Insomnia ([info]insomnia) wrote,
@ 2005-08-23 05:31:00
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Bush meltdown continues.
In the latest poll to be released, Bush has fallen to a 36% approval rating.



And what's this? A populist anti-war protest in Utah, of all places? 2000 strong? Led by the mayor of Salt Lake City?! With the president speaking only a few blocks away?

Get the f*ck outta here! Somebody pinch me, 'cause I'm obviously dreaming... in full-motion color video, apparently.

The antiwar movement has just gone mainstream. The most revolutionary thing an American can do is to attend an anti-war rally wearing their business clothes or their Sunday best. Oh, and bring the kids, too.

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[info]optimsprm
2005-08-23 01:47 pm UTC (link)
Bush has fallen to a 36% approval rating

excuse me, it's time for the happy dance

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[info]marrael
2005-08-23 02:32 pm UTC (link)
LOL. Great icon too.

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happy dance...
[info]taosbat
2005-08-23 04:28 pm UTC (link)
today. Then get ready to get to work. We have a helluva' mess to clean up.

W:

"'This talk about Sunnis rising up, I mean the Sunnis have got to make a choice. Do they want to live in a society that's free, or do they want to live in violence?' Bush told reporters.

Speaking at a resort in Idaho, he said that the drafting of the constitution was an 'amazing event.'

Bush added, 'Anyway I'm optimistic about what's taking place.'"

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(Anonymous)
2005-08-23 03:00 pm UTC (link)
Hey, Americans are waking up from their dreaded sleep! The whole world was astonished Americans has re-elected a war criminal who could have been hanged for crimes he and his gangs committed throughout the world! Alas! Americans are waking up after it is too late and not understand the consequences we might suffer because of the action of this moron in the Whitehouse. .

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[info]springheel_jack
2005-08-23 05:30 pm UTC (link)
It's great. I just wish they hadn't voted for him if they were going to up and hate him anyway. I mean, what did people expect?

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[info]tongodeon
2005-08-23 06:04 pm UTC (link)
Salt Lake City is actually quite liberal. It's the rest of the state that's conservative. Like Austin, TX.

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[info]deadrelatives
2005-08-23 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Whoa.

I have to say, though, that there is a pretty strong liberal community in SLC, especially the GLBT contingent.

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[info]transgress
2005-08-24 12:55 am UTC (link)
s/GLBT/LBGTQ/

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[info]lafinjack
2005-08-24 03:14 am UTC (link)
GLBTTTIQQA :P

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speaking of which....
[info]moebius_rex
2005-08-24 09:59 pm UTC (link)
Rocky Set to Extend Benefits to Liberal Partners

Ok, this is really weirding me out. All my notions of rightwing conservative SLC--mostly conceived throughout my visits there as a child & teenager in the 80's--are being shattered. Of course, it could all come to naught--but the fact that it's even being considered seriously over there is some sort of amazing. In my opinion, it's a signal that sanity may be returning to the nation--but I'm sure most of the Mormon side of my family will see it as a call to arms.

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Re: speaking of which....
[info]moebius_rex
2005-08-24 10:00 pm UTC (link)
whoops, that headline oughtta read "to partners." Some sort of Freudian slip there.... :D

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[info]moebius_rex
2005-08-23 10:23 pm UTC (link)
Salt Lake City is fairly liberal--but by Utah standards, not those of the rest of the country. It's home to Utah State University, which is fairly mainstream, and exceedingly liberal by BYU standards (the neighborhood directly adjacent to the university sort of looks like a cleaner, sweeter version of Berkeley, actually). And the city in general has softened up over the past few decades as more & more non-Momons have moved there to enjoy its quality of life and general prosperity.

All that said, I was born there, half my extended family lives in the greater SLC metropolitan area, and it blows me away that they had such a large demonstration there yesterday. I agree--this is pretty convincing evidence that the peace movement is going mainstream. I was also encouraged by the coverage they got in the Salt Lake Tribune--pretty even-handed, I think. Even the coverage at the Deseret Morning News--SLC's other, significantly more conservative paper--wasn't quite as nasty as I would've expected.

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[info]lafinjack
2005-08-23 11:02 pm UTC (link)
Not that I don't agree, but what have presidents' ratings been like historically for their second terms?

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[info]insomnia
2005-08-24 03:00 am UTC (link)
It depends. Clinton, when facing impeachment, had an approval rating of 73%.

That's a lot of Republicans who liked him, surprisingly.

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[info]insomnia
2005-08-24 03:06 am UTC (link)
Although ratings do tend to go down for second term presidents, Bush's ratings are very low for this point in a president's second term. Infact, this article from April said that his approval rating then of 45% was historically the lowest for a second term president at this point in his candidacy. Normally, there's more of a bounce after an election, but Bush hardly got any bounce at all, and that only lasted briefly. Since then, he's been slipping fast.

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