This is sad....so very, very sad. The American public is so bored with the Oaf In Chief that they're ignoring him altogether.

Polls show public is tuning out Bush

WASHINGTON -- Even as his approval ratings rebound in new polls, President Bush is facing a more daunting problem previously unseen in post-World War II presidencies: The American public seems to be paying less and less attention to what he says and does.

-- Laughing (MyAss@Off.com), July 17, 2001

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Bush who?

-- (what@are.you.talking.about), July 17, 2001.

Who cares?

-- Jack Booted Thug (governmentconspiracy@NWO.com), July 17, 2001.

Is our public learning?

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), July 17, 2001.

I used to think I was apathetic but now I don't care anymore.

-- (boredom@ennui.jaded), July 17, 2001.

This should come as no surprise. Those in ‘the know’ (which excludes most all of us on this forum) have always said that GWB would be a boring President with a lack of circus type activities surrounding his administration. We have come to expect the antics of the last administration and a real professional like Bush was sure to be lacking in the tabloid escapades of the Clown Prince of the 90’s. Any of you ever work for a company that was run by an irresponsible party animal? Made you wonder what new outrageous stunt would appear each day. Great for chuckles but not conducive to a secure feeling.

-- So (cr@t.es), July 17, 2001.

Why are there so many here that look for their guidance from the Federal government? Pretty pitiful.

Your local city administrator should have more impact on your life than the President, but somehow people want or expect it to be just the reverse. That's screwy.

-- libs are idiots (moreinterpretation@ugly.com), July 17, 2001.

Socrates, if a "real professional" is boring like Bush is, then what does that say about Reagan?

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), July 17, 2001.

So:

You could be right, but it reminds me of something from the late 60's. The head of GM was having a press conference and one of those fiesty reporters ask him a question that was critical of car and truck design and quality. Now I wasn't there, but I remember hearing it on the radio. The head of GM said something like, we have a 52% market share, we build what we think is best and the people have to buy it.

Seems that the Bush people are following that same path. Time will tell whether they have 52% of the market in a year. I'm not a prophet so I sure don't know. I'm just a country boy who is retired.

Gates

-- Gates (Gates@ETexas.com), July 17, 2001.

Nip, I was never a big fan of the ‘Gipper’. To me, he always came off as a ‘manufactured’ personality, one that had a marvelous talent for projecting himself in person. Like every President of our country, Clinton included, he was surrounded by competent people that did the grunt work of running the country and collectively making policy decisions. Besides, his First Lady probably wielded more behind the scenes power than did he. We never seem to have the ‘best’ man in the White House and no human alive will be able to satisfy more than two- thirds of our population, unless we are carpet bombing Baghdad for a few weeks. GWB has a solid reputation as a top-notch manager and people that work for and with him, tend to be very loyal. I like that in a person and I expect it from a leader. The man is a ‘doer’, not a ‘presenter’.

-- So (cr@t.es), July 17, 2001.

Who????has a secure feeling,in ANY mere MORTAL??

-- al-d. (dogs@zianet.com), July 17, 2001.

Why are there so many here that look for their guidance from the Federal government?

What does that have to do with no one listening to Bush? Talk about trying to obscure the subject presented.

"Clinton was simply spectacular with his ability to command a room, command an audience, command the media and the coverage," Bailey said. "Inevitably, President Bush is still compared subconsciously with Clinton. But Clinton set a standard that nobody can match. ... Bush is not in that league."

Both the president and the White House have seemed to go out of their way to strip his speeches of drama and news value, proving less than sure-footed in staging big announcements.

That was particularly true on the much-anticipated energy speech, and has also been seen in the president's lobbying for a patients' bill of rights. Along with generally effective events in the White House, the president has made two trips to Virginia hospitals. Those stops were often awkward, almost embarrassing, with some feeling the visits exploited patients who were used as props.

In other words, no one believes these "staged" events, they have learned that what is staged is most often an attempt to cover up Bush's real intentions which are usually the opposite of those presented. In other words, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. And we have come to learn that Bush "news" is BS, and to expect the worse. "They are too clever by half," said Stephen Hess, presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution and a veteran of the Eisenhower and Nixon White Houses. "They are looking for gimmicks, and they don't understand you don't need gimmicks if you're a president."

-- Cherri (jessam6@home.com), July 17, 2001.

"Nip, I was never a big fan of the 'Gipper'."

Well, I'll be hornswoggled. You could knock me over with a feather.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), July 17, 2001.