Fewer Say Bush Is Serving Middle Class (WashPost poll)

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Fewer Say Bush Is Serving Middle Class
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By Dana Milbank and Richard Morin, Washington Post Staff Writers


As he approaches the November election, President Bush has shed a good part of the "compassionate conservative" image he cultivated during the 2000 election, a Washington Post poll has found.


Bush came to office three years ago with a message that he was different from traditional Republican conservatives because he was promoting programs for the poor and disadvantaged. But with his presidency dominated by foreign policy issues and such traditional conservative favorites as tax cuts, he has dropped from his speeches the compassionate conservative moniker that was his trademark in 2000.


The Post poll found Americans split over whether Bush has governed in a compassionate way, with 49 percent saying he has and 45 percent saying he has not. That is down sharply from February 2003, when a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found that 64 percent of Americans thought he had governed compassionately.


While a majority of Americans (58 percent) say Bush has governed as expected, the Post poll showed that the rest are about twice as likely to say the president has been less compassionate (25 percent) than to say he has been more compassionate (13 percent). Forty-four percent now believe Bush cares most about serving upper-income people, an increase from 31 percent in September 1999 and 39 percent in July 2000. Forty-one percent believe Bush cares equally about all people, with small numbers saying he favors the poor or the middle class.



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[burrowowl]

1. Yes he has governed

as expected: as a Fascist/Corporatist roilet. Is this what Murikans want or expect?
SHAME! Confomist braindeads wanting a Pappy to tell them what to do and 'protect' them.
It is beyond my ken!

[otohara]

2. Banging My Head Against The Desk

ouch...

[yardwork]

3. I know what you mean.

All this, and half the people polled still think that Chimpy is "compassionate."

But remember, the polls are probably inaccurate.

[BattyDem]

9. The half that believe he cares ...

are probably part of the top 1%. As far as they're concerned, the fact that we are allowed to breath the same air as them is an act of compassion. :eyes:

[MoonRiver]

5. If this is true,

then we're definitely entering the 'Dittohead era' of our country. :crazy:

[booksenkatz]

4. So, someone managed to dumb it down enough

All this time we've been speaking English, trying to get our fellow citizens to understand what is happening around them, when all the time we needed to be saying, "Der der der duh duh der der der er er er er ummmmmm der der duh der." Amazing.

[captain jack]

6. my contribution

polls,polls,polls blah blah blah. I would hope that after the resident is defeated this year or after four more stolen years that we will never trust polls again. Certainly you can look out your working class window and see that the polls are crap. There is no way that more than half of this country supports this guy. Polls sell newspapers and keep "gambling-fanatic-types" watching cnn because one thing more than half of us likes is a fight. My brother is a union worker and I can't seem to make him see that wal-mart is awful. He differs to differ, not because he's informed. He just likes to argue no matter how obvious the facts are. If the truth about polls was told, people could turn off the tv and cancel newpaper subscriptions, or at least move on.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi captain jack!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[captain jack]

10. Hello and Thanks

Until I saw those two smiley faces I was not sure that two faces could be smiling beside each other, and toasting none the less.
Along with your welcoming it puts a smile on my face. Thanks

[w4rma]

8. They do. It's going to be a hard won fight. Don't get cocky. (nt)

[captain jack]

11. thanks for the reply

Hello, Thanks for the reply.
I apologize if I came across as "cocky". I however do not use means such as that or feel the need to, to get a message out. Especially in this type of forum where it would be useless on my part to do so.(e-messages)

The only hard part is believing that it's not hard. It's not a matter of opportunity but a matter of will. Perhaps the problem is in acceptance or assumption or perhaps even contentedness. I however stand by my prior message because it tosses out the opportunity for ignorance or complacency.

[BadGimp]

12. The Stupidity of the Amerikun Sheeple dumbfounds me still..

The stupidity is so profound that it borders on culpability.

And then there is the media having the gual to report Bush was losing his Compasionate Conservative credentials. He never was credible as a compasionate anything let alone a conservative.

I'd scream but no onw would care.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

13. My Fallow Merkins scare the hell out of me. Dark times in zombieville.

This has got to be the most thoroughly indoctrinated population on the planet with a Master Race mentality.

Perhaps because Americans have been raised to believe that they:
1) live in a democracy.
2) compete in free markets.
3) share equal opportunity for all.
4) see their government spreading democracy and protecting the innocent around the world.
5) inherited the status of Best in Show Among Humans in 1776, 1945, 1991 and 2003 by winning the Revolutionary War, WWII, and both Iraq Wars I and II.

These are all lies taught to American children in school and then reinforced every day in movies and on TV for the rest of their lives. There is a well defined historical narrative that describes America as the strongest and most virtuous moral force in the world ever. So surely the President of these United States must embody all that is good about our country.

I call this Superman-Jesus-in-a-Cowboy-Hat Syndrome. Ronald Reagan fit this movie-role-as-national-identity perfectly for many Americans who didn't realize that he was a senile figurehead for a cabal of murderers who successfully portrayed the poor as lazy thieves and secretly armed terrorists against foreign governments in the name of democracy and freedom.

Here is how Americans have been led down the path to a Master Race group-think that accepts as both inevitable and just that domestic policy should be eugenics and foreign policy, imperialism:

Ever since the US lost the Vietnam War, the social atmosphere here has been very similar to post-WWI Germany. The hyper-nationalist German people were told in the summer of 1918 that they were winning World War I. But in the fall, they were suddenly informed that they had lost. They were stunned and angry as the victorious Allies raped them economically and their orderly society imploded into chaos. They looked around to find who among them had betrayed them and robbed them of their much-deserved victory over their inferiors. They demonized, assaulted, and killed Jews, labor unionists, socialists, Gypsys, and homosexuals.

The same scapegoating bitterness prevailed in the US after Nixon was disgraced and the Vietnam War was revealed to be a quagmire of atrocities which had also ruined the economy. The Republicans have cleverly exploited this petulant atmosphere of entitlement denied to bring us to where we are today, mired in a culture war against liberals, feminists, blacks, homosexuals, and dangerous Middle Eastern foreigners, pretty much the same targets as the Nazis.
Ever wonder why 'liberal' became a swear word? Now you know. It is the American power structure’s synonym for ‘Jew.’

In fact, there is a name for this late 20th century fascist movement brought into the early 21st century: Dominionism.
It is an alliance between Christian fundamentalists, Cold Warrior Fascists, and the Military Industrial Oil Complex, just like the rise of the German Nazis who, by remarkable coincidence, were also financed and supplied in their day by many US corporations, including George W. Bush's financier grandfather, Prescott Bush.

It all rather makes sense, doesn't it? Military and financial powers work hand in hand to reinforce and protect each other by keeping people starving and fighting each other over worthless things like flags and uniforms. Meanwhile, the powerful swell up like ticks on the blood of the people they fool into doing the fighting and reward them with not much more than parades, plaques, and brass bands.

Some Americans see through this and have evolved past nationalism and racism but lately it seems that a majority have not. And there is an alliance of media corporateers and fascist politicians who are determined to prevent Americans from finding out how this scam works. If you have figured out anything about life in America, consider sharing it with your fellow Americans so we can all evolve a little faster.

[Moderator]

14. Locking

dupe, old story

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