Bush ranks as the least popular recent Prez. JFK/Clinton most popular.

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=10616501&src=rss/topNews

President George W. Bush ranks as the least popular and most bellicose of the last ten U.S. presidents, according to a new survey.
Only nine percent of the 662 people polled picked Bush as their favorite among the last 10 presidents. John F. Kennedy topped that part of the survey, with 26 percent, closely followed by Bill Clinton (25 percent) and Ronald Reagan (23 percent).

Bush was also viewed as the most warlike president (43 percent), the worst for the economy (42 percent) and the least effective (33 percent). But he was rated most highly in response to a question on who would do the right thing even if it were unpopular.

The survey was conducted by the Chicago-based National Qualitative Centers, a marketing research company, as part of research for a forthcoming book on popular preferences, one of its authors, Ken Berwitz, said on Friday.

#1.most warlike president
#1.worst for the economy
#1.the least effective
#1.least favorite of the last ten presidents

So Americans believe that if they (and most other people) don't like a policy then *they, the citizens* must be wrong.

Now THAT is an interesting insight.

Fits perfectly with analyses of how adults view government as their 'parent': As a kid if I did not like my parent's policy it was probably one that was good for me -- at least that is what *they* said.

WHACKED too. :wtf:

n/t

Lincoln was ENORMOUSLY unpopular for the prosecution of the Civil War, right up until the fall of 1864 when Grant and Sherman finally seemed to be making real progress. It's easy to point out what's going wrong in Iraq now, but much more difficult to predict where it will be when Bush leaves office.

for invading a DEFENSELESS country that threatened NO ONE.

The f***** broke international law in that invasion. He LIED.

Let's respect History: Send him to the Hague!!!

:grr:

the right thing to do?

and after the 'HOLIDAYS', when reality once again settles in, his approval poll numbers will continue to decline.

:kick: