"Phased," is what G.W. Bush himself would write.

34% of the country is just plain stupid. OK, maybe they don't despise him, but APPROVE of his work? Even on the best days the guy is a C- President.

"Phased," I suppose, would apply to Star Trek methods of transportation.

As for the substance, nah, Bush doesn't really care. His heavenly Father told him he's done just fine.

...although "phased" -- as in out-of-phase or aphasia -- seems poetically apt.

Never gave a damn about anything save his rich friends and buddies. To hell with the people, the law, foreigners. He did as he damn well pleased and I hope the motherfucker is prosecuted. The Heavenly Father might just damn him to Hell to fry forever for his sins.

Shrub's Victory Lap and Legacy Rehabilitation Tour conflicts with his alleged indifference to how people view him.

"'I don't give a darn,' Bush responded." = more lies from this pathetic waste of space.

Where's my shoe?

How many of you, like me, are frightened by the fact that 34% of people in this country don't get it? A good argument can be made that Bush is America's worst president. How can 1/3rd of Americans not just be OK with that, but approve of it? What does that say about America?

Are they polling military bases or something? Some deep pocket of True Believers? Because everyone I know or can think of considers Bush43 to be the worst fuckup of a President the US has EVER seen.

Thirty-four percent? Where are these people? I find it impossible to believe that 34% of US citizens find Bush43 palatable in any way, shape or form.

Yes, that's what gets me, too. One-third of this country actually APPROVES of him, not just like, votes Republican and tolerates him, or hates gay people and abortion-seekers and puts up with him... approves. That is simply frightening.

Maybe a full 1/3 of the country directly profits from the defense, oil, or financial services industries? Hmm.

That is not surprising. These are the same folks that watch professional wrestling and actually believe that it is a real sport, and not an act.

These are the folks that believe blowhards like Hannity are journalists.

These are the result of our failing school systems.

So, I'm not surprised at the 34% number.

Who was actually no more corrupt, and a lot less incompetent.

I'm inclined to agree that 34% is an exaggerated number.

"Approval" polls tend to be generous.

And the ones where Bush does randomly better get touted in the media.

"How can 1/3rd of Americans not just be OK with that, but approve of it? What does that say about America?"

That we're getting smarter. More than half of the country approved of the guy just four years ago. No one can really expect a country as diverse as ours -- and as segmented (North/South, Red/Blue, etc.)-- to be unanimous in our hate or love for anybody or anything. By political and historical measurements, 34% is a profoundly low number. Given how discouraged I was about the political sensibilities of Americans in 2004, I'm completely tickled with 34%.

I'm amazed that 34 per cent can be that uninformed, and that it has actually gone up. Please tell me what there is to approve of, if you can. Or, is this just out of sympathy because he's trying so hard to explain how he has done nothing wrong.

This is the only state McCain won every single county, and republicans swept the state houses. Republicans took control of the state senate for the first time in history, and their first order of business was to block autism being covered by insurance companies. People here get screwed sideways by republicans, and just smile and ask for more, as long as they drape themselves in the flag and say they're christians, I guess nothing else matters.

I can tell you who most of the 34% that approve of Bush are. They are the 88 percent of evangelical's who give nothing to their churches--that's right only 12 percent of envangelical's give any of their money to their church but they are the ones who say that if one doesn't agree with them that you are not a christian and are against this country.There is one word for them HYPOCRITE.

These same 34% also like Nixon.

Thanks for catching the spelling mistake on fazed. It's been fixed.

"'I don't give a darn,' Bush responded."

Who cares what you think

. . . tick tock tick tock . . .

I don't give a darn

Guess he'll go back to ranching.

It was all a show anyhow. The boy who took the prize from his brother to give the finger to his dad, who wanted nothing more than to get rid of taxes and punder the environment and instead handed over our WMD to Cheney to play with, now will finally leave us alone - to clean up the mess as much as possible.

Who are these people who comprise the 34% who think he's doing a good job?

There just aren't that many people who work in the defense, pharmaceutical or petroleum industries.

I soooo don't get it.

I'll bet some of these people are approving of the fact that he's finally leaving. It lets people look at him a little more kindly. And the fact that he has, by all indications, been pretty cooperative with regard to the transition probably helps some too.

He's out the door in a week. Meanwhile the rest of the country will spend the next three decades fighting about his legacy the way my parents generation has done with Vietnam. Thanks a lot, douche. Who are these 34% dead enders? Their my nieghbors and let's just say their standards for success are not Earthly based if that gives you any idea. These are the same people who think Sarah Palin would be so qualified. Yes, the right really does want a theocracy. Or at least their voters do.

What a coincidence.

These are the people who insulate themselves by associating only with people in their evangelical churches, who only get their news from Fox, Rush and Sean and who think that blacks and Latinos exist only to bag their groceries and mow their lawns. They exist in their own reality and zealously guard against dissenting opinion. They're told endlessly by the selective "media" outlets they listen to that all the world's problems can be traced back to liberals. Then they regurgitate this insight with other true believers, who nod dutifully and then repeat the lies within a closed loop system. Nothing penetrates the wall they have created against the outside world where the other 66% of us live. Simply put, they are little more than a brainwashed cult.