George W. Bush is not President

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/george-w-bush-favorable-rating-lowest-living-president-100010623.html  A piece of true trivia.  He is not President any longer.  He is retired and although I am sure he has influence, he has decided that the most important thing now is his Presidential Library.  I liked the man and I approved of his Presidency and under normal circumstances I would enumerate why I feel that way, I will not.  Why?, because the writers of articles like this and the survey behind them do not care to analyze the reasons for the respondent’s opinions.  What do you like and what do you not like?  Why do you like this or that?  What actions or inactions did you approve or disapprove?  All of these things are lost in this kind of report because CNN and the surveyors just measure popularity.  Do you like him or not like him?  Hey, let’s all be fair and admit that in our job or family or community or even church, that there are people who simply do not like us.  They may not know us.  They may not ever have spoken to us.  They may not know anything about what we think and why we think it.  But they do not like us.  It is like when we were children and there were kids on the block that everybody knew were not likeable.  And there were kids in the school playground that everybody knew were not to be played with.  And in the classroom, everybody knew not to talk to this person or sit at the same table with that person.  Childish? Obviously!  Sadly, such things among children can lead to abuse and bullying.  The young girl in South Hadley, Massachusetts, who committed suicide was a victim or being disliked because everybody knew that she was not to be liked.  We reject such thinking as dangerous for children.  Is it dangerous for a nation.