Bush supporters' aftermath thread II

Is John Yoo also the one who drafted a statement of support for Bush's torture bill, which the White House then pressured a group of JAG lawyers to sign?

Huh. Never occured to me that there would be folks here who didn't understand the difference between 'favorable' and 'approval'.

The President of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim any more ludicrous or offensive.

SierraSong wrote:

Huh. Never occured to me that there would be folks here who didn't understand the difference between 'favorable' and 'approval'.

I don't see why. When the favorability rating is given on TV broadcasts, frequently the difference between the two needed to be explained on air.

Gee, could it be possible that with all this talk on the forum about low-but-slightly-rising Bush job approval ratings, you slipped the higher favorability in there hoping it would get confused with the lower job approval ratings?

Nah.

When the favorability rating is given on TV broadcasts, frequently the difference between the two needed to be explained on air.

This isn't a TV broadcast. I thought my original post spelled it out pretty well.

White House soiree: Boortz, Hannity, Gallagher, Medved and Ingraham were reportedly invited to meet with Bush in the Oval Office
In a September 16 posting on his weblog, nationally syndicated radio host Neal Boortz wrote that he had been invited to "the West Wing of the White House" for a "30-minute meeting with the President in the Oval Office [which] turned into 90 minutes." Boortz added that the "other invitees were [conservative radio hosts] Sean Hannity, Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved and Laura Ingraham." As the weblog Think Progress noted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in a September 17 posting on its website that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has been invited to the meeting but could not attend.

Below, are examples of some noteworthy comments, previously documented by Media Matters for America, from each of the recent guests who reportedly visited the White House...

The Zogby favorability figure apparently wasn't chosen at random. No pollster currently has Bush's approval rating anywhere near 50%, and no pollster except Zogby has his favorability rating anywhere near it, either.

Today, it's 40% - tomorrow, who knows?

SierraSong wrote:

Today, it's 40% - tomorrow, who knows?

Good for you -- this means Bush's approval rating is now only 20% worse than Bill Clinton's at the time of his impeachment. I'm sure that makes Republican Congressmen happy to have him on their campaign teams.

Why is always Clinton with you guys?

Why is always Clinton with you guys?