The United States Has Gone Mad. “Last Friday a friend of mine in California drove to his local supermarket with a sticker on his car saying: ‘Peace is also Patriotic’. It was gone by the time he’d finished shopping.”
I’ve been having to use AOL at work for testing, and I find it to be a sad reminder of what the average, middle america consumer thinks of things.
Yesterday or the day before there was a poll on the AOL Welcome screen that asked where you stood on the war against Iraq.
36% of people were strongly in favor of attacking, 20-something percent were in favor of attacking, third was strongly opposed with 21%, and with less then 20% was opposed to attacking.
I wish I had the numbers, but it’s not in the poll archive.
As for yesterday’s poll. It was asking about approval of how President Bush is handling his job:
37% strongly approve
32% Strongly disapprove
16% disapprove
14% approve
1% no opinion
I’m honestly surprised that the percentage of people opposed to Bush was so high. Even here on a supposed liberal college campus, I’m surrounded by an alarming number of pro-war & Bush students.
Matt | 15 Jan 2003
But like Alan Jackson said, “We’ll stick a boot in your ass, it’s the American Way.”
*hangs head in disappointment in the average american citizen*
I wanted a bumpersticker that says “United my Ass”, but then thought better of it: the country is still mourning–which is exactly why we’re in this mess. Bush is taking advantage of the collective inattention to work his bad mojo.
vis10n | 15 Jan 2003