Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Better late than never…
What sort of people make up the 28% that still think Bush is doing a swell job? Take a gander at Jeffrey Scott Shapiro at the Murdoch Street Journal:
The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace
What must our enemies be thinking?Earlier this year, 12,000 people in San Francisco signed a petition in support of a proposition on a local ballot to rename an Oceanside sewage plant after George W. Bush. The proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president.
According to recent Gallup polls, the president’s average approval rating is below 30% — down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from the left while facing abandonment from the right.
This is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans. During his 2004 victory speech, the president reached out to voters who supported his opponent, John Kerry, and said, “Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust.”
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It seems that no matter what Mr. Bush does, he is blamed for everything. He remains despised by the left while continuously disappointing the right.
Yet it should seem obvious that many of our country’s current problems either existed long before Mr. Bush ever came to office, or are beyond his control. Perhaps if Americans stopped being so divisive, and congressional leaders came together to work with the president on some of these problems, he would actually have had a fighting chance of solving them.
Shorter Jeffrey Scott Shapiro: “Leave President Bush alooooooooooooonnnnnneeeee!”
Alternate Shorter: “What a piece of work is George W. Bush! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!”
Alternate Shorter2: “How dare the American people be so nakedly hateful toward The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible?! The ingrates! Don’t they know how hard he works for him? And to see such genius met with boredom and hostili-” *Record Needle Scratch*
Wait, we’ve heard this before, haven’t we? A-yup. From no less than John “Spathi*” Hinderaker:
It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.
* Cf.
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