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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (235872)	3/10/2002 12:23:44 AM
From: Rollcast...	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You really do need a phonics brush up, Rich. "So are you saying it is OK for you and conservative friends to totally ridicule and disrespect and attack the former President for eight years in Office and two years hence (Monica didn't exist the first five) and now go off with disgust because the current President is being questioned?" Yes, as I stated before - when there is evidence, yes. "Especially since one presided over peace and prosperity for eight years and the other is ruling over a disaster." Even more so for that reason. Particularly when you look at who is more culpable for the disaster taking place. Is the person who failed to go after OBL on how many occasions, who also completely undermined our image of strength in the Arab world by running from Somalia - would that person require some blame??? What did President Bush have to do with the circumstances and policy leading to the current disaster when he had been in office less than 12 months? Or are you part of the Hillary school saying that 9/11 took place because of Bush's tax cuts?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (235872)	3/10/2002 1:51:25 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

gallup.com PRINCETON, NJ -- The latest Gallup poll, conducted March 4-7, shows that 77% of Americans now approve of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president -- the first time that Bush's rating has slipped below 80% since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. The first poll after the terrorist attacks showed an approval rating of 86%, which reached a high of 90% in late September, and remained in the high 80s into December. Since then, it has slowly declined, although it has remained above the 80% mark longer than any other president's rating since Gallup began measuring job approval in the 1930s. George W. Bush’s Job Approval Rating As shown in the graph below, the decline in Bush's rating has come mostly among Democrats, and to a lesser extent among independents. Republicans, by contrast, show little change in approval. This pattern is the reverse of what happened after the terrorist attacks, when Bush's approval surged most dramatically among Democrats -- by 51 points, from 27% to 78% approval. The increase among independents was also noteworthy, from 44% to 84%, while the change among Republicans was more muted, from 87% to 95%, since they already were giving high ratings to Bush. As Congress and the news media have turned their attention to other issues of national concern, partisan differences that had been muted after the terrorist attacks have once again become prominent. Thus, it is not surprising that Bush's approval is beginning to decline.