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There's so much to hammer on here with this administration.
Time to step up Republicans!
Posted on 03/25/2011 5:42:26 AM PDT by IbJensen
President Barack Obama’s intervention in Libya’s civil war has not only failed to win the approval of a majority of the American people, according to a Gallup poll conducted Monday, it also earned the lowest public approval rating of any U.S. military operation polled by Gallup over the past four decades.
In fact, it was the only U.S. military intervention polled by Gallup that received less than majority approval from Americans.
“The 47% of Americans approving of the action against Libya is lower than what Gallup has found when asking about approval of other U.S. military campaigns in the past four decades.”
That compares to the 90 percent approval rating Americans gave President George W. Bush’s October 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the 83 percent approval rating they gave President George H.W. Bush’s January 1993 bombing of military targets in Iraq, the 76 percent approval rating they gave President George W. Bush’s March 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the 71 percent approval rating they gave President Ronald Reagan’s March 1996 bombing of Libya, and the 66 percent approval rating they gave President Bill Clinton’s August 1998 missile strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan, according to the Gallup poll.
Before Obama’s intervention in Libya, the least popular U.S. military intervention polled by Gallup was President Clinton’s 1999 intervention in the Balkan conflict over Kosovo. In a survey conducted April 30 to May 2, 1999, only 51 percent of Americans approved of that military action.
Gallup says it did not conduct polls asking Americans whether they approved or disapproved of the first U.S. war in Iraq in 1991 or of the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1991, which resulted in the ouster of the Panamanian government of Manuel Noriega in less than two weeks.
However, in response to a somewhat different question, asking people whether they approved of President George H.W. Bush starting the war in Iraq when he did on Jan. 16, 1991, 79 percent told Gallup they did approve of that war.
Also, after the senior President Bush invaded Panama on Dec. 20, 1989, his approval rating soared to 80 percent in a January 1990 Gallup poll, giving him the highest approval rating in that poll of any president since World War II. “That poll showed Bush with an 80 percent approval rating, higher than that for any other president at the same point in his first term since World War II,” the Washington Post reported on that 1990 Gallup poll. “Only one, John F. Kennedy, came close. Kennedy enjoyed a 77 percent approval rating in January 1962.”
Reporting on its own January 1990 poll, the Post attributed Bush’ s high approval rating to his successful invasion of Panama.
“Nearly eight in 10 of those interviewed -- 79 percent -- said they approved of the job Bush has done as president,” the Post reported.
“The survey suggested that Bush's image was helped by his decision to invade Panama and by the subsequent capture of the Panamanian dictator, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega,” the Post said. “A Washington Post survey conducted in December after an unsuccessful coup attempt against Noriega but before the invasion set Bush's approval rating at 66 percent, down about 10 points from the previous month. The latest Post-ABC poll found that eight in 10 persons interviewed said they supported the president's decision to send U.S. troops to Panama to overthrow Noriega.”
Two years after the senior President Bush scored the highest Gallup approval rating of any president in the post-World War II era, he lost his reelection bid to Bill Clinton, winning just 37.5 percent of the popular vote.
Funny how no one in Washington are doing anything?? Why are they not investigating his cronies. Glenn Beck is the only one telling us the truth! Stay close to God.. he will see us through.
Well, thankfully we do not fight our wars based on day-to-day Gallup polls
Or at least, we didn’t in the past
Now, who knows
This one reminds me of Kosovo. The numbers seem to back it up. Interesting that both McCain and Palin have been gung-ho to get involved in Libya. I guess we were screwed either way.
Yesterday MSNBC said 60% of Americans approve of us going to ‘kinetic military action’ in Libya
I’m concerned about our troops on the ground in the mideast. We’re moving closer and closer to losing our supply lines every day.
If Obama did anything according to “polls” then Obamacare would be dead already.
It’s easy, though, to see how Obama has managed to brown off so many people with this stupid move. The peaceniks hate it for obvious reasons. The traditional hawks are upset that Obama has made an end run around constitutional procedure for waging war.
1. If there is no mention of political party, an article about a politician breaking the law is about a democrat.
2. Jobs data is revised to hide larger increases in unemployment. For example: If 250k lose jobs one week, next week when the number is 260k the media will says its only a 5k increase because previous week was revised upwards to 255.
3. When a poll comes out showing something really negative about a dem or dem action, another poll will quickly appear showing the opposite and will be heralded by all the MSM.
What great "timing"
In a poll selected how? Gallup is an old name and they know how to carry out an excruciatingly scientific poll if they want to. For that, they will choose their sample and will virtually hound each selected person to the end of the earth to get an answer, and it could take over a week. “Throw a dart at the phone book when most sensible people are working” isn’t that method.
“2. Jobs data is revised to hide larger increases in unemployment. For example: If 250k lose jobs one week, next week when the number is 260k the media will says its only a 5k increase because previous week was revised upwards to 255.”
The choclate ration will be reduced from 30 grams to 20.
Comrades! To celebrate our victory the choclate ration will be increased to twenty grams!
Sarcasm much?
Just a little.
In an “earlier life” I studied political science. Maybe polling had more integrity four decades ago.
Shiite Muslims want us to help them kill Sunni Muslims, at the cost of billions of dollars that we will have to borrow from the ChiComs.
Iran is Shiite-controlled and will be in the cat bird’s seat after we leave Libya. Are we CRAZY??? Apparently, the majority of Americans aren’t. Why are the Republicans so scared to point out the absolute insanity of BO’s “kinetic military engagement”?
And has history has clearly shown, support for military actions peaks early on and only goes downhill for there.
If we get bogged down in Libya for any reason Barry is headed straight down the flusher.
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There's so much to hammer on here with this administration.
Time to step up Republicans!
Come again? How was Reagan bombing anything in 1996?
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