Poll: Clinton outperformed Bush
Miles Long
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/12/bush.clinton.poll/index.html
(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)
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.
Clinton was impeached in 1998 over testimony he gave in a deposition
about an extramarital sexual relationship with White House intern Monica
Lewinksy.
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Anyone for a blow job? <laughing>
Miles "Raising the Bar" Long
911
When asked how things were 6-14 years ago I'm sure most would respond "Uh...
pretty good" no matter when you ask them. That's why its called "the good
old days". An dthe farther back you go, the better they were.
Kyle Daulton
"911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
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So, why don;t you tell us what was bad about it, dumb fuck. Specifically.
--
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911
"Kyle Daulton" <KDau...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
> news:cW99g.510$Gi7...@fe06.news.easynews.com...
>> 90% don't remember what happened last week - let alone 6-14 YEARS ago.
>>
>> When asked how things were 6-14 years ago I'm sure most would respond
>> "Uh... pretty good" no matter when you ask them. That's why its called
>> "the good old days". An dthe farther back you go, the better they were.
>
>
> So, why don;t you tell us what was bad about it, dumb fuck. Specifically.
Specifically? Here's one specific that comes to mind - During the Clinton
era I averaged about 30k a year. For the full Bush term I have averaged over
200k a year.
911
"911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
Although that had nothing to do with WHO was president. Unlike dumbocrats, I
don't hinge success, or failure to WHO the president is.
Mitchell Holman
news:0ua9g.6267$pd5...@fe03.news.easynews.com:
You are in the military body bag business, right?
Kyle Daulton
"911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
Yet another dumb fuck rightard who is too stupid to understand the
difference between correlation and causation! It's like an epidemic with you
retards! What specific policies, since changed by Bush apparently, led to
those changes, asswipe? *Specifically*, you moron!
--
%%%% I don't hide behind one. -- David Moffitt on nyms just before being
outed as Occam's Razor
Kyle Daulton
"911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
LOL! Nice attempt at a recovery, asswipe, but it's too late! You don't have
a goddamned clue, beyotch!
SugarMonkey
"911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
Fucking lying sack of shit. <PLONK>
SugarMonkey
"Mitchell Holman" <NoE...@comcast.com> wrote in message
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I figured he was a Washingon D.C. pimp since he supposedly went from 30k to
200k since Bush and the Republicans arrived.
Nevermind, I <PLONKED> him, for lying.
Aeroplan
"911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
So your Amway business really took off. Do you have any garage floor
cleaner?
911
Recovery from what? Reminding a dumbocrat the the government isn't your
daddy. People succeed and fail in spite of the government not because of the
government. The government doesn't CREATE jobs, they can only hinder job
creation less by staying out of the way. They do not CREATE business, they
can only hinder business creation less by staying out of the way. Dumbocrats
are under the impression government creates business, when it is the other
way around.
911
"SugarMonkey" <gig...@bush.net> wrote in message
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The funny part is - you think that is some great feat. Hahahahaha!! I'm
still fucking poor by comparison. Just not destitute, and no longer selling
my life to someone by the hour.
George Washington Hayduke
Damn, I didn't know treason paid that well. Or was it raping boys?
---
"And reality has a well-known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert
"Hitler had Auschwitz, Bush has Abu Ghraib."
Tempest
No, he's into welfare fraud.
--
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony, 1896
Tempest
What he's saying is that Repug male prostitutes can make a lot of money.
He must have gotten a good word from Jeff Gannon.
KenStahl
That's really original, lib-turd!
Did you think that up all by yourself?
Joseph Welch
"911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
> Specifically? Here's one specific that comes to mind - During the Clinton
> era I averaged about 30k a year. For the full Bush term I have averaged
> over 200k a year.
So how has the government helped you earn more income?
Lax enforcement of child pornography laws?
--
JW
***************
"You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have
you left no sense of decency?"
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html
Tempest
Joseph Welch wrote:
> "911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
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>
>
>>Specifically? Here's one specific that comes to mind - During the Clinton
>>era I averaged about 30k a year. For the full Bush term I have averaged
>>over 200k a year.
>
>
> So how has the government helped you earn more income?
>
> Lax enforcement of child pornography laws?
He works for Halliburton and he's been stealing money from the Iraq
rebuilding fund.
Dan Kimmel
"911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
Actually if people had memories the disparities would have been even
greater. Few Americans saw tax increases under Clinton while everyone
enjoyed the greatest peacetime expansion in history, culminating in a
government budget surplus. Under Bush the economy has tanked for most
people, with a tiny percentage getting big tax breaks leading to huges
deficits and the greatest government debt in history. Under Clinton we
helped the people of Kosovo without losing a single American life. Under
Bush, the death toll of Americans and Iraqis keep rising in his war of
choice. Under Clinton FEMA became a model of government efficiency, getting
help quickly to people in dire need. Under Bush FEMA became a model of
government incompetence and corruption, demonstrating that this
administration couldn't be trusted to do anything.
In the end, Lincoln was right: Bush may have fooled a lot of people for a
while, but you can't fool all the people all the time. He's down to 29%
with no end in sight.
911
"Dan Kimmel" <daniel...@rcn.com> wrote in message
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> "911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
> news:cW99g.510$Gi7...@fe06.news.easynews.com...
>> 90% don't remember what happened last week - let alone 6-14 YEARS ago.
>>
>> When asked how things were 6-14 years ago I'm sure most would respond
> "Uh...
>> pretty good" no matter when you ask them. That's why its called "the good
>> old days". An dthe farther back you go, the better they were.
>>
>
>
> Actually if people had memories the disparities would have been even
> greater. Few Americans saw tax increases under Clinton while everyone
> enjoyed the greatest peacetime expansion in history, culminating in a
> government budget surplus.
The first thing Clinton did was RAISE everyones taxes, retroactively. It
wasn't enough to just raise them, he had to get some of that money he missed
out on.
> Under Clinton FEMA became a model of government efficiency, getting
> help quickly to people in dire need.
1999 Hurricane Swamped Clinton's FEMA
A full three weeks after the storm had passed, Rev. Jesse Jackson
interviewed Witt on his CNN show "Both Sides Now" - and complained that
flood victims were still suffering from a "misery index."
"It seemed there was preparation for Hurricane Floyd, but then came Flood
Floyd," Jackson began. "Bridges are overwhelmed, levees are overwhelmed,
whole town's under water . . . [it's] an awesome scene of tragedy. So
there's a great misery index in North Carolina."
Witt explained that the storm's devastation was unparalleled, prompting
Jackson to ask what was being done for the thousands of families left
homeless by Floyd.
Though nearly a month had passed since the storm first hit, Witt said his
agency was just beginning to address the problem.
"We're starting to move the camper trailers in," he explained. "It's been so
wet it's been difficult to get things in there, but now it's going to be
moving very quickly. And I think you're going to see a -- I think the people
there will see a big difference over within this next weekend."
The Clinton FEMA Director came in for more criticism during another CNN
interview - this time for failing to do a better job with Hurricane Floyd
evacuation efforts.
"I hate to do this to you so early in the morning," host Carol Lin began
apologetically.
"But I want to show you some video of Hurricane Floyd. This was the
evacuation scene out of Florida last year. And you can recall, some
three-million people in three different states were hitting the highways,
jammed back-to-back trying to get away from the danger. And much of the
local as well as the federal government was criticized for this backup. What
is being done this year to prevent something like this from happening again,
keeping people out of harm's way?"
Witt explained that evacuation problems were to be expected under such dire
conditions. "It was very unusual when you had multiple states all evacuating
at the same time," he told CNN. "It was the first time that that has
happened that way and it did clog the highways."
While Witt's reputation remained largely intact after the Floyd fiasco, more
than a few of the storm's thousands of flood victims complained that the
agency had failed them.
"I had heard FEMA was going to be downtown, so I got up early to get down
there and get in line," one North Carolina woman told the Associated Press,
recounting her ordeal months after Floyd had passed. "The time came and
nobody was there, just all these people waiting in line."
FEMA's sorry performance left her overwrought.
"I had been let down so many times, I just lost it," the flood victim said.
"A friend of mine came walking up, and I just started toward her. She said,
'Robin, what in the world is wrong?' I was just standing there in the middle
of the street crying, totally disoriented, practically hysterical."
Weeks after Floyd's floodwaters subsided, the suffering for many had yet to
be addressed.
"We passed hundreds of families sitting outside their now-uninhabitable
homes, with their water-soaked possessions spread out on their lawns," the
Raleigh's News & Observer noted on Oct. 3, 1999.
"Desperately picking through the mess for anything to salvage, most people -
particularly the elderly - seemed to be in a state of shock."
And where was FEMA?
"The larger towns had a visible FEMA and Red Cross presence," the paper
said. "But in smaller towns it looked like utter confusion and despair - no
one in charge, no one knowing what to do or where to go for help."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/7/134914.shtml
Joseph Welch
"911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
> The first thing Clinton did was RAISE everyones taxes, retroactively.
Cite, please.
Tempest
Joseph Welch wrote:
> "911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
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>
>
>>The first thing Clinton did was RAISE everyones taxes, retroactively.
>
>
> Cite, please.
There isn't one. But you knew that.
Clinton lowered taxes on the middle class and the poor while raising
taxes on the rich.
Greenspan attributed Clinton's tax policy for the economic boom of the
1990s.
Tempest
> news:e3k9g.9926$Wl....@fe08.news.easynews.com...
>The first thing Clinton did was RAISE everyones taxes, retroactively.
A blatant lie.
You rightards have no shame whatsoever.
Dan Kimmel
"911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
>
> "Dan Kimmel" <daniel...@rcn.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > "911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
> > news:cW99g.510$Gi7...@fe06.news.easynews.com...
> >> 90% don't remember what happened last week - let alone 6-14 YEARS ago.
> >>
> >> When asked how things were 6-14 years ago I'm sure most would respond
> > "Uh...
> >> pretty good" no matter when you ask them. That's why its called "the
good
> >> old days". An dthe farther back you go, the better they were.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Actually if people had memories the disparities would have been even
> > greater. Few Americans saw tax increases under Clinton while everyone
> > enjoyed the greatest peacetime expansion in history, culminating in a
> > government budget surplus.
>
> The first thing Clinton did was RAISE everyones taxes, retroactively. It
> wasn't enough to just raise them, he had to get some of that money he
missed
> out on.
In fact most people saw no tax raise whatsoever. The Republicans claimed it
effected "everyone." As usual, they were lying. Indeed, Clinton's tax plan
worked so well that interest rates came down, many people refinanced their
mortgages, and saw their expenses decline as a result.
>
> > Under Clinton FEMA became a model of government efficiency, getting
> > help quickly to people in dire need.
>
> 1999 Hurricane Swamped Clinton's FEMA
> A full three weeks after the storm had passed, Rev. Jesse Jackson
> interviewed Witt on his CNN show "Both Sides Now" - and complained that
> flood victims were still suffering from a "misery index."
Three weeks? Nearly a YEAR after Katrina, New Orleans is still a disaster
area.
911
Since when is it the government responsibility to rebuild a city? Blame the
dumbocrats in New Orleans for not rebuilding the city to its previous state
of corruption & squalor inside of 300 days.
Sid9
It's absolutely un-American not to support our fellow citizens in need.
It lacks patriotism.
It lacks morality to be so greedy as not to help our fellow Americans
Adam Albright
>> Three weeks? Nearly a YEAR after Katrina, New Orleans is still a disaster
>> area.
>
>Since when is it the government responsibility to rebuild a city? Blame the
>dumbocrats in New Orleans for not rebuilding the city to its previous state
>of corruption & squalor inside of 300 days.
So now YOU call Bush a liar. Seem to recall the chimp flying down to
New Orleans and under the glare of tv lights in a national address
pledge "we will do what it takes"
Read this and weep fool. You just got made to look stupid again, not
that is anything new with you.
In a prime-time address to the nation delivered live from the center
of the flood-ravaged city, Mr Bush sketched out one of America's
largest ever federal spending programs.
The sweeping scale of his proposals has more in common with the
traditions of the Democrats than his Republican Party and could
transform the legislative priorities and possibilities of his second
term.
"We will do what it takes," Mr Bush said, standing in the heart of the
French Quarter on Thursday night. "We will stay as long as it takes to
help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives."
source: too many to name. CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc..
Miles Long
> 90% don't remember what happened last week - let alone 6-14 YEARS ago.
>
> When asked how things were 6-14 years ago I'm sure most would respond "Uh...
> pretty good" no matter when you ask them. That's why its called "the good
> old days". An dthe farther back you go, the better they were.
>
>
No, idiot! <laughing> This means that you and the rest of your band of
idiots are out of step with mainstream America, and as such do not
represent anything other than a pitiful worshiper of a complete and
utter failure of a presidency.
Thank you for providing everyone hours of can't-help-but-look car-wreck
entertainment.
Miles "Mainstream, Elitist Snob" Long
Kyle Daulton
"911" <9...@911.911> wrote in message
You were the one implying that Bush was a better president than Clinton
because you are doing better, retard. Run away from it if you wish, I can't
say I blame you.
Dan Kimmel
"Sid9" <si...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Indeed. It's the greediest ones who think everyone else should fend for
themselves while they personally take advantage of any government benefits
that accrue to them.
KenStahl
Of course it is, Dimmy.
It's a demonkrap city in a demonkrap state.
Yep.
New Orleans is fucked.
KenStahl
> themselves while they personally take advantage of any government benefits
> that accrue to them.
That sounds reasonable, not greedy, dimmy.
But you ARE a lib-turd retard.
You wouldn't understand reasonable.
iwantt...@gmail.com
Miles Long wrote:
> 911 wrote:
> > 90% don't remember what happened last week - let alone 6-14 YEARS ago.
> >
> > When asked how things were 6-14 years ago I'm sure most would respond "Uh...
> > pretty good" no matter when you ask them. That's why its called "the good
> > old days". An dthe farther back you go, the better they were.
>
say 10 years ago? Me and most my family. Nope we are all doing much
worse. Shoot in Clintons day we actually had a lot more money to
spend. Since then hmmm.....nope everything keeps going up and up and
up, wages are stagnant
kennykorn...@lycos.com
Poor little retard.
When will you ever learn?