Posted on 06/08/2012 11:12:19 PM PDT by WilliamIII
George W. Bush has stepped out of the public eye since leaving office, but absence hasn't made the nation’s heart grow fonder.
The 43rd President of the United States is the most unpopular living former president, a CNN/ORC International poll has found, as only 43% of people surveyed said they had a favorable opinion of him and 54% viewed him unfavorably.
The negative rating puts Bush far behind his fellow living ex-Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Dubya’s father, George H.W. Bush.
Clinton nabbed a 66% favorable rating, Carter scored a 54% rating, and 59% of those polled said they had a positive view of Bush Sr.
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Our forefathers warned us about this day. It's one of the reasos why the Senate was created....to check the peoples ignorance.
Of course every sane person views him unfavorably. Thousands of things have gone wrong in the terrible three years since he left office, and every one of them was Bush's Fault™.
One of the reasons Bush made it to the "top" is that, unlike Dims, Republicans are willing to point out the bad points about other Republicans.
How could anyone prefer Mr new world order no new taxes over W?
I’ve read back thru your posts and it seems that your only purpose on this forum is to BASH BUSH.
Get over it! We have bigger problems with Obama or don’t you see it that way.
Turning his back on the conservatives who put him in office screwed him good.Screw him.
Turning his back on the conservatives who put him in office screwed him good.Screw him.
I don't know if Papa Bush had better advisors than GWB, but he stopped before going into Baghdad (my wife calls it "BadBad"). You break it, you own it.
My view is that GWB achieved a cheap triumph in Afghanistan at first (using Afghan ground forces and US air power), but it's damned hard to keep both Iraq and Afghanistan under control from Washington.
“I think he should be above all three: Carter, Clinton and George H.W. Bush.”
I don’t like him but would agree with your statement.
George W was a spend thrift (Medicare Part D unfunded) but Nixon was FAR worse:
EPA
OSHA
War on Drugs
Wage and Price Controls
I’ll stop there before my blood pressure strts to rise.
Absolutely, Warren Harding was not a great president but he was a good one. Everytime I read a history of the United States I first examine how the author(s) treat Harding. If he or they say he was a dummy I toss the book, knowing that he or they are typical lying liberals.
that will change in November
“One of the reasons Bush made it to the “top” is that, unlike Dims, Republicans are willing to point out the bad points about other Republicans.”
That is true, and memories of his deficiencies are more recent. As others have pointed out, NO living -former- POTUS can compare for failure when set alongside James Earl Carter. In a few months though, that burden will be lifted from his shoulders and passed to the Lightworker.
I’d like to commission a poll to ask what is the most asinine poll question yet? I’d vote for this one.
Consider this is a CNN poll and who watches CNN. Yes, George Bush made some mistakes, but I don’t believe “he gave us the worst recession.” This mess was a long time coming and the Dems caused it, through Fannie Mae for starters. I said when it happened and still say the “financial crisis” was manufactured and the American people bought into it the media hype and perpetuated it. The media gave us Obama, not George Bush.
EXACTLY!
“Bush was a disaster, Bush was a disaster, Bush was a disaster...”
Am I on FR or MS-NBC?
Give it seven and a half months and ask again.
The press never seems to notice that a large proportion of the negative opinion about GWB was and is from the Conservative perspective. Bush did not do enough to halt the approach to the cliff. That same mass of opinion views Obama as the descent from the edge and a prospective second administration as the rocks at the bottom. If there are any historians around twenty years from now an objective assessment will put Obama in a bottom class of his own and Carter a step above. GWB will probably be put in with Truman as immensely unpopular (but reelected) during his own time but seen far more positively in retrospect.
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