{"id":166,"date":"2005-11-28T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=166"},"modified":"2005-11-28T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2005-11-28T22:08:08","slug":"newsdaycom-poll-dems-barbs-hurt-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/newsdaycom-poll-dems-barbs-hurt-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we talk? Or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A majority of Americans distrust Duhbya and <\/p>\n

dislike Cheney (even fear\/hate\/loathe him). A majority believes we were ‘manipulated’ into war. A majority gives at least lip service <\/p>\n

to freedom of speech and dissent. Yet, a majority believes talking about the war hurts troop morale. So, are we to just shut up or is <\/p>\n

lowered morale the price we must pay to get at the truth? mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Newsday.com: <\/p>\n

Poll: Dems’ barbs hurt troops<\/a> THE WASHINGTON POST<\/p>\n

[A] new poll conducted Nov. 17-20 indicates most Americans are sympathetic <\/p>\n

to Cheney’s point. Seventy percent of people said that criticism of the war by Democratic senators hurts troop morale – with 44 percent <\/p>\n

saying morale is hurt “a lot,” according to a poll taken by RT Strategies.<\/p>\n

Even self-identified Democrats agree: 55 percent <\/p>\n

believe criticism hurts morale, while 21 percent say it helps morale.
\n—–<\/p>\n

As VP goes on attack, poll numbers fall off<\/a> CHICAGO <\/p>\n

TRIBUNE<\/p>\n

The vice president\u2019s hard-line language fires up the conservative base that remains fond of Cheney, it does not appear to <\/p>\n

impress much of the rest of the country. Polls show Cheney is less popular than Bush, who himself is suffering from the lowest ratings of <\/p>\n

his presidency.<\/p>\n

Cheney\u2019s image has not been helped by such moves as his decision to attend an upcoming fundraiser for Rep. Tom <\/p>\n

DeLay, R-Texas, the in-dicted former House majority leader. A cartoon in The Washington Post recently showed a glowering Cheney, angry <\/p>\n

that Bush pardoned the Thanksgiving turkey.<\/p>\n

Among Republicans, 80 percent in a Nov. 11-13 Gallup survey said they approved of <\/p>\n

Bush\u2019s job performance, while 68 percent ap-proved of Cheney\u2019s.<\/p>\n

A majority of all 1,006 voters surveyed rated Cheney\u2019s <\/p>\n

advice to the president as \u201cbad.\u201d<\/strong> [mjh: amen.]<\/span>
\n—–<\/p>\n

The Phony War Against the Critics<\/a> By <\/p>\n

Michael Kinsley<\/p>\n

“One might also argue,” Vice President Cheney said in a speech on Monday, “that untruthful charges against the <\/p>\n

commander in chief have an insidious effect on the war effort.” That would certainly be an ugly and demagogic argument, were one to make <\/p>\n

it. …<\/p>\n

Lest one fear that he might be saying that, Cheney immediately added, “I’m unwilling to say that” — <\/p>\n

“that<\/em>” being what he had just said.<\/strong> He generously granted critics the right to criticize (as did the president this <\/p>\n

week). Then he resumed hurling adjectives like an ape hurling coconuts at unwanted visitors. “Dishonest.” “Reprehensible.” “Corrupt.” <\/p>\n

“Shameless.” President Bush and others joined in, all morally outraged that anyone would accuse the administration of misleading us into <\/p>\n

war by faking a belief that Saddam Hussein possessed nuclear and\/or chemical and biological weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A majority of Americans distrust Duhbya and dislike Cheney (even fear\/hate\/loathe him). A majority believes we were ‘manipulated’ into war. A majority gives at least lip service to freedom of speech and dissent. Yet, a majority believes talking about the war hurts troop morale. So, are we to just shut up or is lowered morale … Continue reading Can we talk? Or not?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}