American Sanity

I am almost positive that America might just be about to fall down the drain. A CNN poll came out last week in which 1021 American adults compared Bush Jr. to Clinton.
Read poll article here.

THE RESULTS
Handling the Economy: 63% Clinton 26% Bush.
I cannot describe how shocked I was when I read the percentages for this. Bush has had far more interaction with a booming economy than did Clinton, who by chance was President during the rise of the internet.

Solving Americans’ Problems: 62% C 25% B
Name one “American problem” that Clinton solved. Please.

Dividing the Country: 27% C 59% B
Not really. With Lewinsky, I think Clinton really divided America. Au contraire, Bush united the country against him loads of times, the latest via amnesty.

Foreign Affairs: 56 C 32% B
WTF! Besides the Balkan crisis, how has Clinton been more effective than Bush?

Taxes: 51% C 35% B
And yet after all those tax cuts, Americans are left clueless by the lefty media.

Nat’l Disasters: 51% C 30%
Okay, Bush screwed himself with Katrina. Clinton never experienced a national disaster!

Honesty: 46% C 41% B
Oh, yeah. Bush has never expressed his true feelings and Lewinsky doesn’t exist.

Nat’l Security: 51% C 41% B
Who the f**k are these 1021 Americans?

A footnote claimed the last two options were within the 3% sampling margin of error.

Oh, and then after the poll numbers are revealed, CNN adds in a final short paragraph about the Lewinsky Scandal. Oh yes, serious nonpartisan polling.

I think this is typical of American media and John Armor seems to agree. But Butler Shaffer thinks the media leans Right and I’m compelled to disagree because when it comes to the media, most Americans seem to tend toward self-correctness as many are beginning to acknowledge, publicly, the leftward tendencies of so-called “mainstream” media. Of politics I am unsure, but I hope to God the media gets back on its feet.