36 and No Bottom in Sight

If Fox News' latest poll puts Bush's approval rating at 36%, I wonder what it really is. Remember when it dipped below 50 and we were rubbing our eyes in disbelief? If I had fallen into a coma eight months ago and woken today....

Wow, nearly TWO-THIRDS of Americans now DISAPPROVE of George Bush. I wish they would ask, in these polls, how many of us truly hate him.

Often the public may disapprove of a leader's job when that leader makes unpopular and difficult-to-understand decisions that later turn out to be deft. During the past five years I cannot think of even one deft decision by Mr. Bush-war. Every single thing he has touched has been transformed into death, destruction, misery of suffering for everyone except for those fortunate wealthy Republicans. The only positive thing he ever accomplished was making people of below-average intelligence think that they can one day also become President.

U.S. History textbooks will have to devote entire chapters to his horrific Administration. The Bush II Presidential Library will have to be located on an offshore haven and will only contain children's fairy tales. The name "Bush" will forever be used only in negative context. Bush has effectively put the finishing touches on the conversion of a respectable (albeit conservative) political party, without whose existence would not have driven the Democrats to force so many social advancements during the past four decades, into a group of money-craving, values-starved, compassionless subhumans. I find it so hard to understand how an educated, intelligent middle class American can associate him/herself with such a decadent political congregation.

Bush and his merry band of amoral misfits have unintentionally changed the appearance of the current dead-in-the-water jellyfish Democratic Party into an attractive alternative for political change. I know that Dick Cheney is the mastermind behind Bush, but in any organization the leader, by default, must accept the responsibility of the consequences.

Bush will forever be reviled by Muslims and Arabs (and now Blacks, for that matter). For the rest of our lives the remainder of the world will always doubt our intentions as a nation, no matter how honorable. Today we American citizens are morally screwed. Tomorrow our children will be financially screwed. We have met the enemy and they are not us, but they sure as hell look like us and speak our language.