Politics has become so divisive that liberals in America really and truly believe that President Bush is utterly delusional. The rest of the country disagrees in varying degrees. It's clear, however, which side AP reporter Jennifer Loven is on. Hat tip: Power Line:
Confronted with strong opposition to his Iraq policies, President Bush decides to interpret public opinion his own way. Actually, he says, people agree with him.
Democrats view the November elections that gave them control of Congress as a mandate to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq. They're backed by evidence; election exit poll surveys by The Associated Press and television networks found 55 percent saying the U.S. should withdraw some or all of its troops from Iraq.
The president says Democrats have it all wrong: the public doesn't want the troops pulled out - they want to give the military more support in its mission.
'Last November, the American people said they were frustrated and wanted a change in our strategy in Iraq,' he said April 24, ahead of a veto showdown with congressional Democrats over their desire to legislation a troop withdrawal timeline. 'I listened. Today, General David Petraeus is carrying out a strategy that is dramatically different from our previous course.'
Increasingly isolated on a war that is going badly, Bush has presented his alternative reality in other ways, too. He expresses understanding for the public's dismay over the unrelenting sectarian violence and American losses that have passed 3,400, but then asserts that the public's solution matches his.
Nothing she says is inaccurate. But it's what she doesn't say that matters. Many polls do show that the public disagrees with Bush but they also do not accept Democrats' immediate withdrawal plans.
—Matthew Sheffield is the creator of NewsBusters and its Executive Editor.
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"President Bush decides
May 31, 2007 - 05:46 ET by ThisnThat"President Bush decides to interpret public opinion his own way". This article is just too funny. Here are the humorous two lines:
"Democrats view the November elections that gave them control of Congress as a mandate to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq."
"They're backed by evidence; election exit poll surveys by The Associated Press".
So, Congress views their election results as a Mandate? And the evidence comes from the Associated Press???!!
Who has the alternate reality here - President Bush or the AP?
And who the hell is the AP to make a statement, in a news article, about alternate realityu -- clearly this statement is the AP's and the reporter's own opinion -- why isn't it labeled as such?
On mandates
May 31, 2007 - 05:54 ET by UnsaneANYTIME Leftists win ANYTHING, it is a MANDATE. When Clinton got in the White House with 43% of the popular vote, that was a mandate.
(Of course, when anyone on the Right wins anything, it can never, under any circumstances, be considered a mandate.)
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
According to the MSM and dems
May 31, 2007 - 08:26 ET by HypocriteHaterAccording to the MSM and dems:
Democrats winning elections = a mandate from the people
Republicans winning elections = stolen, fraudulent elections
Something else conveniently i
May 31, 2007 - 07:25 ET by BeowulfSomething else conveniently ignored here is the fact that the immigration issue was far more prominent than pulling out our troops last November. I began thinking I was in the Bizarro universe listening the the Dems spouting off about securing the border and deporting illegals while the Repubs inanely proposed amnesty.
Also, even the poll quoted says "withdraw some or all troops from Iraq". I looked up the poll at the time and broke out the calculator. The poll numbers, as usual, were misrepresented to seem like a huge percentage of Americans wanted all troops pulled out, when it was actually a far larger number who wanted a gradual withdrawal.
The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers
The WAR is going Badly ? ?
May 31, 2007 - 07:27 ET by JayTeeThe WAR is going Badly ? ? All Wars go badly, this one is no exception........WARS cannot go "good" in the true sense of the word. People are dying, American soldiers are being attacked and Killed, as in all Wars. But the Murder rate in America, 15,000 a year, is going BADLY. And if you Compare this war with ALL the previous ones, it's going slowly, but it a damn sight better on Soldiers dying than previous Wars.
As General Patraus said "There are 7 million people in Bagdad.......and if you fly over Bagdad at night, you can see a 1,000 Soccer games going on"....Point is, If you read the Police blotter for Philidelphia, you would PULL OUT of Philly, it would be deemed too dangerous if the Media showed every Murder, and hyped all the daily killing going on in Philly....Detroit.....Baltimore....etc.....until you would be sick of seeing 15,000 murders on your TV ad nauseum.....
Get some perspective people !!!!!!!! War ain't good, but it doesn't mean surrender is much better than fighting. Give War a chance....the peace was killing people.
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
Very good perspective,
May 31, 2007 - 07:49 ET by general companyVery good perspective, JayTee
Well the democrats feet are burning now
May 31, 2007 - 08:47 ET by SportPoliticsWell the democrats feet are burning now. The kookball reporter can spew all the crap she wants, and it falls on deaf ears, since the dippy dems decided the war should continue. Then they took off, avoiding the questions. That's why they dragged it out, so they could bolt out of DC and never have to defend their joining in the war in Iraq, exactly opposite their campaign lies and bs pork bluffs and backroom microcommander crap.
Good for President Bush, he held their lying lips up to the truth, and the doofey democrats confessed their true position, and their feet burned, the flames of hell licking up appropriately. lol
Look, now the dems have some sad sick position where they claim - as they have concerning their vote to go to war - "that they couldn't oppose the people's will" - even as they whine and their reporters whine Bush isn't listening.
The dems can't even listen to their own shuffling crap. "They don't want to look bad and lose votes". Ahh, well maybe then that is the will of the people, you morons.
How many times am I going to hear "the American people are on the side of the democrats", then seconds later the democrats tell me they dare not vote their marching orders lest it destroy them come poll time.
GO BLOW DIMMOS. You're LIARS.
Go Blow
May 31, 2007 - 10:09 ET by iveseenitall"Go Blow"---I haven't heard that phrase in years. You are so right, Sports P. Thanks for the memories.
NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal
Every reporter on AP payroll
May 31, 2007 - 12:29 ET by RightOfMostEvery reporter on AP payroll is an editorialist. We all want the troops home, but--this just in, Jennifer--we want to WIN it, first.
If AP polled me, I'd say "***** you, traitor!" and hang up. There's no way any poll could get a true sampling of conservatives. We're that fed up with them. We don't even want to spend the time screaming at them, a screaming which they deserve.
The '06 election was a brilliant Ten Little Indians-style pickoff by Emanuel and the DBM on the Weldons, Foleys, Neys, Cunninghams and Delays (who are and were nowhere near the level of Abscam Murtha, Cold Cash Jefferson and Funnel Feinstein), and the gap was widened by the GOP voter hissy-fit on pork spending.
And it took only one word (plus the DBM) to wrest away GOP Senate control.
The stars aligned perfectly for the traitors in Nov. '06. And the darkness sadly expands because apparently Bush is reading and starting to believe Loven, thinking the Dems really earned it and, because of that, he must become even more liberal. The Dems didn't earn a damn thing.