Laura Bush looking like an ostrich: doesn't believe the bad poll numbers

**buttmunch** · May 15th, 2006, 09:58 AM

WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. 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."

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsar...src=rss&rpc=22

Wow, she must have a shitload of sand in her hair. The Queen of Denial...

**LynnieD** · May 15th, 2006, 09:59 AM

She's obviously hitting the sauce. How else could she be so stupid?

**buttmunch** · May 15th, 2006, 10:27 AM

Maybe she's drawing in stupidity by osmosis from el shrubbo.

**Grimmlok** · May 15th, 2006, 10:30 AM

Guys, come on, she's telling the truth. The people she meets as she goes around the country are all hardcore Repukes that signed the loyalty oath before being let within 5 miles of her.

**buttmunch** · May 15th, 2006, 01:54 PM

Good point, ole Grimm. I'd actually sign one of those just to get in there and then whip out a big, fat sign saying exactly what I think. They'd probably catch on to me though...I have a hard time hiding it when I loathe someone.

**LynnieD** · May 15th, 2006, 01:55 PM

AND she's hitting the sauce....or pipe.

**Grimmlok** · May 15th, 2006, 01:57 PM

They'd probably run a check on your license plate and then kick in the phone records and tax info to figure out who you voted for in the last 20 years, what websites you surf, and whatnot.

I doubt you'd get in.

**Laurent** · May 15th, 2006, 02:01 PM

"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'."

I don't understand how anyone says that and actually means it without feeling bile rise in the back of their throat.

**pacific breeze** · May 15th, 2006, 02:05 PM

Laura is so deep in denial she has lost all touch with reality. Of course, that describes the entire Bush clan. Now let's wait for them to blame Clinton for the incredible mess they created in six short years.

**Grimmlok** · May 15th, 2006, 03:05 PM

Stay the course:

1) Keep raising the debt limit of the government because the tax breaks for the rich don't allow for enough income to balance the books.

2) Please, keep fighting expensive wars. We like soldiers and civilians dying, and those fancy weapons? DIVINE.

3) Keep preventing the elderly from getting the medication they need. Everybody loves a sick old person.

4) Lastly, stay the course and continue to turn personal, religious prejudice into legislation for a nation as diverse as America. Those hindus and buddhists will fall into line eventually.

**Lobelia** · May 15th, 2006, 03:18 PM

3) Everybody loves a sick old person.

*snort* ha ha ha!

ETA: It occurred to me that perhaps I should contribute something actually pertinent to the thread, but the article just makes me want to bang my head on my desk.

**Grimmlok** · May 15th, 2006, 03:23 PM

go ahead, but make sure it's not in one of Laura's libraries.

I still think it's funny that Laura Bush is encouraging people to educate themselves using actual books, instead of a bible.

"Go ahead children, learn as much as you want, except you're not allowed to read this, this this, or this.. and this..."