Ok, I've only been out of the US for a month now, reading the msm today from Italy - but I am confused by today's US msm on the President's popularity. Is it really rising again? What does a deeper reading of the numbers tell us?
Besides the NYC transit, I see and hear alot of US msm this morning about the 'bump' in W's popularity. And these are not Fox-style mainstreamers but even some of the lefties.
Guru's, I'm sure this is a blip? Or is it a real acknowledgement of Bush 'facing the issues?'
In his column for the BBC, John Simpson says:
"Looking back over a long succession of wars of occupation fought by First World countries in Third World ones, from Iraq to, say, Algeria, I can't think of one where a government which chose to get heavily involved kept its initial popularity.
The only successful wars which the First World has fought in the Third World have been short and decisive, like the Falklands campaign and the first Gulf War. Once public opinion turns decisively against a war, it never seems to turn back."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...