From Pensito Review:

Poll: Majority Now Question Bush’s Integrity

Posted November 4th, 2005 at 7:05 am by Jon

America’s big hangover: While we would hardly call the present era “morning in America,” it does appear that more Americans are waking up to the nauseating results of a reckless binge that culminated one year and one day ago in the election of George Bush.
Even a 39 percent approval rate is exorbitant for the Worst President Ever - an after-effect of Rove’s successful recasting of a strutting, aristocratic popinjay into a man of the people.

Earlier this week, a CBS Poll found that Bush’s popularity had sunk to 35 percent - and that Vice President Cheney now had an amazing 19 percent approval. (Of course, Cheney doesn’t care about that - he has a consituency of one.)

Now comes the Washington Post/ABC News that shows that President Bush has lost ground on the last vestige of the artifice of character he and Rove created and projected out to the public - the false idea that George W. Bush has “character” and “integrity”:


On almost every key measure of presidential character and performance, the survey found that Bush has never been less popular with the American people. Currently 39 percent approve of the job he is doing as president, while 60 percent disapprove of his performance in office — the highest level of disapproval ever recorded for Bush in Post-ABC polls…

Overall, the survey underscores how several pillars of Bush’s presidency have begun to crumble under the combined weight of events and White House mistakes. Bush’s approval ratings have been in decline for months, but on issues of personal trust, honesty and values, Bush has suffered some of his most notable declines. Moreover, Bush has always retained majority support on his handling of the U.S. campaign against terrorism — until now, when 51 percent have registered disapproval.

Of course, even 39 percent is an incredibly high approval rate for the Worst President Ever. And it speaks to the power of the stagecraft of Rove and others who have successfully portrayed a strutting aristocratic popinjay as a man of the people.

Even so, those of us who were never fooled by the carefully stage-managed and tightly scripted presentation of Bush’s manufactured persona can take little comfort in the fact that majorities of Americans are beginning to rouse themselves.

The 20,000-plus dead and wounded service personnel are lost forever - as are the billions we continue to bleed in Iraq.

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