Ain't you ignorant slut! Clinton's popularity has DECLINED to EQUAL W's!

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Dang, I can't believe I missed this from your original post.

THE POLLS SHOW a 56 percent approval rating for the former president, a decline from 66 percent one week ago and 68 percent in January. Just 28 percent of Americans now say Clinton will be viewed by history as an “above average” president, vs. 37 percent one week ago. And 53 percent of Americans now see him as a poor role model. Meanwhile, George W. Bush’s approval rating has increased from 52 percent one week ago to 56 percent. Clinton’s reputation appears to have been damaged most significantly by his pardon of Marc Rich, the fugitive financier. Sixty-five percent of Americans say they disapprove of the Rich pardon and 55 percent say Clinton should be called to testify at Congressional hearings on the subject. But Americans are narrowly divided over whether Clinton himself should be a target of a newly launched criminal investigation into the Rich pardon (42 percent say yes, vs. 43 percent no.) Majorities of those polled say they expect Clinton to succeed financially in the private sector (84 percent) and that he will be able to do a lot for the causes he believes in (58 percent), despite the controversies. Fifty-seven percent say they would try to hear Clinton speak if he were invited by an organization with which they were affiliated.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), February 19, 2001

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That should have said:

THE POLLS SHOW a 56 percent approval rating for the former president, a decline from 66 percent one week ago and 68 percent in January. Just 28 percent of Americans now say Clinton will be viewed by history as an “above average” president, vs. 37 percent one week ago. And 53 percent of Americans now see him as a poor role model. Meanwhile, George W. Bush’s approval rating has increased from 52 percent one week ago to 56 percent.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), February 19, 2001.

Tarzan:

You know better than this. Clinton governs for 8 years, and his approval rating drops like a stone in a single week, *after* he leaves office? Bush has yet to accomplish anything, and his rating rises anyway? What are people approving?

And if you take the same poll every week for a year, wow, look at these roller coaster numbers! Clearly, the pollees have an attention span that only lasts a couple of days at most. And all we're doing is seeing the characteristics of the Great Unwashed, as filtered through our wonderful educational system. What either president actually DOES remains as irrelevant as ever to such polls.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), February 19, 2001.


The pain...the agony. Yes Tarzan...my dirty little secret is out. You got me.

Next....

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), February 19, 2001.


BTW Ape Man...did ya happen to see the post on the Pardon Me Watch?

GREAT STUFF! ROFL!

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), February 19, 2001.


Flint-

That wasn't the point of Ain't original post. His point was that Clinton's approval rating was below Bush's. It's not. It may very well be below his this time next week (though I'm still mystified why they're bothering to measure it at all) but for the moment, they're equal.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthrougthroughthejunglewithouta.net), February 19, 2001.



It may very well be below his this time next week

If it is, and if I remember it. I'll pass it on here to you. Ok? :-)

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), February 19, 2001.


I will pay no heed to any polls until I am interviewed in depth by Bawa Wawa.

-- (nemesis@awol.com), February 19, 2001.

I am getting pissed at this "you ignorant slut" expression. I have my backaloreyutt.

-- (lorelei@lubricious.lips), February 19, 2001.

Crucial point:

Clinton has left office, and doesn't have the entire Executive Branch pitching spin for him any more.

The Truth is finally coming out: he is, was, and always will be a Scum-sucking Bottom Dweller that would make a Catfish look like royalty.

-- Chicken Little (cluck@cluck.com), February 20, 2001.


I've been saying that for years, by the way.

Vindication is sweet.

-- Chicken Little (cluck@cluck.com), February 20, 2001.



Clinton's term says a great deal about the excited states of America..

Time for a Cigar and Bombs away!!!!

-- Will (righthere@home.now), February 20, 2001.


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