Most Americans Disapprove of Bush and Think the Country Is On the Wrong Track

[Codger]

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

Gallup Poll and CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll
"Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?"

App Dis D/K
2/7-10/05 49 48 3 1,008

* 9/21/01 90% approval. The highest approval rating recorded for any president by the Gallup Organization, which began asking the question when Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House.

 

[Beowulf]

Yeah, pretty depressing, isn't it? But it all went according to script. Hitler had the Reichstag fire to whip the German people into warmongering hysteria, Bush had 911, and while Hitler had the Enabling Act to ream thru Parliament, Bush had the Patriot Act, which was based on the former.
I am just surprised nobody has accused Bush of plagiarizing Hitler, it is eery how closely he is following his historical steps.

 

[Codger]

I suppose you could make a case for the Hegelian dialectic. But the same holds true for Clinton and every President before. The same tactics you speak of were used at the Waco massacre and alledgedly in OK. City. Hitler did not invent the dialectic, nor did Hegel. Hegel merely put a name to it and Hitler continued to use it. Look at our entry into WWII. Or the genocide against the Native Americans before that. Heck, you could say that Hitler was taking his cue from past U.S. policy and not be entirely wrong. Not entirely right, but.....