Posted on 09/27/2006 8:49:33 AM PDT by lowbridge
The recent firestorm over former President Bill Clinton's culpability for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was fueled on Tuesday when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice contrasted President Bush's efforts to pursue al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with Clinton's efforts. Clinton has strongly denied various suggestions that his administration missed key opportunities to kill bin Laden and left the Bush administration without a comprehensive anti-terrorism strategy. However, Bush -- whom Clinton says did nothing about al-Qaeda for the first eight months of his presidency -- has the bigger image problem with Americans on the issue.
According to a recent Gallup Panel survey, the American public puts the primary blame on Bush rather than Clinton for the fact that bin Laden has not been captured. A majority of Americans say Bush is more to blame (53%), compared with 36% blaming Clinton.
Clinton's reputation in this matter is far from unblemished, however. A separate question in the Sept. 21-24 survey measures the degree to which each president is blamed for the failure to capture or kill bin Laden. Forty-two percent of Americans believe Clinton deserves either a great deal or a fair amount of blame, while only 32% say he deserves no blame. However, a larger number, 53%, assign a great deal or fair amount of blame to Bush for failing to track down bin Laden.
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Republicans and Democrats are largely divided into opposing camps on the question of who is more to blame for bin Laden's ability to evade capture: 71% of Republicans say Clinton is more to blame while 83% of Democrats hold Bush more responsible.
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Gay polls for an emasculated country.
Who did they poll? Union members and the ACLU? Im fairly certain this poll is skewed..
Why is this poll suprising? Most Americans never heard of UBL before 9/11.
gallup, eh? don't trust 'em. my guess is they don't want us using Clinton's culpability becasue it hurts the dems too much.
poppycock
The Poll asks the wrong question. They ask a question that gets the result they want. A better question would be who has or is doing more to combat Islamo Fascism, George Bush or Bill Clinton?
Given they didn't even know his name during Clinton's 'administration', this isn't surprising.
More push-polling. Getting more and more difficult to summon the interest to care when so many people appear so dead-set on being overtaken by events.
I'm thinking of the little girl with the Southern accent on the Shake and Bake commercials "And I helped". This is the position of the MSM with President Bush's image problem.
It is only by Divine intervention that Americans have not totally screwed up this country. Tens of millions of absolute idiots are hard to overcome.
Sheesh....it looks like part of the strategy of the Dems is to get into a neener neener neener match....about something in the past. Typical loonies. I think they they think this is the ONLY thing they can bank on for the upcoming elections.
Did anyone ever think to blame UBL for not being captured?......
That "little girl" is now a middle aged grandmother.......
Why are AP and Reuters not investigated as monopolies?
There are no other widely based news services in the US.
There should be inquiries into the effects of these two agencies on the public good.
Microsoft is a pussycat compared to these companies.
How long did it take for us to capture the Unabomber, Ted Bundy, The BTK killer, etc.?
I bet 42% is a lot higher than it would of been had he kept his mouth shut. He started everyone looking, and talking about his record.
Unfortunate bump.
Bill Clinton was offered OBL. Now we can debate whether it would've been prudent policy then but he DID have OBL and didn't take him.
The poll also cites the "fact" that OBL is not dead (and they call it a fact). While it is likely, given new tapes, he does not use videos anymore.
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