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Clinton Beats Obama

By Doug Bandow on 6.15.10 @ 4:57AM

Too late to do Hillary much good. But she now has a higher job approval rating than the Prez. Dana Milbank explains:

It's about two years too late, but Hillary Clinton has finally pulled ahead of Barack Obama.

By any measure -- favorability ratings or job approval -- Americans by a sizable margin have warmer views of the secretary of state than they do of the president. This is of little use to Clinton beyond bragging rights, but among Hillary '08 fans there is some satisfaction that the woman Obama once cut down as "likable enough" is now more liked than he is. Depending on the measure and the poll, she leads him by roughly 10 to 25 percentage points.

Of course, there's always 2012!

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KJW| 6.15.10 @ 7:41AM

I'd almost pay money to see a poll with one question:

Who has been a better U.S. president: Barack Obama or Bill Clinton?

Don't get me wrong...Bill Clinton (he who did not protect young Cuban (and now young communist) repatriate Elian Gonzalez, and who protected by inaction Osama bin Laden when our armed forces had the chance to stop him permanently) was and is just as radical as our current "leader".

But he had that "self-preservation" instinct so many talk of which seemed to lead him to choose letting people be happy if it mean approval for HIM. And quite frankly, the American Dream was alive and thriving under his "regime". In fact, the marketing slogan for Atlanta, in whose suburbs I lived throughout the Clinton presidency, was "HOME of the American Dream". I daresay many ordinary, middle-class people made a lot of money during his time and were far more secure about their present and future than under our current president.

Clinton once described the presidency as being like a "relay race", where you take the baton of your agenda as far as you can go then pass it on to the next man. He was laying the groundwork for BHO or one like him on many fronts.

Still, a poll of a comparison of favorability between those two would be fascinating to see.