Posted on 12/26/2008 6:34:53 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama is most admired American: poll Dec 26 08:17 AM US/Eastern President-elect Barack Obama has replaced US President George W. Bush as the most admired man in America, according to a poll published Friday in the USA Today newspaper.
One-third of the 1,008 respondents surveyed named Obama as their first or second choice, with Bush falling to a distant second after seven years as the country's most-admired man.
Thirty-two percent of respondents chose Obama against five percent for Bush. It was the first time a president-elect topped the poll since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952.
The poll was conducted over telephone between December 12 and 14.
The newspaper reported that the only higher support in the history of the survey was Bush's 39 percent rating in 2001, just a few months after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
Among men, John McCain -- Obama's defeated Republican rival for the presidency -- ranked third and three others tied for fourth place: Pope Benedict XVI, the Reverend Billy Graham and former president Bill Clinton.
Hillary Clinton led the list of most-admired woman at 20 percent -- a spot she's held for 13 of the past 16 years.
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The country loves Obama and Hillary? We are so screwed....
So say goodbye to Bill Clinton, Rosie, Striesand and algore
We. Are. So. Screwed.
And now they've elected a coke head...How the hell low can you go??
Carter was thing big thing in 1976 too.
John Bolton
Where did Blago come in???
America is well and truly f%&$ed-up!
The country that W.A.S. (we are screwed).
If Obama is so admired, then why does he have to have so much Secret Service detail, to the extent that it is stretching the Secret Service to the limits?
Where does one get this kind of info, when half the country voted against Obama?
Proving that a) it's strictly a name recognition exercise and b) there are millions of sad and/or deranged people.
Persoanlly, I hope they keep adding to his pedestal. It makes for a bigger splat down the road.
This poll only asked the question, “Who do you admire?” If they had asked a follow up question, “Why do you admire this person,” the answers would have been comical to say the least.
Does this mean we get to see his birth certificate now?
...but he urinates in public.
And according to Michelle, he's "stinky."
I admire Pamela Anderson Lee a LOT more than I do Hussein Obama.......too bad I don’t know how to post pics in here!
"Hello. We're conducting a poll on who you admire.
A) Do you admire the new President-Elect, who was born in a log cabin, rose from poverty to greatness all on his own, and will bring you peace, prosperity, and free lunches, clothes, free houses, new cars, and restore America's poor reputation in all the worlds' eyes, and will bring Change You Can Believe In!
or
B) Do you admire the "Selected, not-elected" President Bush, who has been beholdin' to Big Oil, Haliburton, and other special interests, while approving torture of alleged terrorists, and has lied and caused the deaths of millions of innocent Muslims and thousands of U.S. Soldiers"?.......
Thank you for your un-biased opinion.
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