Obama, Hillary Clinton Named ‘Most Admired’ in Gallup Poll

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When asked without prompting to name the living man and woman whom they most admire in the world, more Americans name Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than any other figures.
The Gallup rankings, tallied from a nationwide poll conducted earlier this month, show Obama and Clinton each receiving 17 percent of all mentions.
Clinton tops the list of most admired woman for a record 16th time, trailed by Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Condoleezza Rice.
Obama won the title of most admired man for the fourth consecutive year, followed by George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, the Rev. Billy Graham and Warren Buffett.
The lists, which Gallup has compiled nearly every year since 1948, are a mix of popular, high-profile leaders in politics, business, charitable causes and entertainment.
Of particular note this year, according to Gallup, are newcomers to the men’s list: Buffett and Thomas Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“It is common for the president of the Mormon Church to receive mentions, but Monson is the first to make the top 10,” Gallup managing editor Jeffrey Jones wrote on its blog.
On the women’s list, Sarah Palin fell from her second-place slot, which she has held since 2008, to fourth place.
Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich are the only two Republican presidential candidates to make the lists.
Bachmann holds the 9th-place slot, with 2 percent of mentions as most admired woman, tied with Queen Elizabeth II.
Gingrich is tied for sixth place with Donald Trump, with 1 percent, barely above Pope Benedict XVI, Bill Gates and Monson for most admired man.

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Posted by: Ed | December 27, 2011, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
Bahahaha THAT is going to cause Tea Partiers and Repukes to think someone peed in their Cheerios! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: Sneaky | December 27, 2011, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm
I agree. They are doing a fantastic job!!
Posted by: Denese | December 27, 2011, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm
They must have called the communist hot line for their results
Posted by: dusterdog | December 27, 2011, 7:11 pm 7:11 pm
You have got to be kidding me. I don’t believe this.
Posted by: LLM | December 27, 2011, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm
I agree! In today’s society, where people disagree about everything and fight at the first chance, where greed is considered the norm, these two have done an amazing amount of good. Perfect? No. But they have my kudos. As for the naysayers who can’t even criticize the administration without calling people names, maybe it’s time they stepped up and did something for their country.
Posted by: Joseph | December 27, 2011, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
This is exactly why no one believes anything they read or hear coming from the lame stream media.
Posted by: lazyman | December 27, 2011, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm
Not according to Donald Young…must read book
Posted by: MIKE | December 27, 2011, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
“Of particular note this year, according to Gallup, are newcomers to the men’s list: Buffett and Thomas Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“It is common for the president of the Mormon Church to receive mentions, but Monson is the first to make the top 10,” Gallup managing editor Jeffrey Jones wrote on its blog.”
No clue why this happened other than many Mormons flooding the ballots. Thomas Monson is convinced that he is a prophet, and he has convinced everyone in his church that he is a prophet. He is only as sick as the founder of the religion, Joseph Smith. Joseph was arrested for being a con artist and scamming farmers out of their hard earned money. He would take a “magic rock” with him to their property and for a fee he would use his magic rock to look for buried treasure on their land. Soon after he made up a great big fib about finding gold tablets that he could not show anyone. After this stint he joined the Masons. He glued his own fantacies to his own lies, twined it up with some common Masonic Temple practices and presto chango he invented a religion. Thomas Monson is the leader/prophet of that religion today.
Posted by: Jenz56 | December 27, 2011, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm
Did they leave Times Square to conduct this poll? Not hardly.
What a joke these polls come up with. I admire my parents, soldiers, or doctors more than I would admire any of these immoral, hypocritical politicians, or any other politicians, hollywood jerks, or celebrity wannabies.
Posted by: Mark Bartle | December 27, 2011, 7:38 pm 7:38 pm
Donald Trump beat out the Pope. How bad can a Pope be…..?
Posted by: Steve | December 27, 2011, 7:40 pm 7:40 pm
I DONT BELIEVE A WORD OF IT,,IN MY CIRCLE THEY HATE BOTH OF THESE PHONIES
Posted by: ww2vet | December 27, 2011, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm
Heads the list of traitors perhaps.
Posted by: Bob | December 27, 2011, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm
The Gallup poll’s exceptional data was extracted from 100 brain dead left wing liberal drones who are for some strange phenomena either on the government dole or certified Democrats.
Posted by: Rufnek | December 27, 2011, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm
I can’t believe that people are duped by this news.
Posted by: irishrose | December 27, 2011, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
God, that’s just sad. People actually admiring folks deliberately dismantling freedom one act at a time and destroying what was the greatest nation on the face of the earth. Would love to see Gallup leave the shallow end of the pool for their polling. Come on down to the deep end!
Posted by: Shannon Scott | December 27, 2011, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm
I agree. That is so sad. The level of idiocy in the general public and the amount of bias in the media is unbelievable. These people are buying their popularity with our tax money.
Posted by: Amy | December 27, 2011, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm
Republicans are such poor losers. Pout, whine, attack. Pout, whine, attack.
Posted by: Jenny | December 27, 2011, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm
That is hard to believe.
Posted by: Alice | December 27, 2011, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm
Most admired for what?
Posted by: Erica | December 27, 2011, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm
That is hard to believe.
Posted by: Alice | December 27, 2011, 8:13 pm
I find it hard to believe W, Newt, Rice, Bachmann and Palin made the lists, too. What a joke. I’m not surprised Obama,Clinton and Buffet are so well regarded.
Posted by: Kimberly | December 27, 2011, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm
The most admired for what? The art of deception? Looks? media favorites? ability to put a spin on failures?
Posted by: Girish | December 27, 2011, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm
Demagogue: someone who preaches to people’s fears and prejudices. Someone who tells lies to people they believe to be idiots. Pick a Democrat, any Democrat. Find Obama’s pic next to definition.
Posted by: Scott | December 27, 2011, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm
GIVE ME A BREAK. WHO are these people who were “POLLED”. This is nothing but a huge lie. This is propoganda. It’s got to be the democratic thug machine.NOONE, in their right mind, admires Obama.That’s an INSULT to the American people.
Posted by: Ann & Dave | December 27, 2011, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm
It seems more like a name-recognition exercise. Donald Trump? the Pope? It’s silly….
Posted by: Steve | December 27, 2011, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm
This is the longest dialog for a cartoon I’ve ever seen.
Posted by: S Olution | December 27, 2011, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm
Surely this is a joke? No? Then it should be.
Posted by: Glenn Jones | December 27, 2011, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm
they must have called a bunch of drunks, please……………………..
or this must be a joke
Posted by: lisa | December 27, 2011, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm
The truth always comes out! We admire those who stick to their guns.
Posted by: Jimmy Constanza | December 27, 2011, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm
Obviously, someone’s been smoking their underwear. Obama? Clinton? Oh pluuuzzzeee!
Posted by: Leslie | December 27, 2011, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm
the poll was taken by fired Solyndra workers and fast&furious gunrunners
Posted by: LMAO@ABC | December 27, 2011, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm
They look like Tweety and Elmer Fudd.
Posted by: shelly | December 27, 2011, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
Read it and weep Fox News cult members. Get it through your head you are nothing but an exceptionally loud minority with unrealistic views you learn from your TV and radio cult heroes. They are lying to you, and you believe in their ridiculous claims. Most people are normal, you….are not.
Posted by: Rowanese | December 27, 2011, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
This should be in the entertainment section. Surely thay can’t think people actually believe this nonsense.
Posted by: Sha | December 27, 2011, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
Baffling……
Posted by: newcountryman | December 27, 2011, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm
I have beach front property for sale in Kansas, interested?
Posted by: DPG | December 27, 2011, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm
Hmmm, this poll must have been taken well before he started screwing up the country, trashing the Constitution, kissing the Muslims butts in public and generally being more of a do-nothing prez than Jimmy Carter ever was.
Posted by: Eddie | December 27, 2011, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm
General David Petraeus gets my vote. And I’d vote for a mouse long before I’d vote for either of the two “distinguished” individuals pictured above…
Posted by: Logicsgood5 | December 27, 2011, 10:58 pm 10:58 pm
I have long admired Hillary Clinton. She has certainly done so much good on behalf of the American people, especially women, children, families and the elderly. And her work on behalf of women and girls all over the world is impressive. There will always, it seems, be people who hate Hillary Clinton, but that’s another remarkable thing about her … she doesn’t let it bother her; and she has a tremendous capacity to forgive. She would have been a very effective, if not great, President.
Posted by: Karen W. Thompson | December 27, 2011, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm
I will always remember the Clintons as draft dodgers who should have never been in office
And I will always remember Obama, because during his Presidency, my hometown was overran with immigration, and I went 3 years WITHOUT a job and saw JOB DECLINE
Posted by: Gary Painter | December 27, 2011, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm
Hahahaha! Not even my pet fish believes this “news”. I can’t stand either one of them. Proud to say I am of Hispanic heritage.
Posted by: JoshP | December 27, 2011, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm
In a perfect world, Shillary Clinton would now be leaving prison for: taking a $100,000 bribe from a defunct commodities trading firm back in Arkansas decades ago, her illegal prevarications and obstructions of justice concerning concerning the Clinton-era scandals known as Travel-Gate and File-Gate, and unlawfully threatening Juanita Broaddrick after the latter warned that she might tell authorities of her rape by Bill Clinton years earlier. In short, because Shillary is an accomplished liar, she avoided imprisonment and today is a “heroine” solely because of the impeached bum she married, all the while living the lie of a sham marriage. Yeah, just the ilk we’d all ‘like’ to see our daughters aspire to…
Posted by: Jason T. Lomax | December 27, 2011, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm
I will always remember George W. Bush and Rice as big gov’t hawks and torturers who started an unnecessary war of aggression, funded it on credit while giving tax cuts to the rich without corresponding cuts in spending, running up our debt while being lazy on oversight so that we lost billions wastefully in Iraq and our economy nearly crashed and burned.
But whatever, right Gary Painter? Vote for the same old failed republicans anyway because that’s what partisans do.
Posted by: Leelee_is_fun | December 27, 2011, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm
Posted by: Jason T. Lomax | December 27, 2011, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm
Newt is sooooo much better than Bill, ain’t he? I mean, they’re cut from the same cloth but he’s cut from the better end because sure, he’s a cheat and a disgraced ex-speaker of the house who sells out to the highest bidder and holds different standards for himself than everyone else, and sure, he’s switched positions multiple times, sometimes within a 24 hour period, but, um…but he’s Republican and sure everybody’s sick of Republicans but they’re still better because well, that’s who I vote for. So there.
Oh, Michael, yeah… we know everybody hates us and laughs at us, but we’re right because we said so. Get it? got it? Boo-yah.
Posted by: JasBeth | December 28, 2011, 12:08 am 12:08 am
Posted by: JasBeth | December 28, 2011, 12:08 am 12:08 am
Jassy, who ever said I was a Newt supporter? The last good man we had in the White Hosue was Ronald Reagan, but any fool tops Zerobama.
Posted by: Michael | December 28, 2011, 12:01 am 12:01 am
Michael, you appear to be categorical proof that it is impossible to make the stupid clever, despite the internet’s age of self-aggrandizement. No doubt that something “runs down your thigh” too at the mere mention of Zero…
Posted by: Jason T. Lomax | December 28, 2011, 12:23 am 12:23 am
Jason, I can certainly see why you would reference fools because at the end of the day fools is all that the GOP has offered as alternatives. Most people will not vote for those fools.
Posted by: JasBeth | December 28, 2011, 12:30 am 12:30 am
The last good man we had in the White Hosue was Ronald Reagan
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-who allowed the illegal sale of arms to Iran in order to fund terrorist activities in Central America.
Posted by: jumbo shrimp | December 28, 2011, 12:40 am 12:40 am
Posted by: JasBeth | December 28, 2011, 12:30 am 12:30 am
Jassy, Mitt Romney is not my definition of “fool.” While he’s also not my ideal candidate, to be sure, he’s a far cry from left-wing Zerobama and his unwashed hordes, who want to spread everybody else’s wealth around despite having never earned any on their own — because it is also impossible to make the lazy diligent, the criminal law-abiding, or the drunken sober. You would do well to marry “a fool” like MItt Romney, but I suspect all you will be doing is carrying a sign for “Occupy Whomever” complaining that you are one of the “poor” 99%, instead of getting off your (lazy?) backside and making something of yourself by yourself!
Posted by: Jason T. Lomaz | December 28, 2011, 12:44 am 12:44 am
who want to spread everybody else’s wealth around despite having never earned any on their own
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the Republicans have been shoveling mountains of wealth up the income ladder for the last 30 years…but go ahead and keep calling working class Americans lazy…it’s going to work wonders for you in 2012.
Posted by: jumbo shrimp | December 28, 2011, 12:49 am 12:49 am
-who allowed the illegal sale of arms to Iran in order to fund terrorist activities in Central America.
Posted by: jumbo shrimp | December 28, 2011, 12:40 am 12:40 am
Jumbo: Reagan wasn’t funding “terrorists.” The Contras were a paramilitary group battling dedicated Nicaraguan communists, who sought to spread “revolution” to El Salvador, Guatemala, etc., as the latest Cuba cancer look-alike. [Today, we have the crackpot Chavez in Venezuela, so admittedly little ever changes.] In Grenada, Reagan decided to apply the surgical knife directly, rather than fool with “rebels.” In any event, Iran-Contra never would have occurred had Congress not unconsitiutionally passed the Boland Amendment, which directly impinged on the president’s ability to conduct covert foreign policy. Of course, when I say “Congress”, that is merely a euphemism for the collection of traitors and thieves then under the partial control of Thomas “Tip” O’Neill, Nancy Pelosi’s utterly corrupt, primeval great uncle….
Posted by: Jason T. Lomax | December 28, 2011, 1:05 am 1:05 am
You meant to say most Hated. Admired is something you do to people who give selfless service for
the good of all. Its not those two in the picture. No really !! Its Not!
Posted by: Jm | December 28, 2011, 1:25 am 1:25 am
Those ‘communists’ who the Contras were committing well documented atrocities against happened to object strongly to agri-business using all their land to grow things like coffee while their people were starving..
Posted by: jumbo shrimp | December 28, 2011, 1:32 am 1:32 am
Reagan decided to apply the surgical knife directly
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That knife was far from surgical….it was more like a bludgeon which indiscriminately killed women and children.
Posted by: jumbo shrimp | December 28, 2011, 1:35 am 1:35 am
“Mitt Romney is not my definition of “fool.” While he’s also not my ideal candidate, to be sure, he’s a far cry from….”
honest and authentic
credible on foreign relations and national security
personable and relatable
a man of the people and America’s great middle class
pro small government or pro small business
a man that doesn’t flip flop often and much
a man that hasn’t gotten rich from laying people off and moving jobs overseas
transparency and openness
change
inspirational
the list goes on and on. He’s a far cry from a lot of things… except being an establishment politician being heavily invested in by Wall Street. And,frankly, I do find him to be a fool on foreign policy. You’re being short-sighted there, but I’d expect no less from someone who thinks Reagan was a good man. ROFL as my ole LeeLee would say. He coddled tinhorn dictators while allowing both the US deficit and income inequality to explode.But I digress. I’ll concede that Romney is a more practical choice than the other Republican clowns in the GOP primary. I’ll miss those clowns when Romney is the GOP candidate… because let’s face it. Romney is dull. Maybe they can do a tour like the losers on American Idol and Dancing with the Stars do. Come see the elephants dance and sing. Cain’s number could be called 9-9-9. lol.
Posted by: JasBeth | December 28, 2011, 1:59 am 1:59 am
Jassy, could you be that naive? What has Obama done for small business? He told “Joe the Plumber,” a small businessman, “to spread the wealth around.” Some “leader!” True, Obama never laid off anybody, since he never ran a business in his 100% affirmative-actioned life, although he milked quite a number as a “community organizer.” [LOL!]. He is and was solely the byproduct of America’s 19th century collective guilt-feeling about slavery. Obama did nothing to deserve high office. Not a thing! I and my fellow Americans — the 50% supporting the other feckless half — will do all we can to see him permanently retired come the polls next November. See you there!
Posted by: Jason T. Lomax | December 28, 2011, 2:33 am 2:33 am
As a repubilcan of 40+ years, I have to admit Obama has done pretty good for a Democrat. And Mrs. Clinton has shown remarkabe abilities. Remeber politians don’t always tell the truth and leaves will turn brown in the fall.
Posted by: Chris Maffei | December 28, 2011, 2:43 am 2:43 am
“nationwide poll”. hahahah. Nationwide poll of people living in NYC and SF most likely.
Posted by: JP | December 28, 2011, 3:04 am 3:04 am
I like them both. Someone said they were “mediocre”….. but really, the word for them is “moderate.” And that’s different. I am a bit surprised that Trump and Gingrich could get anywhere near that list. Though, I guess men who cheat on their wives are probably in awe of the Newt. And men with hair problems probably admire Trump for wearing a hairball on his head.
Posted by: blip | December 28, 2011, 3:13 am 3:13 am
This is a crock.Now take a poll with all these comments and you will see what mainstream America thinks of these two communist.
Posted by: john | December 28, 2011, 4:11 am 4:11 am
For what reason can anybody admire Donald Trump?Leave alone is fortune,i have never heard him
speak anything sensible.
Posted by: Dodis | December 28, 2011, 4:46 am 4:46 am
Ya, I’m sure they are right up there with Charlie Sheen and Lady Gaga.
Posted by: hkdakota | December 28, 2011, 5:53 am 5:53 am
He’s a crook.
Posted by: Kevin | December 28, 2011, 5:54 am 5:54 am
17 percent chose Obama. This is a put up deal by Gallup. They create a huge list to split the vote. They then publish it as a hit piece. I think this marks Gallup.
Posted by: welldirected | December 28, 2011, 6:54 am 6:54 am
This is a crock.Now take a poll with all these comments and you will see what mainstream America thinks of these two communist.
Posted by: john | December 28, 2011, 4:11 am
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Even Rasmussen, the darling pollster of conservatives, reports that 45% of registered voters approve of the job that Obama is doing as President with 23% strongly approving. Furthermore, Rasmussen reports that 59% view Hillary Clinton favorably. It shouldn’t be surprising that some of those who approve of the President and the SOS might also admire them. Why is it so hard for you anti-Obama and anti-Clinton people to accept that fact that not everyone agrees with you?
Posted by: Numeros | December 28, 2011, 10:06 am 10:06 am
“That knife was far from surgical….it was more like a bludgeon which indiscriminately killed women and children.”
And yet you have no problem with Barry’s use of drones.
Posted by: foggy | December 28, 2011, 10:49 am 10:49 am
“Though, I guess men who cheat on their wives are probably in awe of the Newt.”
You think Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy and John Edwards are in awe of Newt?
Can you name a democrat who lost his job over infidelity?
Posted by: foggy | December 28, 2011, 10:53 am 10:53 am
Posted by: foggy | December 28, 2011, 10:53 am 10:53 am
Can you name a republican speaker of the house who left the job in utter disgrace after becoming the first speaker in American history to be reprimanded and fined by his own House? Can you name the Republican speaker that was depicted as a whiny bawling baby on the cover NY’s Daily News as he was crashing and burning?
The only person in awe of Newt is Newt. Delusions of grandeur…
Posted by: Lulu | December 28, 2011, 11:09 am 11:09 am
This has to be a JOKE. There’s no way they can be the most admired. Even Dems are finding out how screwed up Obama is and how he lied to the American people. Obama is posing as the president of our great country, he is also pretending to be a Christian, when there is a ton of proof he is a Muslim.
Posted by: Dave | December 28, 2011, 11:33 am 11:33 am
Obama is the absurd result of a nation hysterical about skin color and collective guilt. Shillary Clinton, on the other hand, is the connubial result of rapacious pursuit of power without compunction, sacrificing everything and anything (including self-respect) to achieve it. Neither have a shred of decency within them. It is all about them!
America would clearly be a better place had both been never born. As for you benighted who support them, why don’t you first get a job and support yourselves!
Posted by: Jason T. Lomax | December 28, 2011, 11:38 am 11:38 am
You forgot to mention that the Poll was taken in Smellsreallybad Liberalistan.
Next time try polling Americans.
Posted by: Noz | December 28, 2011, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm
“The most admired for what?
A – The art of deception?
B – Looks?
C – media favorites?
D – ability to put a spin on failures?” – Girish
The answer is D
This is a good SAT practice question.
Thanks Girish
Posted by: Noz | December 28, 2011, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm
“It is all about them!”
And Newt is all about Newt. In a big, grandiose, pompous way.
And Mitt is a moderate, progressive, conservative flip flopper who just wants to be president, darn it,and will say whatever the polls dictate, so maybe it’s all about him, too. Lord knows it’s not about the economy given that his economic plan is just a hodgepodge sack of right wing pet rocks and magical thinking… at least till the general election. then he may flip flop for all we know.
Romney is the candidate of the wealthy, funding, establishment wing of the republican party and our corporately owned media is dutifully selling him to the right wing base, but let’s be honest, they were really hoping that one of the other clowns in the race was electable.
Posted by: Barb | December 28, 2011, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm
“As a repubilcan of 40+ years, I have to admit Obama has done pretty good for a Democrat. . . . . Remeber politians don’t always tell the truth . . .” – Chris Maffei
Either do some posters here.
Posted by: Noz | December 28, 2011, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm
These two are admired for their ability to move the country in the right direction. For years they have championed for the rights of American women, American minorities, and the American less fortunate. If Hillary were the vice president hands down they would be better than that arrogant and evil Dick Cheney and moronic George WBush. Admired for what? you ask…..President Obama was Commander in Chief over the killing of Bin Laden, he helped save the auto industry, signed a stimulus that saved millions of teacher,police and public sector jobs, educational grants to needy Americans, first time home owner tax credits, payroll tax holiday etc…, Hillary as our very well informed Secretary of State has travel the world representing and establishing Americans policies to unite what was frayed by the previous administration… Beyond that they are wise and intelligent enough to stand up against the primitive thinking right wing moronic and suppressive entitiy that wants to dictate cult like, brainwashing rule over our lives and whose evil offspring spawn like to spew venomous bile on posts such as this one
Posted by: TV | December 28, 2011, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
These two know that historical racism and discrimination against women and minorities has created an ungodly uneven income and educational opportunity capability throughout the U.S.A. They have fought to create environments that help right those wrongs. Any American with minimal intelligence would know and applaud that. To say anything otherwise proves stupidity
Posted by: TV | December 28, 2011, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
President Obama is concerned about the needs of the vulnerable and less fortunate in America and you hate him? He, He, He as Commander in Chief was determined to get Bin Laden and he did! If you hate him you hate America, you hate yourself, you hate the teachings of Jesus and you are evil and dumb!
Posted by: TV | December 28, 2011, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
Can’t say I’m surprised by this. I am honest enough to admit Obama would be doing a heckuva lot better if my Republican Party didn’t block everything he tried to accomplish. Apparently most Americans understand this.
Posted by: Noz | December 28, 2011, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
Whomever is posing as me (ceeleelee) on these blogs need to have the courage of his/her convictions and post under their own name. Using someone else’s name to get your point across is, just, well, cowardly,
Posted by: ceeLeelee | December 28, 2011, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
As a Republican I can understand this, since there isn’t anyone on my side of the fence more worthy of the top spot than Obama. At least Newt beat out the Pope. Which is really ironic when you think about it.
Posted by: Dave | December 28, 2011, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
It’s funny, Republicans can’t believe it. That’s what you get when you live in the Fox News bubble…. skewed perception. That’s why Fox viewers believe that we found WMDs in Iraq, that Saddam had something to do with 9/11, that Obama refuses to celebrate Christmas, that Americans are opposed to taxing the wealthy, that global warming is a hoax, that ACORN is responsible for Obama’s victory in 2008, that Obama caused the economic collapse, etc. Thankfully, most Americans have respect for the President, even when they disagree with him.
Posted by: Blip | December 28, 2011, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
People who trust Fox News as a reliable news source are mentally and emotionally challenged
Posted by: TV | December 28, 2011, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
Of course my boy is popular. Twenty (20) years of listening to my diatribes of hate were not wasted!
Posted by: Reverend Wright | December 29, 2011, 12:17 am 12:17 am
“The Contras were a paramilitary group battling dedicated Nicaraguan communists, who sought to spread “revolution” to El Salvador, Guatemala, etc.”
Ahh… they “paramilitary” groups aren’t terrorists. The women they raped, children they killed, the mass graves, the murdered clergy…. that was all OK. At least Reagan had the good sense to pretend he didn’t know about any of this stuff. Apparently, for the Fox News set, no act of brutality is out of the question, provided it is carried out in the service of the rich.
Posted by: Blip | December 29, 2011, 2:16 am 2:16 am
Posted by: Noz | December 28, 2011, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
That wasn’t me.
I’ve posted two times before this to correct the misrepresentation and both of those posts were deleted.
Let’s go for 3.
Hey TV, just post under your own name going forward.
Posted by: Noz | December 29, 2011, 8:41 am 8:41 am
Seeing that so many (anti-lib, anti-Bam) posts have been deleted, one must recognize the genius of journalist H. L. Mencken when he articulated decades ago: “Freedom of the press belongs only to those who own one.” No doubt which way ABC leans!
Posted by: Barack H. E. Holder | December 29, 2011, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm
First of all, it didnt tick me off and i dont eat cherrios. This is a laughable joke. There are thousands of people who make huge impacts on the world, for good and do it without recognition. This man asked amercians to spy on each other and report back to him. Hillary tried to pass her health care bill and wasnt even an elected official. She and stephanopolis harassed any woman standing up to her womanizing husband and ruined the womens lives. Obama wants to steal peoples money and hand it out, He has ruined this economy, trashed out good name around the world with an apology tour. He insulted the head of israel, he pits poor against rich and stirs up hate, remember the quote get in their face. He divides the country along party lines. His health care is bankrupting the country and its not even fully implemented. He has added 5 TRILLION dollars to our national deb, something the whiney liberals on the left would have killed bush for. OH YEAH they deserve to be admired….they are the scum i clean out from under the toilet lid.
Posted by: tim | December 30, 2011, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
TV, that was brilliant. I mean absolutely brilliant. You must be a student of history.
Posted by: Anthony San Diego | December 30, 2011, 11:50 pm 11:50 pm
DEVIN left out the fact the None/ No One had a higher percentage than both of these clowns. Pretty impotant fact if you ask me.
Posted by: Kala | January 4, 2012, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
Lest we forget, this is what Bush left Obama on 1/20/2009:
1 collapsed financial system
2 wars
11 million unemployed
46 million without health care
66 million living on social security
$1.2 trillion budget deficit
$11 trillion Federal deficit
And one mother of a recession!
Posted by: Tom Paine | January 14, 2012, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm