From Foxnews.com:
WASHINGTON — A liberal advocacy group plans to spend $8.5 million in a drive to make sure President Bush's public approval doesn't improve as his days in the White House come to an end.
Ok, to be fair, Americans United for Change (the group highlighted here) does not think Bush is going for a third term. Instead, their goal is to make sure Bush's approval rating does not improve during his last year in office.
Am I missing something here? There has to be at least 134 more important causes out there that could use $8.5 million. This group is going to spend a considerable amount of money to make sure everyone continues to think Bush is a bad president. Here's my question - is this campaign going to continue for the next 50 years? Because that's how long it will take to really figure out if Bush was a good or bad President. For all intents and purposes, Americans United for Change might as keep the money, and throw a bang-up post Oscar party for all the nut-job liberals in Hollywood. It'll do just as much good.
Or how about donating money to one of the Democrats actually running for office? Edwards and Kucinich's campaigns are on life-support and could certainly use some far left-wing money. Oh well - if this group wants to waste their money, then more power to them. At least it's going into the economy and not to some stupid scientists studying the impact of cow burps on the environment.
As a side note, one of the "failures" Americans United for Change blame on Bush is the current mortgage crisis. That is awesome. I remember when we bought our house a couple years ago. One night, Katie and I were figuring out what we could afford. All of sudden George W. Bush busts into our apartment and tries to sell us on an adjustable rate mortgage.
"Katie, Bobby - listen to me," George said. "You can get twice the house for the same payment if you just go with a sub-prime mortgage. Don't worry about the fact that when the rate changes in three years, you won't be able to afford Ramen noodles and ketchup. Just look at all the cool houses you can get."
Fortunately, I was able to resist the persuasions of the President. Other people - namely idiots - did not. So yeah - George W. Bush is totally to blame for the mortgage crisis. He set it all up prior to going to New Orleans and setting up the explosives on the levies.
