Laura Bush doesn't believe bad polls
1 hour, 26 minutes ago

First lady Laura Bush said on Sunday she does not believe opinion polls showing her husband's approval ratings at record low levels.

Interviewed on Fox News Sunday, Laura Bush said she did not think people were losing confidence in President George W. Bush, despite a series of polls showing support for him at its lowest point in his five-year presidency and among the lowest for any president in the past 50 years.

"I don't really believe those polls. I travel around the country. I see people, I see their responses to my husband. I see their response to me," she said.

"As I travel around the United States, I see a lot of appreciation for him. A lot of people come up to me and say, 'Stay the course'."

Many recent polls have put Bush's job approval rating below 35 percent. One, the Harris poll, published last Friday, measured his approval at 29 percent, the first time any survey has put his support below the 30 percent mark. Two other polls published last week put his job approval at 31 percent.

In a separate interview on ABC's "This Week," Laura Bush said her husband's popularity was suffering because the country had been through a difficult year.

We've had a very, very difficult year, starting with the hurricane last September, but already because of the terrorist attack in 2001 and then the war on terror since then," she said. "He's the one that has to make the hard decisions. And, of course, they don't please everyone."

Mrs. Bush complained that when her husband's popularity was high, newspapers did not put that on the front page. Now it was low, they took great delight in highlighting the fact.

Asked if she thought the media had been unfair, Mrs. Bush said: "No, I don't think it's necessarily unfair. I think it's just, you know, I think they may be enjoying this a little bit."
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"Liberal media blahblahblah."

This is the most pathetic bunch of human beings to ever occupy the White House. Fuck every single last one of them.

wow, what an idiot.

What else would you expect?

I remember after 9/11 you couldn't go anywhere and not read that Bush had a 94% approval rating, the best in history blah blah blah. I guess polls are only good for these people when they are doing well. Liberal media my fucking ass.

ever think that maybe your husband doesn't go to places like, say, that big place new york city, because he knows nobody likes him there? and maybe, just maybe, he only travels to places where he knows people like him?

All Bush events are crowd controlled. Protesters can't get near the guy, thye stick them half a mile away. They both live in a bubble.

I thought she went to colludge.

More advice from the First Lady:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060514/ap_ ... y_marriage

First Lady: Don't Campaign on Marriage Ban

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 52 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Some election-year advice to Republicans from a high-ranking source who has the president's ear: Don't use a proposed constitutional amendment against gay marriage as a campaign tool.

Just who is that political strategist?
Laura Bush.

The first lady told "Fox News Sunday" that she thinks the American people want a debate on the issue. But, she said, "I don't think it should be used as a campaign tool, obviously."

"It requires a lot of sensitivity to just talk about the issue — a lot of sensitivity," she said.

The Senate will debate legislation that would have the Constitution define marriage as the union between a man and a woman early next month, Majority Leader Bill Frist said on CNN's "Late Edition."

President Bush supports the amendment, but Vice President
Dick Cheney does not. Cheney's daughter, Mary, is a lesbian and has been speaking out against the marriage amendment as she promotes her new book, "Now It's My Turn."

Mary Cheney wrote that she almost quit working on the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004 because of Bush's position on gay marriage. Asked Sunday about reports that White House political adviser Karl Rove and other Republicans want to use the issue to mobilize conservatives for the midterm election, she said she hoped "no one would think about trying to amend the Constitution as a political strategy."

"I certainly don't know what conversations have gone on between Karl and anybody up on the Hill," she said on Fox. "But you know, what I can say is look, amending the Constitution with this amendment, this piece of legislation, is a bad piece of legislation. It is writing discrimination into the Constitution, and, as I say, it is fundamentally wrong."

But Frist said he would defend the amendment even to Dick Cheney.

"I basically say, Mr. Vice President, right now marriage is under attack in this country," Frist said on CNN. "And we've seen activist judges overturning state by state law, where state legislatures have passed laws defining marriage between a man and a woman, and that's being overturned by a handful of activist judges around the country. And that is why we need an amendment to come to the floor of the United States Senate to define marriage as that union between one man and one woman."

Marriage is not under attack, you dipshit. You can't harm what you can't reach.

exactly. Whats the woman supposed to say?
As much as a lot of you would love to hear her say "my husbands a fucking retard"- thats just not going to happen....

i dont think this makes her delusional (she may be, but this is a poor example).



and the article about the gay marriage reads as a good thing about laura bush... its basically telling republicans NOT to use it as a polarizing issue.

Yes, amend the constitution to discriminate. That will show those stupid "activist" judges who keep following it.

Laura Bush seems like a nice lady, so I wouldn't just say "I fucking hate your husband" to her face. I would share my honest thoughts, however, just in a polite and civil manner.

Forget actual living, breathing, feeling PEOPLE. Let's defend a CONCEPT.
Jesus on a triscuit. Anyone who wants to get married should get married. And any two anythings coming together to be one is a marriage. No one get pissed off when Reeces are referred to a marriage of chocolate and peanut better. A marriage, between ANY two people, isn't anyone's buisness but their own. It doesn't concern anyone else's life, and it shouldn't have to take into account their opinions.

stupidity should be painful.

did anyone see the CNN interview she did that was later replayed on the Daily Show a few weeks ago. It was about the National Anthem. She had said you should be able to sing it in any language, but then the interviewer told her what her husband had said. She then had to backtrack, it was too bad she couldn't continue to express her true opinion just because shes married to a dumbass

Jeez lady. It's called tact. I mean, I hate the overwhelming majority of things that your husband stands for. But if you're standing across the street, I'm not gonna run up to your face and call you a fucking slut of a wife of the dumbest cunt of a president, am I?

I don't know Hinny, sometimes you do get worked up.

Im proud to say, at that time, I was in the minority 6%.