Buyer’s Remorse: 44% Of Americans Would Prefer To Have President Bush Again

• December 11, 2009

Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama’s declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush, with 44% saying they’d rather have his predecessor. Given the horrendous approval ratings Bush showed during his final term that’s somewhat of a surprise and an indication that voters are increasingly placing the blame on Obama for the country’s difficulties instead of giving him space because of the tough situation he inherited.

I couldn’t disagree with that last statement more. I think voters are watching as Obama has turned what could have been a relatively mild recession into a nasty one, and then used that as justification for massive expansions of government.
But either way, the point is that Obama’s losing traction with the public. Big time. Liberals are carrying on as though they have a mandate to do everything they’re doing, when the reality is that – at least according to this poll – people are kind of wishing they had they old guy back.
For my part, I don’t want Bush back. I think his administration was a mixed bag with some good and more bad. Let’s not forget that TARP started on Bush’s watch (though Obama took the ball and ran with it).
I, frankly, wish we had a leader who didn’t make most Americans feel like they were choosing the better of two bad choices.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

sayanything-342

We may as well have Bush back. Obama keeps looking backwards all the time.

ZERO SUMM, ONE AND DONE.
sayanything-101

Welcome to the Chicago way! Are we having fun, yet?
sayanything-1317

6% unemployment vs 10%. Less foreclosure cases. Less spending.

Yup. Quite a bit milder under Bush.
sayanything-4808

Maybe not his fault solely, but he certainly is the most visible and mouthy proponent of the problem: spend money you don’t have and that other people are on the hook for (most of them not yet born for decades to come), tell those who know better that you know what is best for them and that the obviously wrong thing is really right, keep going without ever making one qualifying statement but instead always speak as if your politics were as natural as arithmetic, and under no circumstances acknowledge the truth much less accept any responsibility for anything.

Three years sounds about right, but Bush was doing it stupidly himself when he didn’t grasp the unique dynamics of Reagan’s first term where the Dems were willing to play ball on defense without more than perfunctory but false opposition on ONE condition which was that he sign on every bit of their pork social spending for their re-election campaign talking points. They held up our nation’s defense in the name of their own careers which by most stretches is tantamount to treason when you’re under threat of nuclear war from an aggressive foe like the Soviet Union. So they blinked and winked at each other and shook one hand while holding a dagger in the other and smiled those sh*t-eating grins and that is not at all what Bush was facing.

That serious screw-up was and remains the thing that the Dems are hanging their entire dog and pony show on right now. Had Bush not spent like a liberal, the liberals would be entirely unable to push the “Bush did it too” button on the spending subject.
sayanything-4416

That’s because you probably surround yourself with people like you. Ignorant, anti-intellectual white trash.
sayanything-106

Rob I would take another 4 – 8 years of Bush over the current president anyday.
jimmypop

"I couldnâ€™t disagree with that last statement more."

agree! where are all the calls saying, 'Inherited? HE VOTED FOR ALL OF THIS!!! He didnt come from chicago! he came from down the street!!!!!' in part this is HIS fault. the liberals have been in control for almost 3 years. we cant let them forget this.
sayanything-4416

I think voters are watching as Obama has turned what could have been a relatively mild recession into a nasty one

Um, sure. A 6% NEGATIVE GDP in the last quarter of 2008 and the collapse of the financial system is a "mild recession."

You people are as deluded as ever. But go ahead and keep voting republican. You're just sentencing your kids to even more misery.
sayanything-7406

I'd rather have Bush than Obama, but Bush still did a lot of things that pissed me off. TARP for instance, he also increased welfare spending more than Clinton did and he was way too lax on illegal immigration.
sayanything-13784

maybe we could just get a cardboard cutout of odumbo for the next three years, like the norwegians schoolchildren. would work out better
http://Array sayanything-4603

wow maybe dino should count the line up against obamao 8-1 so far

i have yet to find many people that are happy with oboe many can't believe he'd be like this. just proves that many people vote with out any understanding of true meaning of leadership or econimics
sayanything-4416

Yes Kenny, it's too bad nobody hit that reset button that put everything back to zero on their way out the door on Jan 19th. Zero debt, zero unemployment, zero wars.

St. Louis idiot.
sayanything-4416

You'll never be able to reverse all the things he'll accomplish in only one term if you're right.

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