AFP: Bush "watching public support haemorrhage for his handling of Iraq"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

No story, just this AFP photo with the caption.



"US President George W. Bush speaks in Cincinnati, Ohio while campaigning for a second term of office. Bush is watching public support haemmorrhage for his handling of Iraq, and the bleeding seems especially acute in Ohio, the state that sent him back to the White House(AFP/File/Stephen Jaffe)"

[madaboutharry]

1. I don't believe he was sent back to

the White House by voters in Ohio.

[uppityperson]

4. Many of us don't.

[aquart]

7. Nor do I.

[eleny]

8. This can't be said enough

[Faygo Kid]

2. Built on lies; no wonder.

I remember yelling at the TV, and reading the WP cheerleaders (F'em) and the NYT (Hi, Judith) each day in 2002, and saying, how transparent! Anybody remember the mantra in 2002? Get Saddam. Tax cuts for the rich. No mention of Osama, or virtually anything else. Those were the two messages, and Rove and Cheney used their puppet to hammer them. So, now we are right. Big surprise. Will the Dems get a backbone, and finally take on the war??? Kerry blew the air out of all of us when he said if he knew then what he knows now, he still would have voted for the war. Thanks for listening. I am Pissed, and almost 54, and what the HELL is going on here?

[tocqueville]

3. Here is the story

Red flags were raised for Bush on Tuesday, when Democrat Paul Hackett, an Iraq veteran critical of his war leadership, narrowly lost a special election for the US House of Representatives in a hard core Republican district.

Republicans explained they had a weak candidate hampered by a scandal swirling around Republican Governor Bob Taft.

But Democrats saw an omen for the 2006 mid-term elections, amid signs that disquiet over Iraq may be reaching critical mass.

"I have seen this sort of boiling up over the last year," said Sean Kay, professor of political science, at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, 30 miles (50 kilometres) north of the central Ohio city of Columbus.

Ohio is a political analyst's dream, as its mix of grimy multi-ethnic post-industrial Democratic-leaning cities and rural, conservative, Republican towns approximate the national political scene.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050807/ts_alt_afp/usiraqbushohio

[AndyTiedye]

5. It Was PHANTOM VOTERS in Ohio That ReSelected **

[Erika]

6. The Ohioans now feel the result of W's policies.

How sad. Kerry sought to seek out help and open channels of communication.

[wli]

9. doubtless he's setting up fresh rounds of Diebold kickbacks

And a few assassinations and a MIHOP as pretext for martial law, too.