George W. Bush now viewed more favorably than Mitt Romney.

[kpete]

We're doooooomed . . .

RT @blakehounshellRT @politicalwire: George W. Bush now viewed more favorably than Mitt Romney... http://pwire.at/S5BdJw

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/28/bush_viewed_more_favorably_than_romney.html
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2012/09/george-w-bush-posts-better-favorability-ratings-than-mitt-romney-in-new-bloomberg-survey.html/

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. So this was all a grand scheme to rehab Dubya's image?

And we fell for it! Those clever bastards!

[valerief]

7. For Jebby 2016! nt

[porphyrian]

2. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! N/T

[porphyrian]

40. ...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...!!! N/T

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. It's a bit easier to think of someone favorably

when they aren't around any more. We shouldn't ever forget what a total dick that guy was (in case his pumpkin-head brother decides to run in 2016). Even so, when a guy starts to look worse than the worst president ever, you know that guy is in trouble.

And there is something inhumanly creepy about Mittens - a disturbing quality even the execrable W. didn't have. W. believed in some things - a lot of stupid, wrong things. But Mittens doesn't believe in anything, except maybe that he somehow deserves to be president, and his hollowness and lack of any principles at all has really started to show.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. " It's a bit easier to think of someone favorably when they aren't around any more."

Probably generally true.
In the case of Nixon, Bush and esp. Cheney, NOT true, in my heart at least.
I STILL shudder whenever I see Nixon's pic.
You wanna talk about somebody being such an obvious sociopath..I never ever "got" what anyone saw in that man.
My first "naked emperor" experience.

[tclambert]

23. I would think more favorably of W if he surrendered himself to the war crimes tribunal

at The Hague. Pleading guilty would be a nice gesture, too. And dragging that Cheney guy along with him would make me quite happy.

[Submariner]

4. Can we get Interpol to arrest Bush in the Cayman Islands?

then we can drive his numbers down again, and for good. Dubya is going to the Caymans Nov 1st for a few days. It's a British possession, so it would be nice if international law enforcement could drag that sorry ass loser off to the Hague.

I'm amazed he has the balls to leave the country's borders.

[sadbear]

5. How the hell is that possible?

Yeah, I get that Willard is an out-of-touch, sociopathic multi-millionaire who has no idea how to connect to ordinary people. But his path of destruction pales in comparison to bush's. I may dislike Willard, but I genuinely hate bush with every atom in my body.

[valerief]

9. Mittfalca's potential is worse. Given the chance, he'd self-destruct

this country in a heartbeat if it meant more fast cash for him.

[HopeHoops]

6. That's a little frightening.

[montanacowboy]

8. They are reconstructing the image of Idiot Bush

to smooth the skids for big brother Jeb in 2016

gee...the Bush's aren't so bad - look at that Rmoney, he's terrible

mark it, Jeb will be their boy as they try and tack back toward some kind of sanity and make everyone think that the BFEE are OK now

[Fuddnik]

10. That's really gutter scraping.

[Arkansas Granny]

11. That's not much of a recommendation, is it?

[Hissyspit]

13. Bush's favorability rating should be zero.

Disgusting.

[trusty elf]

32. Zero.... exactly!

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[jmowreader]

14. In two weeks...

Richard Nixon now viewed more favorably than Mitt Romney.

One of Romney's handlers' problems is while Reagan and the Bushes supposedly shipped jobs out of the country, they really didn't; they only created the conditions for it. Romney really did it.

[n2doc]

15. So Mittens is less popular than a war criminal?

This country is truly fucked. Much as I hate Willard, it doesn't hold a candle to the loathing and hatred I feel towards Dimson. How quickly people forget.

[Overseas]

35. I agree. Although I think Rob-me could easily become a Torture Guy, with a war-profiteering cabinet

urging him along.

[benld74]

16. NAh, this is more of a 6 of one half dozen of the other type of thingy,,,,

[lastlib]

17. That's sad. NOBODY (except Dick Cheney) s/b viewed worse than GWB.

I view black plague more favorably than Bush or Cheney. Rmoney would only be worse than smallpox if he got elected.

[Zambero]

18. This can only mean...

that the Romney campaign made a huge blunder in keeping GWB away from the GOP convention. If he had been there, some of that newfound "favorability" would have rubbed off on Mittens!

[Mnpaul]

19. Yuk, yuk

Message out of Texas to the Romney supporters

[Octafish]

20. Propaganda is an amazing thing.

Alex Carey:

Corporations and Propaganda
The Attack on Democracy

The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.

John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.

Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.

This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.

SOURCE: http://tucradio.org/new.html

[Overseas]

34. Thanks for this link. So much to learn about the history of propaganda in our country.

[FemVet]

21. HAH!

The guy who privatized war is more popular than ANYONE else?! This is awesome! Become a master of war if you want to win the republican ticket!!!

[Martin Eden]

22. Given the chance, Romney will become a WAR CRIMINAL too.

And by extension the nation that put him in the White House.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

24. Well, of course.

Romney's a Mormon, you can't have a beer with him.

[McCamy Taylor]

25. ROFLMAO

[Turbineguy]

26. Yeah, I like Bush too.

Relatively speaking.

[NAO]

27. Holy crap! I did not think it was possibly to be more despised the GWB -nt

[smirkymonkey]

28. Now that is saying something.

I didn't think I could hate anyone more than W. I was wrong.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. Meanwhile....

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[B Calm]

30. Paul Ryan didn't help.

Not to say Mitt didn't suck on his own, but choosing Ryan as his running mate was the icing on the cake.

[deafskeptic]

31. HOLY CRAP!

Mittens is even more hated than GWB? I think it just snowed in hell.

[Jack Rabbit]

33. Man, I wouldn't even rate him that low

In the end, Mitt the Twit will be spared that fate and be nothing more than a footnote in American history. The Frat Boy should be so lucky.

[PATRICK]

37. The devil you are forced now to know

versus the one you have been trying to forget.

[Samantha]

38. And that is exactly why you never hear George W. Bush*

mention Romney.

[hrmjustin]

39. That is sad.