a question....

[christinafairy]

this is for the americans: what is Bush's approval rating!?!?!

I talked to a liberal friend of mine saying that his approval rating is rising, then I talked to a conversative friend (yes, I have one *L*) saying that "nobody likes him"....I hope to god it's the latter, but now I'm confused.

so, if anybody could set me straight on this, that'd be appreciated. I cannot stand Bush, so I'm scared about him getting re-elected if he is "popular". dear god, no. I don't want him to have power for yet another 4 years....

I talked to Becky yesterday and I requested a few select items from the States: Canvas' from Michaels' (they're cheaper. One canvas from Papershare is £11! fuck that..), Kraft Mac'n'Cheese, Oreos, NyQuil and Chocolate Chip Cookies from Lunds!

By the way, I bought Manic Street Preachers: Lipstick Traces this morning at the HMV on Oxford St. So v. fab. So far my fav's are "Judge Yr'self", "Been a Son" (Nirvana cover), and this pretty softer version of "Spectators of Suicide".

Comments

[spikenheimer.livejournal.com]

here (http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm)

[christinafairy.livejournal.com]

:(

who the fuck are these people they're polling? propaganda!!!

Evil

[bohemianrapsody.livejournal.com]

I personally don't know anyone who approves of Bush. I'd like to meet each and every one of them though and have a talk. Ugh.

Re: Evil

[christinafairy.livejournal.com]

I know my dad supports Bush and he's not one of those people who you can debate with, so it's useless for me to even try to talk with him about those sorts of things.

It just *shocks* me how Bush can always have a high approval rating.....probably buying his popularity stats like he did the election....;)

Re: Evil

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

It's pretty much war vs. economy. And it might not even be approval in the form of "would you vote for him" so much as "out of all these candidates which one do you recognize and would fuck up the country the least between 1994-1998" and then there's always "Is he doing a good job" which sounds like a bad employee meeting. Approval in this case could mean people that didn't positively answer the question about throwing him out by his ear.

[lolita-yaya.livejournal.com]

bush = monkey.
but less useful and less cute.

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[christinafairy.livejournal.com]

hehe....I agree xx

[aithneroad.livejournal.com]

I just recently found out I have a friend who actually voted for the cock sucker. i mean... heh guy. whatever. anyway, yeah. At least, he regrets it BIG time now, and did ever since he started doing stuff. I wanted to smack my friend when i heard though. *grumble grumble*

[christinafairy.livejournal.com]

I grew up Republican and I didn't really think about it until a friend of mine sat me down and just explained all her beliefs to me (she's green party) and she completely enlightened me on everything. That was a long time ago, I still thank her for that. ;)

I'm not into any party btw, but yeah, I know people who voted for Bush (my dad) and he still doesn't regret it as far as I know. :/

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[aithneroad.livejournal.com]

that's weird to me, cause both my parents are pretty liberal. My mom is hard core green, and my dad doesn't share his political views with people but i know he's pretty liberal also. Congrats for being open minded! I know it's hard for alot of people I know to even listen to people with diferent views.
I think i'd be weird to have parents who had such different beliefs as me.

[christinafairy.livejournal.com]

well I cope with parents (or parent) with different views. He grew up in a different era and has had a completely different life than me, that's all.

I find it odd that so little people are open minded in this world, why deny yourself other opinions!?!?!?! don't get it ;)

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[aithneroad.livejournal.com]

I totaly agree! My math teacher in h.s. had a saying which i can't remember word for word, but was something like, 'if you can't get someone to hear your point of view within the first 5 minnutes of a conversation, they will never hear your opinion on the issue' or something like that. of course in order for this to be true, the person trying to explain their point of view needs to be polite and open minded as well.

[christinafairy.livejournal.com]

I think what your h.s. teacher said is right. and that's also sad because there's very few people you can talk to about serious topics and they don't change their mind in the first 5 minutes. :/ and you're right about the other person being open minded and polite.
When my friend explained her political beliefs to me and made me change my views she was really polite and listened to everything I had to say, and I think that played a major role in accepting her beliefs as well.

[surferboi.livejournal.com]

I hope the daft git doesn't get relected, but a lot of people still like him, sigh...mostly in the south from what I've read, and the republican areas...

[christinafairy.livejournal.com]

if he gets re-elected I'll seriously cry.

I'm not a country music fan but I heard about that Dixie Chicks thing and people in certain areas were burning their albums just because they said something against Bush??? See, that stuff fucking scares me because it's not a democracy anymore, that's more like facism. in my opinion.

checked our your user info, I was really shocked to see an American guy with such good taste until I read your bio. haha...still pretty cool. we have a lot in common! I'm an American that's moved to the UK so it's opposite of you :)

[surferboi.livejournal.com]

I'll say we have a lot in common! So do you call yourself a work in progress as well, eh? ;) I do all the time. :)

[christinafairy.livejournal.com]

you only can be a work in progress, because if you achieve everything you want to already.......well, then your life is complete with no worries...and who wants that? ;)
I'll add you back. xx