Question by WinonaGal: Has your opinion of Bush changed in the last two years?
Just curious. I read an interesting article recently that indicated that Bush’s approval rating has now gone up in comparison to what it was at the time he left office.
I wonder if now that time has passed, people are looking back on that time and reflecting that he really wasn’t as bad as the liberal media was making him out to be.
This is not your opportunity to bash him, I am very tired of all of that.
If you want to bash him, please just ask your own question and I am sure you will have plenty of “wonderful” answers to make you happy. This is asking you to compare if you feel differently now than when he left office.
I do want to say that I was never a fan of his. I voted for McCain in the primaries against Bush and voted for Bush as I felt he was the “lesser of two evils”. I still think, to this day, that McCain would have done a better job and made different decisions.
So, I didn’t think Bush was doing a great job at the time he left office, but I always felt he was overly criticized and made out to be responsible for many things that were not his fault. Do you think the media was unkind to Bush? Why?
I can say that I feel my own approval of him has changed. Now that I see what is going on with our new president, I recognize that things were not so bad. I actually find myself wishing we had Bush again as I realize he was doing a better job than I thought.
I long for 2012 so the ultimate clean up can occur after what I view as 12 years of bad management. But, again, my opinion is now higher than it was at the time Bush left. I probably give him a C- rather than a D+. But, I give Obama an F.
Have you changed your mind? Care to grade as I did? Please be honest in your grading. Also, again, this is not the time to do the usual Bush bashing, it’s all been heard and we are all tired of it. It’s “old news” but the change in people’s hearts is not old, it’s new.
Best answer:
Answer by JimSock
Bush’s approval ratings currently match or exceed Zer0bama’s.
Bush regularly made me cringe but, today, I would take him back in a New York minute.
Soupy Sales would be an improvement over what we have now and he’s dead.
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