Bwahahahahah! Bush outdistances Osama as villain in AP poll.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Poor Teflon application, unlike his forebear Reagan.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/12/28/national/a102222S12.DTL

Bad guy of 2006: President Bush. Good guy of 2006: President Bush. When people were asked in an AP-AOL News poll to name the villains and heroes of the year, Bush topped both lists, in a sign of these polarized times.

Bush won the villain sweepstakes by a landslide, with one in four respondents putting him at the top of that bad-guy list. When people were asked to name the candidate for villain that first came to mind, Bush far outdistanced even Osama bin Laden, the terrorist leader in hiding; and former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who is scheduled for execution.

The president was picked as hero of the year by a much smaller margin. In the poll, 13 percent named him as their favorite while 6 percent cited the troops in Iraq.

[wryter2000]

1. So much for supporting the troops

You know the folks who voted Bush for hero are the types who scream "support the troops!" But they don't support the troops enough to nominate them as heroes.

[WI_DEM]

2. but he also is the good guy of '06!!??

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. He won villain by a landslide of 25%

And good guy by a much smaller margin of 13%.

It's a shame they didn't have a best supporting villain category. I'd have love to have seen Dick and Rummy fighting for that one.

What is freaking me out about this poll is that it really was not a political question, yet when asked who comes to their mind as a villain 25% of Americans thought of their current President. This is not how it was ever supposed to be, and yet this is what we've become.

[EFerrari]

4. As satisfying as this is, it really illustrates how people project

their beliefs all over the place.

The man is seriously limited, neither hero nor villain. He's the Cadillac Man with no sales ability.