"People do regard it as a desirable goal," Public Agenda Chairman Daniel Yankelovich said. "But from a common sense point of view, both Democrats and Republicans have concluded that democracy is something that countries come to on their own."
The American public also gets it when it comes to the oil problems with Bush only repeating what the public overwhelmingly already knew. The president's brave declaration of oil dependence must have received a collective "duh, no kidding" when he thought he was making such a bold statement during his SOTU address.
But poll directors noted Americans are also alarmed increasingly by U.S. energy dependence. Ninety percent in the survey Â? conducted in January, before President Bush's declaration in his State of the Union address that the country is "addicted to oil" Â? said it was important to find alternatives to foreign energy supplies to strengthen national security.
