| Actually, I don't put much stock in polls as a guide to policy, in any case. I think that the people were taking a sensible tack in the case of Clinton, actually, wanting to stick with an apparently successful president even though they disapproved of him. I personally never trashed them over that, and I have said on more than one occasion that I do not blame the Senate for not removing Clinton from office, especially given the poll numbers, although I am glad he was impeached, which is the "censure" constitutionally provided for. I do not think that the currently popularity of the Iraq policy proves it was correct. I merely think it proves that it is not obviously flawed, which is rather different, and puts a different light on "conventional reality". As for those external to the United States, well, with all due respect, I think that too much has been filtered through a biased elite determined to put America in its place. But of course, I could be wrong...... |
