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Poll: Majority Says Bush Is Weak And Wrong

By Greg Sargent - December 22, 2006, 2:24PM

Bill Clinton once famously described George W. Bush as "strong and wrong," but now a majority of the American people sees the current President as weak and wrong. A new CNN poll finds that 51 percent of respondents think Bush isn't a "strong" leader; meanwhile, 55% say he doesn't share their values. And if being seen as weak and wrong by a majority weren't bad enough, 53% say Bush isn't honest or trustworthy. That's quite a Christmas present. We'll bring you the full poll when it's available.

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For some reason the fact that the majority of this country view Bush as weak and wrong is not the present I was hoping for.

Posted by gqmartinez
December 22, 2006 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink

ah, yes -- I meant a Christmas present for the President...

Posted by Greg Sargent
December 22, 2006 6:09 PM | Reply | Permalink

But, but, but................

Chris Matthews said everybody loves Bush, except the left wing fringe.

Looks like they are now the majority.

Posted by Miri11
December 22, 2006 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink

And if being seen as weak and wrong by a majority weren't bad enough, 53% say Bush isn't honest or trustworthy.

But , hey , no one's perfect.

Posted by flavius
December 23, 2006 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink

Yeah! And Laura says the media just doesn't report the good news! According to her (so it must be true, because she sure must be objective) there is so much good news going on in Iraq, but the media is just sitting on it! If she's right, there must be a reason; I've thought about it, and I've gotten it down to three possibilities:

1-) The media could have some breaking news that is not on any other channel; not in any other newspaper: "Our country is accomplishing its goals and Iraqis are grateful we are there, and this is why..." but no, they choose instead to recirculate old stories about diarrhea on cruise ships because those stories are so good for ratings.

2-) There is a ton of good news, but in order to go out and film it the reporters would have to take the chance of being blown to bits or kidnapped and beheaded if they step one foot out of the heavily fortified places they have to stay. They just can't manage to show this bastion of democracy and good news because it is too effing dangerous to walk in the street!

3-) There actually, um, isn't enough good news in Iraq to fill an entire paragraph.

Jan Knaus

Posted by CVille Dem
December 24, 2006 7:41 PM | Reply | Permalink

Remember when we had an idealistic president, whose words could inspire an entire generation? Here is a little trip down memory lane. Comments from John Kennedy's American University address, June 10, 1963:

I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived - - yet it is the most important topic on earth : world peace.

What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.

I am talking about genuine peace - - the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living -- the kind that enables man and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces.

It makes no sense in an age when a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all of the allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by the wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations unborn.

Today the expenditure of billions of dollars every year on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need to use them is essential to keeping the peace.

But surely the acquisition of such idle stockpiles - - which can only destroy and never create - - is not the only, much less the most efficient, means of assuring peace.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war - - and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears.

But we have no more urgent task.
For the whole link, go here:
http://www.american.edu/media/speeches/Kennedy.htm

Jan Knaus

Posted by CVille Dem
December 24, 2006 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink