AP: Bush ratings boosted...

Bush ratings boosted by rising support from men, whites, Catholics as he shifts into campaign mode

By Will Lester
ASSOCIATED PRESS

December 9, 2005

WASHINGTON – President Bush's improved standing with whites, men, Catholics and other core supporters has been a key factor in pushing his job approval rating up to 42 percent. That's the highest level since summer.

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Bush improved his job approval rating from 37 percent in November to 42 percent now, though his standing with the public remains relatively low. Fifty-seven percent still disapprove, down from 61.

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Now, gas prices have eased, and Bush has been barnstorming the country to tout a stronger economy and claim progress in Iraq. A recent report noted that the nation added 215,000 jobs in November, and Bush declared on Monday that "the best days are yet to come for the American economy."

On Iraq, he's halfway through a series of four speeches outlining – in the words of a huge banner behind him at one event – the administration's "Plan for Victory" in Iraq. He has been claiming new strength for both Iraq's troops and economy, while acknowledging difficulties caused by continuing violence.

The most important goal of the Iraq speeches is to shore up intensity of support with his Republican base, said Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California-San Diego. "If he restores the strong support of Republicans, he can ride out the rest of the term and keep Republican politicians on his side as well," Jacobson said.

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These corporate media types desperately want things to be the way they were in 2001-02, when they could drone on and on about the "strong leader" Bush and the "popular wartime president" Bush.

and....gas prices are rising. We'll see what these people have to say after they get their heating bills.

Wowie zowie, talk about yer mandates, spend that political capital, Junior! :rofl:

Read Wealth and Democracy by Kevin Phillips. He is accelerating our decline by leaps and bounds.

Question: what was he planning for before? Enrichment of cronies? Trying to build a moat of inequality so great that no economic diaster no matter how great could affect the top one half of one percenters?

AMT=f..k the middle class. No social mobility allowed. Top social priority cheap labor markets. When you can't compete economically or innovate to adapt to change just invade other countries and steal their resources.

The super rich created in the 1700's and 1800's are still super rich (families) and accumulated that wealth via unethical or illegal activities. Todays rich will be the rich families of the future as the poor amass. Cutting taxes, corporateering and privatizing are ugly machines of wealth accumulation in the short that distorts our country in the long.

Bill Gates acquired his Billions by unethical means or
illegaly? How about the Walton family, very close to the
top richest in country or Paul Allen, another recent
Billionaire? I hope you will say yes so we can expose them
and bleed them into poverty.

Bill Gates idea was not his...ask Steve Jobs. And MicroSoft is not a Company that produces the best product: it had a monoploy and if you know anything about MicroSoft vs NetScape and other strong arming you wouldn't need to ask. Microsoft is a pussy cat compared to really bad Corps though.

You don't get big by only being better, or monopoly either, you have to have a business sense. That means by being a &^%($.

Walmart?!

And if you had read "Wealth and Democracy" you'd know that I was referring to specific examples of piracy and such. Defending big business and the super rich... gee they can't defend themselves? George Bush does a good job of that, too.

sense than the competition. And I agree with you about
Microsoft. I have used their products for many years
and found them to be slower, bug prone and cumbersome
to use than the competition. But they bundle them with
the Operating System (Windows) and then it is practically
free and it soon becomes the defacto standard software.

I just saw a study the other day which concluded that
Wal-Mart has saved the consumers half a Trillion dollars
over the years and have reduced the inflation rate in US
by a significant factor (I forgot the exact percentage).

I never meant to say all businesses. "Wealth and Democracy" wades through silver piracy back in the early days of American and the wealth of those families, oil barons, steel barons and the like are still influencing our lives today.

If you wanted to talk look at one of the worst recent examples ENRON is illustrative and there are more. Oil, war profiteers and the like buying and influencing our government are both unethical and worse.

(An aside: Personally I worked in Insurance for six years and still can not believe the Medicare supplements I sold. They were the biggest rip offs ever and I made a good living at it. I also owned a Real Estate Brokerage and Development firm -- talk about taking the money and running an ignoring what effects it on on farmland, green space and communities.)

http://www.namebase.org/richnote.html

and that is by restricting the greed the top management is
allowed to run amok with. CEO's are making way too much money
compared to the lowest paid employees in the same outfit.
I think the ratio is something like 500.

In Europe and Japan the ratio of highest compensation to lowest
compensation is less than 50. The US CEO's have all this temptation
to cook up crooked deals to jack up their paychecks.

If congress passed a simple law that no one can earn more than 50
times the lowest paid employee in the same outfit, it will not only
rein in the crooked executives, but also improve pay levels of those
on lower rungs.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Incredible.