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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (125876)	2/7/2001 12:44:03 PM
From: willcousa	Respond to of 769667

Note also that the idea that most americans are bummed about Bush's election victory is just liberal spin. Polls are showing that if the public were to vote today Bush would easily beat Gore. With the help of a sympathetic press Clinton and Gore were able to disguise their true natures from the public but were too arrogant to sustain the charade once it became clear that it was all over. Now we learn that they had a cat fight among themselves the other day.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (125876)	2/7/2001 1:48:52 PM
From: swisstrader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

a) you've responded to a note of mine dated Jan 23, so your "new" information here is stale dated at best, b) Clinton, at the time of my posting DID have the highest rating ever, as attested to by the folks at Gallup, since the FDR days....that is shocking news based on all the terrible stuff I am supposed to believe the man has done and of course the ratings have dropped as of late due to the fact that we have a new idiot in chief coupled with the fact that the Rich pardons were very controversial (although a whopping 18% of Americans had NO opinion on this!) and c) Clinton's highest ratings in his 8 yr reign came just AFTER the Monika crap, which clearly demonstrates that most of America could give a rat's booty about such silliness and that most thought he was still doing a terrific job both here in the US and abroad....gives Bush something to aspire to. I also got a kick out of the fact that the same article you quote from indicates that Bush Senior had similar popularity problems with the controversial Weinerger pardon, so your point appears to have even less relevance. "This evaluation is similar to Americans’ reaction to President George Bush’s pardon of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in 1992 for his role in the Iran/Contra affair, about which 27% approved, 54% disapproved and 19% had no opinion. However, unlike the Weinberger pardon that drew little public notice, many Americans today, 62%, report paying fairly close attention to news of the Clinton pardons. This includes 20% who have followed it "very closely" and another 42% who have followed it "somewhat closely." Only 37% percent say they are not following the story closely to any degree. By contrast, only 43% of Americans paid close attention to the Weinberger pardon, including just 10% who followed it "very closely."