Comments on: A presidential approval rating to slit your wrists by

By: honora

honora — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:51:59 +0000

Ellen: what is the name of the textbook you reference?

By: pullingmyhairout

pullingmyhairout — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:34:56 +0000

They obviously polled the Dixie Chicks…

By: ecamorg

ecamorg — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:43:58 +0000

Watergate made up my mind when I was just a kid. Republican until further notice. Anything to make the self-loathing scumbags on the news and in Washington who never missed a chance to crap on our military so collectively angry and hostile was definitely who I was voting for. Besides, I’m still trying to figure out what Nixon did that every other president didn’t do… Oh yeah, he was Republican.

By: Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:57:48 +0000

I was a teenager during the Carter years, I remember them well. Inflation spiralling out of control, long lines at the gas station, the humiliation of the Iran hostage crisis.
I also remember being upset that in 1980 I was a year shy of voting age, I so badly wanted to vote for Ronald Reagan. I had to wait 4 years, but I’ll always be proud that my first vote for President was for Reagan.
Carter was a disaster and he is also the worst ex-President we’ve ever had.

By: Sandys Beach

Sandys Beach — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:23:09 +0000

Thank you, moonsbreath…there are a boat load of us with like minds out there…truly the silent majority….we must be silent no more…get out and speak your mind..as my wonderful teachers taught…”speak softly but carry a big stick” from Teddy Roosevelt….that is the best we can do.. and VOTE….never forget our biggest and loudest sound is in the voting booth.

By: moonsbreath

moonsbreath — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:12:32 +0000

I’m right there with Sandys Beach too! I turned 18 in 1976, would have been my first time to vote and didn’t. I live in Georgia and Carter never did anything good as a governor here.
My daughter did a essay on Nixon in high school, and I didn’t even recall a majority of all he did. Nixon started equal rights for women and minorities and many other programs that Kennedy gets the credit for.

By: Sandys Beach

Sandys Beach — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:17:44 +0000

..sorry…I meant to say POLLS ARE CEEEERAP! These things get my juices flowing and I type faster than I think. Still pissed, though.

By: Sandys Beach

Sandys Beach — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:07:01 +0000

I have read each above post….who the hell was polled in these “polls??” I am a monkey’s uncle (is that still a
pc statement in the new world of ours??)because I have NEVER been polled. And, who on God’s great earth, is recording history these days? Not preaching here, but I was raised by the good nuns in Brooklyn, NY…Dominicans and Josephites.. and they taught history like no one else could possibly….I owe my love of country and sharp opinion of things past to them…my heart breaks for todays young people…they are being hornswaggled by the media and the education system. The socialists in our government and MSM are trying to rewrite our history….this is such crap that for now I am speechless….that is just the tip of the iceberg..I wish I could go on furhter with this opinion, but that would mean a library of books just to say my piece. I am still so pissed off….!!POLL ARE CEEERAPP!!!!!

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:02:25 +0000

I just unpacked a bunch of books that are going to be used in social studies programs for kids next year. The theme is American Heroes and Jimmy Carter and LBJ are among them.
Is Reagan? No he isn’t – we can’t have that now can we?

By: DannoJyd

DannoJyd — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 08:37:43 +0000

Again with the polls? When will we ever learn.

I guess that Kerry actually did win his race in ’04′. The polls tell us so.

Wake up people!

By: SparkyFD

SparkyFD — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:35:52 +0000

Ever since Carter was attacked by a killer rabbit while on a fishing trip, most Americans stood behind our fearless leader. He showed great courage by wacking that beast with an oar from his boat. Yes, Carter was a great president, and defender of Nasty God Awful Killer Rabbits.

By: Rowane

Rowane — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:34:29 +0000

Bwahahah! Clinton is on a par with Carter! I thought he was “The Greatest President of the 20th Century”.

BTW, see what you can do to help our jailed Marines
http://www.patriotdefensefund.com or buy Savage’s new book at http://www.michaelsavage.com and he’ll donate $5 for every book to them.

Duty, Honor, Country
(in THAT order)
Rowane

By: easy87us

easy87us — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:09:36 +0000

Breaking News…the Commander has just removed the shackles from the soldiers…and the soldiers are moved to a less secured facilities.

Breakning news from Mike Savage.

By: Defector01

Defector01 — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:07:35 +0000

easy87
You hit the nail on the head. Where and who they interviewed will shed an incredible amount of light on this and can explain certain tendencies of this. Gallup doesn’t and as such I’m suspiscious. To be honest I’m that way with almost all polls including conservative ones because I’ve seen how easy it is to turn them based on just one-two key words. How’s this; what were these people’s opinions AT THE START AND END OF THOSE PRESIDENTS TERMS OR THEIR OPINIONS OF THEM JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO
That would be extremely useful information.

By: easy87us

easy87us — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 23:02:05 +0000

Gallop Poll failed again to reveal their geographical sampling data.

If they sample more in big cities, or only in big cities, then this would be the result.

We should start to demand them showing us a map of where they got the data from.

By: dman

dman — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:59:47 +0000

Allahpundit, is this your revenge on those of us who won’t outright condemn Ann Coulter? It’s working … Prozac – NOW!

By: speed647

speed647 — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:49:41 +0000

I would like to see those stats broken down by age of those polled.

It’s hard to believe that anyone who was alive and semi-coherent (which describes my usual condition at the time) in the late 70s could actually approve of peanut head’s miserable administration.

*barf*

By: MaiDee

MaiDee — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:48:52 +0000

Under Clinton’s Rapacy :

Accused rape
Perjury
Disbarment
Abuse of power
Giving new meaning to term Head of State
Giving new meaning to the Oral Office
Highest Tax Increase in US History
And that’s just for starters. Yet a 61% approval rating. What Next? If William Jefferson Clinton made President, why not William Jefeerson?

By: shooter

shooter — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:37:33 +0000

What was in the water in 1999? Or did the Y2K scare some people into being pro-allpastpresidents.
Kennedy turned the Oval office into a brothel long before Clinton did, but this is nuts. Did hey take this poll near the Kennedy compound in Mass?
But Carter? What did he do? Jimmy Carter, right?

By: Khyber Pass

Khyber Pass — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:19:24 +0000

Quick – buy stock in Prozac!

By: thirteen28

thirteen28 — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:18:26 +0000

Sandy’s Beach:

“…AND..I am not done….Jimmy Carter…..excuse me but how many remember the gas lines, double digit inflation, and the stinking hostage situation”

(raising hand) … ME!! I remember! Heck, I was only 12 when he was elected and 16 when he was (thankfully) bounced out of office by Reagan, but one didn’t need to be an expert or even experienced in things political to know what a truly, awful, inept, pathetic excuse for a president he was … and that’s giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Believe me, I’m no fan of Clinton at all, but I’d take him over Carter in a nanosecond.

By: Kid from Brooklyn

Kid from Brooklyn — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:11:41 +0000

Jimmy Carter’s poll was held in Teheran.

By: GT

GT — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:10:49 +0000

Its nothing new. Opinions about Presidents always tend to improve as time goes by and memories get shorter.

I remember sitting in my PoliSci class 25 years ago asking the professor about how Carter will be perceived as time goes by. The Gallup Poll proves him right.

By: violet

violet — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:10:22 +0000

Carter got 61% approval? Oh vomit.

By: Sandys Beach

Sandys Beach — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:59:36 +0000

…AND..I am not done….Jimmy Carter…..excuse me but how many remember the gas lines, double digit inflation, and the stinking hostage situation. I hate seeing that peanut eating grin of his and who remembers when the WIFE, Roslyn, was sitting in on his cabinet meetings??? Air was easier to breathe once Reagan took office. Talk about your ‘morning in America’….I felt as if we came through the plague and the survivors had to rebuild the stinking planet, for crying out loud. I am pissed…these polls are crap!!!!