Bush's Poll Numbers: I wouldn't be all too upset... [View All]

I don't agree that Bush's poll numbers are "surging" as a few headlines have claimed; nor are they truly rising. A tick or two up within the margin of error seems to be the general rule for now.

But I suppose, because they dropped precipitously this year, that we are disappointed that they have hit a soft landing.

We shouldn't be. I believe that they'll drop again, although with two caveats. Frankly they're still historically low and I don't see him reaching 50% numbers (as a general rule) any day soon.

Here's my first thought: We will have to wait until after 2006, when he gets lazy and feels he doesn't need to impress voters for votes. Between then and now, they will work overtime to lipstick the pig and try to make Iraq and Katrina look something other than the humanitarian slaughters they were.

Here's my second thought: The Administration needs to achieve a new low. After Katrina, I frankly think (and still do) that I witnessed a type of negligent genocide of poor Black Americans in New Orleans. I think Bush faces a date in the Hague. He should. His criminally flippant attitude toward human life is abhorrent and deserving of criminal prosecution. We live in the darkest of modern days in America, but in order for his poll numbers to get any lower, he needs to best what he did in Katrina. It will be painful to witness, but Bush is a malignant narcissist and if we think we've seen the worst, think again.

Just my two cents. :)

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