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  • http://www.ninjapoodles.blogspot.com Belinda

    The only thing that scares me about that is, if Bush were impeached, that would leave us with…Cheney, who I’m pretty sure eats babies. It would have to be some kind of miraculous clean sweep of the whole stinkin’ cabinet, and I’m just not feeling that lucky.

  • http://hugeguy.blogspot.com nick

    I will only say that I did not vote for Bush the second time around and while he is not my ideal president, I don’t think he is ruining the country. (Atleast not anything that can be fixed) I really like this site and am happy to speak up in (sort of) opposition to the rest of the people posting and say that I neither approve or disapprove of Bush.

    And to anyone that thinks I am ignorant because of that, know that I am entitled to my opinion and that I accept everyone regardless of political preference.

  • Alan

    Just an observation…a couple of comments about sheep…yet everyone commenting here apparently shares the same ideology. Comfort in being amongst like thinkers? Just wondering.

    Love and kisses, a conservative who voted for Kerry (think Andrew Sullivan’s brand of conservatism and you have me pegged)

  • http://www.donnysramblings.com/ Donovan Phillips

    Am I the only one who gets really f**cking angry when I read this? I can’t believe the stupidity!!

  • http://dooce.migrantroo.com minxlj

    It’s a good thing that in your country a president can only serve two terms. Over here (UK) they stay for YEARS!!!

    Just think, before 1951, your president could serve as many terms as they wanted. And if it was up to the 60% mentioned above, Bush could keep getting voted in!!!!!!! Still, you have a few more years of him to cope with…

  • impy

    I just keep watching the body count of young men in Iraq climb (currently at 2185 American and other military) to match the lives lost in 9–11 ( 2752 ). I know the philosophies touted as reasons for this war are more complicated than tit for tat regarding 9–11. I know that Bush’s presidency is suffering from more ailments than the “War on (of) Terror”, which I find to be an apt id since it really does terrify me. It just makes me so damn sad. Every young man who died, has left behind a mother, or a father or a family who loved them the same way you and Heather love Leta. I have heard comments in line at the grocery store, reading headlines, “Oh another 12 dead today”, and off people go. 8 years is such a very, very long time.

  • http://www.dysfunctionality.co.uk Graeme

    I’d be the last one to defend Bush, but as the article states, the SurveyUSA poll only accounts for the opinions of 600 ‘Utahns’; official census figures for July 2004 stand at 2,469,230 for the state of Utah.

    That’s not an awfully large number of people surveyed. They’re probably all related anyway.

  • http://mihow.com mihow

    Bush won’t be impeached until something like this happens:

    http://​mihow​.com/​p​o​s​t​s​/​2​0​0​5​/​0​8​/​0​3​/3641/

    (I promise, I will stop this now. But I gotta do something or my husband might divorce me for designing yet another t-shirt and letting them clutter our second bedroom.)

  • http://www.canyonjam.net erat

    patatomic: Not so much being told who or what to vote for but instead how to think about certain issues such as the war in Iraq, faith based initiatives, whether or not it’s good to overly inject religion into the supreme court, etc. I suspect it’s illegal to “order” people to vote for one thing or another.

    My issue with Utah in general is that there is a major resistance among many of its citizens (LDS or otherwise, I’m not picky) to hear one side of an issue and end the learning process there. You and others like you who think for yourselves give me hope, but I have to say from my observations that you’re in the minority. And as for this happening everywhere, yep, it does, but I’ve never experienced it quite to the extent that I have since I moved to Utah. It’s a problem everywhere, but it’s a MAJOR problem here.

    lipseyebrows: I generally pronounce it “Yoo-taan” (like “you John” but with a T). I’m an import to this state so I may be pronouncing it incorrectly.

  • http://www.canyonjam.net erat

    Nick has a good point. I, too, think that Bush isn’t really running the country. It sounds conspiratorial but I’m convinced it’s Cheney, Rove, Rice, Rumsfeld, etc. that are making the decisions. Bush just appoints people and then takes extended vacations at his ranch in Texas.

    This reminds me of a recent article at The Onion: “Bush To Appoint Someone To Be In Charge Of Country”

    http://​www​.theonion​.com/​c​o​n​t​e​n​t​/​n​o​d​e​/41444

    Sounds about right to me…

  • Philip

    Hi All
    I am foreigner (Irishman living in London), and some of us outside the US wonder how George W got elected in the first place. But saying that I often wonder how my fellow voters in the UK keep re-electing Tony Blair.

    I await with interest to see who will succeed Mr Bush, Ms Rice possibly or Mr Powell?

    Would it not be on interesting campaign to have Mrs Clinton and Ms Rice in a head race for the White House?

    But then again.…. http://​www​.zod2008​.com/

  • http://ecoteat.blogspot.com Amy

    I’ve always gotten the impression that Utah has its own little societal microcosm. I guess the support of Bush there is more alarming to me against the complete opposite feelings about him where I live (I think my town voted about 90% Kerry last year).

    I think that second sentence is a bit of a jumbled mess. Oh, well.

  • http://k-marie.blogspot.com Karenna

    I prefer to keep the depth of my political analysis at a sophomoric level.

    Bush rocks Utah (but loses 20% of his approval). Thank you, no-duh news.

    What about Bush’s apparent affection for women of color? I’m not talking about Condee — I’m talking about Harriet “Ranger Rick” Miers and “Theatrical” Katherine Harris.

    I suppose I should take a feminist stance and applaud that Miers is the feminist answer (in a strictly appearance-based context) to all the sloppy, toupee-touting male politicos of the world. But I know I’m not alone in thinking she’d fare better with a little help from those dandy folks at TLC.

  • Ida

    I know this is terribly off topic, but how come that none of the bloggers who urged us to donate for victims of Katrina and the tsunami disaster are not even mentioning the earthquake in Pakistan and India? Is it really just because there were no European/American victims? Cause I refuse to believe that! I would be very grateful if you could mention it and maybe list some organizations etc.
    (I am sorry I am bringing it up here at your blog but so many others have there comments turned off)

  • http://www.canyonjam.net erat

    Yeesh, so much for proofreading…

    “My issue with Utah in general is that there is a major resistance…”

    That should be “…there is a tendency…”

  • http://starring-me.net Leonna

    It really scares me to think that if the Americans who dissapprove of Bush had their way, where would Saddam Hussein be today and how many more lives would be lost? Better yet, would the world even still be here? I think Bush is doing the world a favor by establishing democracy in a country torn by selfish, greedy tyrants.

  • http://phlegmy.org Donnie

    It’s cuz as a state we are hopped up on SSRIs and meth, bankruptcy, foreclosures, and bizzaro criminals (Mark Hacking, Bryan Mitchell). Living in this state is frustrating even for a middle of the road kind of cock swinger.

  • http://biggaysam.com Big Gay Sam

    aughhhhh!!!!! *banging head against wall*

    When Christ referred to us (meaning us Mormons) as his “flock,” he didn’t mean for us to act like a bunch of fucking sheep!!!! grrrr!!!

  • http://mihow.com mihow

    seagulls?

  • http://www.canyonjam.net erat

    Crickets?

  • lipseyebrows

    Is Flock of Crickets a band, too?

    Thanks for answering my question, erat.

  • http://lismitchell.net PiscusFiche

    Honestly, I don’t know how to explain Utah except by saying that it’s like being born into a family that worships a particular rugby team without knowing very much about it at all. (I know nearly nothing about rugby which is why I picked it for this example.) You cheer for that team no matter what, even if they are losing, even if they totally suck at rugby. And to be a true fan, you keep justifying all the stupid things they do.

    That’s Utah politics for you. My family is so Republican, I nearly got disowned for voting Democrat. My family equates Hillary Clinton with Adolph Hitler. No joke. My father claims since all the papers keep pointing out Bush and Brown’s failures in NOLA, that it’s just more evidence of a biased liberal media.

    Maybe it is something in the drinking water…I left, and became a Buddhist Democrat, and six generations of Mormons rolled over in their graves.

  • http://biggaysam.com BIg Gay Sam

    PiscusFiche — I feel your pain. Being a gay mormon in a generational mormon family is pretty painful as well. Does your family make it a habit of reminding you what your “mormon pioneer forefathers” had to endure everytime you fuck up? It sucks! :P

  • Ryan

    its also amazing that 60% of americans still approved of Bill Clinton.

  • http://verymom.com Very Mom

    Try living in Idaho, I think 94% want to bend over and french kiss Bush’s butt. We’re the only car in any given parking lot without forty (or even one) yellow magnetic “Support our Troops!” ribbons on the bumper.

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