No President has had a higher approval rating that Bush on the days after September 11th. This was while he was still in hiding and had not even gotten to New York City. Since then, as everyone with a political pulse knows, he has blamed September 11th for every economic, political and social ill that is laid at his doorstep, and blamed Clinton for it. Deceptive speeches, reports and bias have been used to accomplish this.
It is a life long pattern of George Bush: to burn the last straw for having broken the camels back. And whether the public buys it is a key test of where the public mood is. If Bush spikes up, then it means Americans want one last lurch to the right. If not, it is the end of the road for the Age of Nixon.
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