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Originally Posted by Skull Mason At the time he was leaving office his approval rating was higher than any other president leaving office for the last 70 years. People were just mad at him for copping head in the oval office!!! His rating was 68% when he left office, not sure what dub's is...
I'm just worried obama might be a pussy. Hillary is one cold bitch and that is what you need to be to pull the trigger when it needs to be pulled. Plus Bill will be back.
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Well, yes, his approval rating, if you look only at one figure, was surprisingly good ... and was at its highest
just after the impeachment.
But only 45 percent said they would miss him, and his fellow Democrats (correct me if I'm wrong) considered him damaged goods for a couple years or so in their own campaigning ... a sad decline that Clinton spent the next few years working hard to reverse. (And he succeeded.)
Just after he left office, two out of three Americans said he would be more remembered for personal scandals than his political achievments, and well over half said they didn't think he was honest.
And yet you're right: A surprising number of people really liked Clinton.
When he went to Gaza in 1998, the Palestinians were bursting with love for him; I don't think there's any other American political figure who could excite that reaction now.
The guy's loaded with charisma.
Bush's approval rating is around 30 percent now.
Finally, like you, I'm not sure Obama has the toughness to be president. Which is fine if he only has to tiptoe through the tulips, but it's a big world with lots of surprises.
Of course, maybe he
is tough. The problem is, we just don't know at this point.