The Daily Graphic: George W. Bush Approval Rating Over Eight Years
Yeah, yeah. I know, old news. I got to thinking though after hearing some of Barack Obama’s initial approval ratings about a cool graphic presentation in the Wall Street Journal around Inauguration Day. They were charts like the one below for Bush which showed ratings over time overlaid with the big news events of the day as well as one chart with all post WWII presidents together.
I concur with most of this graph, though I believe that we fogot about the good he did after Katrina hit. Though that was badly handled, I think it was mostly due to incompotent lower afficials. Afterwords, it seems that we held abit of a grudge towords Bush.
James,
You gotta be kind. Isn’t the incompetence of the lower officials a symptom of the high official incompetence? Bush!
Alex i wonder if you feel the same about Obama, do we blame him for crashing the economy further, and having the most deadly year in Iraq thus far… I personally blame the Governor of New Orleans, and so does half the state… He failed to set plans in action, and do his job… But we also have to realize the class of people in New Orleans, many of these folks could not of evacuated even if told to do so… The town was in ruins after the event… People looted electronic stores instead of food lions… Looting the food lion is not looting that in my mind is survival, but stealing a tv well that’s just plan poor class…
Honestly i don’t want the president in charge of fema, the banks, the auto industry, i want him to do his job according to the constitution not his free will… Because right now we look pretty much like a damn socialist country… And feel like it too…
Remind us, James, what “good” Bush did after Katrina?
I remember that he played his guitar. And he cut cake. And he told his FEMA appointee who was more worried about what he was wearing than what he was doing that he was doing a “heckuva job.”
And I think he actually flew over New Orleans in Air Force One at one point and looked at it.
But other than that, he didn’t do jack and everybody knows it. Katrina was a catastrophic failure of the George W. Bush Administration and the Republican philosophy and brand, and it has been in a tailspin of decline ever since.
The entire northern Louisiana region was declared a disaster area by the Federal Government before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) prepositioned 18 disaster medical teams, medical supplies and equipment, urban search and rescue teams along with millions of MREs, liters of water, tarpaulins, and truckloads of ice.
This is from Wikipedia. There is also a NY Times report that Pres. Bush ordered a mandatory evacuation the weekend before Katrina hit. So, who shall we point the finger at? The state of Louisiana officials and the mayor of New Orleans were in charge of decisions at the state and city levels.
I think the approval rating dropped so fast after 9-11 is because Bush took SO LONG to go after the Muslim terrorists! AND……all along he did nothing for America about our open borders and jobs going overseas! I’d vote for him again…….ANYTHING but what we have now!!
It took over 4 years and Katrina to drop Bush to the mid 40’s that Obama is already enjoying. God, or speedy evolution, please save us from ourselves.
Oh, and don’t try that “he inherited this mess” fallacy. The Republicans deserve a lot of credit, but the Dems need to own their share in this mess too. The Dems (with Obama) took over control of the federal purse strings in 2006, not 2009. Don’t let them fool you.
Thanks for pointing out this, Democrats only know how to blame people for mistakes, come on Obama still saying this mess is bigger than he thought, and its all Bush’s fault, thanks for pointing out the Democrats have been in power since 2006, they only have been in power without anybody to blame since 2008 and thats when their support has went through the floor, this just shows they get things done by blameing Republicans.