FOX News Poll - Obama Handled Undie Bomber Correctly!

[kpete]

27. Do you approve or disapprove of how the Obama administration handled the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day?

Approve 51%
Disapprove 33%
Don't know 16%

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12. If John McCain had become president, do you think he would be doing a better job, a worse job, or about the same kind of job as President Obama?

* Better 26%
* Worse 40%
* Same as 27%

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23. Who do you think is more responsible for the current state of the economy - - President Obama, former President Bush or Congress?

* Obama 6%
* Bush 36%
* Congress 30%
* Combination 20%

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more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/15/825328/-FOX-News-PollObama-Handled-Undie-Bomber-Correctly!



http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/011410_fedagencies.pdf

[Deep13]

1. Are RWers suggesting it is not a crime to bomb and airliner?

If not, then what basis could there be not to prosecute it in criminal court?

[Turbineguy]

2. Whoever wrote those poll questions is toast.

Polls are supposed to give you the answers you want.

[Soylent Brice]

3. weird. i would never expect these results from FAUX polls.

[HopeHoops]

4. I would. I just wouldn't expect them to make them public!

Somebody at FOX fucked up.

[progressoid]

5. Gotta wonder if the numbers were even better but somebody fudged them

:shrug:

[amborin]

6. $70 mill to Yemen, then & now: article:

"Two decades ago, in 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush was preparing for his looming invasion of Iraq – what would become Operation Desert Storm.

snip

Two countries were left. One was Cuba, which refused on principle to endorse the U.S.-led invasion, although Cuba had joined in the Council’s unanimous condemnation of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait as illegal. The other “no” vote came from Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world.

snip

Yemen voted no. And no sooner had the Yemeni ambassador, Abdullah al-Ashtal, put down his hand, then a U.S. diplomat moved to his side, telling him “that will be the most expensive ‘no’ vote you ever cast.” The remark was picked up on an open UN microphone and immediately broadcast throughout UN headquarters and soon throughout the world. Journalists and analysts excoriated the U.S. diplomat for not knowing the mike was on and being caught in such an embarrassing situation. But I always thought he knew exactly what he was doing – because the message was not really aimed at Yemen. No one in Washington knew or cared at that time about what Yemen or Yemenis did or thought. The message aimed much broader, at every country in the UN that might consider defying U.S. power. The message was clear: if you cross us on an issue important to us, you will pay a price.

The people of Yemen paid a huge price. Three days later Washington made good on its threat and cut its entire aid budget to Yemen, an already measly $70 million. And today, 20 years later, diplomats and staff around UN headquarters still refer uneasily to the “Yemen Precedent.”

This week the Obama administration announced plans to send $70 million in aid to Yemen. But it won’t be for medicine, building homes, or job training. And the accompanying U.S. experts won’t be hydrologists or doctors or midwife instructors. The $70 million will be for “counter-terrorism” and “security” purposes – and the U.S. experts will be military trainers and various kinds of Special Forces.

But a strengthened Yemeni military will not reverse Yemen’s legacy of anti-Americanism and the support for anti-U.S. violence that sometimes accompanies it.

What if – just imagine – the United States had not ...."

http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/yemen_dj_vu_all_over_again

[jmowreader]

7. You have to wonder: how bad were the raw numbers?

This isn't a poll a true Fox watcher can believe in--isn't everything Obama's fault? So you know if you've got results that displease Murdoch, the real answers must have been supremely bad.