The Public’s Disenchantment
October 6th, 2005
No one says it better than Thomas Oliphant… In his Friday column in the Boston Globe, Oliphant picks apart Bush’s poor showing in the polls (see Ron’s earlier post on the polls), his speech today and the “public’s disenchantment with this mess .”
Here’s a few quips:
SINCE WE ALL know — from President Bush himself, no less — that he is such a selfless leader that he never even peeks at opinion polls, let’s take a naughty glimpse at the latest anyway.
This stuff is from Zogby International, and it’s current. On the fighting in Iraq, Americans who think Bush is doing a good or excellent job are just 36 percent of the sample. Those who say fair or poor are now above 60 percent — 63 to be precise.
Those numbers don’t come close to explaining why Bush has suddenly become vocal again on security issues — the Rose Garden (twice) and the Reagan Building (once) having been the sites of speeches just in the last week.
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