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| Bush's Poll Ratings Match Obama's | |
| 2013-04-23 | |
| Days before his second term ended in 2009, Bush's approval rating among all adults was 33 percent positive and 66 percent negative. The new poll found 47 percent saying they approve and 50 percent saying they disapprove. Among registered voters, his approval rating today is equal to President Obama's, at 47 percent, according to the latest Post-ABC surveys. The media, of course, sees nothing ironic about their negative/positive drum-beating. George W. Bush will return to the spotlight this week for the dedication of his presidential library, an event likely to trigger fresh public debate about his eight fateful years in office. But he reemerges with a better public image than when he left Washington more than four years ago. Since then, Bush has absented himself from both policy disputes and political battles. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll suggests that the passage of time and Bush's relative invisibility have been beneficial to a chief executive who left office surrounded by controversy. Thursday's events are likely to be shorn of partisanship, though commentary around them may not be. The guest list will be topped by Obama and all living former presidents, including Bush's father, George H.W. Bush. Ya think O will steal the spotlight? Or be too busy with the Nation's Business to actually attend? Blair, who stood steadfastly with Bush after the 2001 attacks and his decision to invade Iraq 18 months later, will be among the many dignitaries and Bush administration alumni who will gather on the campus of Southern Methodist University. Bush has said he is content to let history judge him and told the designers of his presidential museum to present the facts and let visitors decide whether he was right.
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| Posted by:Bobby |
| #2 Funny how your image recovers when the press isn't manufacturing mountains out of molehills daily. Alsoo funny how Obama retains his popularity despite a poor economy, foreign blunders, several things that would have been huge scandals if we actually had a press that covered such things. present the facts and let visitors decide whether he was right Lets see Obama do the same. Never gonna happen, they bury the facts deep and concentrate on feelings over in lefty land. And the press is the most compliant and complaisant media this side of the old Soviet Union or North Korea (all thats missing is Juche Man doing the writing about Dear Leader). |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2013-04-23 08:38 |
| #1 Bush's ratings can only rise over time. The ONE's, only fall. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2013-04-23 08:28 |