Dear Armen,

No need to YELL and underline, we can see your paragraphs just fine.

My point in quoting the Washington Post was that it is the Official Ministry of Propaganda of the DNC.

But only half of those interviewed believe he is succeeding in his goal of bringing "needed change to Washington,

Only half? That's pretty good for the residents of "Murder City II" Washington DC, and home of the highest funded and least educated citizens in America.

and more people than not say his priorities are wrong

Of course when you poll a devout welfare culture (those who sell their votes for meager socialist giveaways, a government dependant class deliberately created by the liberals) on social issues, what else would you expect?

but disapproval scores have risen on his handling of the economy

He hasn't been "handling" the economy but letting those who own it handle it....the private sector, perhaps you've heard of it.

And how would the "gimme girl economists" know? The "Bush economy" doesn't start until October.

international affairs

The European socialists hate Bush because he dares put U.S. interests ahead of thiers when considering issues (foriegn handouts) unlike the sellout X42. Thinking Americans would appreciate that.

A departure from the mad concept of MAD is long overdue.

Of course to suggest the USA could possibly perfect and construct such technology to protect the WORLD from nuclear annihilation is simply unspeakable heresy to the malicious Communists and their useful idiots.

and Social Security

Socialist Security is a corrupt and innefficient system that was doomed from the start. W has dared to touch that feared and reviled "Third Rail" (a little Subway lingo there)

A. There IS NO TRUST FUND! All revenue gets spent as general funds and what is found in the "trust fund" are simply government bonds.

B. There IS NO TRUST FUND! Benefits paid to recipients (many of whom never worked) are covered by funds confiscated from current workers paychecks. This leaves them reliant on the confiscation of funds from future workers paychecks.

C. Most young people realize that if the amount confiscated from their paychecks weekly were to be invested in a personal account yielding 10% average annually (the long term track record of Wall Street), they would be able to retire early as millionaires and pass the wealth along to their children.

None of this is possible with Socialist Security.

Even the meager 2% proposed private contribution could go a long ways toward moving this country in the direction of the retirement success found only in the private sector at this time.

Promoting "The Magic of Compound Interest" is not GOP propaganda.....but it should be!

It would KILL the Socialist's THEFT of the working class' wealth.

Only 3 out of 8 of those polled thought the tax cut would be good for the economy. One out of 5 said it would be bad, and 2 out of 5 said it would make no difference. More people than not

And this proves exactly what? That the public school system has been effective in withholding from the public vital developmental courses such as History, Economics and Logic thus making them easy to dupe!!

Taking a poll does not make one an expert....it's a good thing we have leaders who can take them with a grain of salt.

52 percent to 45 percent -- said it would not leave enough money to finance Social Security, education and health care adequately while keeping the budget balanced

Well they would be wrong, that's been addressed in the White House Budget.

The survey results show that there has been a gradual erosion in the belief that Bush is providing strong leadership for the country

You don't suppose that could be because the DNC Press has refused to cover his press conferences and successes do you? They also give great coverage to second tier democrats, self important (so-called) journalists interview EACH OTHER on what they think about the news and throw out any poll driven story (like Condid) to distract the public from real facts.

During last year's campaign, he projected those qualities far more effectively than Gore did -- with 62 percent of the voters seeing him as a strong leader in October and only 33 percent doubting it

That's because he was PAYING for the coverage and able to control the content in the message. You have swerved direcly into the reason why CFR is undesirable and unfair. (Not to mention Un-Constitutional)

Of course Gore's Socialist message could not be completely revealed and honestly sold anyway.

Now the numbers are much closer -- 55 percent yes and 43 percent no

Well if that were a "DEMOCRATIC" vote.....and you had 5 points.......YOU STILL LOST!(Warner Wolf)

Like I said, by this time in X42's administration, he had a scandal-a-day erupting and initiated several very unpopular executive orders including "Don't ask/don't tell".

None of these actual issues really matter that much

By the way, none of those items (except defense) are the obligation or the Constitutional right of the Federal Government to pursue, which just shows how far to the left Washington has travelled and how the American people have been seduced into accepting socialism.

Just as it was clear that Bill Clinton was an operator

Oh, he was a "Smooth Operator" all right. His obvious strengths were his ability to lie (quote Sen. Bob Kerry D-NE), commit perjury ($900,000 fine)ability to philander (like murdering Ted and weasel Condit) and RAPE.

no matter how much you tried to defend his obvious executive strengths

I didn't.

Bush is a boob

You keep right on thinking that.

Speaking of which.....X42 liked Denise Rich.

a government being run by...who? Good question

The answer...BY GROWNUPS!. Good answer.

And as soon as a real economic or foreign crisis hits -- and it will

Will? It already has. Economists are saying that the Clinton Recession has been headed off at the pass by action taken by the Bush Administration and reduced to a simple economic slowdown.

Most agree that the China EP-3/Wong Way incident was handled well, which occured very early in his term.

the obvious weakness of a leaderless government and the confusion and missteps that will follow will have people longing for the days when a real, articulate executive was in charge

You are correct sir! We just had eight years of that!

This is exactly what motivated the conservative base and got President Bush elected.

Bush's numbers will plummet

We shall see my friend...we shall see.

mav out