•Jenna,
So glad to have you with us at Mudcat!

As for your dad having "the highest approval rating of any American president in history," how the heck could anyone know that? I don't know if there even polls in our first president George's day. (Didn't folks want to make him king?)

Modern sampling techniques and mass media make the appraisal of public opinion a whole different beast than it was even in the early part of the 20th C.

• SharonA

Didn't Dubya recently say he didn't like Barbara's cooking? Maybe that's why he disregarded her advice to chew ...


•Butch at work
I think you're missing an important point. George W. didn't die or require a great deal of medical attention.
We're not really laughing at his misfortune, because he doesn't seem to have suffered anything more than a brief scare. He's on TV right now, laughing about it himself!

(BTW, mean-spiritedness toward one's political adversaries is not limited to one side of the political spectrum. A tree-sitter recently fell from his perch here in Oregon, after being harrassed into staying awake for days. He nearly died and he suffered major injuries. The right-wing talk shows were deluged with jokes about it and folks saying it was a just punishment for disrupting business. I won't paint all "conservatives" or Republicans with that brush, and I don't want to turn this thread into a who-is-meaner argument. Suffice it to say there are jerks at all points of the political spectrum.)

Genie