Bush responds to news that he has the worst disapproval rating of any president in 70 years

[sabra]

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080422/a_pollbox22.art.htm

Bush's disapproval rating worst of any president in 70 years

WASHINGTON — President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.

In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.

The previous record of 67% was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952, when the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War.

Bush's rating has worsened amid "collapsing optimism about the economy," says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies presidential approval. Record gas prices and a wave of home foreclosures have fueled voter angst.

[Selatius]

1. He doesn't give a shit. n/t

[Virginia Dare]

3. Exactly. I thought it was going to be "SO?"..

he thinks he's the second coming of Jesus Christ and Abraham Lincoln..:eyes: :puke:

[KansDem]

14. No, that's Cheney's response. Bush's would be "Who cares what you think?" (nt)

[FSogol]

2. Caption: "Hey, how did that Pet Goat book end?"

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Who said that Bush wouldn't have a fantastic legacy?

[sandnsea]

5. But support McCain and the Iranian warmonger

People are nuts.

[bullwinkle428]

6. "50 years from now, ah'm gonna be dead anyway -

now watch me fling this poop at ya!"

[SoCalDem]

7. Damn.. I thought his answer would be this:

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Wrong finger. (nt)

[Javaman]

8. didn't he* dance around the room screaming...

"I'm #1! I'm #1! I'm #1! I'm #1!"

[Perry Logan]

9. Keeping in mind he was never really President.

[Selatius]

11. I find it astonishing Repubs approve of Bush by 66 percent. They are blind.

Dems disapprove by 91%. Independents disapprove by 72%.

[Toucano]

12. An yet he has the gall to be photographed dancing and hooting it up.

George W. Bush is an insult to the world.

He is the worst leader on this continent since George III.

[Toucano]

13. Responding to my own post to add

That I just realized he is the third George to be president.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. Did Truman (or anyone else) ever linger at such a low point as long as Bush?

Presidents' ratings go up and down but Bush has been hovering around 30% approval for, like, forever!

[sabra]

17. he beat that record too - I believe last month! Something like 3 1/2 years and counting...

[unblock]

16. "so?"

i'm just waiting for it.

major league a**hole.

[cliss]

18. He knows it.

For sure, he knows that he's destroyed his legacy. He's fully aware that everything he's touched, in his miserable life, has turned to ruination.

Of course he cares about that. Maybe that's why he's acting so bizarre lately, dancing around and acting like a complete clown.:smoke: