Saddam's Nuclear Weapons - Busted (page 3)

Perry

The President is speaking right now. I think he will give you a clue or two here in a minute.

Perry

Yes Iron Glan,

He speaks overwhelmingly for the majority of the American people ..... over 72%

IronGland

He speaks overwhelmingly for the majority of the American people

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public". --HL Mencken.

Over 72%

Wow. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll out last wednsday has his approval rating at 54 percent. A Washington Post/ABC poll this week has it at 59 percent.

Edited by - irongland on 29 January 2003 17:8:27

ISP

next wednesday........Powell will reveal all.

ISP

IronGland, C'mon living in the middle of the pacific ocean starting to get to ya? Bush Second-Year Approval Rating One of Best Ever Post-Sept. 11 decline evident in latest quarterly ratings
by Jeffrey M. Jones

GALLUP NEWS SERVICE Updated: Jan. 17, 2003, 2:00 pm EST

PRINCETON, NJ -- Jan. 19 marks the conclusion of President George W. Bush's second year in office. For Bush, the news is a mixture of good and bad. On the plus side, his average job approval rating for his second year in office places as the eighth best of any president since Gallup began regularly tracking this measure around 1945. However, his approval rating continued to decline from its post-Sept. 11 record high as the year progressed and is just slightly better now than it was immediately prior to the terrorist attacks. While all of Bush's approval ratings in specific issue areas show declines, he still gets very positive ratings from the public on a wide range of personal characteristics. Roughly two in five Americans can be categorized as not having made up their minds on Bush, given that they are uncertain about how he is currently performing as president or how he will continue to perform in the future.

Bush Posts Eighth-Best Yearly Average

For his second full year in office, from Jan. 20, 2002 through Jan. 19, 2003, Bush averaged a job approval rating of 71.4%, topping his first-year average of 67.1%.

Across the nearly 60 years Gallup has been tracking presidential approval with the current question wording, Bush's 2002-2003 average ranks eighth on the list of annual averages. It is roughly six points below the top reading, earned by President Harry Truman in his first year in office after succeeding Franklin D. Roosevelt. The only other presidents to exceed Bush on this list are Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson. Bush's rating is just slightly higher than what his father earned in 1991, including and following the Gulf War that earned him widespread, if temporal, public support. Several presidents never had a year with public approval strong enough to put them in the list of top 15 job approval ratings. In Bill Clinton's best year, commencing in January 1998, he received an average approval rating of 63.8%, ranking 17th on the full list of 60 ratings. Ronald Reagan's top annual approval score was just 60.4% in 1985-86, which ranks 24th.

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public". --HL Mencken

And America didn't become great putting much stock into foreigners like yourself hurling insults at our nation.

Iron Gland

Realist

Perry,

no offence intended ... but is it possible that your nationalism is perhaps some sort of replacement for your lost religion?

you seem to support everything thats going on in the US.

Eric

The US govt has consistently withheld evidence/proof that it claimed it had, on grounds of national security.

Saint,

The evidence will be presented as soon as all the "Made in U.S.A." stickers have been scraped off.

Eric

Edited by - Eric on 30 January 2003 9:44:34

Perry

Perry,
no offence intended ... but is it possible that your nationalism is perhaps some sort of replacement for your lost religion?

No Offense taken Realist; I'm glad you asked that question. Everybody who comes out of the WT must try and develop a new world view, since the old one is rejected. There are many competing beliefs and philosophies out there. I took the time to restructure myself and examine what was a from the hip response to the WT abuse and what I really wanted to stand for.

I utterly reject the ultra liberal agendas that are sweeping the old european countries such as your own. It bothers me when foreigners sit there and hypocritically hurl insults and the United States but at the same time jealously want our prosperity. There is a reason for our prosperity and it isn't because we have embraced some theoretical utopia. We know that people are prone to selfishness, sinfulness, falleness whatever you want to call it.

The framers of our constitution embraced this biblical concept and created a system of checks and balances because they didn't trust people to be altruistic on their own. Our society embraced ideals of wealth accumulation and prosperity, hard work and responsibility, freedom of expression etc. We also take seriously threats to our nation and are not under any illusions about our enemies. They desperately want our destruction so that their dictatorial regimes can flourish and spread.

I'm sure you mean well Realist. But your utopian ideas that may suffice in a small relatively irrevelant european country simply don't fly for the majority of americans fighting an international war on terrorism.

you seem to support everything thats going on in the US.

Bingo

Realist

Perry,

thanks for your sensible response. i am glad you were not offended.

don't get me wrong...there are many things i like about the US...the positive attidude of people (no end of the world blah blah as you hear it in europe so often) the felxibility (people move around, try to learn new things etc.) and many other things.

what i don't like is the "survival of the fittest" attidude. its absolutely ok if people with good ideas etc. get rich....but on the other hand the state has to take care of the poor and weak. europe has overdone it in some instances but in general found a pretty good balance. less crime, better schools, better health care, better retirement conditions, better insurance, better infrastructure etc. are things that have great value in my opinion.

the stagnating economy in europe is due to the breakdown of the communist block. especially germany suffered a great deal from the reunion with the east germany. it will take another 10 to 20 years until they come back to where they were.

PS: thank god i am in an unimportant country! :-))

Edited by - realist on 30 January 2003 10:40:57

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