Politics, Worst President Ever
Just How Bad Are Bush’s Poll Numbers?
Eric Boehlert for Media Matters:
Here then, is some much-needed historical perspective to put Bush’s standing in context:
- According to Gallup, on the eve of President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination, he was suffering the worst job-approval ratings of his presidency — 58 percent.
- In 1968, when the war in Vietnam was claiming hundreds of U.S. casualties each week, President Lyndon Johnson was considered so unpopular that he didn’t even run for re-election. Johnson’s average Gallup approval rating for that year was 43 percent.
- When Reagan’s second term was rocked by the Iran-Contra scandal, his ratings plummeted, all the way down to 43 percent.
- This year, according to the Gallup numbers, Bush has averaged an approval rating of 37 percent.
Bush’s dismal ratings put him well within range of the country’s recent failed presidencies, like the one of his father, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. That’s the historical company Bush keeps, although you’d never know that from journalists who refuse to connect the dots and refuse to treat Bush’s second term as the failure that a majority of Americans say it is.
Topics: Politics, Worst President Ever
It really does not MAKE A DAMN what anyone says to try to mitigate the “CLUSTER F43K” USURPATION OF THE WHITE HOUSE by the SCOTUS PUTSCH OF December 12, 2000, the world has watched, and recorded, the ensuing debacle AS IT REALLY HAPPENED!
That history will never “go away”, no matter how the FASCISTS NOW IN D.C. might wish.
If you care, all you have to do is visit the foreign news media to see that the only “fools” who place ANY FAITH in the American MSM are the “SAME FOOLS” that knowingly and willingly follow the “KNOWN FOOLS” whom they, locked in to their “FOOLS PARADISE” of “right-wing fundamentalist FAITHS, consider to be compassionate, conservative messengers with direct communication hot lines to GOD HIMSELF!
“Ah! What fools THESE PARTICULAR MORTALS BE” —stolen, more or less intact from”PUCK” , a line in Midsummer’s Night—by Wm Shakespeare…(I think!)
What oldgringo said.