Michael Moore is your example of the media?  Pathetic.  That's like quoting left-leaning websites on the internet as the media.  I honestly hope you don't think you gave a remotely valid counterexample.

Congress always has a lower approval rating than the President.  People only vote for a few of the representatives so they are more than willing to criticize Congress as a whole.  I don't really see where you are going with the low approval rating for Congress, since the Republicans are the ones dragging down the numbers as expressed by how people voted.  The Democrats gained at least 7 seats in the Senate (2 are still undecided) and around 20 seats in the House.  If anything, that is more evidence that people across the nation are dissatisfied with Bush and the Republicans in Congress.

I don't really know how you can spin that any other way.

Using post 9/11 support as a  reason why the media isn't biased is kinda stupid.

I mean, almost EVERYONE supported bush post 9/11 for a while.  Most people will fall behind their leader in a time of crisis no matter how much they disagree with him.

Ok fine Akuma, the media loved bush all along. They loved him the whole time they were saying he stole the 2000 election... Loving him all the time,

Also My statement is broader than just the media. In Education circles, and in Celebrity statements Bush hatred has been exteme and undeserved.

I think the most ridiculous attribution of evil to Bush was Katrina... I still am shocked they were able to somehow convince the blind masses that Katrina was some how Bush's fault, the Iraqi war? Come on, Like the President sets the War stategy... The only presidents ever capible of that were Eisenhower andf Washington... Maybe Grant...

The 2000 election was one of the closest presidential elections of all time, and if you win an election that's incredibly close, you're bound to be accused of "stealing" the election by at least a decent portion of the media. If Al Gore won, there would likely be a decent portion of the media (most likely conservative media) saying that he stole the election.

And I'd agree that Katrina wasn't Bush's fault. After all, he'd have to be some sort of devious sorcerer to conjure up a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic and hurl it towards a major U.S. city. No, I wouldn't say Bush was responsible for the hurricane. And a better idea would have been to not enter Iraq at all.

Well I see we agree on that, I was never saying "Bush was an awsome president" I just think he is alot better than he is getting credit for. And yes, had the supreme court allowed the Hanging and dimpled and whatever chads to be counted the Talk radio would have accused him of stealing the election, and yes radio did blame everything on Clinton in the 90s... The difference is that there was not some much vile hatred. There wasn't celebrity openly trashing clinton, it was more civil (but undeserved)

I really won't miss Bush that much. His time is done and its time for a change.

i will miss him because he always made me laugh

You ask this question like we'll have a chance to miss him. If there's any justice in this world (and I'm not sure there is), we'll be seeing him for years to come in court and at the War Crimes tribunal.

You act like the American public will believe whatever their told simply because the media says it.  If that were true, the majority of Americans would think that Obama was close buddies with former terrorists, was a religious zealot, and might even be a Muslim.  Yet a recent survey said that 75% of Americans think Obama will be a good or a great president, even though only 52% of people in this country voted for him.

And as far as I know no one claimed "Katrina" was Bush's fault, however, they did claim that the slow and half-hearted response of the federal government to the hurricane was Bush's fault.  The reason why I fault Bush for the Katrina mess was because he wasn't willing to take responsibility for it even after the federal government had obviously dropped the ball.

He turned it into a blaming game.  The Bush Administration tried to blame the Louisiana governor and the mayor of New Orleans for failing to declare a state of emergency (which they did several days before the hurricane even hit land), and then got in a power struggle over whether or not to allow the National Guard intervene.  Bush visited the governor and said that they would only help out if she surrendered all her executive authority, which her advisors told her not to do since it could have a lot of severe repercussions and would allow the federal government to pin any mishandling of the situation on Louisiana, who had handled the situation as best they could with their limited resources as a state.  Ironically, other states who had no obligation to help had already done so.

In response, the Bush Administration twittled its thumbs allowing thousands of people to remain stranded and helpless.  They were sitting there playing politics (coincidentally trying to get Democratic officials in Louisiana to take the fall) while people were suffering.  That is completely irresponsible.  The media did the country and the Katrina victims a favor when it started lambasting the federal government for doing nothing whatsoever, which then triggered a quick federal response. 

The Bush Administration deserved to get tarred and feathered for Katrina (which most political analysts would say was the beginning of the end in terms of Bush's approval rating) since they handled it so poorly, and even when they spun the story spun it very poorly.  Putting politics and spinning headlines ahead of helping people in need when you have the constitutionally vested power to do so is extremely irresponsible.

And now you are trying to exculpate Bush from the Iraq War?  Even if he wasn't responsible for mishandling the ground level operations, he was one of the biggest cheerleaders of the invasion, and stretched the conflicting evidence that Iraq had nuclear weapons as much as he could to justify invading a country who had yet to commit any overt acts against us.  You can't act like he has no responsibility for what happened in Iraq when the Bush Administration was the driving force behind the invasion, which no one else ever even suggested.

Not me, Go to Washington and throw your shoes at him when he leaves.

I think its telling that Obama's inauguration is making bigger news than Bush's or Cheney's media sign off. Though it is sickening to hear them make the same excuses over and over again.

I hope he is remembered like Nixon, the worst president to ever exist.

I hope he starts drinking again and rots his liver so he pisses in a bag for the rest of his life.
I hope its in a prison cell. I hope his wife leaves him for a woman.

I hope the new Secret Service rule, that SS protection is only covered by the gov. for 10 years after leaving office,works in favour of some hurt, broken and disgusted Iraqi soldiers family, suicidal brokers wife or whoever.

I hope someone ends up finding him in texas on his 50 acre ranch in his whiter than white neighbourhood while he's getting fat off american tax payers, who are starving, and really gets through to him.

I had to vent. Excuse me if you found that offensive but theres about 4000 american family's who might find something else a little bit more offensive than what i said.