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- Michelle Malkin
- Wheeling & dealing: Snowe pow-wows with Obama; Landrieu, Schumer, Daschle behind the scenes
- Saturday in the Senate: Cash for Cloture; Reid gets 60; Update: 8:15pm Eastern cloture vote – 60-39; Voinovich absent; Dems invoke Teddy Kennedy; Reid: “Ted would be happy.”
- Another day, another Berkeley tantrum
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Media love affair with Bill Clinton continues
If you’re a Republican, from time to time you’ll hear or read a Democrat say – in response to you’re bringing up a Clinton misdeed – something like this: “Why are you so obsessed with Clinton? He’s not President anymore!” While it’s understandable that Democrats who chastize you for bringing up the name of he-who-walks-on-water would be so defensive on the topic of our former liar-in-chief, Republicans shrug it off and respond back correctly by essentially saying that what Clinton did while he was in office is fair game because a lot of the problems we see today are as a result of his unwillingness or incompentence at handling those problems in a way that wouldn’t have left them open for another administration to have to deal with them. In addition to not understanding and/or not wanting to acknowledge that, the Democrats in denial of that also fail to see where our media – just as they did while he was President – have an obsession with all things Clinton … sometimes over issues related to Hillary, but mostly it’s Bill.
Case in point, a new poll today released from Opinion Research Corp., done on behalf of CNN, which shows that the American people polled in a comparison of Bush and Clinton think Clinton outperformed Bush on every issue – in margins sometimes greater than 2 to 1:
(CNN) — In a new poll comparing President Bush’s job performance with that of his predecessor, a strong majority of respondents said President Clinton outperformed Bush on a host of issues.
The poll of 1,021 adult Americans was conducted May 5-7 by Opinion Research Corp. for CNN. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Respondents favored Clinton by greater than 2-to-1 margins when asked who did a better job at handling the economy (63 percent Clinton, 26 percent Bush) and solving the problems of ordinary Americans (62 percent Clinton, 25 percent Bush). (Watch whether Americans are getting nostalgic for the Clinton era — 1:57) [Translation: See how much Americans agree with us on how much we, the media, wish Clinton was still president -- ST]
On foreign affairs, the margin was 56 percent to 32 percent in Clinton’s favor; on taxes, it was 51 percent to 35 percent for Clinton; and on handling natural disasters, it was 51 percent to 30 percent, also favoring Clinton.
Moreover, 59 percent said Bush has done more to divide the country, while only 27 percent said Clinton had.
When asked which man was more honest as president, poll respondents were more evenly divided, with the numbers — 46 percent Clinton to 41 percent Bush — falling within the poll’s margin of error. The same was true for a question on handling national security: 46 percent said Clinton performed better; 42 percent picked Bush.
As an example of our nostalgic-for-Clinton liberal media at work, the network (known to conservatives as Clinton News Network), this poll was taken at a time when President Bush’s ratings have fallen to an all-time-low-for-him of 29%. The numbers for Clinton are obviously going to be higher at this point in his admin, because Bush isn’t polling well in any category. I would have liked to have seen this poll at a time when Bush’s ratings for in the 50s or higher. But do you think CNN would have considered doing that? If you answered yes, then you haven’t been paying very close attention to how our media works.
So to those of you on the left who continue to get uptight when conservatives dare to bring up he-who-shan’t-be-mentioned-unless-it’s-in-glowing-terms, I advise you to look to not only Clinton himself who routinely inserts himself into current affairs (and not of the variety he had while in office) but to the media itself, who, with polls like these, continue to prove they are pining away for more of the Clinton years. Perhaps we wouldn’t bring him up so much if Clinton himself and his adoring fans in the media didn’t wax nostalgic about his administration and how they wish he was still in office today.
Others blogging about this: James Joyner (who has a good analysis up about this poll), PunditGuy, Dan Drezner
Related Toldjah So posts:
- Clinton Foundation looking for interns
- The politics of fear: Hillary goes over the edge
- The final Barrett report
- Clinton administration coverup?
- The Barrett Report
- Bill Clinton and the NSA
- Hillary Clinton is no centrist
- Clinton Advisers Fight Back – re: Freeh claim
- Former FBI Director Louis Freeh Slams Clinton
- Bill Clinton love-fest, part 2
- Bush-bashing and Clinton-drooling
- Fisking Bill Clinton’s dissing of the President
- Sandy Berger’s slap on the wrist
- Clinton legacy reality check
- Clinton legacy revision watch
- 9-11 Commission Coverup?
- Berger gets off easy
- If Bush “lied” so did many others
- Checking partisanship at the door … re: Bill Clinton’s heart bypass surgery
- The Clinton response to Al Qaeda
- Sept. 11, Lies and ‘Mistakes’
- The Clinton Mind-set
- Transcript of Mansoor Ijaz’s comments on Fox this a.m. 3/22/04 – re: Clinton and Bin Laden
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It makes perfect sense!!! When your foreign policy is to sit idly by while American citizens, soldiers, sailors, and Marines are murdered all over the globe, you can’t go wrong!!!
Well, I guess I shouldn’t say he sat idly by, he was busy with Monica while all this was going on.
Whatta guy!!!
I fail to see how the opinions of just over 1000 people constitute the mood of the entire country. More people think a guy impeached for perjury was more honest? Where’d they poll, in New York City?
Probably in Kalifornia Marshall Art…
I once read a great science fiction story about polling. In it the computer models and such were so advanced, that they could divine the will of the people by carefully selecting and questioning only one person. That’s how they elected presidents, they polled one person and then picked the candidate everyone would have voted for anyway, eliminating all the muss and fuss of campaigning and elections. People absolutely dreaded and feared being picked as the one to be sampled, as if the president didn’t turn out well, everyone in the entire country would blame that one person and make their lives a living hell.
The MSM has a long history of bad polls, and of oversampling Democrats and liberals, then using that as justification and “proof” of their slanted views.
- Noticing whos behind this “poll”, Opinion Research Corp. for CNN, is all you really need to see, if you have a functioning brain.
- Bang
They probably did, Marshall!
Since the Dhimmicrats insist on bringing up Richard Nixon – after all, that was their greatest success as Americans! – I feel it’s fair to bring up Clinton. Clinton’s activities outdid Nixon’s.
Compare them, and it’s obvious!
Clinton escaped being booted from office because of the cowardice of Republicans, and the dishonesty of Democrats. The vote was a farce.
Supporters of the pair of Clintons should be forced to allow their daughters to be left in their hands for a weekend.
Not likely, huh? LOL
- The Hilldebeast is back out on the microphone circuit, bleating and doing the usual moonbat dance of the Evillllll BushCo neocons “wiretapping and spying on innocent Americans”. I just keep hoping the Dembulb Left doesn’t suddenly wake up and realize what a hole they’re digging for themselves, everytime they attack Bush on the WOT. They keep getting drilled into the ground on this issue, showing just how completely frantic they are because they know its “The” issue above all others, followed very closely with the border/immigration mess, which is closely related to the WOT in some ways, and like moths to the flame, they keep coming back for more. Go lefties go.
- Yesterdays exactly oppisite news conference comments from Schumer and Reid were priceless.
- Bang
- Apropos of nothing, but somewhat related in view of this laughable press effort, re book sales hype for “Born to run”, the unsinkable ALGOre makes the rounds, born again yet once more, like a bad skin rash you contacted while in India, that they haven’t been able to identify yet:
- “The Di Vinci Code”…. A dangerous and deliberate undermining of the divinity of Al Gore….
- Bang
LOL
Outside of raising taxes on average American’s, can anyone name something that Billy Bob actually did to help us??? His economic numbers were only because he was continuing the policy of Ronald Reagan. Unemployment numbers were low only due to that, which how many times did we hear that 5.5 percent unemployment was statisically “full employment”?? Now we have 4.7% and we hear how bad the economy is. 
Billy Bob used the military in horrible ways, and didn’t support the military once he got them into the messes he ordered them into. He was a horrid President, he horribly used the office for his own gain.
Sadly the Republicans took their cue from Newt being forced from office. “OMG they got rid of Newt, we might lose our jobs of we grow a spine.” And that attitude has been prevalent ever since. I wish I had an answer for this problem, but it seems the only thing we can do is encourage good conservatives to run for office, and bounce out these people out of office. – Lorica
My wife just got me the book “Dereliction of Duty” for my birthday. This book should be required reading for all the Clinton worshipers out there. The Clintons, both of them, were a disaster, and are directly responsible for many of the ills that we suffer under today.
God help us all if Hillary gets into office, she is, if anything, worse than Bill.
The press has their noses glued to Bill’s butt so closely that if he stopped abruptly it would require major surgery to remove their heads from his colon.
I’ve read it, Sev – it was a real eye opener. You start reading it knowing what an awful president Clinton was, but you just don’t know how bad until you’ve finished reading it.
Happy Birthday, btw
Thanks ST!
So far I’ve just skimmed it, reading a bit here and there…I can already see that I’ll have to get blood pressure medication before I really dig into it. The few things I’ve read so far just astound me, even with what I know already about Bubba, just the tip of the iceberg.
But Bush is less honest than Bubba, yeah, right, in what alternate universe?
“But Bush is less honest than Bubba, yeah, right, in what alternate universe?”
LOL … that reminds me, I was posting at a political message board I frequent yesterday and one of the arguments put forth to me was that Saddam Hussein was ‘more honest’ about his WMDs than the President was. Shows you the truly warped mindset of some people, eh?
“Shows you the truly warped mindset of some people, eh?”
- Problem is ST, they’re not just warped, they’re closed and truly American hating, which makes them dangerous, not just misguided. Our enemies use peoples unhappinesses to demonize us and turn honest anger inward, an old Marxist trick.
- One thing you’ll never hear a Lefty talk about is our humaness in never really using the might we could in wars we are forced into. Vietnam was all but over after the TET offensive, Min was ready to sue for peace, but when they saw the effects of the left-wing press and “peace” movement, it gave them the support they needed to keep the war going for 6 more years. Since the majority of deaths and injories to both sides occured after that, the left can thank themselves for causing the deaths of ten times as many people.
- No we never use our might. If we did Baghdad would not exist, Ditto Tehran, Damascus, and Hanoi, and I would guess that even though the various would be dictators always go against us because we’re really the only force worth fighting, there wouold be a hell of a lot less America attackers willing to keep doing this about every 30 years. We actually encourage them by being so civil, and the left makes it even worse.
Fact is the political medling of the left has probably caused the majority of deaths in the last 50+ years, even stretching back into the 20’s and 30’s, when the same silacious voices were looking for “peace in our time”.
- Bang
- Just thinking if you will “be nice”, the other guy won’t hammer you is the falacy of the whole leftist credo. Either from cowardice, or fear, they pretend you can stop the other guy by just plain “niceness”, and they refuse to see how stupid that whole idea is.
- You cannot stop the other guy by pretty smiles, and in fact in most of the world, smiling at you enemy is considered an insult or a sign of total weakness and subserviance, and will get you killed even faster.
- As the old indian sage said:
“When you meet the Cobra on the road, you can address him as “Mr. Cobra”. He will nod and then bite you anyway.”
- The world doesn’t give a damn about Liberal theories….
- Bang
Fact is the political medling of the left has probably caused the majority of deaths in the last 50+ years, even stretching back into the 20’s and 30’s, when the same silacious voices were looking for “peace in our time”.
True, even though they are blind to it, and continue to delude themselves that it’s the evil right wingers who do all the dirty deeds. And their policies still wreak havoc and cause mass death around the world, from ignoring (or worse yet, sucking up to) brutal, genocidal dictators, to preventing DDT from being used, resulting in millions of preventable deaths from malaria.
I saw a great t-shirt on thoseshirts.com, it has a picture of Che on it, and says “Communisim killed over 100 million people and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.”
Guess you couldn’t resist trying to come back here for more, eh? Here’s some cheese to go with that whine. –ST