Many Americans Miss Bill Clinton
Posted on 04/20/2007 6:04:29 AM PDT by presidio9
Many adults in the United States long for the mandate of a previous head of state, according to a poll by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN. 53 per cent of respondents miss former U.S. president Bill Clinton now that he has left the White House.
In the survey, 96 per cent of African-American respondents say they miss Clinton, while 50 per cent of White Americans say they are glad he has left.
Clinton—a Democrat and former governor of Arkansas—won the 1992 U.S. presidential election. His campaign was largely based on a condemnation of the economic recession of the early 1990s. In 1996, Clinton became the first Democrat to serve two terms as president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, winning 49.2 per cent of all cast ballots and 379 electoral votes. Clinton’s last term in office was tarnished by his admission of an extra-marital affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
During his presidency, Clinton called the racial divide in the U.S. "America’s constant curse." In July 2001, Clinton decided to move into a new office in Harlem, a largely African-American neighbourhood in New York City. The president said on his first day at the office he would make Harlem his home, and explained: "What I’m going to do here is to try to help promote economic opportunity in our back yard, in our country and around the world."
In January, former first lady and current New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton officially launched her bid for the Democratic Party’s nomination in the 2008 presidential election.
Polling Data
Which comes closer to your view of Bill Clinton after leaving the White House—you’re glad he has left, or you miss him now that he is gone?
Glad he left All 41% White 50% Black 2%
Miss him now All 53% Whit 43% Black 96%
No opinion All 6% White 7% Black 2%
Source: Opinion Research Corporation / CNN Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,218 American adults—including an oversample of 312 African-Americans—conducted from Apr. 10 to Apr. 12, 2007. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.
I miss Buddy
Me, too! Poor dog. He didn’t have a chance with those two as his owners. Buddy was just a prop to try to make them seem human.
To paraphrase Kwame what’s his name “Black people don’t like George Bush.”
Reagan / George Bush's legacy is the end of the cold war.
Carter's legacies are Iran and the "malaise factor" in America.
Nixon's legacies are China and Watergate.
Clinton's legacy is a BJ from an intern.
Whatever shortcomings all other presidents have (and there are many) at least they conducted themselves with decorum while in the office. They're known for either doing the right thing politically (Reagan)....or the very wrong thing politically (Carter, Nixon). Clinton is the only one who stands out by being known (and yes, even celebrated by the MSM) for following his penis around.
Maybe they should aim more carefully.
LOL. I keep seeing the second half of this heading as “Miss Bill Clinton.”
Let’s see, it was a CNN poll and it is not the Clinton News Network for nothing. Perhaps all these numbers came about from the Blue states. If people have forgotten this sleaze ball we are in horrid shape and any thought of winning in ‘08 could be wishful thinking.
I saw a bumper sticker the other day, “I Miss Bill”
next to it, “Kucinich 08” bumper sticker!
And the yellow writing in the snow was Hillary’s!
B.R.A.S.
that’s the way you and i think.
but there are other perspectives:
my neighbors, retired and tv-morons all, watch rosie and oprah.
they MISS bill big time.
and they think “what bill did in the privacy of the white house was his business”. that’s how liberals emote.
and they all vote democrap.
si.
And what is this picture saying?
Do they like any Republican? They have been so brainwashed by the Democrats to not trust Republicans.
The fact that he hasn’t been run out of the country by now, is a sad statement on the current state of this once great country. Here’s an adolescent/man with a 30 year plus history of sexual assault against women, including rape allegations. Here’s a career in politics littered with corruption, beatings and deaths of opponents, and countless scandals, that run the gambit of self-serving debauchery, everything from setting up his pal Al Dunn to market tainted blood from AR prisons to innocent people to selling out our country for illegal contributions from a dangerous country like China. And yet, so many Americans don’t seem to care.
At some point in the next 100 years historians will look back and try and figure out, what happened to America, how did it fall from it’s prominence of the 20 th century ? They will see it was a gradual decline, a little give here and a little give there, but perhaps the late 90’s will serve as a watershed moment in that decline.
People may wonder if the country was truly finished when it refused to stand up against the MSM, refused to demand a Rapists, a despicable human being be forced out of office. If a nation doesn’t care enough to take a look at what their “leader” has done, see a Rapist and a mentally unbalanced man and do nothing about it, then what would a 9-11 do, what would the slaughter of 32 people on a college campus do to change the course of a country.
NOTHING !!!!
You only get one legacy. It’s the first thing people think of when they think of your presidency:
George W. Bush’s legacy is the War on Terror
George HW Bush’s legacy is the Gulf War
Clinton’s Legacy is his impeachment
Reagan’s legacy is winning the Cold War
Carter’s legacy is the hostages
Ford’s legacy is his presidential pardon
Nixon’s legacy is Watergate
Johnnson’s legacy is Vietnam
Kennedy’s legacy is his assassination
Eisenhower’s legacy is Civil Rights
Truman’s legacy is the atomic bomb
FDR’s legacy is the New Deal
Hoover’s legacy is (unfairly) the Great Depression
Coolidge’s legacy is small government
Harding’s legacy is Teapot Dome
Wilson’s legacy is WWI
Taft’s legacy is trust busting
Roosevelt’s legacy is America’s emergence as a superpower
Polls by CNN don’t count.
Masochist Americans miss their immoral, rapist President. Who else in the White House spent his time cavorting with his female targets while the Islamofacists were preparing the 9/11 surprise. Tie the dots before you wish a Clinton back in the office. The polls??? And the spin continues!
What’s changed that makes it possible for Taiwan to protect itself?
Many Americans Miss Bill Clinton
It's unfortunate for our country that the MSM goal is to destroy good people. Our young people could use heroes.
Many Germans missed Hitler ...so
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