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sabra

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Fri Jun-16-06 07:36 AM
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(Gallup) Americans' Retrospective Judgments of (Bill) Clinton Improving

http://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=23362

Americans' Retrospective Judgments of Clinton Improving
Ten-point increase in Clinton's retrospective approval rating

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll finds a significant increase in Americans' judgments of Bill Clinton's performance as president, as well as significant declines in reviews of the elder George Bush. Most other recent presidents' ratings have not changed in the last four years. John F. Kennedy remains the most positively rated of the former presidents tested, while Richard Nixon gets the lowest marks.

The June 1-4 Gallup Poll asked Americans for retrospective approval ratings on all U.S. presidents since Kennedy, using the following question wording:

From what you have heard, read, or remember about some of our past presidents, please tell me if you approve or disapprove of the way each of the following handled their job as president?

The results are as follows:

Approve Disapprove
% %

John F. Kennedy
84 9

Ronald Reagan
71 27

Jimmy Carter
61 34

Bill Clinton
61 38

Gerald Ford
60 26

The elder George Bush,
father of the current president
56 42

Lyndon Johnson
41 41

Richard Nixon
28 65

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hlthe2b

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Fri Jun-16-06 07:40 AM
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1. Well, Bush* the lesser has certainly upped Nixon's legacy...

Somewhere the original big Dick must be smiling....(although I can't imagine any former, but deceased President looking down on what we have now without letting out a collective, WTF?!)

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daleo

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Fri Jun-16-06 05:22 PM
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15. In Nixon's case, he would have to be looking up. n/t

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hlthe2b

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Fri Jun-16-06 05:29 PM
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16. yup....

good point.

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Aviation Pro

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Fri Jun-16-06 07:47 AM
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2. Malloy read a wonderful e-mail about Jimmy Carter last night

If you stand Carter up against Asshole one can quickly see why the chromosome-lacking, knuckle-dragging right despises the former: it turns out he's a giant of a man next to the mental pipsqueak.

I suggest we annoint Asshole with a new nom 'd plume (apologies to Eric the Midget): George the Midget.

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ItsTheMediaStupid

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Fri Jun-16-06 07:52 AM
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3. King George the Weasel

nm

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WCGreen

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Fri Jun-16-06 05:05 PM
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13. George the Lesser......

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Arkansas Granny

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Fri Jun-16-06 08:31 AM
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6. The reason the knuckle-dragging right despises Carter is

because he actually lives the Christian life that Bush claims to embrace, but doesn't seem to actually practice. Carter practices Christianity in a manner that gives to other people, whereas Bush appears to practice Christianity for what he can get from other people.

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Fri Jun-16-06 08:03 AM
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4. The mean old Americans are dying off

The spirit of liberation and enlightenment as developed in the civil rights movement and its spin-offs is still alive in the population. (The spin offs would be anti-war, environment, women's rights, tolerance, and maybe a few more)

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Demeter

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Fri Jun-16-06 08:19 AM
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5. I Wish That Were True

Part of the mean old Americans plan is to out-reproduce egalitarians, and through destroying public education and enshrining home schooling, indoctrinate ever-growing new generations of themselves. A culture of ignorance, superstition, hatread and patriarchy, one baby at a time. And they are succeeding (until the young ones get the corners knocked off them after leaving the nest. Trouble is, they are also trying to create a larger culture--a kind of plantation so that the young never see alternatives.)

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SheWhoMustBeObeyed

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Fri Jun-16-06 09:16 AM
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7. Mean old Americans like my parents who were staunch populists,

labor activists and Democratic campaigners? Their spirit of liberation and enlightenment was bolstered by the New Deal but had its birth in the labor and women's movements at the turn of the last century. Every generation has its share of reactionaries. Every movement births a backlash. With our short lives and shorter memories, we will never run out of mean old Americans.

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Fri Jun-16-06 09:34 AM
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8. Thank GOD he was the president

Any American who opposed him hates America and should be banished to Sibera.

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Fri Jun-16-06 03:20 PM
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11. That will be the day

when we see a Hispanic as president, especially a liberal one. This can only happen on TV. I can't even begin to fathom it because of the way the political system is set up and rigged against anyone who isn't a white, rich man. Any liberal will be pushed into conservatism like Clinton was. Talk about waste of tax money. Our tax money went to smear the president in any way they could so that his progressive programs would disappear. Evil Bastards!

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Fri Jun-16-06 09:50 AM
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9. But ! But !

What about the B___ J__ ????

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MGD

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Fri Jun-16-06 04:33 PM
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12. Hmmm, I guess in retrospect

a little oral sex doesn't seem so bad compared to wasting a trillion dollars and thousands of American lives over a war that was, arguably, needless and, undeniably, poorly executed.

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Cybergata

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Fri Jun-16-06 03:13 PM
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10. How could they put that evil murder Reagan so high on the list!!!

Reagan's administration supported the death of people through out Central America in the 80s. There are Archaeologists at this moment digging up mass graves in Guatemala trying to figure out who all these people are. Reagan didn't seem to be bothered at all that his "war on communism" in Central America was responsible for these mass graves. He was a murder. He also gutted public education. He lied, and lied, and lied over and over again. I don't doubt that the people who got him elected are no different than the people who got the Twig elected. Plus I have no doubt that they were behind the hostage taking in Iran. Doesn't anyone care to remember the Iran-Contra Scandal. The man committed even more crimes than the Twig has.

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daleo

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Fri Jun-16-06 05:21 PM
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14. I will never figure out the infatuation with Reagan

But the others seem reasonable to me (well, Ford is kind of high).

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Aviation Pro

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Fri Jun-16-06 05:57 PM
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17. Because moron Americans love their celebrity movie stars.....

Afterall, nothing bad ever happens to a movie star.

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Fri Jun-16-06 07:05 PM
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18. I don't think the judgement of Clinton was ever very negative.

He had 60%+ approval ratings in the summer of 2000, right after the impeachment.

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AX10

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Sun Jun-18-06 02:15 PM
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19. History will be very kind to Bill. The more * F$#&@ up...

the better Clinton will be proven to be.

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wabeewoman

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Sun Jun-18-06 03:09 PM
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20. The people have always throught highly

of Bill Clinton. Look at his polls as president. They were consistently in the 60's. Most people recognized the republican smear for what it was and felt they should stay out of his personal life. At least most of the people I know...

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dysfunctional press

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Sun Jun-18-06 10:34 PM
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21. NAFTA, WTO, Telecom Act, Defense of Marriage Act...

letting poppy & crew slide on the christmas pardons...

the deeper we sink, the more i tend to think that bill has been a willing participant.

sorry...

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