Bush's Approval Rating Rises On Homeland Security. Why?

[JABBS]

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The poll was taken on Thursday and Friday, after British authorities foiled a plot to use chemical bombs to bring down as many as 10 airliners flying from Britain to the United States.

Are Americans confused about the U.S. roll in thwarting the plot? We had no role in monitoring or capturing the 23 plotters -- other than to push Britain to make the arrests now, vs. a week or so later, as Britain had wanted.

Maybe 55% of Americans said they were pleased with the Bush Administration because they were relieved that the country had escaped another Sept. 11-like tragedy. But if the average American knew that for seven months, the Department of Homeland Security had sat on technology that could detect liquid explosives, would they be as pleased?

[elliswyatt]

1. Simply put

Most Americans are idiots and don't know what the hell is going on around them. They seek simple answers to complex questions. It is up to us to educate the idiots

[bluestateguy]

3. In my darker moments

There are times when I think that only very highly educated people should be allowed to vote, unless you can pass a test that qualifies you as politically knowledgeable. I'm not saying I believe this, only that I have inclinations toward this in my darker moments.

[MissWaverly]

2. They hurled all confiscated material into the same dumpster

this really seems like an explosive risk to me. NOT!

[savemefromdumbya]

4. we have a number of dorks in this country

who can be swayed by anything.

[Philosoraptor]

6. Vast herds. And Galoots in great numbers, and Yahoos and Gomers.

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Here's your answer

The poll was taken on Thursday and Friday

The media was full of Chicken Little crap through the weekend. It hadn't sunk in to most people that this was categorically a farce. They were being scaremongered by the administration. the polls taken this week will show some differences.

[JABBS]

12. agreed

if they take a poll a month from now, the numbers will probably reverse.

with chertoff front and center on the news, i would be a lot of casual viewers thought wrongly that the U.S. had foiled the plot.

[gizmo1979]

7. Talk like that just

emboldens the terrorists!

[NC_Nurse]

8. They must've polled

the dumbasses?
Seems to me most people were not interested/not impressed by this last incident. Every time the Repubs poll numbers look bad there's a damn terror alert.
Can you say "cry wolf"? This one didn't even get over here and had NOTHING to do with our govt.

[Swamp Rat]

10. ... lobotomised gorillas.

[Swamp Rat]

9. It's all fake... only a lobotomised gorilla would approve of Bushler.

I do not know a single person, repuke or otherwise, who trusts him AT ALL on ANYTHING.

[butterfly77]

11. They believe the bull that he is protecting them because ..

he has hidden so much that they don't know the difference.