If you haven’t already seen it, CNN offers one of the more unintentionally-hilarious reports in a long time. The headline gets the ball rolling nicely: “Nation split on Bush as uniter or divider.”
On the eve of President Bush’s inauguration, a poll shows the nation is split over whether he has united or divided the nation, but a majority believe his inauguration festivities should be toned down because of the war.
During the 2000 campaign, Bush promised to be a “uniter, not a divider.”
Forty-nine percent of 1,007 adult Americans said in phone interviews they believe Bush is a “uniter,” according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday. Another 49 percent called him a “divider,” and 2 percent had no opinion.
The results nearly match those of a poll taken in October 2004, which showed 48 percent considered Bush a “uniter” and 48 percent called him a “divider,” with 4 percent having no opinion.
Do you suppose CNN even realizes how amusing this is?