Bush now has the honor of being the least popular President who is
not in the process of being thrown out of office ... yet. Yes, only Nixon can brag that he was less popular than George Bush. Shortly after resigning in disgrace Nixon was at 27%. Come on George! You can do it! You can beat Truicky Dick!
Snark aside ... Bush's handlers have a brilliant plan to boost support and morale. Bush begins a five day 'round the country trip dodging press conferences ... Speaking in front of screened audiences and military units ... trying to sell the war in Iraq as being part of the war on terror ... and linking Iraq to 9-11 which ... hey wait a minute, isn't this what tanked him in the first place?
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Yes, in a sad attempt to salvage sagging support even among deluded evangelical fundies all packed and waiting for the Rapture, and hard-core Republicans who can't admit Iraq was a colossal clusterfuck because somehow, someway, their personal identity is so fragile that kids getting their heads and legs blown off is less important than 'fessing up to being a human that got tricked by the WH gang. Oddly, traumatic amputations, headless corpses, and paralysis for American soldiers are preferable to having to admit they might have, just possibly, been wrong.
Way to support the troops guys! Put an extra yellow ribbon on that SUV!
But how could this President possibly be less popular than Jimmy Carter at his lowest? How could a sitting President in good legal standing, not being impeached, carry numbers that would scare LBJ? Let's meet four men in uniform to see if we can get their thoughts on it.
This is a real soldier crying because he just found out one buddy died in a firefight just completed, and the other is brain damaged and blinded for life
These are real warriors, one hit in the back in the middle of a firefight. The fight is ongoing as the pic was snapped. These are real soldiers fighting a real enemy risking their lives, for real. These are guys trying to keep themselves and their buddies alive for just one more hour, one more day, one more week.
This is what happens to a real soldier when a real IED goes off under his real unarmored truck and his real arms and hands are outside the blast perimeter of the shitty steel plate he welded under his real seat in desperation.
This is a grown man playing soldier standing between real soldiers. This is a fake. An actor shamelessly stealing the glory of real soldiers and marines at no risk to his own health and with no skin in the game. This is a draft-dodging, drug-abusing, dry-drunk coward who stayed out of Vietnam because of daddies connections and couldn't even complete the cush TANG slot he was given instead. This is a spoiled shithead taking a free ride on the maimed backs of real soldiers, real marines, and real taxpayers, to create an illusion that he's a brave stud.
Here's a newsflash for the MSM: Maybe, just maybe, all this sudden lack of popularity is related in some, oh I dunno, 'vague' manner to all this pointless, useless, unnecessary bloody, horrific, carnage and stage acting? Maybe just ...maybe that's why Bush is now tanking ... just a thought.