Last week, a Pew Research Center poll had George Bush at a 28 percent approval rating, the worst of his presidency. According to the History News Network, an unscientific poll of historians conducted the same week has 61 percent saying that his presidency is the worst in the history of the United States.

Another 31 percent had him in the bottom 10, while only four of the 109 historians polled had him in the top 30.

Ninety-eight percent of the respondents judged W's presidency a "failure," while less than 2 percent said it was a "success." But you know what?

That 2 percent were the ones who were right.

So, Michelle Obama has pissed off FOX News and the right wing with her comment:
For the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of this country.

Now, I'm 53 (as of tomorrow), and so my adult life pretty much parallels Michelle Obama's.

So here's what I want to know.

I am not a religious person. But this is a story that is worth telling.

On a frigid night, Feb. 3, 1943, the Allied ship Dorchester plowed through the waters near Greenland.

At 1 am, a Nazi submarine fired a torpedo into its flank, killing hundreds in the explosion and trapping others below deck.

In the ensuing chaos, four chaplains: a Priest, a Rabbi and two Protestant Ministers; distributed life jackets.

ABC is reporting that Barack Obama has added Arnold Schwarzenegger to the list of Republicans he would consider for his cabinet were he to be elected president. At a Town Hall meeting in Manchester, NH, Obama cited Arnold, Chuck Hagel and Dick Lugar as "wonderful guys" and "people he respected."

Here's what he had to say:

My husband is a retired sportswriter who has just started making a little cash doing freelance pieces for SI Online. His first piece was about Michael Vick and Atlanta's reaction to the charges against him.

In the piece (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/nfl/07/19/vickreact/index.html), Bill McCloskey, veteran and revered bartender at Manuel's Tavern (which Atlanta Kossacks are very familiar with) says, "This is bigger than Ray Lewis."

Jack Kingston, Rep. GA, had this to say about Nancy Pelosi's decision to make the House work longer hours -- longer that is than their usual Wednesday to Thursday night hours:

Keeping us up here eats away at families. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says.

But what does he have to say about the minimum wage legislation? Um, well:

[If people would marry and work longer hours], they would be out of poverty. It's an economic fact.

Japan is well on its way to creating a coalition of countries that will vote this week to overturn the ban on whaling that has been in existence since 1986. They accomplished this by bribing smaller, poorer nations -- many of which are landlocked and have no conceivable dog in this fight -- with aid money in return for their support of a vote to overturn the ban on whaling.

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So everybody's talking about George Deutch and his humiliating departure from NASA, but we need to remember that every agency, every authority, every department in the U.S. government is filled with George Deutches. A comment by 2lucky linked to this story about Bush political flunkies disassembling the weapons knowledge inside the State Department:
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/...

Pat Tillman played football for the Arizona Cardinals until shortly after 9/11 when he enlisted in the Army. He was sent to Afghanistan where he was killed by what was eventually found to be "friendly fire." Ann Coulter and the loons of the right adopted Tillman's story with all the enthusiasm of a Republican discussing logging all the Old Growth forests.

I've never posted a diary before, and I've tried very hard to get the coding right. Please excuse any errors. I just thought this was worth sharing.

The following is from a Georgia Republican website.

The site also quotes an entry from the Atlanta Journal Constitution's Vent, a section people email or call with witty, angry or random comments they feel they must share. The quote:
"Ralph Reed reminds me of the piano player in the brothel who has no idea why all those ladies are sitting around in their nighties."

It's fun to watch them eat their own.