Reuters/Zogby poll shows Bush at 24 per cent approval, congress is much worse

We'veOct 17th, 2007 - 19:37:35

had almost eight years of this crap and it's just now coming to light. bush has been an awful president since day one.

Oh yes, here's a little more bush resume:

Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.

Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.

Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.

First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.

First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.

Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.

Withdrew from the World Court of Law.

Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).

All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

My biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.

First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)

First US president to establish a secret shadow government.

Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).

With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.

First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.

Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.




To be continued.................!

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Well DoneOct 17th, 2007 - 22:03:02

Yes! G.W.Bush will go down as the WORST president of the US ever!Bush,like the dollar, is in freefall in the world stockmarket.
.................US $9+ TRILLION in debt.................

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Bush ability to lead declines as wellOct 17th, 2007 - 22:52:38

Now he's touting the upcoming Mideast peace conference, which Dr. Rice has already diminished expectations for. Of course, Dr. Rice has now taken about her 4th different position on Annapolis, since the President is forcing her to do it.

Bush no longer has influence or respect in the Mideast, and everyone simply wishes that the 2008 elections were happening sooner. If Disney ever remakes the Seven Dwarves, Bush has a standing offer to portray Dopey. He won't even have to rehearse. I'm sure the GOP candidates won't be asking for him to campaign for them.

'The Reuters/Zogby Index,'' which measures the mood of the country, also fell from 98.8 to 96 -- the second consecutive month in which it has dropped. The number of Americans who believe the country is on the wrong track jumped four points to 66 percent.

'There is a real question among Americans now about how relevant this government is to them,' pollster John Zogby said. 'They tell us they want action on health care, education, the war and immigration, but they don't believe they are going to get it.'

Note that Bush is activiting 8 Guard units for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pub&dt=071017&cat=news&st=newsd8sb8dq0 0&src=ap

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is preparing to alert eight National Guard units that they should be ready to go to Iraq or Afghanistan beginning late next summer, The Associated Press learned Wednesday.

The U.S. military is reaching out to more Guard units in an effort to maintain needed troop levels, ease some of the strain on the active duty Army and provide security for ports, convoys and other installations.

According to defense officials, seven of the units would deploy to Iraq and one to Afghanistan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the orders had not yet been signed and the announcement is not expected until the end of this week.

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Bush - life in an alternate universeOct 17th, 2007 - 22:54:43

weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/an_embattled_bush_ive_n ever_fe.html

President Bush – sagging in the opinion polls, but facing a Congress with even lower standing among the public – called on congressional leaders today to pass a long list of stalled legislation on the eve of his expected victory in a bid to override his veto of healthcare spending for children.

The president took a forceful stance at the podium of the press briefing room in the West Wing today, fending off questions about his own inability to find a “common ground’’ with legislative leaders on an array of questions – and also facing a question about his own possible irrelevancy.

'Quite the contrary,'' Bush said. 'I've never felt more engaged and more capable of helping people recognize...that there's a lot of unfinished business. And I'm really looking forward to the next 15 months. I'm looking forward to getting some things done for the American people. And if it doesn't get done, I'm looking forward to reminding people as to why it's not getting done.''

(The only people dumber than Bush are the 24 percent who stick by him)

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Bush blames Democrats for his problemsOct 18th, 2007 - 01:17:54

(Try getting a workable government in Iraq, dummy ...)

www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/washington/18bush.html

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — A year after he pledged to find “common ground” with the Democrats who now control Congress, President Bush on Wednesday delivered a scathing assessment of their performance, accusing lawmakers of dragging their feet on legislation ranging from trade deals and domestic surveillance to federal spending and children’s health.

“We’re now more than halfway through October, and the new leaders in Congress have had more than nine months to get things done for the American people,” Mr. Bush said in his opening remarks at a White House news conference. “Unfortunately, they haven’t managed to pass many important bills. Now the clock is winding down, and in some key areas Congress is just getting started.”

The news conference was timed to coincide with a showdown between Mr. Bush and Congressional Democrats over federal spending and a children’s health measure he has vetoed. At one point, the president complained bitterly that Democrats had failed to negotiate with him over the health bill, a different version of which had been advanced by the administration in its budget.

“We weren’t dialed in,” he said, adding that he was using his veto pen because “that’s one way to ensure that I am relevant.”

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Bush completely outclassed by PutinOct 18th, 2007 - 06:27:22

Bush has lost the diplomatic lead to Putin.

(While Bush is complaining and threatening, trying to continue to evoke fear in the American people to keep them dependent, Putin is in there negotiating with someone Bush would not even hold a conversation with. The 'real' leadership of Iran is not looking for a war, when they can cause all kinds of mischief through their activities and deals with Russia. Note the link photo showing Putin negotiating with the Supreme Leader, not the Iranian President. Putin has effectively linked Russia to Iran, and all that's missing is a mutual defense pact. China's need for oil, and deals with Iran, gives Iran real support on the Security Council. Putin is even getting involved with Israel.)

'But clearly Russia has emerged as at least a semi-independent broker in the nuclear crisis. Just hours after Mr. Putin left Iran, Israel announced that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would visit Russia on Thursday for what one official described as a “last-minute, urgent meeting.”'

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www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/world/middleeast/18iran.html?ref=europe

TEHRAN, Oct. 17 — Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, proposed a new way to help resolve the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program during an extraordinary meeting with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the country’s chief nuclear negotiator on Wednesday.

The negotiator, Ali Larijani, told reporters that Mr. Putin, who was granted an audience with Ayatollah Khamenei on Tuesday evening, “offered a special proposal.” Neither the Iranians nor the Russians would disclose any details, but Mr. Larijani said the Iranian side was studying it.

“One of the issues he brought up was his view on the nuclear issue,” Mr. Larijani said, according to the ISNA news agency. “We are reviewing it now.”

State-run television and news agencies quoted Ayatollah Khamenei as telling Mr. Putin, “We will think about what you said and about your proposal,” even as he added that Iran was “determined to provide our country’s need for nuclear energy.”

Mr. Putin’s visit highlighted the fact that Russia seems to be increasingly distancing itself from the United States and the Europeans on a strategy to curb Iran’s nuclear program. While those nations have sought to impose new Security Council sanctions on Iran, the governments of Russia and China have resisted, arguing that more time is needed.

Earlier, Moscow proposed to enrich uranium in Russia for use in Iranian reactors, assuring that Iran would not produce the highly enriched uranium needed for nuclear weapons. Tehran rejected the idea as an impingement on its sovereignty.

During his visit, which included a meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mr. Putin also warned the West against a military attack on Iran, stressing that Tehran had a right to peaceful nuclear energy. He also said that the Russian-built nuclear power plant at Bushehr, in southern Iran, where construction has been slowed by a dispute over payments, would be finished as scheduled.

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