George W. Bush tops Obama in presidents poll

[Adam Dicker]

According to a new Gallup Poll, more Americans think favorably of the job done by former President George W. Bush now than they did when he was in office.

When he left office in 2009, Bush's job approval rating was around 34 percent. The new poll, which asked people to retrospectively rate his performance, put Bush's approval rating at 47 percent. That's one point higher than current President Barack Obama's job approval rating in a Gallup Poll conducted the same week.

Full Article:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.s...w_bushs_j.html

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[ilovedomains]

I wonder why? Obama tries so hard to comprimise and nobody appreciates his efforts

http://lambasting.com/picts/obamacave.jpg

[randomo]

This is a standard phenomenon. Years after the fact, as their memories grew hazy, many people developed warm recollections of Nixon as well.

[PRED]

This is a standard phenomenon. Years after the fact, as their memories grew hazy, many people developed warm recollections of Nixon as well.

yep
outgoing 'leaders' always do better as time marches on. i would guess their approval rating goes through roof when they die
hurry up dubya

[TravelFastpitch]

Bush was and still is the better President. I expect Obama's ratings to get much lower before it is all said and done.

[Gerry]

This is a standard phenomenon. Years after the fact, as their memories grew hazy, many people developed warm recollections of Nixon as well.

Yeah, revered especially after Frost. It showed a vulnerability to him and gave him a quality that almost felt sorry for him.

[think]

It's because Bush was fiscally responsible......

[Gerry]

It's because Bush was fiscally responsible......

...and a humanitarian.

[think]

...and a humanitarian.

I would add defender of constitution as well but Obama's continuation of parts of the Patriot act has proven to me who the true constitutional scholar is...

[Gerry]

I would add defender of constitution...

...and an economic genius,

[think]

Of course we are talking about the same American public where 18% believe Obama is a Muslim:

Poll: Number Of Americans Who Think Obama Is A Muslim Nearly Doubles

The number of Americans who say President Obama is a Muslim has nearly doubled since March 2009, according to a new poll from Pew out today. The poll finds that 18% of Americans say the president -- who, it should be said for the record, is a practicing Christian -- is a Muslim. That's up from 11% who said the same thing in March of last year.

At the same time, a new poll from Time magazine shows a widespread distrust of Islam among Americans, and an overwhelming opposition to the Cordoba House project in Manhattan. The Time poll also found that 24% of Americans say Obama is a Muslim.

No group is more convinced of the president's Muslim faith than conservative Republicans. The Pew poll found 34% of them say Obama is a Muslim, which is an increase from 18% in the March 2009 survey. The number is not that much different from Republicans overall -- 31% of all Republicans surveyed by Pew said Obama practices Islam, and 24% of "moderate and liberal" members of the GOP said the same thing.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...ly-doubles.php

25% of Americans don't believe or question whether Obama was born in the United States:

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The president celebrates his 49th birthday Wednesday. On the same day, a new national poll indicates some Americans continue to doubt the president was born in the United States. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, more than a quarter of the public have doubts about Obama's citizenship, with 11 percent saying Obama was definitely not born in the United States and another 16 percent saying the president was probably not born in the country....

...

"Not surprisingly, there are big partisan differences, although a majority of Republicans thinks Obama was definitely or probably born here," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Eighty-five percent of Democrats say that Obama was definitely or probably born in the U.S., compared to 68 percent of independents and 57 percent of Republicans. Twenty-seven percent of Republicans say he was probably not born here, and another 14 percent of Republicans say he was definitely not born in the U.S."...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...s-born-in-u-s/

90% of Americans didn't know they got a tax cut from Obama. 50% of those people thought their taxes remained the same and over 33% actually thought their taxes went up:

A recent poll showed that over half of the people surveyed believe their taxes remained the same while almost one third believe their taxes went up during the Obama Administration.
A New York Times/CBS News poll conducted last month showed that one out of ten respondents were unaware that the Obama Administration actually lowered taxes for most of Americans during his first two years in office.


Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/articl...#ixzz186A6o5qE
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/299138

And 40% of Americans STILL BELIEVE Iraq was involved with 9/11:

Today, more than 7 years into the war in Iraq, as many as 4 in 10 Americans still believe Saddam Hussein's regime was directly involved in financing, planning or carrying out the terrorist attacks on 9/11, even though there has been no evidence to support a connection.

It seems not to matter that every official federal probe, like the 9/11 Commission, has exposed this myth, in high profile reports. Yet the percentage of Americans clinging to the Iraq connection has declined only slightly in the past years.

Just weeks after the 9/11 terrorists attacks, the first links between Saddam and al-Qaida was alleged by the administration. It came from then Vice President Dick Cheney, who said it had been "pretty well confirmed" that Mohamed Atta, the man held responsible for masterminding the Sept. 11 hijackings, had met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official in April 2000, an allegation congressional investigators later dismissed.

On May 1st, 2003 from the deck of the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, Bush declared victory in Iraq. He said, "We have removed an ally of al-Qiada and cut off a source of terrorist funding." He then went on to say, "The liberation in Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror."
http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-j...lved-with-9-11

So ya, I guess it doesn't surprise me that Bush would poll ahead of Obama with Americans considering the reality they think they are living......

[Mike Cruz]

Of course we are talking about the same American public where 18% believe Obama is a Muslim:



25% of Americans don't believe or question whether Obama was born in the United States:



90% of Americans didn't know they got a tax cut from Obama. 50% of those people thought their taxes remained the same and over 33% actually thought their taxes went up:



And 40% of Americans STILL BELIEVE Iraq was involved with 9/11:





So ya, I guess it doesn't surprise me that Bush would poll ahead of Obama with Americans considering the reality they think they are living......

Nicely done..

[Gerry]

Of course we are talking about the same American public where 18% believe Obama is a Muslim:

Actually, the last I heard that number had increased to 23%. It surprised the pollsters because during the primary and elections, there was so much noise made about this association with a radical preacher in Chicago.

The surprise was how quickly people seemed to have forgotten all about the controversy surrounding Obama's preacher Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obviously, that controversy did not stick. So now comes the Muslim connection - a rise from 18% to 23%.

Hey, I don't make up the numbers...I just pass em along.

[Gee]

good presidents rules with alot of controversy but end history in appreciation

bad presidents starts with alot of appreciations and rules with tons of justifications then end in despair

I think Obama will be the Black dot in american history, one of the worst american presidents

there is no comparison between bush and obama!

[think]

good presidents rules with alot of controversy but end history in appreciation

bad presidents starts with alot of appreciations and rules with tons of justifications then end in despair

I think Obama will be the Black dot in american history, one of the worst american presidents

there is no comparison between bush and obama!

Spoken with true conviction. What actions did Bush take to make you come to your conclusion that he is a better president than Obama?

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good presidents rules with alot of controversy but end history in appreciation

bad presidents starts with alot of appreciations and rules with tons of justifications then end in despair

I think Obama will be the Black dot in american history, one of the worst american presidents

there is no comparison between bush and obama!

By the way. Was the mid sentence capitalization a Freudian slip or intentional?

[Gerry]

To some, it appears that the title of Worst President is defined by those congressional members elected to represent us refusing to work with the president and pass needed legislation because of either the President's political party or color of his skin.

For all those that supported and voted for the GOP during mid term elections, those candidates that promised change...what is the first thing they said when the elections were over?

We will continue to block any legislation

Yeah, how's that for change...a continuation and stranglehold by the Party of NO.

[fab]

good presidents rules with alot of controversy but end history in appreciation

bad presidents starts with alot of appreciations and rules with tons of justifications then end in despair

I think Obama will be the Black dot in american history, one of the worst american presidents

there is no comparison between bush and obama!

I agree whole heartedly!

By the way. Was the mid sentence capitalization a Freudian slip or intentional?

In Arabic there are no capital letters.

[Raider]

According to a new Gallup Poll, more Americans think favorably of the job done by former President George W. Bush now than they did when he was in office.

When he left office in 2009, Bush's job approval rating was around 34 percent. The new poll, which asked people to retrospectively rate his performance, put Bush's approval rating at 47 percent. That's one point higher than current President Barack Obama's job approval rating in a Gallup Poll conducted the same week.

Full Article:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.s...w_bushs_j.html

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Rasmussen had Bush up in another poll long before this poll came out... I had it in my sig for quite a while.

But the recent jump in Gallup has a lot to do with the release of GW's new book and his interviews on the networks to help jump start sales, When he appears in these interviews, he's clearly not the same man we saw for 8 years as President, he's no longer careful about he says, He's quick, outspoken and very bright... He's the Man we all saw during the 2000 Campaign, Very smart, very likable.

But the core reason for these poll numbers I think is the current state of our economy, I don't think most of us thought it would grow worse after 2 years in.... I think the American people see the obvious, they realize we have a President and Congress who's incapable of lifting us out of it, The recent landslide in our mid-term election is proof of that. I think a lot of people look back at Bush and think to themselves; "Things were bad but they weren't this bad".

Most Americans realize the policies of the Obama administration have been incredibly reckless... Businesses don't want to hire because their uncertain what the future holds in taxes and new regulations like Health Care. In short, the American people realize the following;

1. You cannot spend your way out of a recession
2. You cannot regulate the economy into oblivion and expect it to function
3. You cannot tax people and businesses to the point of near slavery and expect them to keep producing
4. You cannot create an abundance of money out of thin air without making all that paper worthless
5. The government cannot make up for rising unemployment by just hiring all the out of work people to be bureaucrats or send them unemployment checks forever
6. You cannot live beyond your means indefinitely
7. The economy must actually produce something others are willing to buy.

The decline in poll numbers for Obama is clearly a rejection of his policies of the last 2 years.... No question.

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For all those that supported and voted for the GOP during mid term elections, those candidates that promised change...what is the first thing they said when the elections were over?

We will continue to block any legislation

Yeah, how's that for change...a continuation and stranglehold by the Party of NO.

I'd rather vote for the party of "NO" than the Party of "YES" who added 3 TRILLION Dollars to the National debt in less than 18 months.

Oh wait, I just checked... Were now on the brink of passing 14 TRILLION

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

The party of YES...

YEAH!!!!

[think]

Some day Americans will wake up the the fact that the reason we spend so much on the military is to protect the assets around the world of multinational corporations that refuse to pay taxes and demand tax holidays so they can keep all the money they make outsourcing American jobs.

Personally I am tired of America paying to protect these international thieves like Halliburton. Cheney, the draft dodging war mongering whore, should be rotting in a prison in Nigeria for those bribery charges he just paid more bribes to get out of.......

I could care less about the presidential popularity contest. Because most Americans don't even understand that Bush started this onslaught by cutting taxes and not expenses. Then he put all our money into a war based on lies to attack a country that never attacked us while ignoring the needs of the American infrastructure.

What a brilliant economic plan. Bush is the only leader in history to go to war and cut taxes. No seriously Raider. Find one other leader anywhere in history who cut taxes and went to war. It's a recipe for disaster and Bush left it for someone else to fix.

You talk of things you can't do in government Raider and this is it. You can't cut taxes and go to war and just think everything will be rosy. Go ahead. Tell me how this was a brilliant plan. I'm listening....

Clinton left Bush with a budget surplus. Bush chose to cut taxes with out cutting expenses and put America in the whole it's in. Remember that Raider? Or is that too far in the past for you to care about?

So go ahead and raise those pompoms for corporate thieves like Halliburton Raider. They appreciate your blind allegiance to their profits........

[Raider]

Clinton left Bush with a budget surplus.

Let's clarify that;... Although it's true the Clinton Administration left the White House with a budget surplus, it was a Republican house and Senate who delivered it.

And I'm not suggesting we should cut, cut and cut taxes to spur economic growth, cutting taxes is just one ingredient of many, I think Government overreach and the excess over regulation of big and small business is what's really hurting us, add to that this climate of uncertainty Obama created since taking office, when they hear the President saying he's going to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire and they hear congress pushing a cap and trade bill that's going to nearly double our electricity bills, and they hear businesses will have to provide health care coverage for all their employees., How does that grow business? how does that create jobs and jump start our economy?

When Obama signs a 1/2 TRILLION dollar Omnibus bill loaded with pork and earmarks, and doesn't even read it, where is the accountability in that? Bush did the same thing, why don't they borrow a page from Ronald Reagan and veto it?.. Send it back to those spending bastards in congress and tell them to remove all the pork?... Were 14 TRILLION dollars in debt for God sake and we have a President who spends like a drunken Liberal. I know he's your man and everything, but where is your intellectual honesty that says this President has been irresponsible with our Money?

And this Bush comparison, that doesn't wash well Do you know why? I never agreed with Bush on fiscal policy, I'll say that again; "I never agreed with Bush on fiscal policy" You and some others have been making that assumption for far too long. If using Bush is your only line of defense to cover up for 2 years of reckless spending by a President you support, then it's pointless even debating with you.

So go ahead and raise those pompoms for corporate thieves like Halliburton Raider. They appreciate your blind allegiance to their profits........

"Halliburton" Can you name me one other contractor capable of doing the same job for less in the same amount of time?