Call it pure Insanity or just American stupidity. The man whose policies erased a surplus and dragged this country into the second great depression while losing 700,000 jobs a month, is seen more favorably than the man whose policies added over 11 million jobs to the economy so far, brought the unemployment rate to the lowest it’s been in years and brought health care to millions of Americans… just to name a few.
I’ll call this the true definition of pure, unadulterated American stupidity.
A new CNN/ORC poll reveals that 52 percent of Americans see Mr. Bush positively, while 43 percent do not. In contrast, 49 percent view Mr. Obama favorably, while 49 percent do not. That makes Obama the least-popular president among all his predecessors today.
“The second term doldrums do exist, but time does seem to heal all,” Douglas Astolfi, a professor of history at Saint Leo University, summed up CNN’s findings.
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Obama’s numbers are down as dramatically as Bush’s are up. In January 2009, shortly after Bush left and Obama entered office, only 35 percent of Americans viewed Bush favorably, while Obama enjoyed stratospheric approval ratings of 78 percent
