Bush Numbers Drop 10 Points Since Press Conference

President George W. Bush's poll numbers plunged by ten points in Rasmussen's three day tracking poll, which now includes the full three days following his press conference Thursday night.

Prior to the televised bull-shit, Bush held a 51% to 48% positive edge (+3).

Today, President Asshole has slipped to a 46% to 53% negative rating (-7), for an overall drop of ten points in just three days.

So much for the "Great Communicator".


http://www.rasmussenreports.com

That was supposed to be Ray-Gun.

it was a joke.

You know, a poor attempt at sarcasm

But those conferences communicate more than he intends1

By that I mean this:

<<those conferences communicate more than he intends>>

not this:

<<"Sorry. A little thick at this end.">>

Just for clarification :)

It's no wonder he does press conferences so rarely, since even as scripted as they are they show way too much of his true faculties.

has called him that at some point. I mean, they've called him the "Education President" and a "wartime leader" so it can't be that much of a stretch for them to reach that level of idiocy!

I've seen enough of his belly-flops to last a lifetime, so I gave a pass to this one.

Glad to see more and more people are seeing through the little puppet.

on edit: And I feel bad saying that, but I worked with developmentally disabled people for a while and some were better at answering questions about their plans and ideas than the "Leader of the Free World".
:( :hide:

It's one thing to hear the news reports, edited to make him sound coherent, but it is achingly embarrassing to see him talk in real time.

Maybe he's a genius in small groups?

(probably) who says Bush gets points because he's like a special child. People aren't that impressed with what he says...they're just so amazed that he's able to speak at all.
At one point during his speech he said: "I spoke with Prime Minister today." Not I spoke with THE Prime Minister. Just "I spoke with Prime Minister today".
He speaks like a foreigner who's been here a couple of months.
And, yet, the freepers lap it up. They love the dumb guy. Makes their inadequacies a little more bearable.

"I jes couldn't understand all them high-falootin' educated presidents. They wuz talkin' way over my head with all them big fancy words. But I shore do love ol' Dubya. I still don't understand him, but at least he ain't smarter 'n me! He's got such a good heart, and he's a tryin,' bless his heart!"

Where I come from. Either that, or we use it to punctuate an insult.

"Bless his heart" is sort of like Mentos. You can say anything you want, and you pop out "bless his heart" and everything is okay. So if I say, "My sister's face looks like someone took a branch off the ugly tree and smacked her upside the head with it, bless her heart", that "bless her heart" negates the insult.

However, when you say it after something like "He's trying", "bless his heart" basically means, "He's a total moron".

And this concludes our lesson on the Sweet Southern Art of Insults.

:)

It's true. "Bless his heart" is Southern code for "he is pathetic."

I first saw this when I was printing the 24th Infantry Division alumni magazine. You may like it.

Someone once noted that a Southerner can get away with the most awful kind of insult just as long as it's prefaced with the words "Bless her heart" or "Bless his heart."  As in, "Bless his heart, if they put his brain on the head of a pin, it'd roll around like a BB on a six-lane highway." Or,"Bless her heart, she's so bucktoothed, she could eat an apple through a picket fence." 

There are also the sneakier ones that I remember from tongue-clucking types of my childhood: "You know, it's amazing that even though she had that baby seven months after they got married, bless her heart, it weighed 10 pounds!" As long as the heart is sufficiently blessed, the insult can't be all that bad. At least that's what my Great-Aunt Tiny (bless her heart, she was anything but) used to say. 

I was thinking about this the other day when a friend was telling me about her new northern friend who was upset because her toddler is just beginning to talk and he has a southern accent. My friend, who is very kind and, bless her heart, cannot do a thing about those thighs of hers, so doesn't even start, was justifiably miffed about this. After all, this woman had CHOSEN to move south a couple of years ago. "Can you believe it?" she said to my friend. "A child of mine is going to be taaaallllkkin' a-liiiike thiiiissss." I can think of far worse fates than speaking Southern for this adorable little boy, who, bless his heart, must surely be the East Coast king of mucus. I wish I'd been there. I would have said that she shouldn't fret, because there is nothing so sweet or pleasing on the ear as a soft, Southern drawl. Of course, maybe we shouldn't be surprised at her "carryings on." After all, when you come from a part of the world where "family silver" refers to the large medallion around Uncle Vinnie's neck, you just have to, as Aunt Tiny would say, "consider the source." 

Now don't get me wrong. Some of my dearest friends are from the North, bless their hearts. I welcome their perspective, their friendships, and their recipes for authentic northern Italian food. I've even gotten past their endless complaints that you can't find good bread down here. The ones who really gore my ox are the native Southerners who have begun to act almost embarrassed about their speech. It's as if they want to bury it in the "Hee Haw" cornfield. We've already lost too much. I was raised to swanee, not swear, but you hardly ever hear anyone say that anymore, I swanee you don't. And I've caught myself thinking twice before saying something is "right much," "right close" or "right  good" because non-natives think this is right funny indeed. I have a friend from Bawston who thinks it's hilarious when I say I've got to "carry" my daughter to the doctor or "cut off" the light or "I'm fixin' to" 
That's OK. It's when you have to explain things to people who were born here that I get mad as a mule eating bumblebees. 

The most grating example is found in restaurants and stores where nice, magnolia-mouthed clerks now say "you guys" instead  of "y'all," as their mamas raised them up to say. I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words, "you guys." Not long ago, I went to lunch with four female friends, and the waiter, a nice Southern boy, "you guys"-ed all of us within an inch of our lives. "You guys ready to order? What can I get for you guys? Would you guys like to keep you guys' forks?" Lord, Have Mercy!

It's a little comforting that, at the very same time some natives are so eager to blend in (They've taken to making microwave grits--an abomination.) the rest of the world is catching on that it's cool to be Clampett. How else do you explain NASCAR tracks and Krispy Kreme doughnut franchises springing up like yard onions all over the country? 

To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your Southernness, take two tent revivals and a dose of redeye gravy and call me in the morning. 

Bless Your Heart !!!

and being from the South I got a good laugh out of it because it is so true. After reading it I noticed how many time during the day you hear the phrase being used and how often I used it myself. You can say anything about a person if you bless their heart first.

most of these sayings go right over my head. thanks for the lesson. i like it and am looking forward to attaching "bless his/her heart" onto some future semi-insult.

i think it'll make even more of a statement, since most people who know me also know that i'm an atheist.

I think I will use that and bring it north:)

And your post nearly made me spit out my drink!!

:rofl:

"bless his heart" to make a claim that you're not being cruel. It can be translated: "He/she is totally hopeless, nobody but a miracle-maker could improve him/her, and I'm not being cruel to say this because I'm invoking a blessing here."

It's a real stiletto in the back, Southern style. In other words, sweetly smiling while the dagger goes in. Believe me, it's more deadly than in-your-face insults.

(or daughtery?)

So true, so true. We Southern women also add in a little of that sugar and spice southern accent when we slam 'em. They never even know what hit 'em.

Point taken...

is not how gracefully it dances, but that it dances at all.

The triumph of low expectations - no one expects him to be anything but a silver spoon C student with no intellectual or cultural aspirations, and with the bar set that low, he never disappoints.

Well, maybe at the debates...when he had spit globules at the corners of his mouth, the battery pack for his vibrating butt-plug was showing, and he was babbling utter nonsense...but that was probably the worst I've seen so far. Other than his complete inability to eat a pretzel without falling on his face. Or utter a complete sentence. Come to think of it, even with the bar set that low, the dumb little shit still manages to bellyflop.

What a tool.

Just imagine what his good pal "vladimir" thinks about the buddy-buddy bravado of this pathetic little man who represents us all.

Every time he opens his mouth I am reminded; this is your brain on drugs. And, don't forget, alcohol kills brain cells.

Dumb Dumb makes everything WORSE as we've seen so this IS NOT a shocker.


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the Dems had a majority in just one branch of congress.

Just one, so we could have subpoena powers.

I gotta believe that. :)

:kick:

I actually look forward to them...what an idiot that guy is. They show these clips on Daily Show without any comment at all and people are howling. The end of that one was classic. "And remember when spouses die, you don't get anything unless they're a certain age and...nice taking to you goodnight!"

Something like that...it was hilarious! NICE SEGUE THERE SHRUB!

really made me wonder if his earpiece cut out or started picking up CB broadcasts or something. He was helpless without his prompter, so he just suddenly bailed. It was totally, absolutely, and without question the WORST end to a press conference I've ever seen, and that includes Richard Nixon announcing he was not a crook.

"That abrupt ending really made me wonder if his earpiece cut out or started picking up CB broadcasts or something. He was helpless without his prompter, bless his heart, so he just suddenly bailed. It was totally, absolutely, and without question the WORST end to a press conference I've ever seen, and that includes Richard Nixon, bless his heart, announcing he was not a crook."

LOL

I think he should pre-empt the American Idol finale next time. That should finish off his poll numbers.

Bush's electoral success consists of
1. Hiding in picked crowds with carefully canned speeches to energize the crazy assed theocratic base.

2. Letting negative ads and hate groups destroy the other guy so people figure they are voting for the less of two evils.

The fact is that for most Americans, the more they know Bush the less they like him. The more they know about his policies, the less they like him. Negative ads on Social Security flop. His policies are framed as the lesser of two evils, and nobody buys it.

did a weekly press conference for a month or two? :)

in a Q and A like the Prime Minister has in the British Parliament every week?

Wow, that would be quite a sight.

drop. He looked like an idiot in the debates, remember? In the first debate, he couldn't form coherent sentences and kept going back to "it's hard work."
So I don't think his abuse of the English language in the conference made a big difference. I think the drop is due to rising gas prices, his proposed social security changes, deaths in Iraq, etc.

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I'm being sarcastic, but that is the attitude I see from a lot of "regular folks". But those gas prices, though, are getting shoved in their face once a week at the pump, and they feel the pain. And having the hand-holding picture with the prince probably didn't help either.

most do not include the "and I know how to pronounce nuclear."

I would love to see this one

Did she actually say that or is that your joke?

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-05-01-laura-bush-comments_x.htm

But George and I are complete opposites — I'm quiet, he's talkative, I'm introverted, he's extroverted, I can pronounce nuclear —

He is, hands down, the worst public speaker in years. He sounds like a drunk blathering in a bar. Do you know people who repeat themselves endlessly when they've had too much to drink? Boy George must suffer from that.

but no, it's really true! Amazing, isn't it?

Keep digging, gw...just a little deeper and you'll be covered in it.

it doesn't take much for him to fall out of the sky.

bush is just one economic, military or security episode from a political disaster.

love his "godly man" BS and his "muy macho cowboy" image-spin, it'd take something fairly nasty to bring him down, and I don't expect that to happen with Repubs controlling the House and Senate.

quite a few episodes PAST a political disaster, bless his heart.

But where are the troops? Is it getting drafty?

Those are the worse poll numbers that I have seen on the nuclear option. 57% support rule change??? These numbers may give Frist some courage to try the nuclear option.

depending on which house got nuked. Sure, we'd lose some
democrats, but i don't know why people are so upset, 'cuz
likely if they nuked one house, the other one would probably get
burned up in the fireball as well... and then we could all breathe
a sigh of relief. ;-)

If they use a bigger nuke, then the nuclear option could really
help with the checks and balances situation in the other 2
branches as well... i say just egg them on and offer larger
megatonnage.

:-)

You just can't.

due to political desperation.... (toon)

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which one(s) is hard to say...New York and D.C. got it last time...it's probably some other metro area's turn.

And 20% of that 43% are mercy votes.

that puts him down around 35 approval, I think.

I can live with those numbers.

that gallup had him in the low forties?. I think the idiot is scraping the bottom of his base now, another disaster won't do him any good like 11 September. I believe people are pissed enough now that another attack will bring this idiot* and all his synchophants down hard.

Don't want to EVER see anything like 9/11 again, but I do expect it to happen again someday. I hope that if it does happen, enough American-sheep will have shaken off their Rip-Van-Winkle slumber and won't just blindly get behind Mr. Bring-em-on.

Someone PLEASE tell me that he will get some of the blame the second time around, or at the least be blamed for lying to us all these years about how much safer and secure we are after wasting billions on Iraq and Homeland Security!

HA F**KING HA CHIMP!
Nice try @ making SS into a (easily repeal-able @ a later date) "welfare for the poor" program.....
Back to the drawing board karl!

Proposals on Sunday night.

Somewhere on the DU Board, just last night matter-of-fact, a post shows "demographically" the Democrats represent way more then half of the country, not the Repuks.

I firmly believe Bu$h's ratings are way, way lower. Barely a flag hangs in my heavily populated area, anymore. That says something... and people are NOT using those stickers anymore. Been noticing this w/each week that goes by.

over 20 K a year sinks in.

Could it be any more obvious what Bush, Inc. is doing? Raiding everyone's pension fund to pay the CEO's more . . .

sympathy and all

"The Horse Masturbator".

hehe.

I thought his polls would go up. Everybody said I was crazy... I guess they were right. :)

couldn't get the Shrub's polls to go up.

another Osama sighting.

go boom, or some anthrax, or some smallpox, or whatever *they* think it will take to get the fear/approval numbers up...

when bush goes into the poll shitcan, lookout.

What should we be looking out for?

Same old shit. Low poll numbers. Couldn't get justices appointed. Tanking economy. Looked like a lame-duck all around.

When that shit happens, you gotta have something occur to turn that lump of dogshit the people didn't vote for into a Rodin sculptured-Adonis daddy figure; worshipped and lauded as a "great leader, one who does what he says he's going to do."

Polls go down = someone's gotta DIE.

When it happens, I really hope the Dumberican people call bullshite on it and Planned/11, not praise his "leadership".

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this Fools is 'President' is because:

1. The Supreme Court ordered Florida to "Stop Counting the Votes" (god, I still get sick on my stomach when I say that out loud...stop counting the votes)

2. Diebold et al fixed the 04 returns.

We've GOT to do well in the '06 midterms and drag this sorry gang of crooks to the Impeachment Gallows.

ANother "major AlQueda operative" was nabbed today. Time to throw out another baseball

We can always count on a terror alert or a terrorist capture---every single damn time.

This supposed number three guy wasn't even in that dumb pack of cards of the 50 most wanted.

This administration just made up this number three crap because of Bush's poll numbers.

Even GiGi couldn't have saved him. "You're tanking George...you'll never work in this town again..." :rofl:

Check out all the Hillary polls. :eyes:

We can only hope so. And what IS up with the Hillary fixation? Me thinks the old, white men are crapping in their pants 'cuz they're scared to death of this woman.

Religious demagoguery has gone way to far. Next they'll be burning liberals at the cross.

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and she ended up not running.

Anything's possible. Politics is a dirty business.

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Too bad he didn't start talking about gutting SS last year. He would have been toast

Too funny "televised bull-shit"

actually said he was prepared and answered all the questions, one was George Stephenoupolis (sp?) I couldn't believe it, I thought, if that's what he thought he was watching something different than I was. The guy I saw was a blathering idiot, that did not answer one question and at one point, stopped mid-fragment, as he doesn't speak in complete sentences, and blurted out Libya, Syria! It was the most bizarre thing I have witnessed yet. Anyone who had doubts about him using an ear piece would have to be convinced after tha pathetic performance

different Bible than the one you probably read.

Hang on, the roller coaster is just getting started. "Most bizarre thing" you've yet to witness.

extremes throughout this whole mess. We have seen the darkest possible motives and acts perpetrated by some and have seen the patriotic selfless courage of others. I am more surprised at the emergence of the "heroes" than I am of the dark side. I have regained some measure of faith that there are those in government that truly do believe in public servanthood and for those few I am very grateful.

How can anyone (the 46%) even pretend that this guy has any intelligence?

thosee 46% have the same intelligence as he does...almost nil.

Did anyone else catch the comment about Bush twisting the toe of his right shoe (I think that's what it was) into the carpet during the news conference? I saw it mentioned in one of the news reports.

It made me wonder if, after the fuss about the bulge and apparent wire under Bush's coat at the debate, they used a different system to communicate with him and coach him. Seems like it would be pretty easy to put a coil of wire under the carpet and a coil in the bottom of his shoe, so when he stood on that spot the signal would be inductively coupled from one to the other. If Bush wasn't getting a strong enough signal he would have to move his foot around and push it into carpet to get the coils closer together and increase the signal strength.

Of course it could just be a nervous habit, but when I read the comment in the news report it made me realize that you could make a fairly simple communication system without the need for an RF receiver.


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:evilgrin:

...these lousy numbers are a sign of another stolen election.

W wouldn't have a second term if that was the case here.

A few waking

the only thing that wakes Americans up is when policy starts messing with their pocketbooks. With all the stuff Bush is guilty of the only thing that will probably ever do him in is going to be money related. Can you imagine where his support level would be now if he had been straight with the American people from the very beginning and admitted in a press conference how much Iraq was going to cost? "Sorry folks, lets forget about tax cuts for a while. We're taking over the world and in order to do that I'll be RAISING taxes."

That would have made a huge dent in his pseudo-patriotic support for this war if his conservative sheep had been told from the beginning that war costs money.