Poll: Public has shifted focus toward terror, war problems

War is good for re-election. Anyone here feel this Eye-Rack disturbance is being stirred up for Chimp's re-election benefit? I mean, what's a few human lives? :puke:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-04-13-top-problems_x.htm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The American public has shifted its attention toward problems like terrorism and war since last summer when more people said the nation's top problems were economic, an Associated Press poll found.


When asked in an open-ended question last July to name the most important problems facing the United States, 9% mentioned war. That number almost doubled to 17% in an AP-Ipsos Public Affairs poll taken early this month. The number of people who named terrorism has grown from 14% in July to 21% now.

The poll offers a glimpse of the nation's leading concerns as the presidential campaign intensifies between President Bush, who generally has posted stronger poll numbers on national security, and Democrat John Kerry, seen as stronger by the public on economic issues.

This looks a lot more like 1968 than 1972.

how many times he uses phrases like "They hate our freedoms", "ter-rists", "evil doers" etc..

Sorry, but my take on the American citizen is they'd elect a gerbil if you could get it to say three things:

1) I hate "ter-rists"
2) I hate Liberals
3) God Bless America

WE are a far more diverse and varied group of people than that. That is our strength: That we don't agree.

with absolutely *no* allegiance to any man made political borders.

Yes, we are exceedingly naive; on the other hand, we don't enjoy getting robbed and murdered by our elected officials.

it is obvious that far too many don't mind at all if YOUR "elected" officials rob and murder others... (present company excluded. ;-))

or, worse yet, support it in the spirit of "righteous" vengeance.

That's been the norm ever since the westward expansion. It's now our manifest destiny to burn every ounce of the world's fossil fuels.

Kerry should be able to win if the BFEE doesn't kill him.

but this time it is not because it is obvious this is such a botch up and we were dragged into it by a lie.

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Iraq has gone south on Dubya, 911 has gone south on Dubya, and the international scene is very bleak for Dubya. They're paying less attention to domestic/economic issues when: the economic indicators (as bogus as they are spun) are looking up, and the RW has introduced a host of social issues into politics. This is not good for Dubya.

Let's get serious here. It is an out of control situation, not some scripted offensive.

I think he's sticking to the June 30th hand over date to make it appear that he does have an exit strategy and to counter any talk of comparisons to Vietnam.

A hasty exit from this unpopular war will play well with a lot of people.

(Doubt he'll be able to do it though. Besides, he needs to take some responsibility for rebuilding the country he just destroyed!)

will have a security agreement. Most likely it will be a SOFA that ensures permanent bases in Iraq. I think that is why he has such a hard on for June 20. they need that agreement to keep their troops there. I guess they think it would make their bases there appear legal.

Bush's war on terrorism is a grotesque joke. He has not fought an honest war against terrorism, but has cynically used the September 11 attacks to invade Iraq for reasons that had nothing to do with making Americans safer from the likes of Osama bin Laden.

Saddam has no associations with terrorists and had nothing to offer them. There was no way his downfall could have improved the situation vis a vis terrorism.

In the months since Bush appeared on the deck of the Lincoln in a Halloween cotume, al Qaida has launched four attacks. Although it can't be proven, it's hard to imagine that al Qaida would have done any less if Iraq had not been invaded.

Bush's war on terrorism is a miserable failure. It shouold be exploited to our advantage.

Ending the Endless War by Jack Rabbit, Democratic Underground, March 20