Obama, Hillary Clinton Share “Most Admired” Billing

Gallup ^ | 12/26/08 | Lydia Saad

[redk]

A remarkable 32% of Americans choose Barack Obama as the man they most admire living anywhere in the world today, putting him in the No. 1 position on Gallup's annual Most Admired Man list. Hillary Clinton earns the top spot for Most Admired Woman, named by 20%. No one comes close to matching Obama in percentage mentions on this year's list of most admired men, based on a Dec. 12-14 USA Today/Gallup poll. By contrast, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin makes a strong showing in second place for Most Admired Woman, garnering 11% of all mentions.

[savedbygrace]

To the winners belong the spoiled.

[anniegetyourgun]

“The spoiled” have chosen their “winners.”

[savedbygrace]

Ah, you got it.

[lonestar]

We live in a “sick” society!

[mewzilla]

The enabled admire their enablers.

Quelle suprise.

[redk]

So if Palin came in second does that mean the “far right Republican base” is pretty big? /s

[kellynla]

Just shows how stupid people are...but then in a world that selected Stalin & Hitler as “Man of the Year” and a country that elected and reelected a three-time draft-dodger and another clown who is/was a muzzie who we don't even know for sure where he was born and both dope-heads to be POTUS;
nothing surprises me.

[RipSawyer]

Down South here there was a very vulgar phrase that used to be used more often than now. “Some people have a taste for Shit”.

[Joann37]

If 32% selected him as the “most admired”, 68% did not!

But isn’t it amazing, the names that are selected? Most of us here would probably state that we don’t know anyone who would have selected ANY of these characters.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Excellent. It’s only down from here...

[FrankR]

The sensationalism of headlines aside, you have to look at who admires them...that tells the story.

Of course the MSM, and the liberals admire them...they are their "massahs"...they provide the staples of life on Plantation America, such as food, utilities, bailouts, free mortgages, handouts, etc.

In return, all of the worshipers of these gods and goddesses have to do is keep praising them and voting them into office.

It's a simple solution that the South is still being chastised for, indentured servitude of the uneducated masses.

History does, in fact, repeat itself...

[SoFloFreeper]

Were people answering these as a multiple choice, or just off the top of their heads?

No matter, BHO is not admired in this household. He is opposed as an enemy of freedom. His genuflections to the center are regarded as fakery.

[Salvation]

And Saeah Palin?

[beckysueb]

And this is why america is going to hell in a handbasket.

[beckysueb]

Looks like Sarah Palin and “W” came in second. I thought Bush was the most hated man in the world.

[nobama08]

Thirty-two percent is remarkable? LOL It’s really just a popularity contest unless they ask WHY the person is remarkable. Empty-minded fluff.

[Sacajaweau]

I'm trying to figure out why Hillary is admired...She was an attorney involved in a massive scandel. Her marriage is worthless. She failed to produce anything for New York...except Pork...

It's a simple case of name recognition...and like I've always said: "If she wasn't married to Bubba, we'd all be going "Hillary Who".

Palin is the "Opposite" of Hillary in every way.

[Migraine]

Clarence Thomas, hands down. America’s greatest living hero (of course, even he takes a backseat to those, often nameless, who took fire and returned fire vs the enmies of us all in God-forsaken backwaters of Iraq and Afghanistan).

[unkus]

The ignorance (look up the definition) of so many Americans

continues to irk me to no end. It is disturbing.