Statistics are so unfair

In surveying the many hundreds of readers of this blog today, I made a startling discovery. To a person, they believe that this week’s polls that showing President ****’s approval rating of 23% is the lowest ever, and that’s simply not true. This rating is simply the lowest ever since polling of this type has been conducted in the United States. No matter how I try to explain this, they just don’t buy into it and they declare **** the worst ever.

I’ve come at it from many directions. We do not have records on just how unpopular James Buchanan and Herbert Hoover were during their sad days in the White House. Several readers countered that historians rate this pair at the bottom of the forty-three man pack, and I, no matter how forcefully I defend ****, am unable to persuade them that despite their obvious incompetence, accurate polling data that would solidify their claim to the bottom did not exist and **** is stuck.

Since I was born in the depths of the Great Depression to a family in which each member until their last breaths swore to me that Puddin’ Face Hoover was the most evil man who ever walked among civilized people, I took this as a slightly biased view of Herby. Sadly, while these same wonderful folks were fairly well read in history, none of them ever shared their deepest feelings about Buchanan. While I’ve read bad things about the poor fellow, I’m not about to say that he was more unpopular than ****. It simply wouldn't be fair to either man, especially if this is important to ****.

So let me try one last time to straighten this out. **** polls out as the least competent and least popular president ever. End of story, It doesn’t matter that Herb or Jim might have won these titles had there been modern scientific polling; there wasn’t and **** is stuck with the Oscar, Emmy or whatever they award for this one.

It’s also very unfair to **** in the waning days of his presidency to see virtually his entire party, the Republican Party, turn against him as they seek to extend their reign while on the one hand praising supply side economics which he pursued with a vengeance in keeping with the first and greatest of them all, St. Ron. That the house of cards collapsed under **** seems so unfair. He was doing what the Gipper would have done – or so he thought.

Vice President ^^^^^^ told **** and the world that St. Ron proved that deficits don’t matter. It sounded good to **** and if it was good enough for St. Ron and Dame Thatcher it was good enough for him. But they did matter, and **** got stuck holding the bag and the poll ratings. How sad; how unfair.

Now John McCain is seeking to rally the party faithful and independents to elect him as an endorsement of the eight long years of the **** White House. But even most republicans are having a difficult time with this and have had to twist their brains in such a fashion that John McCain never had anything to do with **** or any of his failed policies. Sadly, independents just can’t get by the fact that John McCain sided with Bush MORE than 90% of the time.

Poll numbers be damned! Bush may well not be the least popular president in history. I think the republicans should stand by their man. Let **** be **** and say you were with him all the way. It couldn’t be any worse. Could it?

Would I b.s. those poor folks?