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64 percent approve of how Carter handled his job as president."
The elder Bush had a low 34 percent approval rating shortly before losing the 1992 election.
But his poll ratings started climbing up against after his electoral defeat and by January 1993, 56 percent of Americans approved of his performance while president.
Bill Clinton enjoyed solid ratings as he finished his second term in 2001, with 66 percent approving how he handled the job. In the latest poll, Clinton received a slightly higher 69 percent rating.
The outgoing US president, however, will be stepping down on January 20 with a rock-bottom approval rating of 27 percent.
"The current occupant of the White House probably hopes history will treat him as kindly as it did his predecessors," Holland said of George W. Bush.
Obama has enjoyed sky-high poll numbers since his election victory in November, with ratings as high as 82 percent before he takes over at the White House on January 20.
It must so be the pits to be a deadender now..... on the other hand, maybe in 30 years, people will forget how awful Baby Bush was.
Current Presidential Approval Ratings
Ex-presidents Carter, Bush get high marks in poll | ABS-CBN News Online Beta
Hindsight is 20/20. When the truth starts coming out (sometimes decades or even centuries later) and the heated rhetoric has faded, folks tend to view past actions and circumstance with a more objective eye.
Once again, Obama hasnt been in office a day. He cant have a job approval rating. He hasnt done anything. He wont do anything until January 20th. So please dont try to feed me nonsense that Obama has a 82% job approval rating when he hasnt even started work.
Hindsight is 20/20. When the truth starts coming out (sometimes decades or even centuries later) and the heated rhetoric has faded, folks tend to view past actions and circumstance with a more objective eye.
When the truth starts coming out (sometimes decades or even centuries later) and the heated rhetoric has faded, folks tend to view past actions and circumstance with a more objective eye.
We need no further proof Bush was a failure.
Liberal in conservatives cloths Fails as president.
Shocker.
Still in denial, maybe psychotherapy would help? Bush completed the conservatism Reagan started and hopefully buried it.
He's The Worst Ever - washingtonpost.com
Still in denial, maybe psychotherapy would help? Bush completed the conservatism Reagan started and hopefully buried it.
He's The Worst Ever - washingtonpost.com
Yeah that massive social spending increase, was very much Reagan like.
lol
What an idiot.
I see no reason to eliminate defense spending from the category of government spending. It is, afterall, money spent by the government and collected from tax payers.
The growth in spending under Reagan was on a par with most post-world war two presidents, and far greater than the spending under clinton.
In addition, Reagan signed one of the largest tax increases in history, to keep social security funded. So he wasn't averse to social spending at all, if an important political constiuency was involved. Cutting food stamps and school lunches was a tad easier, because poor people don't constitute a powerful voting block.
In short, Baby Bush was just following Reagan's footsteps. More defense spending, less taxes for the rich, less regulations for corporations, a more hawkish foreign policy, and privitization where possible of the nation's treasury resources.
As I recall, GW had a 92% approval rating at one point.
Then it wasn't the 'truth,' or are memories shortlived, does truth change. I am wondering what 'truth' can be looked back on centuries from now. Maybe some day dictators won't look so bad, you think?
Well you guys are trying to claim Kim Jong Il, Castro, and Chavez are all good right now. So you could be right.
