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Obama is most admired American: poll
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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; 2008review; arrogant; bho2008; bush; chicagopolitician; hillary; liar; mostadmired; obama; obamatransitionfile; poll
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Not Paris Hilton? This is bias..........
1 posted on 12/26/2008 6:34:54 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

The country loves Obama and Hillary? We are so screwed....


2 posted on 12/26/2008 6:37:40 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Sub-Driver

So say goodbye to Bill Clinton, Rosie, Striesand and algore


3 posted on 12/26/2008 6:38:09 AM PST by shadeaud (The only thing we have to fear is fear itself and the executive power of president-elect obammma)
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To: anniegetyourgun

We. Are. So. Screwed.


4 posted on 12/26/2008 6:39:29 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Sub-Driver
Oh please...Half the "professional athletes" have been up on criminal charges...and they're still heroes. It's the mentality.

And now they've elected a coke head...How the hell low can you go??

5 posted on 12/26/2008 6:39:30 AM PST by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: Sub-Driver
Considering the media buildup, it would be a shock if he was not. But such a public is fickle and can turn on its idols.

Carter was thing big thing in 1976 too.

6 posted on 12/26/2008 6:39:48 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Sub-Driver

John Bolton


7 posted on 12/26/2008 6:39:51 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Sub-Driver

Where did Blago come in???


8 posted on 12/26/2008 6:42:20 AM PST by lonestar
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To: Sub-Driver

America is well and truly f%&$ed-up!


9 posted on 12/26/2008 6:43:37 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: samtheman
Perhaps we can come up with an new FR shorthand acronym?

The country that W.A.S. (we are screwed).

10 posted on 12/26/2008 6:45:19 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Sub-Driver

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?


11 posted on 12/26/2008 6:48:01 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hillary Clinton led the list of most-admired woman at 20 percent -- a spot she's held for 13 of the past 16 years.

Proving that a) it's strictly a name recognition exercise and b) there are millions of sad and/or deranged people.

12 posted on 12/26/2008 6:48:03 AM PST by relictele
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How 'bout that? An unemployed black street agitator! Then, too, a lot of these same folks consider Rap to be 'music'.

Persoanlly, I hope they keep adding to his pedestal. It makes for a bigger splat down the road.

13 posted on 12/26/2008 6:49:38 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


14 posted on 12/26/2008 6:49:39 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Does this mean we get to see his birth certificate now?


15 posted on 12/26/2008 6:50:19 AM PST by jackofhearts (Unko bachana kaun chahega (Who will want to save them)??)
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To: Bender2

...but he urinates in public.


16 posted on 12/26/2008 6:50:29 AM PST by big'ol_freeper (Gen. George S. Patton to Michael Moore... American Carol: "I really like slapping you.")
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To: Sub-Driver
BARF


Im waiting for the "michigan militias" response to this.
17 posted on 12/26/2008 6:51:21 AM PST by hamburglar (The result of spreading the wealth around is spreading unemployment around.)
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...but he urinates in public.

And according to Michelle, he's "stinky."

18 posted on 12/26/2008 6:52:52 AM PST by Allegra
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To: Sub-Driver

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!


19 posted on 12/26/2008 6:53:56 AM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: Sub-Driver
The phone question:

"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.

20 posted on 12/26/2008 6:55:51 AM PST by traditional1 ("The American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery")
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