More than one American in three support Bush ??

Some things in life, I guess, I'll never understand...

And, lest we forget, Bush is serving a second term in office!!   You just can't ever underestimate American voters.

Hoppy in Sacramento

Ha Ha!

Look at the kid yawning in the picture at the top of the article.

That about sums it up: Nothing new ever comes out of Bush's mouth. "Rummy's doin' fine, we're gonna stay the course while we adapt to win, we'll be in Iraq until we win, we will hold the House and Senate..."

He's such an opposite man: whatever he says, the truth is the opposite.

It's a snooze-fest except that his voice is so screechy.

Prediction: the Saddam verdict will provoke retributory violence by radical Sunnis, with significant potential for Shi'ite militias to respond via death squads. Sadly for the innocents who will suffer, this is yet another Bush-inspired political stunt based on gross miscalculation.

What this really shows is how politicized an polarized the country has become because of the deliberate efforts of George Bush. Basically Republicans seized on Kerry's verbal gaffe (if you could even call it that) to say "Democrats are insulting the troops! That despicable. People should be outraged! Vote Republican!" But that's more what they HOPED people would think that what anyone actually thinks! In short Faux-outrage.

Democrats were nervous and angry and hoping that this didn't derail the express train. Angry because it's so patently irrelevant to anything. As one political cartoons put it: a cartoon figure of Kerry with his tongue tied in a knot, while Bush drives by in a tank pointing and mocking Kerry, but the barrel of the tank cannon is tied in a knot and he's paying no attention.

But independents basically were uninterested in the whole pseudo-scandal. They just tuned it out, just as they have tried to tune out the negative advertising that they don't like.

I think the polls that show people are influenced by negative advertising really are simply mobilizing their base. Everything the Republicans have done this year is aimed solely at their base. The tightening of the race is simply becuase they are beating the base over the head in a desparate effort to get them to the polls -- and like the good sheeple they are, Republican voters are reluctantly putting aside their discontent at the horrible way in which Republican congress and President Bush have governed to give them ANOTHER two years to try and fix things.

Inconceivable to those of us not already drinking the cool-aid, but it makes sense from inside their coalition of the gullible.

But independents are the key to victory in 2006 and they're not buying it at all.

You know the rightwingers are just as certain that the media is avowedly liberal and out to get them, and their concern seems sincere (not necessarily accurate, but sincere). Could it be that the media is doing something right if both sides think it is against them?

That's why Rove scheduled it for Nov. 5, so that there's not enough time for the backlash stories to get much play in the media.