if a few hundred Florida voters had gone the other way (or if a few hundred more had been allowed to vote) we would be saying and doing much the same things today....(there were not TOO many different ways to respond to terrorist attacks)...but I would feel so much better about the basic attitude behind what is done if Democrats were doing it..

Bush is getting better at reading speeches and cultivating a public image, and those percentages of approval are 'mostly' based on approval of damage to terrorist bases and the 'liberation' of Afghanistan...but I suspect Gore would be getting Republican support for about the same reason if he were there.

I have no doubt Bush really wants to end terrorism and make the world better...but I just am not, and never can be, comfortable with the motivations and attitudes he brings to the office of president.

There are Republicans I could trust & respect, just as there are Democrats that I would NOT trust or respect.....therefore, 'approval' of certain actions do NOT mean approval of the man, the motivations, or the policies.

I sure would like to see what that approval rating would be if there had been no terrorist attack.