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Presidents Day: Bush links Revolutionary War to 'war on terror'; Lincoln tops presidential poll, Bush near bottom
On Presidents Day, George W. Bush took the opportunity to compare America's war for independence to Bush's war on terror.
Visiting Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, to honor the holiday, Bush said that "Washington's Revolutionary War leadership inspired generations of Americans 'to stand for freedom in their own time,'" Steve Holland writes for Reuters.
"Today, we're fighting a new war to defend our liberty and our people and our way of life," the president said, according to Reuters. "And as we work to advance the cause of freedom around the world, we remember that the father of our country believed that the freedoms we secured in our revolution were not meant for Americans alone."
More on the story.
"According to a Feb. 9-11, 2007, Gallup Poll, Lincoln is back at No. 1 with Americans," writes Lydia Saad for Gallup. The 16th president had slipped behind Ronald Reagan in 2005 surveys, due to "a surge of public esteem in 2005, left over from the publicity following his death the previous year," she notes.
In the poll, eighteen percent deem Lincoln the greatest president, followed by Ronald Reagan (16 percent), John Kennedy (14 percent), Bill Clinton (13 percent) and Franklin Roosevelt with 9 percent.
Lincoln's place in the Gallup poll is "based on responses from a fairly small percentage of the public," writes
Saad, who adds that "modern presidencies that people have experienced are more likely to be top-of-mind or impressive to the public than those learned about in history books."
Considering only chief executives since the 1930s, which Gallup terms "modern-day presidents," Reagan tops the list. George W. Bush and his father, 41st president George H.W. Bush, occupy two of the last four slots, edging out only Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon.
Gallup's complete survey results with analysis can be found at this link.
3 comments:
If Americans aren't educated they will believe anything. We left the King to form a Democracy. The war was about rule and involved only people of this country none from other countries. We were fighting among ourselves. Now with the Bush history class this is like Iraq. That's why we have Bush leading the DUMMING DOWN OF AMERICA. If people aren't educated they only follow. As was done with the slaves who weren't allowed to be educated they only followed. Once educated things changed as they could think for themselves.
I'm waiting for some of those Pulitzer Journalist to print the new American history so our kids can learn the Bush history of America. I know the GOP will repeat the Liar-in_Chiefs words.
But when England and France realized it was no use, left and let the US fight it out and let them on their own to build their own country.
But Iraq has all the good people leaving, all the decent people are refugees of many countries, many families split up.
And what is left in Iraq? criminals, militant groups (too many), insurgents, all kinds of elements that are garbage. This war(mess) has gone on too long and too many good people (innocent) have lost their homes, their lives etc.
It is time to find an exit out of this, we have failed big time, and made more problems.
No too many in America are watching the coverage on Anna Nicole, Britany etc..and need to find a good news source for real news (not Faux news) When real news covers the previous events I change channels...
The dumbing down of America is right. And this tells you how far we have come as a nation and how low the Gerbil is in a poll as Presidential figure.
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