How Many Here On DU Were Bush Supporters on 9/11

[rsmith6621]

Poll question: How Many Here On DU Were Bush Supporters on 9/11

I also would like to pose here how many may have voted for bush and have had a political conversion since...


Ill cast the first vote....

[momster]

1. He was a Weasel on 9/10/01

Nothing changed. (No offense to Weasels, which serve Nature's purposes.)

[spag68]

10. He was a weasel long before that.

[LearnedHand]

2. I knew the hairy-balled chimp was fucking lying through his teeth about something

AND capitalizing on the opportunity at the same time. I stood in front of my television on Sept. 11, 2001 shouting at it that the fucking Syrians addressed the US before our coward-in-chief did.

[MonkeyFunk]

3. Not at all

he ran like a scared bunny on 9/11.

I WANTED a President that day, but he was MIA.

[babylonsister]

4. Just imo, but the better question might be, how many voted for *

vs. how many thought he did the right thing during and immediately after 9/11?

I have never voted for him, thought he was an asshole, but wasn't as knowledgeable then as I am now.
There was so much going on, he said what he said, but I learned soon after how empty his words really were, and how hollow his heart and morals are.

[kestrel91316]

5. I will confess - I was foursquare behind him when he gave that rather impressive

speech just a few days after 9/11. IMHO the ONLY time he hasn't sounded like a complete moron - he got the delivery done nicely, and the speech was well-written (by staff).

[XOKCowboy]

6. I'd been reading Molly Ivins and knew all about him...

Plus he's the son of "Barb The Terrible". All I needed to know.

[lligrd]

7. Hell No - You Can't Fool Some Of The People

Any of the time.

[Bitwit1234]

8. And I thought rudi was sickening....absolute sickening

my son and I constantly argued over it. And guess what now he says I was right.

[nam78_two]

9. God no-NEVER-there was a period during which it wasn't that popular either

That is why I like Krugman so much-he was not afraid to trash Bush on the op-ed pages of the NYT when the guy had an 80+% approval rating. And to now see asshats like Mickey Kaus and Andrew Sullivan, who used to trash Krugman back then for his "crazy ideas", expect to be patted on the back for slowly and reluctantly having finally noticed that the emperor has no clothes and this war is insane, is really annoying.

Somehow Krugman is who I remember most from those days. Back then I got most of my news from the NYT and WaPo. Wasn't much into blogs back then and Krugman seemed like an oasis in a mad world.

I never liked this guy. The best opinion I have ever had of him was that he was only a complete moron and nothing much beside that.

[BurtWorm]

11. My bitter feelings toward Bush were recorded on the front page of DU

on Sept. 19. 2001:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/09/19_excuses.html

No Excuses
September 19, 2001
by Burt Worm




R.W. Apple and the New York Times are at it again: trying to bestow legitimacy on a president whom many people in the United States and around the world sincerely - and reasonably - believe was not legitimately elected.

By seeking to "lift the spirits of the American people - to console the bereaved, comfort the wounded, encourage the heroic, calm the fearful and, by no means incidentally, rally the country for the times ahead," Mr. Apple writes in the Sunday, September 16 Times, George W. Bush "made significant progress toward easing the doubts about his capacity for the job and the legitimacy of his election that have clung stubbornly to him during his eight difficult months in the Oval Office. You could almost see him growing into the clothes of the presidency."

From the perspective of this New Yorker - and I'm certain I'm far from being the only one - Mr. Bush is wearing no clothes.

Mr. Apple seems to think that Mr. Bush's legitimacy depends largely on his success at handling the responsibilities of his office, and it is true that should Mr. Bush rise to the challenges of this crisis and achieve the style of leadership the occasion demands - which all Americans must hope he will do - nagging complaints about his irregular accession to the office will seem almost beside the point.

But these questions will not and cannot ever go away, regardless of Mr. Bush's performance on the job. His legitimacy cannot be determined by simple analysis of his actions this week, last week or ever, or the method of electing our president will devolve forever into irrelevancy. Ultimately, the resolution of his legitimacy can rest only on the legality and constitutionality of the process that landed Mr. Bush in the Oval Office in the first place.

But even if we judge Mr. Bush only by his performance to date, Mr. Apple's conferment of legitimacy on him, to me, seems premature. While Mr. Bush may have sought to do all that Mr. Apple claims he did in the days following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, he did not succeed at any of them but, rather, left these difficult tasks for other, legitimate leaders like Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Governor George Pataki and a few persons of character in his administration.

We should be profoundly grateful that so many legitimate leaders are filling, with such heroic ability, the holes Mr. Bush has left gaping. To assign him their attributes at this time when they are wholly unearned is an insult not only to these true leaders, but to our intelligence and the truth.

Chief among Mr. Bush's many, many failures in this awful week was his evident inability to raise the level of his game above P.R. When this city and the nation were suffering the real consequences of last Tuesday's terror, the Bush administration was on the defensive, protecting the figurehead at its center with elaborate excuses for his failures of action and communication.

While New York was digging itself out of the still-smoldering rubble, the administration was asking us, if we had a moment, to please consider Mr. Bush's shyness, his overwhelming (literally, apparently) sense of the awesome responsibility facing him, and the fear his protectors felt for his life. We were given more "behind-the-scenes" anecdotes, complete with direct quotes from Karl Rove's legal pad, of the commander in chief being, contrary to all appearances, "in charge." We were being asked to cut yet more slack for a man who has enjoyed a lifetime of being cut slack.

I never thought I would feel admiration and even affection for Mayor Giuliani, but after his genuine, unerring performance last week, I do. His dictatorial tendencies have been forgiven, if not forgotten. I had hoped I would be able to forgive, if not forget, Mr. Bush's illegitimacy. I am still waiting for the opportunity - and, with all due respect to R.W. Apple's say so, now is not the time.

It may seem churlish, unpatriotic, even seditious to cast stones at Mr. Bush in this time of great crisis when, after years of ludicrously petty partisanship, the nation has been thrust into apparently sincere unity. But I fear that excusing Mr. Bush - especially in this moment of crisis - from responsibility for actions that, to my mind, threatened the very life of American democracy would be a grave error, the consequences of which could be as devastating to the body politic as the terrorists' improvised bombs were to the Twin Towers.

[tnlefty]

12. I voted for the no option and remember exactly what I was doing

on 9/11/01. I was in my garage sanding a piece of furniture to repaint it. I was sad, but not nearly as freaked out as my spouse who asked me to go pick our children up at school early when TVA issued an alert about the nuclear power plants and substations.

While I was listening to the radio later that night I remember a rwing hack stating that 'this is great! Now Bush** will get all of the increases in military spending that he wants' , and my blood ran cold. Rejoicing about increased military spending on that day??!!??

I also remember that I was wearing long pants, socks and shoes, a long-sleeved shirt, and later a light weight jacket, and that jacket still has the paint on the sleeve. Today I'm wearing shorts, a t-shirt and flip flops, and at approx. 12:19 I'm thinking about getting in my pool.

Threats, can we discuss threats?

[Webster Green]

13. I have been on to the repukes scam since before Nixon was elected..

I almost left the country at the thought of Tricky becoming president.

We're really fucked now though!;(

[TXDemGal]

14. As the election of 2000 approached

and I became more and more distraught that the Chimp would become the next White House Occupant, my dear husband of 10+ years began to think that I was going off the deep end. Every night as we talked over dinner and I'd try to tell him that, based on my copious research, I believed if Bush Lite became this country's next president, it would be a disaster of world proportions. Hubby would have none of it. Having a Repub in the White House would be lousy, he assured me, but this was GWB, the then governor of our adopted state of Texas. How bad could he possibly be? reasoned poor, clueless hubby.

So not only was I dealing with the knowledge that THE END MIGHT BE NEAR, but I was facing the shocking fact that my hubby was turning into a pod person! This was the guy who, back when we lived in the Democratic stronghold Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, printed "Say No to Bush" and "Say Noe to Quayle" signs to hang in the back window of his vehicle as the election of 1992 approached. This was also the guy who, when we were first dating, had an "I'm from North Carolina and I don't support Jesse Helms" bumper sticker stuck on the back of his car. Needless to say, I was more than a little concerned about hubby's inability to see the fucking obvious regarding the prospect of Dim Son in the White House! (Can we say the F word here??)

At some point BEFORE 9/11/2001, hubby finally saw the light. Why it took him so long will remain forever a mystery to me, and we've been married now for 19 years.

[calimary]

15. I voted no. I just couldn't fall in line. Something just didn't fit.

Keith Olbermann, a few weeks ago, issued a fiery Special Comment demanding the resignation of bush and cheney, and made a very pointed reference to those of us who had doubted his legitimacy in that job who chose to keep silent, withhold further judgment, and suspend their misgivings, in the interest of national unity. I suppose I'd fall in there somewhere. I put my unease aside temporarily and held my tongue. Best I could do, I'm afraid.

[pinto]

16. Didn't vote, 'cause I didn't see an option of didn't matter.

I neither supported him or otherwise on 9/11. Oh, and didn't vote for him. (DUH)

[Fresh_Start]

17. I had famliy and friends in the WTC

I was and still am angry

[last_texas_dem]

18. I've never supported him

I'm a proud six-percenter, or eight-percenter, or however low his disapproval rating fell in the weeks after September 11, 2001. I didn't believe his response to September 11th was anything spectacular and, IIRC, he had already said something that pissed me off within a couple weeks of the disaster. Not to mention, I don't think I ever could have brought myself to consider myself a "supporter" of him, even if he'd done something I really agreed with in office, simply because I felt he was an illegitimate squatter in the White House.

[Mz Pip]

19. Let's put it this way

I wanted to be. I wanted him to prove me wrong about all the things I felt about him. I wanted him to do the right thing, to be a leader, to unite the country.

He failed on all counts. He ran and hid, then used the attack to polarize the country for political gain.

The guy was a loser from day 1 and 9/11 changed nothing.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[JackBeck]

20. I wasn't here on DU when it happened.

But from my Brooklyn apartment, up until I closed my the bar on my shift during 9/11, a large majority of us had only one thing to say to him.

We knew we were going into Iraq after the 2000 elections. We had talked about it during the lead-up to the elections. But once SCOTUS appointed him, we knew it was only time that we made our way into Iraq. And then 9/11??? God those conversations were intense behind the bar in Brooklyn. We knew what was coming and we were fucking scared.

[SeattleGirl]

21. No, hell no, and FUCK NO!

Even on that day I could see he was a fucking wanker.

[TahitiNut]

22. I'm a nut ... but never THAT batshit insane!

Hell ... I'm the guy that predicted a 9/11-like event that would have us in a shooting ware in the Middle East before the end of 2001 if that basturd where somehow elected - and I predicted it in September 2000, on the net.

[Poiuyt]

23. I'm proud to say that I was one of the 10%ers

[emilyg]

24. Never. No.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

25. I have plenty of people who will vouch for the fact that I was not

Some of them are even speaking to me again!