Poll: More disapprove of Bush than any other president

[Kevin]

Andrew Johnson was actually impeached and removed from office.

Grant's administration was thoroughly corrupt.

James Buchanan was responsible for a civil war.

-- I think that's at least three worse Presidents who would have had lower approval ratings FWIW.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Andrew Johnson was actually impeached and removed from office.

Grant's administration was thoroughly corrupt.

James Buchanan was responsible for a civil war.

-- I think that's at least three worse Presidents who would have had lower approval ratings FWIW.

To correct you, Andrew Johnson was not removed from office!

He was impeached as he tried to empliment Lincolns ideas for rebirthing the South. That is why they tried to impeach him even though he was from Eastern Tenn.

[kstar]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Andrew Johnson was actually impeached and removed from office.

Grant's administration was thoroughly corrupt.

James Buchanan was responsible for a civil war.

-- I think that's at least three worse Presidents who would have had lower approval ratings FWIW.

Nope. Johnson was impeached, but not removed from office. He was acquitted by a single vote.

Bush waged a war that cost thousands of lives, against a country that did not attack us nor had any WMDs. He took a thriving economy and a balanced budget and wrecked both. I can see why he's being voted as the worst.

[DeltAlum]

It is no surprize to most of you that I've not been a Bush II fan, but having lived through the Nixon years (and Johnson as well), it would be difficult for me to say that "W" is the worst ever.

At least he hasn't committed, condoned or covered up any felonies that I'm aware of.

And while I'm often offended by blaming "the media" for everything, I do think it's entirely likely that 24/7 coverage can skew "polls." (That would make a good thesis topic for some Communications grad student)

I suspect, though, that like Jimmy Carter, who history has treated more kindly than his comtemporaries did, no matter how it looks at President Bush, many will still take him to task.

I doubt that he will be considered among the "great" chief executives.

[EE-BO]

Originally Posted by kstar

He took a thriving economy and a balanced budget and wrecked both.

That is a pretty bold statement- and more than a little careless. Care to offer up any substantive evidence to back up his wrecking of a "thriving economy"?

[honeychile]

I've both agreed and disagreed with the Bush policies, but for the most part, agree with DeltAlum's above statement.

I find polls such as this irresponsible and too easily skewed to reflect the pollster's interests to take seriously.

[UGAalum94]

Is the point to taint McCain, do you think?

I mean otherwise what's the point of putting up the figures? We're electing someone else to take over in November; we'll have someone new in office in January. Great, we almost all think he's done a lousy job, but because we think it for different reasons in many cases, I don't think it means very much.

It surprises me that Carter wasn't even lower right at the end of his term as the Iran Hostage situation dragged on and Reagan soared in popularity. But I guess that Carter didn't make as many people who identified as members of his own party as angry as Bush does.

I think Bush has just managed to do a little something to make almost everyone regard him as incompetent.

I don't think he's our worst President ever, by any stretch. But I wouldn't say he's done a particular good job.

ETA: why were people so mad at Truman in 1952?

[Kevin]

Carter pretty much wrecked my state's economy during his tenure by approving and promoting confiscatory taxation on domestic production. Prior to that, my family operated a small oil company. Those taxes forced us to sell.

Every time I see one of these efftard politicians pandering re: taxation on the energy industry, I have to wonder if we will ever learn from our mistakes.

[Coramoor]

Originally Posted by EE-BO

That is a pretty bold statement- and more than a little careless. Care to offer up any substantive evidence to back up his wrecking of a "thriving economy"?

Evidence...EVIDENCE!!

We don't need no stinkin' evidence. Everyone knows that Bush wrecked the economy. That's good enough for me.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by jon1856

Poll: More disapprove of Bush than any other president

WASHINGTON DC (CNN) -- A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president.
"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup Poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.
"Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon [22 percent and 24 percent, respectively], but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s," Holland said. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 67 percent disapproval in January 1952." .,..........
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/...oll/index.html

http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/rzi

Originally Posted by SECdomination

Screw CNN.

Does your comment also hold true for Reuters????

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by jon1856

Does your comment also hold true for Reuters????

Apparently if it's not Fox, it's not news.