Bush lowest Quinnipiac poll rating since taking office - 40%

Poll: Most voters want U.S. out of Iraq
December 6, 2005, 9:15 AM EST


NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Most Americans think going to war was the wrong thing to do and want to see troops pulled out of Iraq, according to a new poll.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday shows that 60 percent of voters favor withdrawing from Iraq and 54 percent believe going to war was wrong.

Americans are split over whether President Bush deliberately misled Americans in making the case for war.

Bush posted his lowest Quinnipiac poll rating since taking office, with 40 percent of voters saying they approve of the job he is doing.

Congress fared even worse, with 61 percent of voters disapproving of the job it is doing. Members of Bush's administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, also got disapproving marks.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--poll-iraq1206dec06,0,7659856.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut


Poll says Americans want troops withdrawn

(Hamden-AP, Dec. 6, 2005 6:33 AM) _ A Quinnipiac poll released today confirms what other polls have found: Americans are backing away from the Iraq war.

While 77 percent of respondents favor continuing the global war on terror, 60 percent say the U.S. should bring the troops home. Forty percent say that should happen right away.

And almost half of the respondents -- 49 percent -- say the Bush Administration deliberately misled the nation into war.
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=4206951&nav=3YeX

Are they incapable of using Google?

I think DUers are not correct when they say "most of America doesn't like Bush" or thinks he is a "liar."

America has many, many citizens who do not research facts, or even think that hard. For that reason, Bush will always have a solid base of support.

reporting the suffering is in the back of many American's minds even if they don't think about it consciously and AOL had an article last week or so with people saying that the reason they no longer approve of bush is many things not just one but Katrina was mentioned often in the list people gave for their new lack of confidence in Bush even if they voted for him which shows the power an honest media could have.

"John Berger: 'Ignorance and abdication that amounts to madness'
Reprinted on Smirking Chimp.com Thursday, September 15

All political leaders sometimes parry with the truth, but with Bush the disconnections are systematic

By John Berger, The Guardian

As a consequence of the catastrophe that occurred in New Orleans, people in the US and throughout the world have started to re-examine the record of the present leaders of the first world superpower. A shift in opinion has taken place almost overnight. History, throwing us all back into our seats, suddenly opened its throttle.

Katrina - everyone refers to the hurricane by her name as if she were some kind of avatar - revealed that there is dire and increasing poverty in the US, that black people are typically treated as unwanted second-class citizens, that the systematic cutting of government investment in public institutions has produced widespread social disequilibrium and destitution (40 million Americans live without any aid if they fall ill), that the so-called war against terrorism is creating administrative chaos, and that within and against all this, voices of protest are being raised loud and clear.

All this though was evident before Katrina to those living it, and to those who wanted to know. What she changed was that the media were there for once, showing what was actually happening, and the fury of those to whom it was happening. With her terrible gesture she wiped the opaque screens clean for a little while.

In some gnomic way the as-yet-innumerable dead on the Gulf coast spoke not for but with the 100,000 Iraqis who have died as a consequence of the ongoing disastrous and criminal war. Time and again in the US press, Katrina and Iraq are being mentioned together. Yet Katrina was regular. She belonged to the familiar weather conditions which affect the Gulf of Mexico. She was not hiding in Afghanistan. And merciless as she was, she did not belong to any axis of evil. She was simply a natural threat to American lives and property, and she was heading for Louisiana.

It was in the self-interest (as well as the national interest) of the president and his chosen colleagues to meet the challenge she threw down, to foresee the needs of her victims and to reduce the ensuing pain and panic to the minimum possible. If they, the government, happened to fail to do this, they would be able to blame nobody else, and they themselves would be blamed. A child could foresee this. And they failed utterly. Their failure was technical, political and emotional. "Stuff happens," murmurs Donald Rumsfeld.

Is it possible that this administration is mad? Let us try to define the variant of madness, for it may be that it has never occurred before. It has very little to do, for example, with Nero when he fiddled while Rome burned. Any madness, however, implies a severe disconnection with reality, or, to put it more precisely, with the existent." ...


http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1570326,00.html

Most Voters Want a Democratic Congress
A new Quinnipiac poll finds Congress with a paltry 27% approval rating. "Looking at the 2006 Congressional races, voters say 47% to 36% that they would like to see the Democrats win control of Congress."

http://www.politicalwire.com/

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x11367.xml?ReleaseID=855

Honestly, I think President Bush is attacking Iraq and other countries similar to them for his religious beliefs.