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As an overall, how do you feel George W. Bush has performed in his term as US president?

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Voting closed: May 27, 2004, 11:03:04 AM


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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« on: May 27, 2004, 11:03:04 AM »
Last one.  This is the standard, general approval rating question.

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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2004, 11:05:38 AM »
Fair to poor. This monkey gets reelected, and I'm moving to Canada.
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2004, 11:07:20 AM »
Poor. He seems to listen too much to what his cabinet* tell him, and he didn't choose them very well in the first place. If a leader is going to bow to his advisors wishes, they really ought to make sure their advisors aren't paranoid maniacs!


*or whatever it is you americans call it!
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2004, 11:12:04 AM »
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Poor. He seems to listen too much to what his cabinet* tell him, and he didn't choose them very well in the first place. If a leader is going to bow to his advisors wishes, they really ought to make sure their advisors aren't paranoid maniacs!


*or whatever it is you americans call it!

We do call it a cabinet, but the problem is he doesn't listen to them at all. Sure the cronies (Rice, Rumsfeld, et al.) have his attention, but the rest of them speak to deaf ears. Bush has no agenda, he wanders around aimlessly and takes quick and easy jabs at problems and then moves on before anyone can point out that he had done more harm than good.
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2004, 11:27:01 AM »
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Fair to poor. This monkey gets reelected, and I'm moving to Canada.


Yay!
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2004, 11:37:58 AM »
Well, my lovely bf took himself out of eligabilty to vote so...that's one less vote for Bush.   :lol:
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« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2004, 11:40:38 AM »
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Well, my lovely bf took himself out of eligabilty to vote so...that's one less vote for Bush.   :lol:


:lol:

I converted my bf, who voted for Bush last election, into some kind of raging Democrat. That's another vote taken from Bush.  :wink:
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2004, 11:45:48 AM »
I've gradually managed to convert my wife from a pretty left-leaning Democrat to being a capitalism-loving Libertarian. :lol:

I think she was a closet-Libertarian to begin with though.  I'm pretty persuasive (at least in person; I think I probably just come off as a ranting blowhard most of the time online  :? ), but she is not one of those people who is easily swayed, nor is she one to form an opinion without a lot of information and research to back it up.
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2004, 12:27:39 PM »
Bush fucked up your country.

The whole world knows it, and hopefully your voters will too.
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2004, 12:32:28 PM »
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Bush fucked up your country.

The whole world knows it, and hopefully your voters will too.


A lot of them apparently don't.

Never underestimate the stupidity of people in groups.
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« Reply #10 on: May 27, 2004, 12:38:59 PM »
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A lot of them apparently don't.

Never underestimate the stupidity of people in groups.


And this is exactly why we had that thread on HN about how the vast majority of the population that's eligible to vote, shouldn't.
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #11 on: May 27, 2004, 12:54:54 PM »
I hate hate HATE the mentality that people voting for the candidate they want to win can be considered "throwing the vote away". I hear so many people saying that "Well, I'd like X to win, but I know he never will, so I'm voting Y instead", I begin to think if they all just shut up and voted the way they actually want to, someone they want might get...elected.
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #12 on: May 27, 2004, 01:35:11 PM »
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And this is exactly why we had that thread on HN about how the vast majority of the population that's eligible to vote, shouldn't.
A lot of them don't. More to the point, a lot of people who do vote should know what they're doing, instead of voting blindly, or worse, voting "party".

I will probably vote Kerry. Even if he had a snowballs' chance in hell of winning, I'd vote Kerry. Could it be a mistake? Sure. But I know for an absolute certainity that voting for Bush would be a bigger one.
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2004, 01:49:25 PM »
All this motherfucker cares about is war. Meanwhile Social Security is at risk of going broke by 2015, and the public school system sucks, but this retard insists of taking care of nothing but war. Get his ass out of office in November.
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2004, 03:12:00 PM »
Karl Rove, um, I mean GWB has done a horrendous job as POTUS.
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« Reply #15 on: May 27, 2004, 04:32:07 PM »
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Fair to poor. This monkey gets reelected, and I'm moving to Canada.


I agree on the Canada part, but I would rate his actions more like poor to abysmal - everything the man has laid hands on has turned to shit. Literally EVERYTHING he has touch. I really can't think of ONE thing he has managed to improve that wouldn't have been even better off without his interference.
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« Reply #16 on: May 28, 2004, 04:44:55 PM »
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I really can't think of ONE thing he has managed to improve that wouldn't have been even better off without his interference.


I hear Halliburton is making a ton of cash these days.....
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The War On Terror and the White House Poll: Part Seven
« Reply #17 on: May 28, 2004, 05:07:22 PM »
Oh no doubt.  He's got a wonderful approval rating among Halliburton execs I bet.
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« Reply #18 on: May 28, 2004, 08:49:27 PM »
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I really can't think of ONE thing he has managed to improve that wouldn't have been even better off without his interference.


I hear Halliburton is making a ton of cash these days.....

Republican fund raising seems to be doing well these days. As are US fundamentalist organizations.

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