Showing posts with label Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bush. Show all posts

Friday, April 10, 2009

Bush popularity falling...still!

George W. Bush's presidency was probably the least popular of recent US Presidents--especially in his second term. Most people know that, in his last two years, his popularity fell to historic lows.

According to
Wikipedia's entry on Bush,
Throughout 2007, Bush's approval rating hovered in the mid-thirties percentile, although in a Reuters poll of October 17, 2007, Bush received a lower approval rating of 24%, the lowest point of his presidency.













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Some new statistics might surprise you:
  • Of the 37 people who approved of Bush in his last 2 months in office, over 91% believe he is still President.
  • 666% of those believe Bush is the Second Coming of Christ (although his rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, the global ecology initiative, is generally seen as evidence to the contrary).
  • 100% of those approving and disapproving of Bush know that he does not, and never will, understand the Kyoto Protocol.
  • Fully 77% of the 37 people above have heard Bush call the Kyoto Protocol "that damn karate move they keep askin' me about."
  • Of the 330.2892 million who disapproved of Bush in his last 2 months, 98% believe he never was President.
The reasons for this surprising split are complex:
  • Of the above 330.2892 million, 89% think Bush lost to Al Gore in the 2000 election because the vote was stolen by his brother, then-Governor Jeb Bush of Florida.
  • Of the 37 people who approved of Bush, over 65% are retarded.
  • The remaining 35% of Bush approvers are Bush's relatives.
  • Over 96% of Bush's relatives remain in the group of 330.2892 million who disapproved of Bush.
Historians gave Bush worse ratings than the general public, according to Wikipedia:
In 2006, 744 professional historians surveyed by Siena College regarded Bush's presidency as follows: Great: 2%; Near Great: 5%; Average: 11%; Below Average: 24%; Failure: 58%. Thomas Kelly, professor emeritus of American studies at Siena College, said that "In this case, current public opinion polls actually seem to cut the President more slack than the experts do." Similar outcomes were retrieved by two informal surveys done by the History News Network in 2004 and 2008.
More on this later as the stats roll in and Obama undoes the Bush and Cheney damage...














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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Miss Universe: Gitmo is "a loooot of fun"

With plenty of sports, recreation, leisure and natural beauty, Cuba's the perfect vacation spot...for um, natural beauties. The prisoners of war and their torturers like it too!

Especially at Guantanamo Bay, where W's military contingent there liked to practice "extreme waterboarding"--back in the good ol' days before a humanitarian became President.


From Reuters:
A "relaxing, calm, beautiful place" may not be everyone's description of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States holds about 240 prisoners in a detention center that has drawn condemnation from around the world.

But this was the opinion of reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela, who visited the U.S. naval facility in eastern Cuba this month on a trip organized by the United Service Organizations (USO) which supports U.S. troops...

Caracas-born Mendoza, 22, who visited the facility March 20-25 along with Miss USA Crystle Stewart, 27, enthused about her Guantanamo trip as an "incredible experience" in a blog entry posted on the Miss Universe website dated March 27, 2009.

"It was a loooot of fun!," Mendoza wrote, describing how she and Stewart met U.S. military personnel and took rides around the camp, which is encircled by a barbed-wire fenced, minefields and watchtowers. She said they also visited a bar on the base and the "unbelievable" beach there.

"We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the(y) recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting," she wrote.

"I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful," she added.

Hey, baby! Bend me over, "stand me up" for hours--and let's play with the little doggies, too! I'll do whatever you want. C'mon -- Gitme at Gitmo!
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