Poll: Obama's rating at all-time high....so much for you know who

[spanone]

let the Great Gasbag rant all he wants.....

WASHINGTON - After Barack Obama's first six weeks as president, the American public's attitudes about the two political parties couldn't be more different, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.

Despite the country's struggling economy and vocal opposition to some of his policies, President Obama's favorability rating is at an all-time high. Two-thirds feel hopeful about his leadership and six in 10 approve of the job he's doing in the White House.

"What is amazing here is how much political capital Obama has spent in the first six weeks," said Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. "And against that, he stands at the end of this six weeks with as much or more capital in the bank."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29493021/

[emilyg]

1. So was Bush's first 100 days.

of the manner in which the president has toned it down in Washington ... a tremendous amount of progress has been made within these 100 days, and the progress that is laid out now is going to lead to more progress later."

In a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll taken April 20-22, Americans gave Bush a 62 percent approval rating. That figure compares with 55 percent for Clinton in 1993 and 58 percent for Bush's father, former President George Bush, in 1989. And 74 percent of Amercans say Bush has a vision for his presidency -- an important number, given his father's problem with the "vision thing."

But at first, the mere assumption of the presidency looked to be a struggle for Bush. On Inauguration Day, one of the most lasting images

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/bush.100/stories/overview.html

[moundsview]

2. Interesting take FTA:

"I think it's time to move on," Bush told reporters in mid-February while returning on Air Force One from a visit to Norfolk, Virginia. But he acknowledged that "Congress is going to do what it's going to do."

Andrew Card, Bush's chief of staff, told Reuters in an interview the same day that although Congress might investigate Clinton's moves, the White House would continue to defend the authority of the president -- no matter who he is.

"I happen to think that the job we have working in the White House is not to erode the power of the president, and I won't be party to any erosion of constitutional responsibility the president has," Card said.

Well to bad Former President Bush,(damn that sounds so good) I don't think that President Obama is going to just "think it's time to move on," he is going to see your ass in prison for your crimes against humanity!