CNN Poll: Do you agree with President-elect Barack Obama that President Bush is a "good guy"?

[BlueStater]

I don't know if you guys have seen this or not yet but:

http://www.cnn.com/

Currently, the results are 54% "Yes" and 46% "No".

[EFerrari]

1. How can anyone believe the torture president is a "good guy"?

That's just bizarre.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Hell, Barack Obama doesn't agree with Barack Obama on that.

:rofl:

[Webster Green]

3. Of course not!...He's a fucking dick-head!

Obama knows that the chimp is a fucking dick-head asshole traitor.

He's being gracious and playing politics.

If Obama doesn't investigate and prosecute the chimp admin, then he himself will join the ranks of dick-head asshole traitor.

The rule of law must prevail! (Except for my pot, of course) :smoke:

[asteroid2003QQ47]

4. DoublePlusGood, Webster,...

Don't expect to feel much love here for saying
what needs to be said though.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

19. Exactly right. If Obama goes after Bush you can flush all of the reasons most people voted for

Obama right down the toilet. It would do nothing but trigger all out political warfare. Obama was elected to fix the economy, health care and our foreign policy, not to wage a vendetta against Der Chimpenfuhrer...Don't get me wrong, I would like to see Cheney, Rummy and the rest of the cabal in jail, but I'm not willing to trade a depression for it...

[Webster Green]

25. That makes no sense at all.

Ever heard of multi-tasking? It's not as if our legislators can only handle one thought at a time.

If there is no rule of law in this country, then all the rest is bullshit. Big shots can do anything they want, which means we will continue to get screwed by our "leaders".

If there is no rule of law....no consequences for the worst sort of traitorous behavior, we're truly fucked. :mad:

[Zynx]

5. Nope.

[lebkuchen]

6. Is it under "quick vote?"

That question is different from yours, unless changed already.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

7. IMO that is an opinion that is lacking of such creativiity

that you know he was put on the spot if that's all he could choke out.

Obama is a class act.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

8. Do these pants make me look fat?

Of course not, dear, you look lovely.

[davidpdx]

9. Sorry Barack

I love ya man, but this is one of the rare times I disagree with you.

I voted no.

[1776Forever]

10. He was a charming man, someone who was only ever nice to me - Former maid of Hitler

In this case I know that PE Obama is a politician but in his tiny mind I think W thinks he really did have the "right stuff". Nothing could be further from the truth. Even Hitler had his defenders:

Zimbabwe: ‘Hitler was the perfect boss’; maybe Mugabe is too

http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/traps/2008/12/04/zimbabwe-%E2%80%9Chitler-was-the-perfect-boss%E2%80%9D-maybe-mugabe-is-too/

Rosa Mitterer, a former maid in the employ of the mass murderer and Nazi Fuehrer Adolf Hitler (1931 to 1935) has finally decided to break her silence and share some of her wonderful memories with us. The fact that it has taken this 91-year-old woman a mere 63 years after World War II to reach this conclusion must not detract from her fascinating account of the other side of Adolf.

“He was a charming man, someone who was only ever nice to me, a great boss to work for. You can say what you like, but he was a good man to us.”

While some of you may be literally gob smacked by Frau Mitterers’ misty water-coloured memories of the way they were (I know, I know), I am not in the least bit surprised. Everybody has someone out there who believes that they have been misunderstood by the rest of the world, irrespective of how disgusting the individual’s conduct has been shown to be.

..........

Rationalization is not a good thing in this matter. We must tell it like it is and was. When the war crimes come up to the AG I would hope that rationalization does not come into the thinking when it comes to making Bush/Cheney and their thugs pay for what they have rendered.

[mmonk]

11. Things that are not true, the mind rejects.

[ClarkUSA]

12. It's called being classy and polite. He did the same for Hillary and McCain, despite everything.

:shrug:

[polichick]

14. imo it's called playing politics.

[ClarkUSA]

18. You would say that. I say he has shown unbelievable classiness towards opponents since Election Day

Which is more than I can say for many in and out of DU.

[polichick]

29. You're being extremely naive if you think it's not about politics...

He's a politician ~ it's his job, but imo you don't have to lie.

[ClarkUSA]

39. He was being as gracious to Bush as he was to Hillary and McCain. I like that in a leader.

Bush, Hillary, and McCain don't deserve it, but that's why Barack is a better person than they are/will be.
And he is a grownup who sees that healing the country and building a consensus for Change is his most
important job right now, as opposed to attacking Bush in a primetime interview, which would hardly help
him pass much-needed legislation in Congress.

[polichick]

40. Well, I wouldn't want him to attack anyone...

Gracious is good ~ just rather it not be a lie.

[polichick]

41. That last line sounds like playing politics - "you would say that." ;)

[Cha]

31. Whatever..that's what we're doing here.

But, Obama is classy and nice and too bad he didn't call bush a fuckwad on tv.

[polichick]

33. I'd rather he not lie though - Bush isn't a good guy and Obama knows it.

[polichick]

13. Sometimes I wish Obama would cut the crap. Hell no, Bush is far from a good guy...

Bullshit is bullshit ~ like it or not, Obama is a bullshit artist about things like this.

[Enthusiast]

15. Obama isn't infallible.

He always tries to see the good in others. In this case he is just plain wrong about Bush. Bush isn't the stupid dunce victim he plays on TV, he is evil to the core. He is also a typical Faux Christian.

[Spazito]

16. I voted No and realized, with a smile, that this poll will cause the freepers...

great angst. Do they vote yes to try and polish bush's turds which results in supporting Obama's position (an anathema to them) or do they vote no and betray their hero?

[nodramamama]

17. Why Obama said it

It is my view that Obama's desire to gather as much support possible from Republicans for his stimulus package and other future measures led him to pretend that Bush is a good guy, so as to appear friendly.

[Cha]

38. Exactly..he's not going to start a

verbal war with repukes over telling the audience what he thinks of their precious piece of shit leader.

[mtnsnake]

20. It made my skin crawl when I heard him lie about Bush like that. n/t

[Festivito]

21. That poll question desperately needs a caveat, I mean...

"I mean, I think personally he is a good man who loves his family and loves his country," Obama said...

Hitler loved family, friends and country.

Doesn't mean the Hitler was a good guy and it should not be stated that either of these guys are good guys without the additional explanation of what is meant.

Good guy, is not meant as good guy.

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[ErinBerin84]

23. John King

asked him if he "wanted to take back anything bad he said about Bush on the campaign trail", which was a bullshit question. He said that his assessment is still the same. I wish he just said "he loves his family...", which was the other part of his caveat answer, but whatever man.

[treestar]

24. No, but I don't think BO really thinks Chimp is a good guy

He only means it in a general sense.

I also think Bushie is less evil than just a puppet. The truly evil people: Cheney, Rumsfeld, the other neocons.

[me b zola]

26. Still 54/46

[ecstatic]

36. Just goes to show how much influence President Obama will have

*s polls have consistently been in the low 20s and 30s.

[BlueStater]

27. Did any of you guys vote?

Because the results are still the same.

Frankly, I don't know why Obama said it and I don't care. The fact of the matter is it's wrong. Anyone who murders thousands of Americans and Iraqis is not a fucking "good guy".

[aaaaaa5a]

28. Any man who takes a country to war on false allegations...

Where over 100,000 Iraq's die

4,000 plus U.S. Soldiers die

tens of thousands of U.S. Soldiers are injured for life

And he can't even own up to his mistake. He won't even say he's sorry!

No! He is not a "good guy!"

[ObamaKerryDem]

30. Let's just say that President-elect Obama is far more gracious towards that lying, smarmy asshole..

than I ever could be...and while I admire him for it, I still had to vote "No" in the poll. Sorry. :evilgrin:

[McCamy Taylor]

32. No, but a lot of Americans do. That is one reason Congress has not impeached.

W.'s popularity would have gone up if they had impeached him.

[McCamy Taylor]

34. Plus, it makes Obama look like a REALLY good guy to say it when W.'s polls are 22%.

Obama has been studying his Bill Clinton.

[ecstatic]

35. Just voted no... as much as it pains me to contradict my

dear President to Be. :patriot:

[Vektor]

37. Yikes...the 19 percenters must have hit this one hard.

I guess they believe the old Diebold adage that you can vote for Bush as many times as you like, nobody will catch on.