Ya' know how dumb the average guy is?

It's an old joke, but it turns out we're not that dumb after all. Zogby, via Atrios...

President Bush’s job approval rating dipped two points in the last three weeks, despite the foiling of an airline terror plot and the adoption of a cease–fire deal between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows.

"…despite."

Well, despite Zogby's apparent expectations, Americans just aren't dumb enough to believe that George Bush merits any credit whatsoever for Scotland Yard foiling an embryonic threat or the current end, however tenuous or temporary, to the deaths of innocents in Israel and Lebanon.

Bush, on the other hand, seems to be stupid enough to believe that Americans are that dumb.