Countdown to Electiony: 92 Days
Believe it or not, but George W. Bush actually holds the record for the highest ever approval rating for a United States president, with a whopping 92%. This, of course, was from polls taken between October 8th and 9th way back at the beginning of his first term in 2001.
Why do those dates seem kind of familiar to me? I wonder if there couldn't have been some horrible thing that had happened to our country, like, a week or two before those polls that would have caused 92% of all of us to rally around our president in a fit of patriotic fervor. Something that he maybe could have exploited to pull us into a destructive, unnecessary and unpopular war a year and a half later.
Ah, my mind is a blank. Was that maybe around the time that Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor came out?
Go back to Day 93.
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I don't recall really liking Bush after 9/11, but I know it did make me temporarily forget why I really hated him. Temporarily. By the time he gave Saddam Hussein an ultimatum for war in 2003, I was yelling profanities at him through the TV screen. He brought our hopes up so high and then dashed them by running in the wrong direction… and now Osama Bin Ladin is still at large and Iraq is struggling to avoid slipping into total civil war.