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Executive fAiL
RASMUSSEN Reports at 9:30AM ET:
Obama Approval Falls to New Low: 42%
Obama Approval Index: -20
Strongly Approve 24%
Strongly Disapprove 44%
Total Approval 42%
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So? He's had more controversial crises to handle than any other president in recent history. Prior to the attacks of 911, your boy Booooosh (with only 9 months in office) was showing a dismal approval rating of 55%, with 23% disapproving and 22% undecided. And HE didn't have to deal with ANYTHING before the attacks.
9/11 happened eight months into President Bush's first term of office. He was over 50% prior to the attacks and he was at more than 90% following the attacks because the people approved of the way he was handling it and the immediate proactive steps taken to deal with it. There sure as hell wasn't weeks and weeks of hang wringing about what to so and then ultimately poor choices made and billed as the Administration putting all they had into it.
When Obama claimed that his administration was focused and doing everything they could re the Gulf, I wanted to gag. ANYBODY who believes that is true is positively delusional.
President Bush had 9/11. And he inherited a minor recession that was hugely magnified in the wake of 9/11. And he dealt with that appropriately too and we recovered more quickly than most folks thought we could.
President Bush had Katrina which he bungled and received appropriate criticism for that. Even though no prior President had to deal with devastation on the scale of Katrine, President Bush did deserve poor marks for his handling of that.
President Bush also had two wars that, once war weariness set in, dragged his approval ratings into the basements. Mistakes were made there too, but he did get some things right.
President Bush lost major points with Republicans when he veered too far left on social policy and, because he was a Republican, he couldn't score any points with the Left even though he should have been their darling on that stuff.
So President Obama inherited a major recession which he has bungled big time.
And now he is bungling the disaster in the Gulf.
And you think we should give him props for that?