Igwanarno
04-11-2004, 05:51
Someone in another thread postulated that because Bush once had high approval ratings, most people here must have liked him once. I'm curious to check on that.
Lunatic Goofballs
04-11-2004, 05:53
Someone in another thread postulated that because Bush once had high approval ratings, most people here must have liked him once. I'm curious to check on that.
No. It's just that Americans tend to be very supportive of the President in times of crisis.
Until he loses it.
Keruvalia
04-11-2004, 05:57
I still say he's 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound sack, but he is the legitimately elected President. I may not like that he's in office, but he was put there fairly and I will only complain if he is turning this country in the wrong way.
However, my complaints have merit. I vote, yes, but I also serve as a delegate, have put my hat in the ring to be an Elector every year since 1990, vote in all elections (not just Pres., but local stuff as well), and successfully helped campaign my boy, Stephen Frost, to become Texas House Representative for District 1 against a very popular Republican (Pete Snow).
I get out there and make a difference. I don't just sit there and take it. Follow my lead! Get involved, make a stand, spread a message!
Xenophobialand
04-11-2004, 06:05
Someone in another thread postulated that because Bush once had high approval ratings, most people here must have liked him once. I'm curious to check on that.
Well, originally I thought him all hat and no cowboy, as well as more than a little slow in the uptake. When he was made president, I got progressively more and more pissed off at his fairly clear intent to pay back the corporations that paid to get him into office (the attempt to increase the amount of arsenic that can be found in water before it is declared "unsafe", for example). But, after Sept. 11, I'll admit I wanted a real leader, so I admit, I supported him briefly, because I thought to myself "Well, maybe I've been too hard on him. I mean, sure, he's been bad with the environment, but he hasn't been all that bad, has he?"
Then came the Patriot Act. Then came Dick Cheney calling those that disagreed with the President "un-American." Then came the President supporting Chevrolet's "Keep America Rolling" ads, because hey, our patriotic duty as Americans is to consume, consume, consume, even when companies make our stomach's turn by building their profit margin on the backs of dead American patriots.
Needless to say, I quickly gained a rather permanent disaffection for the man. He doesn't know the first frapping thing about what it means to be an American, and in my mind, he couldn't have insulted the memory of men that died for this country by such actions if he had personally taken a dump on their headstones.