Saturday, January 17, 2009
Everybody Hates George
Bush's Final Approval Rating: 22 Percent—Lowest Final Approval Rating Ever0 comments
Georgie Porgie...[George W.] Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush's final approval rating at 22 percent.
Seventy-three percent say they disapprove of the way Mr. Bush has handled his job as president over the last eight years.
Mr. Bush's final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more than 70 years ago.
23% thumbs up; 73% thumbs down. My oh my.
It's been funny over the years, listening to apologists from the Right, who claimed that Dems or lefties "simply hated" Bush. They were "haters." Bush was good, and golden, and pure.
Right. Ummm, no, that makes them feel better, of course, but that's not true.
Here at Gotham Notes, we pride ourselves on being basically Blue On Blue, about as far to the Left as most folks go. But even with that, we still initially gave Shrub the benefit of the doubt that he wouldn't be as bad as his father or other greedy, corporate Republicans, etc. He hadn't been on the national scene at all, so he had no commonly known track record by which to wish him ill. Seemed like a decent enough man. Basically, we believed the bullshit. Warily, but we believed it.
Then we saw the folks he was surrounding himself with during the 2000 primary season, and became frightened. Sure enough, upon being handed the Oval Office he jumped into the arms of the Neo-Cons like they were a mosh pit at a concert. Then, off he and they went to wage a campaign of terror, murder, corruption, malfeasance, greed, illegality and destruction of the Constitution and the American Way of Life, unseen in the annals of U.S. History.
To which he receives a rating number of 23% as a parting gift. Which, of course, is waaaaaay better than the gallows, where he may still eventually wind up.
So, to the apologists we say,
"We never did hate George Bush because we 'just hated George Bush.' No, George Bush taught us to hate George Bush through every action he took and those he did not take while president. This was never a reflex action.
George W. Bush made us hate George W. Bush."
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