Politics has no place on the Disboards, even "off-topic". Yes, on any given political topic youre going to get some people who agree with you, but youre also going to tick some other people off. The Disboards are for Disney World and the magic of
Disney vacations and memories, not arguments about what political leaders you dont like or who you want impeached. Go to some political boards to discuss that.
But since "Figment's Friends" has thrown down the political gauntlet:
Oh, heaven forbid, President Bush currently has an average approval rating of 41%! Whatever shall we do! Time to school some naive Canadians. The federal Liberal government in Canada has ruled Canada for 12 years, and here are their levels of support (% of the vote for the Liberal Party) in each election since they came to power:
1993 41%
1997 38%
2000 41%
2004 37%
In Canada, you dont even need 40% of the vote to win, and after that you can do whatever you want (the Prime Minister can appoint senators and justices of the Supreme Court at his whim and there are no real checks on the power of the Prime Minister, unlike a President who must deal with a separately elected House of Representatives and Senate). Not only did George Bush win a solid 51% of the vote in 2004 (a percentage no Canadian political party has attained in decades, not even Brian Mulroney in 1984 who got 49% of the vote), but President Bush did it based on turnout of 62% of eligible voters, higher than the 60% of eligible voters who voted in the last Canadian federal election.
Second, you Bush-haters can celebrate all you want about his poll approval ratings, but it means nothing. What really counts is that Bush was sworn in as President in 2000, then smashed the Democrats again in 2004. President Bush beat your precious Al Gore and John Kerry. You can say nah-nah-nah hes at 41%, but he still beat you twice and hes still in power. Not to mention that the Republicans lead by 55 to 44 seats in the Senate (there is one independent), and they lead by 30 seats in the House of Representatives and they control most of the governorships and state legislatures.
Why do some people dislike President Bush so much? Because he would not endorse the Kyoto Accord? Well, the Kyoto Accord is a document from the Land of Pretend, where the signatories all pretend how noble they are to have signed the document, but nobody is really doing anything about global warming because they know it costs too much. Canada is a proud signatory of Kyoto, but other than run a national advertising campaign about how great it is, the Canadian government has done nothing to implement Kyoto.
If you dislike Bush because he is an evangelical Christian, well then you are just a bigot.
But as much as anything else, the Bush-haters dislike President Bush because he has been straightforward enough to pop the bubble of fantasy that some people have about the world and how it works. For example, Canadians, in particular, love the United Nations, and think it is the be-all and end-all of how government should work. Silly Canadians.
As for the hopes of some on this thread that the Democrats will take back congress in 2006, that is wishful thinking. Of course, for Bush-haters, the only thing they have is wishing, and thats why theyre so frustrated with President Bush. Bush-haters are sore losers. And the great thing is that the Bush-haters get to stew in it for another three years! As for the person who posted that their skin crawls whenever they hear President Bush speak, I hope your skin crawls for every second of the coming three years hes in power.
To the Canadian who initiated this thread, you may still find comfort living in Canada, the Land of Pretend, where you can continue to pretend that Paul Martin fixed health care for a generation, pretend that the government will actually do anything about Kyoto, and pretend that the ineffectual United Nations is the highest moral authority.
So President Bush is at 41% approval. Whippee!!! Go have a party if you want, cause it doesnt make any difference.
