🚀 go-pugleaf

100% will be glad when you stop posting this crap.  Bush is out.  Obama is 
in.  Can we get a break now.  You can start again in 2 years when the next 
election cycle begins.


<DubyaWasBornWithASilverSpoonInHisMouth@NowAForkIsUpHisMonkeyAss.nul> wrote 
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> Poll: 75% glad Bush is done
>
> By Paul Steinhauser
> CNN Deputy Political Director
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> (CNN) -- A new national poll suggests that three out of four Americans
> feel President Bush's departure from office is coming not a moment too
> soon.
>
> Seventy-five percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research
> Corp. survey released Friday said they're glad Bush is going; 23
> percent indicated they'll miss him.
>
> "Earlier this year, Bush scored some of the lowest presidential
> approval ratings we've seen in half a century, so it's understandable
> that the public is eager for a new president to step in," said Keating
> Holland, CNN polling director.
>
> CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider added, "As President Bush
> prepares to leave office, the American public has a parting thought:
> Good riddance. At least that's the way three-quarters feel."
>
> The portion who say they won't miss Bush is 24 percentage points
> higher than the 51 percent who said they wouldn't miss President Bill
> Clinton when he left office in January 2001. Forty-five percent of
> those questioned at that time said they would miss Clinton.
>
> The poll indicates that Bush compares poorly with his presidential
> predecessors, with 28 percent saying that he's the worst ever. Forty
> percent rate Bush's presidency as poor, and 31 percent say he's been a
> good president.
>
> Only a third of those polled said they want Bush to remain active in
> public life after he leaves the White House. That 33 percent figure is
> 22 points lower than those in 2001 who wanted Bill Clinton to retain a
> public role.
>
> "It's been like a failed marriage," Schneider said.
>
> "Things started out well. When President Bush first took office in
> 2001, more than 60 percent saw him as strong and decisive. That
> impression was confirmed after the September 11th attacks. The public
> still saw Bush as strong and decisive when he took office a second
> time in 2005.
>
> "But no more. The public has completely lost confidence in this
> president," Schneider said.
>
> Bush has dropped on a number of measures, but possibly the biggest is
> that only 20 percent say he inspires confidence, Holland said.
>
> "That's an important figure when the country is facing its biggest
> economic crisis in a generation," he added.
>
> When running for the White House in the 2000 presidential campaign,
> Bush promised to be a uniter and not a divider. But 82 percent of poll
> respondents felt that Bush did not unite the country, compared with 17
> percent who said he did.
>
> "The vast majority of Americans believe he betrayed his promise to
> unite the country," Schneider said. "He took a country that was
> divided under President Clinton and he divided it worse."
>
> Only 27 percent of those questioned in the poll approve of the way
> Bush is handling his job as president; 72 percent disapprove.
>
> "President Bush's job approval rating has been at or below freezing
> since the beginning of the year," Schneider said. "The current 27
> percent approval rating is one of the lowest ratings for any
> president, ever."
>
> The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted December 19-21, with
> 1,013 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling
> error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
>
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/26/bush.poll/