Posted on 07/08/2002 6:56:20 AM PDT by kattracks
Despite a coordinated Democratic Party-media push to pin blame for the recent wave of corporate scandals on President Bush, a majority of Americans currently blame ex-President Bill Clinton for the business corruption that has sent the stock market reeling and caused a crisis in confidence in corporate America, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday.
51 percent of Americans surveyed agreed that President Clinton's "moral failings in office" contributed to the permissive climate that encouraged corporate leaders to behave unethically.
Of that number, more than half, 26 percent "strongly agreed" that Clinton was partially responsible for the business scandals. The rest, 25 percent, "moderately agreed" the ex-president deserved blame.
When asked the same question about President Bush, only 15 percent "strongly agreed" that he set a climate that encouraged corporate corruption. 31 percent "moderately agreed" with the same proposition, for a cumulative total of 46 percent - five percent less than those who blame Clinton.
Another stunning development: President Bush's approval ratings have actually improved in the weeks since the Democrat-media complex began shifting blame to Bush.
The CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll put Bush's overall job approval at 76 percent - up six points since early June.
"This result alone suggests that the president has been untouched by these scandals," Gallup said.
Gallup surveyed 1,019 adults over the age of 18 on June 28-30. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent.
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Clinton would not release his medical records, either. He refused. I don't know of any other president that had anything to hide.
Inhale, maybe it will help your thought processes since "not inhaling" hasn't worked.
The firm is destroyed but before hand would have been worth 1.5 times revenues.
"Dennis Gingold, a lawyer for the Indians, reacted angrily: "I think Mr. Rubin should go to jail for this. This is criminal contempt."...."
""....The forced resignation today of disgraced Clinton Treasury secretary Robert Rubin may have been a result of imminent further exposure of a vast array of corrupt activities, from Treasury's attempted coercion of United States Secret Service agents to lie during their Filegate testimony in 1996 and the agents' criminal prosecution as a result of that testimony, to today's New York Times story "CHINA SENT CASH TO U.S. BANK, WITH SUSPICIONS SLOW TO RISE" ....However, the final straw that broke Rubin's back could well have been a brilliant investigative journalism article by the USA TODAY's Tom Lowry on May 3, 1999, "TRUST SCANDAL HAUNTS GOLDMAN/SULLIED BISHOP ESTATE OWNS 10% OF BANK/HIGHLY PAID TRUSTEES FACING ACCUSATIONS, CHARGES", which was excerpted in a May 5, 1999 FreeRepublic article .... Mr. Lowry exhaustively details the utterly corrupt activities of Hawaii's giant Bishop Estate in general, and a highly suspect transaction between the Bishop Estate and the personal financial account of Robert Rubin in particular. Rubin is also a former chairman of Goldman Sachs and whose Treasury department regulates both the Bishop Estate and Goldman Sachs. Rubin apparently operated at Treasury, regulating both the Bishop Estate and Goldman Sachs, will full awareness of his massive conflicts of interest involving his personal investments, the Treasury department, the Internal Revenue Service, Goldman Sachs, and the Bishop Estate..... "...I am a professional stock market investor myself. ...... For those of you with the Black Scholes model, just set the price of Goldman Sachs at 100, set the expiration date at a year from now of a put option with a strike price of 100, and tell me what you get. I bet that put is worth at least 20, or twenty percent of the value of the underlying stock position. In the case of Rubin's Goldman stock holdings in 1993, the at the money, one year put warrant would be worth at least $20 million annually, not $100,000...... THIS WOULD SUGGEST AN "AT THE MONEY ONE YEAR PUT OPTION" ON RUBIN'S 1993 GOLDMAN SACHS HOLDINGS WAS WORTH WELL OVER $20 MILLION!!! With the value of Rubin's Goldman Sachs holdings appreciating in recent years, the value of the Bishop Estate put on $100 million of underlying Goldman value sold to Rubin would decline, but I think it is fair to say that Rubin, via this put maneuver with the Bishop Estate, a charity, may have received illegal gratuities, in 1993 alone, if he paid only approximately $100,000 for his one year, at the money Goldman put warrant which was in fact worth well over $20 million...."
WOW!!! This dude's just danglin' out there waiting to get picked off by a criminal investigator with some cajones!!
FReegards...MUD
Webb Hubbell is generally understood to be Chelsea's sperm donor...MUD
CNNABCNBCCNN?
How about never, is never good for you?
I don't think people were so much "Pro-Clinton" as they were more for the preservation of the office, and against the transfer of title to Al Gore. Besides, the media was absolutely against the conservative view, and did a lot to brainwash the masses.
It took the sleaziness of the Clintons as they left office to wake Americans up to the fact that Clinton & Co. were really as bad as they had been denying for all those years. Even the media were aghast at the pardons Clinton enacted.
She does look like him, doesn't she?
They could have picked someone a little better looking, but I guess just having the kid was politically correct enough. Now Chelsea has to live with that face.
I would like to see the actual survey question. It could have been designed improperly but President Bush still came out ahead in spite of the wording.
Just a thought.
Allegely, Ol' Hubb was a football player and somewhat of a ladies' man back then, and the jowels came later. Unfortunately, Chelsea appears to picked up the JowelsGene from the git-go.
FReegards...MUD
I think we can conclude that all these years he's been in search of his leg-assy.
Wow. 100 foot flames. This comment was directed at tom, al and bill not you. A friend saw my post and burned me royally. Sorry
I just love it. All the Democreeps drooling over the corporate scandals and trying to put the blame on Bush is backfiring. His approval rating keeps going up. BUSH/CHENEY 2004!!!
NAHHH! They are going to talk about old people being forced to eat each other because of the economy and because senior citizens cannot afford prescription drugs to combat cannibalism. ;-)
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