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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: paret who wrote (39889)	8/9/2005 12:01:41 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 93284

War On Terror: 57% Say Bush made us less safe due to Iraq. A "reverse halo" for George W. Bush The economy is looking marginally better -- at least until the housing bubble fizzles or pops or otherwise does what it does when it leaves folks upside down in their homes -- but the Bush administration doesn't seem to be getting any credit with the well-polled public. Democratic pollster Mark Mellman tells the Washington Post that Iraq is the cause. Americans don't approve of the way George W. Bush is handling the war, and that disappproval spills over on to everything else. Mellman calls it "reverse halo effect." There's another word for it: albatross. Check out these numbers from the latest USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll. An "unprecedented" 57 percent of the public thinks that, the president's pronouncements notwithstanding, the Iraq war has made the United States more vulnerable to terrorism, not less. Almost as many, 56 percent, say the war is going "badly." Fifty-four percent say that going to war was a mistake in the first place, and the same number says that the war hasn't been worth the cost. Overall, Bush's job approval rating remains near its all-time low: Just 45 percent of the public approves of the job Bush is doing as president. What that number doesn't reflect: Support for the president, where it still exists, isn't as strong as it once was. In the weeks after the 2004 election, 39 percent of Gallup's respondents said they "strongly" approved of Bush's job performance. That number is down to 25 percent today. -- T.G. Get off of my cloud When Bruce Springsteen toured with John Kerry last fall, he offered up a wistful take on American politics that has continued with his ambiguous Iraq song, "Devils & Dust." The Rolling Stones apparently prefer a less subtle approach. As Newsweek and Drudge are reporting, the World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band is out with a new album next month, and it includes a love song in reverse for the Bush administration. It's called "Sweet Neo Con," and it goes something like this: "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite. You call yourself a patriot, well I think you're full of shit. How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo-con?"