Pessimism sweeps America

Right-on. I cannot remember a time in my 58 years when the collective American spirit has been so far down, across the board.

It's about a lot more than the Iraq war, though that war symbolizes, else nothing else could everything that is wrong with this administration, our government, in general and our campaign/election process. in particular.

It's time for a new beginning...a revolution...hopefully a non-violent one; because if it errupts in violence, we will only have to repeat this god-awful nightmare sometime in the future.

Pessimism sweeps America | Capitol Hill Blue:

It's gloomy out there. Men and women, whites and minorities — all are feeling a war-weary pessimism about the country seldom shared by so many people.

Only 25 percent of those surveyed say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction, according to an AP-Ipsos poll this month. That is about the lowest level of satisfaction detected since the survey started in December 2003.

Rarely have longer-running polls found such a rate since the even gloomier days of 1992 ahead of the first President Bush's re-election loss to Democrat Bill Clinton.

The current glumness is widely blamed on public discontent with the war in Iraq and with President Bush. It is striking for how widespread the mood is among different groups of people.