On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 07:38:46 GMT, Nate Perkins
wrote:

"Dan White" wrote in
:

"Nate Perkins" wrote in message
25.201...

Bush is the only guy I've ever seen that can do endlessly stupid
things and still be considered a heroic man of virtue to his
followers.


Maybe you should consider taking the blinders off and try to change
your paradigm for just a minute. Did you consider that maybe the
majority of the population that reelected him knows something that you
clueless to?

You mean the same majority that has insights like this?
http://www.harrisinteractive.com/har...ex.asp?PID=508

Having just looked at that poll, the "majority" agreed with the
following:
" * 90 percent of U.S. adults believe that Saddam Hussein would have
made weapons of mass destruction if he could have.
* 76 percent believe that the Iraqis are better off now than they were
under Saddam Hussein.
* 63 percent believe that history will give the U.S. credit for
bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq.
* 63 percent believe that Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, was a serious
threat to U.S. security.
* 62 percent believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links to Al Qaeda
(a claim which Vice President Cheney has made more than President Bush)."

Those are not unsupportable claims.

Now, what you are continually railing about were *NOT* supported by the
*majority* of those polled, i.e.:
" * 41 percent believe that Saddam Hussein helped plan and support the
hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
* 38 percent believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the
U.S. invaded.
* 37 percent actually believe that several of the hijackers who
attacked the U.S. on September 11 were Iraqis."

Note to Nate: 41 percent is only a majority if you are President Clinton
running for office.

Now, more importantly, you continue to use this as an example of how the
Republicans who voted for Bush are a bunch of morons and believed the above
claims. Take a look further down in the poll where the population sample
is identified:
"a nationwide cross section of 1,016 adults (ages 18 and over) of whom 405
prefer George W. Bush and 362 prefer John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential
Election."

i.e., only 40% of the poll sample preferred Bush, and 36%
preferred Kerry.

So, if you are [mis]using this poll to bash Bush supporters, you
better take another look.




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