P lease someone wake me from this nightmare.

Is it true that almost 60 percent of us disapprove of the most powerful person in the country and arguably the world?

The person who is capable of so much has done so little right in the eyes of the American people. The person who has the power to change the world for the better has already caused so much death and destruction.

According to CBS News, only 34 percent of the nation approves of how President Bush is doing, and only 18 percent have a favorable view of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Between the war, social security, unemployment, hurricane Katrina and many other unflattering issues, Bush has built himself quite a reputation. To think, the man the American people supposedly thought was “the best man for the job” turned out to be worse than all of those before him. Except for his dad and Richard Nixon, who resigned facing impeachment.

So what’s this telling us? Perhaps it’s that the Electoral College is a sham and isn’t electing who we want to represent us. Well, that may be true considering he lost in 2000 and still managed to win the presidency.

Maybe it’s telling us a two-party system doesn’t work and no matter what, whoever takes on the responsibility of president has 50 percent of the nation against them. I don’t believe that.

It could be telling us campaigns aren’t working and they cause candidates to make promises they never plan on keeping, shielding us from a truly informed choice.

I’ve got it!

It’s that democracy as a whole isn’t working and instead of electing someone who will represent us, we are electing a dictator who will do as they please.

Calm down, I’m not a communist.

What I would like to know is, how can a person who promotes democracy around the world as the only means to a productive and prosperous country, operate outside democracy himself?

“You know, I know people make a big deal out of these things. If I worried about polls I would be” I wouldn’t be doing my job. And I fully understand that when you do hard things it creates consternation at times, and you know, I’ve been up in the polls and I’ve been down in the polls and, you know, it’s just part of life,” stated by George Bush as taken from ABC Online.

Pollsters such as Gallup are obvious representations of the people. They are unbiased, bipartisan entities that poll everything and everyone. This shows they’re a true representation of the people.

Polls should be the most useful tool for a president and any other elected official. Polls shouldn’t be used to simply as a means to get reelected.

A president who ignores polls and says if he were to pay them attention, he “wouldn’t be doing [his] job” is calculating. It opens the door to crass decisions motivated by personal bias and agenda.

Thirty-two percent of the people approve of how Bush has responded to hurricane Katrina.

Thirty percent approve of how he’s handling the war on Iraq, yet nothing has changed and it’s still going on.

Forty-three percent approve of how he’s handling “the war on terror.” Isn’t that supposed to be his strong point? Isn’t that supposed to be why we’re in Iraq? Wasn’t he the one that even made that saying up?

Why have we elected a man that even campaigned on the fact that he makes decisions quickly and follows through without delay? It’s understandable that we need a leader who will make decisions, but we should be embracing a leader who makes the decisions for us, not for themselves. A leader who doesn’t ignore our concerns and pays attention to the majority view not the minority agenda.

Bush is failing. He’s taken his role as a free-for-all. He’s successfully completed his agenda, ignoring the American people. He’s ignored our cries to end the war on Iraq after it began on still unclear reasoning. He has racked up an astonishing deficit of more than $8 trillion. According to NPR Bush has put us into the highest debt percentage since 1955 when we were paying off war bonds. He hasn’t even responded adequately in times of crisis. A congressional report on hurricane Katrina found that the response to it a “failure of leadership.”

You hired him, now why not fire him?

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