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February 17th, 2007
Cheating OK: 26%
CNN Political Analyst Bill Schneider says Bush’s job approval rating is 32 percent, and I can’t help wondering — is it really possible that almost a third of Americans approve of this walking disaster? Are that many people crazy?
CNN runs lots of little online polls called QuickVotes. After recent Nascar cheating scandals, they asked “Is it ever OK to cheat?” “Yes” got 26 percent of the vote.
So here’s my theory: Bush’s honest approval rating is about six percent.
Now, that I can believe.
Bush Makes the List
Via Atrios, USA Today founder Al Neuharth considers the worst president ever:
I remember every president since Herbert Hoover, when I was a grade school kid. He was one of the worst. I’ve personally met every president since Dwight Eisenhower. He was one of the best.
A year ago I criticized Hillary Clinton for saying “this (Bush) administration will go down in history as one of the worst.”
“She’s wrong,” I wrote. Then I rated these five presidents, in this order, as the worst: Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Ulysses Grant, Hoover and Richard Nixon. “It’s very unlikely Bush can crack that list,” I added.
Andrew Jackson? Really? Sure you didn’t mean Andrew Johnson?
I was wrong. This is my mea culpa. Not only has Bush cracked that list, but he is planted firmly at the top.
Hey, Bush still has almost two years to totally turn his administration around. He might turn out to be only the second or third worst president ever.