You’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. Clinton’s general popularity at the end of his term was 66% among ALL Americans, higher than all Presidents except Eisenhower:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/112810/LameDuck-Presidents-Usually-See-Approval-Ratings-Rise.aspx

And Bush’s rating today (29%) is lower than Truman’s (32%).

Gore won the popular vote and the election was stolen in Florida and by the repubs on the Supreme Court.

It has been over 2,000 days since 9/11 and we have been safe at home, no small feat.

Yes, the anthrax attack never happened, right?
And Bin Laden has been found and captured or killed, right?
And our military is strong as ever, right?
And North Korea didn’t develop nukes, right?
And Iran isn’t developing nukes, right?
And Russia isn’t saber-rattling, right?

Feeling safer at home because of Bush, right?

Why are you so fact-challenged?

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2004_cr/s042804b.html

Now for Pres Bush. It has been over 2,000 days since 9/11 and we have been safe at home, no small feat. I know you will give him more credit but if we had been attcked you would have blamed Pres Bush.

Pres Truman, one of our greatest Presidents had lower numbers than Bush does now.

Pres Clinton was not overwhelmingly popular at the end of his term. Within the Dem party he was, at about 65% but not nationwide, less than 40%. If Clinton had been that popular VP Gore would have been elected in a breeze.

But all of those who don’t think that the modern GOP mind doesn’t work on utterly created McCarthyite fear has only to re-read Jason O’Neill’s post.

Contrary to wingnut beliefs, Gorelick was not responsible for the “wall.” That was St. Reagan.

Or raising their Wii score. Or watching “American Idol.” Or on and on and on…

I don’t think that it is “left-wing nuttery” at all to think that 9/11 would have been prevented under a Gore administration. It is pretty much undisputed in the record that Bush-Rice-Cheney ignored the terrorist threat prior to 9/11; just Google and read what Richard Clarke had to say about the Bush response to terroristic threats pre- and post- 9/11.

For example, Gore had helped write a report prior to 9/11 that said terrorists might use planes as weapon. Condiliar said “nobody could have predicted…” that because she didn’t care enough to read the report. Bush was warned on vacation in August that Bin Laden wanted to attack and did nothing except tell his briefer “now you’ve covered your ass.”

I am not going to dispute that the organizational bureaucracy in the intelligence agencies wasn’t in need of improvement. It was. But 9/11 could have been prevented if we had had somebody like Gore who would have taken the warning seriously and could have connected the dots or even just increased airport security. After being warned, Bush just continued his vacation and DID NOTHING. And you can be sure President Gore would not have sat in a classroom for 20 minutes reading “My Pet Goat” while America was under attack.

So it isn’t “wholly irresponsible (and ridiculously dumb) to make such a claim” at all. This is an administration that has screwed up everything that it has touched. It was incompetent and dishonest before 9/11 and it has been shown to be dishonest and incompetent ever since.

For helping drive a stake in the heart of conservative governance for years to come, Bush actually deserves all the credit and thanks in the world

We must not lose sight of the fact that, while Bush was totally incompetent, it wasn’t just Bush. The core problem is with conservative governing policy. They just can’t do it. The paradox of believing all government is bad and then trying to run government just doesn’t work. The conflict of interest inevitably leads to corruption, cronyism and corporatism.

I am always amazed that the USA feels compelled from time to time to go back to the conservative well. And then, we are all shocked, shocked when the whole country comes down with cholera. Doesn’t anybody study history any more? Oh wait, nope, too busy learning to pass the NCLB tests. Maybe that was the goal? Do ya think?

Jason O’Neill is somewhat right about the firewalls put up by Gorelick. More like the firewalls she maintained. You can’t deny that fact, although Jason should probably read this.

And, contrary to left-wing nuttery, I don’t believe 9/11 could have been prevented by a Democrat in office. I think it’s wholly irresponsible (and ridiculously dumb) to make such a claim.

9/11 would have been prevented if we had had a president who didn’t ignore warnings and actually cared about national defense more than “My Pet Goat.”

With regard to the polls, they are unscientific but probably a true assessment. The assessment is about the same whenever a new administration is about to take office. It happened when Bush took over from Clinton, Clinton from Bush Sr, and so on.