Yahoo! News - Poll: Americans Hopeful on 2nd Bush Term

Yahoo! News - Poll: Americans Hopeful on 2nd Bush Term
: "Ahead of Bush's inauguration on Thursday, six in 10 people said they felt hopeful about his second term and in response to a separate question 47 percent said they were worried. Most said they were neither angry nor excited about his final four years in office."

Sorry, I just don't get this. Everyone I know is either angry or excited about Bush--I know very few people who are ambivalent about Bush.

But broader point. How can so many people be hopeful about this guy's second term? He has made disastrous decision after disastrous decision. Why the American people continue to support him. Teflon President? Good grief, let's see:

1) outed a CIA agent who was working for us on wmd as a political dirty trick. That alone would have gotten Clinton impeached again.

2) invaded a country on made-up justification--that same justification that they recently had to admit they had stopped looking for. Oh, and when they didn't immediately find wmd, they changed the justification to some crap like, "wmd capabilities." Orwellian, to be sure, but under Clinton or Kerry, that was called, oh yeah, flip flopping.

3) invaded said country with plenty of military to win the war, but not near enough to win the peace. and it isn't like they weren't warned about it, but this administration is nothing if not arrogant. (one of those things I am waiting for Christians to denounce)

4) has run his campaigns with a Machiavellian efficiency. Excellent politician, I concede, but no concern whatsoever for the truth. the most recent on that really puzzles me when I hear people tell me how serious Bush is about his faith. The white house says no social security privatization and badmouths the Kerry camp for suggesting it. Bush makes that the cornerstone of his second term (if he not thinking of invading Iran), and no one calls him on the lie. Oh, and I am still ticked about how he ran his SC primary against John McCain. You know, the one where he allowed his minions to spread the rumor that McCain had fathered a black baby out of wedlock. Anyone who does that is not moral, and anyone who allows that isn't either.

Ok, enough monday morning anger. more later.