So who's part of the 29%?
I beg to differ, Gumbeau. We elect 'em (allegedly), we can judge and criticize their actions. Supposedly elected officials serve those who elect them. Yes in some cases, history may bear out that we were overly harsh in the moment, but I don't think that willl be the case with Bush
Saintmdterps, we've had this discussion frequently in the past year, particularly in relation to the "Worst President Ever" tag, which you'll recall was a MoveOn.org slogan and bumpersticker for the 2004 election.
As Gumbeau pointed out, there's so much we do not know at this point that it's most definitely wrong to draw valid conclusions at this point.
For a few samples, we don't have to look very far.
FDR had polio and couldn't walk without assistance, but any cameraman taking a picture of FDR in his wheelchair quickly got his camera (and his arm) broken by the Secret Service. It was long after his death before pictures emerged of him being carried around, loaded and unloaded from cars and trains. The American public that voted for him didn't have a clue at the time.
The press corps was well-aware of JFK's dalliances with Marilyn Monroe in the White House, but he was dead for 20 years before that information saw the light of day.
We are still in the process of declassifying the deaths of Air Force crews that were shot down spying on Russia in the 1950s and 1960s. That only happened after evidence began emerging in Russia that they captured some of those men and they eventually died in prison in Siberia.
Lyndon Johnson created the Tonkin Gulf Incident which led to a 98-2 Senate vote to authorize the use of force in Vietnam. It would be 30 years before the information was declassified to reveal that the entire incident was a CIA operation.
Why wouldn't we declassify all the documents on 9/11? Well, to answer that, we'd have to know what operations were being run from offices in the World Trade Center, wouldn't we?
If the operations are still classified, the locations of those offices are still classified and so are the documents relating to 9/11 that refer to those offices and even the names of the people who worked in them.
Did you know that there are certain military courses which issue you a new Social Security Number when you graduate? :)