CNN(Communist News Network) USA Today Poll: Bush Has Highest Approval Rating Of ANY President EVER! LOL!!!!

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Sunday September 23 3:29 PM ET

Poll: Bush Has Highest Approval Rating Ever

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ninety percent of Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling his job after the Sept. 11 attacks, the highest rating for a U.S. president ever recorded by the Gallup polling group, USA Today and CNN reported on Sunday.

The 90 percent job approval rating, measured in a poll of 1,005 adults Friday and Saturday, outranks the previous record -- a rating of 89 percent garnered by Bush's father, former President George Bush, at the end of the 1991 Gulf War.

It compares to an approval rating of 86 percent scored by the younger Bush in a survey conducted last week, just after hijackers slammed three airliners into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon near Washington, leaving 6,800 dead or missing. A fourth hijacked airliner crashed in Pennsylvania.

Bush on Sunday ended the official mourning period, presiding over a ceremony to hoist the U.S. flag to full staff for the first time since the attacks, which Washington blames on Saudi-born millionaire Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network.

The United States has begun a military buildup to prepare for possible retaliation for the attacks and Bush on Saturday consulted with his aides from the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.

Gallup said the poll, which it conducted for CNN and USA Today, showed the highest presidential approval rating in the six decades it has been posing the question to Americans.

President Harry Truman scored an approval rating of 87 percent after the Germans surrendered in WWII. Gallup began measuring presidential approval in 1938 during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt.

Franklin D. Roosevelt scored an 84 percent approval rating in January 1942, one month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The latest poll showed that 82 percent of Americans favored direct U.S. military action in Afghanistan, while 13 percent disapproved and 5 percent had no opinion.

Ninety percent of those surveyed were convinced it would be a long war, and 95 percent said it would be difficult to win, said the pollsters.

The poll also showed confidence in the U.S. economy, despite a slump that was clearly exacerbated by the attacks.

Sixty percent of those polled were ``extremely'' or ``very'' confident the U.S. economy would be prosperous in the long term, while 31 percent were moderately convinced. Only 8 percent of those polled did not expect a long-term recovery.

The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

CNN(Communist News Network) USA Today Poll: Bush Has Highest Approval Rating Of ANY President EVER! LOL!!!!

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), September 24, 2001

Answers

So why the "LOL"? The poll is an expression of American solidarity and outrage at this moment. This attack would have happened if Gore was President, he would have reponded similarly and his polls would also have been high.

Bush-the-elder had very high polls too right after the Gulf War and he couldn't even win re-election.

This is not a time for partisanship.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 24, 2001.


This is not a time for partisanship.

Oh...ok.

Now if you can just convince the "Bush-wackers" that have been taking shots at him on here recently.

You really need to get out more Lars. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), September 24, 2001.


I whack the Bush-whackers regularly. But that is not what you were doing.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 24, 2001.

My fucking dog could get a 90% rating. This poll is worthless as all decent Americans would not be caught dead saying they didn't support the President at this point in time. Repugs will stop at nothing to prove their point. Dumbya is still a wimp like his dad with no leadership skill at all. Stupid fucking repugs.

-- Tony Baloney (Fuck the@repugs.com), September 24, 2001.

What gets me is, Dubya hadn't even been on the job 9 months and he AND his #2 man take a month long vacation. And now he's the Zogby equivalent of God.

Go figure.

-- (@ .), September 24, 2001.



OHHH HAHAHA TOO FUNNY.. they love bush and you hate him. YOU LOST he won and the repubs won bigtime. What a fucking loser bashing the pres during a time of national emergency.

What a dick you are.

-- HAHAHAH (this@that.com), September 24, 2001.


Tony's right on this one.

Enjoy the momemt Mr. B.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), September 25, 2001.


Author and Democrat partisan Gerald Posner says "I was wrong about Bush"

-- (Roland@hatemail.com), September 25, 2001.

Thanks Carlos. It is not that I want to be right on this issue. It is the truth. It appears that dumbya is smart enough to seize on this national tragedy as an opportunity to redefine his administration (well at least his handlers are). Bottom line is I guess its a good thing that a Bush was in office when something this tragic happened. Thank God its only four years. Lets hope we make it.

-- Tony Baloney (Fuck the@repugs.com), September 25, 2001.

Just imagining how AlGore and Tipper would be handling the situtation (????)

Ha ha ha ha, what a laughable thought that was!!

-- (moreinterpretation@ugly.com), September 25, 2001.



Would never have happened if Al were President, understand?

-- (lol@idiots.unk), September 25, 2001.

Mohamed Atta, one of the terrorist pilots, has been in place in this country living quietly for several years. This act has been planned for a long time. Do you think they give a shit who won the election?

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 25, 2001.

Election? hahaha keep it up you are killing me!

-- (idiots@re.rampant), September 25, 2001.

Mohamed Atta, one of the terrorist pilots, has been in place in this country living quietly for several years. This act has been planned for a long time.

Seems to me, Lars, that the FBI hasn't established the identity of ANY of the terrorists. They THOUGHT they had them by checking the IDs they used, but then that man came out and said, "Hey...they're talking about MY son. He's still alive, but his passport was stolen." Since then, it seems that most or all of the ID's used were false. I'm afraid it's back to jump-street on this one.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), September 25, 2001.


I think that was Atta's father who said that his son wasn't involved. I don't remember him saying he's still alive, though. I mean, if Atta was still alive, why wouldn't he just come forward himself and say so?

Maybe his dad just doesn't want to face the ugly truth.

-- (what@i.think), September 25, 2001.



This is not a time for partisanship.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 24, 2001.

What a moron! DUH! Has the smell of coffee hit your nose yet stupid?

-- (duh@duh.com), September 25, 2001.


Tony, Tony, Tony. I was talkin about your dog.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), September 26, 2001.

What a moron! DUH! Has the smell of coffee hit your nose yet stupid?

A clever riposte my good fellow. Be sure to use it at your AOL chat room.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 26, 2001.


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