AOL poll: 72 percent say Bush a major failure this year

[quaoar]

How would you characterize this year for Bush?
A major failure 72%
A minor success 12%
A minor failure 9%
A major success 8%
Total Votes: 63,400

[Elidor]

1. MISERABLE Failure!!!

Thanks, had to get that off my chest.

[WI_DEM]

2. He's a major failure of this and any year

[stopbush]

3. Here's two problems with that:

1. When bush has a bad year, things go badly for the country

2. When bush has a good year, things go badly for the world

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

13. Well said

Maybe Bush having a bad year is the lesser of two FUBAR's. And to think that America's headlong decline into humiliation and debility these past 5 years could have been averted w/ a less boneheaded SCOTUS in 2000. Thank you, O'Connor, Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist in Bush v. Gore-- your fingerprints are all over this fiasco of an Administration.

[chelsea0011]

4. Well now I know who the President is speaking to when he says,

"the American people expect me to do my job" A pathetic group of 20%.

[CatholicEdHead]

5. Some for the hurricanes some for the Supreme Court and some for other

things.

[cliss]

6. I just sat down in an office to make a phone call.

As I was waiting for the number to ring, I noticed a beat-up Newsweek laying by the phone. I picked it up.

It was an old issue from back in November of 2004. On the cover, there is a triumphant Bush, looking ecstatic. It says, "4 MORE YEARS". The rag is devoted to Bush's fantastic victory. Cheers. Tears of joy. Confetti.

Now, a mere 10 months later, I wonder how Bush feels. Still celebrating, old boy?

[Richard D]

7. What flavor of kool-aid . . .

. . . did those other 28% drink?

[quaoar]

9. Update on the poll

How would you characterize this year for Bush?
A major failure 71%
A minor success 12%
A minor failure 9%
A major success 8%
Total Votes: 186,613

If you add the 71 percent who say major failure and the 9 percent who say minor failure, you have 80 percent saying Bush has failed to some degree.

Considering that most AOL polls lean conservative, that's kind of rmarkable.

[madmom]

8. This Year?????

[libodem]

10. not much confidence in the major success department either

he's going down in history as the worst disgrace and defiler of real American values this country has ever seen

[Hidden Stillness]

11. Beginning of the End of the Bush Plague--They Can't Hide Their Crimes Now

Wow, that is so beautiful. At long last, I love Americans again. I think we have returned to life. The only good thing about this surrealistically tragic year (and etc.) is that it has taught people what the facts are: no matter what anyone claims about anyone, Republicans are greedy, selfish, incompetant, stupid, and criminal. Their Administrations never turn out any other way.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

12. 20% think he was some shade of success?

They really do give away rose-colored glasses for free, don't they?