according to experiences. If London had happened before 9-11, what happened yesterday would have seemed horrific. And 9-11 would later have seemed horrific. With 9-11 coming first, London doesn't seem the kind of Earth-shattering event 9-11 did. Of course, if you were directly impacted by London, that's a totally different story. I'm talking only about how the rest of us perceive these events.

As was pointed out on DU yesterday, the death toll in London is known in Iraq as "Tuesday." And, as I understand it, America caused up to two hundred thousand Iraqi deaths in the first Gulf War.

Of course, if your loved one died in London yesterday, it's the worst day ever. But nearly 2,000 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq already. What happened in London yesterday caused about 50? deaths (so far). That's about 2% of 9-11. And about .02% of what America did to Iraq in Gulf War 1 (if the 200,000 death figure is correct).

All these events are sick. But, London was several orders of magnitude less deadly than some other events.

[BrotherBuzz]

4. West coast talk says he'll get a bounce....

but it will only last a week or so, then common sense kicks in and his numbers will continue to erode.