Uh-oh, George! Your approval's dropping AGAIN.

[QueenAdrock]

The poll showed 60 percent characterized Bush's handling of the hurricane as "fair'' to "poor,'' while 36 percent graded his performance "good'' to "excellent.'' More than half of those polled -- 53 percent -- said the country is headed in the wrong direction.

"The president has managed to do early in his second term what his father did in just one term: go from record-high approval numbers in the aftermath of 9/11 to his present numbers,'' John Zogby, chief executive of polling company Zogby International, said in a statement.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a_85Pjjx7jAQ&refer=top_world_news

[DroppinScience]

You can't prove squat! Show me his approval ratings are low!

Thanx for playing, liberal inchwhipper!!

[ToucanSpam]

LOL

[infidel]

You guys are bashing him for the wrong reason, his goal is to be the least favored president in history. It's his way of saying fuck you America while at the same time setting the first record in his life.
Give it couple more years till his approval rating drops below 10%

[Echewta]

Please, 10 years from now they will be having tributes to the guy like they did Reagan.

[ToucanSpam]

Please, 10 years from now they will be having tributes to the guy like they did Reagan.
hahahahaahha so true.


Actually, wait till he dies.

[QueenAdrock]

You guys are bashing him for the wrong reason, his goal is to be the least favored president in history.

Kinda like an award that says "Congratulations, you're #1 at being the worst"? Well, I guess it's better than going down in history as a nobody. I mean, seriously, who the hell remembers what Taft did in office?

[Audio.]

Kinda like an award that says "Congratulations, you're #1 at being the worst"? Well, I guess it's better than going down in history as a nobody. I mean, seriously, who the hell remembers what Taft did in office?
me. was it a scandal or what? why was bush voted again anyway?

[QueenAdrock]

I think the answer to many of today's modern questions is somewhere along the lines of "because people are stupid."

[ToucanSpam]

heehee

[Bob]

Kinda like an award that says "Congratulations, you're #1 at being the worst"? Well, I guess it's better than going down in history as a nobody. I mean, seriously, who the hell remembers what Taft did in office?

he was the fattest president in history. HA!

oh, and he was a supreme court justice or something

(and i DID know this before i read the daily show book)

[DroppinScience]

I mean, seriously, who the hell remembers what Taft did in office?

Well, whatever he did in office, it pissed off Teddy Roosevelt, so he ran for President again as a 3rd party candidate against him. Roosevelt split the vote so Woodrow Wilson got elected.

OHH SNAP! :D

[QueenAdrock]

YOU NERDS GET OUTTA MY THREAD! :mad:

[QueenAdrock]

Bush losing his base (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html)

[cosmo105]

he was the fattest president in history. HA!

oh, and he was a supreme court justice or something

(and i DID know this before i read the daily show book)
jesus christ, that was scary. i was thinking the same thing. only i didn't know it before America The Book :o

[yeahwho]

I think the answer to many of today's modern questions is somewhere along the lines of "because people are stupid."

HA! Thats good! What made you come up with a blanket statement like that? :confused:

[Documad]

Taft never wanted to be president. He always wanted to be a Supreme Court justice.

Everyone always says "teapot dome scandal" when you say Taft, but then ask them what the teapot dome scandal is and they never know. :p


Re Bush: what in the hell did people think they were getting when they failed to vote him out of office?

[QueenAdrock]

Wasn't teapot dome with Harding?

[Documad]

^^

Yeah, I'm a total idiot with US history after Arthur and before FDR. :o I swear I'm going to come back to it after I study up for the European trips I'm planning. :)

I thought Roosevelt and Taft helped set up the Teapot Dome conservation area or whatever it's called, but even if Taft did, it has nothing to do with the scandal that happened later.

So fattest president, it is. :p

[DroppinScience]

So fattest president, it is. :p

Not only was he the fattest President, but he got stuck in the White House bathtub. Because of him, they had to install a much bigger bathtub.

:D

[Bob]

Not only was he the fattest President, but he got stuck in the White House bathtub. Because of him, they had to install a much bigger bathtub.

:D

is that true? hilarious.

which one was the one who died from eating cold cherries on a hot day, or something? i think his stomach exploded. was it taylor? or william henry harrison?

[DroppinScience]

is that true? hilarious.

which one was the one who died from eating cold cherries on a hot day, or something? i think his stomach exploded. was it taylor? or william henry harrison?

I'm not sure. Is he the guy who died only one month into office? Garfield? Eh, all the really old-school Presidents I find hard to keep track of. ;)

[Documad]

Oooh, this I know. Taylor (the Mexican War hero) wasn't a bad president, but he ate cherries with cream and died of cholera. Fairly recently, he was exhumed to see if he had been poisoned, but it appeared that he wasn't. We got VP Millard Fillmore next.

William Henry Harrison ('Tippecanoe") was a War of 1812 hero. He was old when he was elected and the story is that he didn't wear a coat to his inauguration to show how young and vigorous he was, but that he got a cold and died in a month. (Which I never understood because I didn't think you got a cold from being cold?) He was succeeded by VP Tyler, which I can only remember because the slogan was "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."

BTW, I think we've now covered all four Whig presidents. :)

My favorite president to die in office is Garfield who seemed like an honorable guy (for his time). He was shot soon after he became president by a nut who wanted his corrupt VP Arthur to be president. Garfield's wound probably wouldn't have been fatal if the doctors had just left the bullet in. What he went through with doctors trying to help him was just unbelievable, including I think Alexander Graham Bell bringing a metal detector to find the bullet but actually finding the bedspring under his body and the doctors operating in the wrong place yet again. Dark Horse is a pretty good book about his election.

[QueenAdrock]

(y) I learned about my U.S. Presidents from the Simpson's "Mediocre Presidents" song:

We are the mediocre presidents.
You won't find our faces on dollars or on cents!
There's Taylor, there's Tyler,
There's Fillmore and there's Hayes.
There's William Henry Harrison,
Harrison: I died in thirty days!
All: We... are... the...
Adequate, forgettable,
Occasionally regrettable
Caretaker presidents of the U-S-A!

[Documad]

^^ :D I missed that one!

I know absolutely nothing about Hayes. :(