The Most Admired Man in the World for the 6th Year in a Row:
What? He beat out Ted Cruz? Nooooooooooooooooo!
A new Gallup poll will be more bitter medicine for the Right. After a solid year of harping on Benghazi lies in an attempt to bring down both President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a new Gallup poll finds both ranked as the number one man and woman Americans most admire.
Every year since 1948, Gallup asks Americans to name the man and woman living anywhere in the world they admire most.
This year’s poll was conducted December 5-8, and for the 6th year in a row, Obama has been named the Most Admired Man.
h/t PoliticusUSA
21 comments:
Happy New Year, Shaw!
A useful reminder amid the relentless vilification.
Ted Cruz is virtually worshiped on the far right, but if they run him against Hillary in 2016, they're in for a very nasty shock.
It remains too bad he is not the most admired man in America.
All polls reflect this reality.
But never fear, after all there is HOPE.
Happy New Year, shaw.
Looks like it's coming in with a nor'easter.
RN, according to Gallup, Mr. Obama IS the most admired man in America.
Yes, Ducky, we've been warned. Luckily, living here in the North End, I'm not bothered by something like a nor'easter. I like to go down to the harbor and watch the storm. And we NEVER run out of food here.
Infidel753, only in America in the 21st century could a Canadian-born Latino pretend he's a good ole boy from Texas and believe America wants him to be her president.
Hope springs eternal. Or so it has been said.
This will cause more cranial damage:
"President Obama’s Approval Rating Jumps 5 Points as Millions Sign Up for Obamacare
Republicans and the media have consistently failed to understand, and in many cases actively worked to undermine, the fact that President Obama remains basically popular. For the sixth year in a row, the president was named the most admired man in the world. For as much as Republicans try to project their hatred and contempt for this president on to the nation, the rest of the country has never shared their feelings.
Obama’s improved poll numbers also reflect the fact that Obamacare is working. Enrollment surged in December, and yesterday HHS announced that 6 million people now have healthcare coverage thanks to the ACA. The negative stories about a glitchy website have been replaced with millions of Americans getting access to affordable healthcare."
The president's poll numbers will rise and fall like all presidents numbers. That doesn't matter. What matters is the success of the ACA and how it will morph over time to help all Americans to get health coverage. I'm hoping for single payer which I believe is where we will be once the obstructionists in Congress get voted out. No one believed a national health plan of ANY kind would ever be passed. Obama started the ball rolling. Good for him. It's up to the rest of us Democrats and Progrssives to work toward changing the plan to single payer. Look to the great state of Vermont.
The progressive New England states should lead the way.
Next year, let's put the "Sea" back into Seasons Greetings.
Hope springs eternal as some say. Cost eventually catches up to hope. Ask the Greeks and Portuguese, et all.
Oscar Wilde said,
"Whatever is popular is wrong."
Given the abysmal level of popular taste and popular culture in general, I doubt if anyone should find much consolation in winning a Popularity Poll. In fact it night be considered a positive INSULT to any well-motivated person of fine intelligence and good conscience.
I'm very much afraid that Oscar was right.
Victories of this sort are hollow at best, and we'd do well to remember this:
"The great are rarely famous; the famous rarely great.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
FT, I understand that what is popular is not always great.
But that cuts both ways, doesn't it.
Ronald Reagan is wildly popular with Republicans all these years after his death; and if I remember correctly, you admire him and he's popular with you as well.
If these popularity polls mean so little, why is it that when Mr. Obama's poll numbers dip, the folks on your side of the aisle do a happy dance?
If Mr. Obama is as unpopular as GOPers say he is and if he's as hated and reviled by TeaPublicans, then it must mean he's GREAT!
There's another saying we could apply here:
"A wise and great man is not recognized in his own land."
""A wise and great man is not recognized in his own land."
Ah, reminds me of Harry Truman (could this be why today's post features Harry Truman?), one of but a handful of democratic presidents I admire. Kennedy being another, FDR, who was widely popular, definitely not.
I predict 2014 being even a more partisan year than the one just closed.
sheesh...FT likes to throw around quotes..
here's one...“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”
― Woody Allen
.....or, as my son said as he droppe my bag of groceries...'can't make an omelet with out breaking some eggs'
we had a twelve egg omelet...the peppers and onions didn't break.
....The GOP has not been innovative...they love to complain, throw blame...but they have no solutions for the problems they complain about.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
.....The Bush administration broke the eggs....the Current GOP loves to blame Obama for it...while he tries to make something out of it. Then they say....'we didn't want an omelet..."
I thought I had covered your last point pretty well when I quoted this, Miss Shaw:
"The great are rarely famous; the famous rarely great.
I would emphasize to you that I do not "hate" the president and his wife. As people they are highly presentable, very attractive, and obviously devoted to each other. I like those qualities (qualities I've never seen in either of the Clintons or their bizarre political partnership to be frank).
However, it is the POLICIES favored by the Obamas to which I take almost violent exception.
I've lived a long time, been "statistically poor" most of my adult life, suffered through many a health crisis in the lives of family and close friends, and I have never found fault with the way any of us were treated by the medical system, as it used to be until very recently.
Now, I have considerable anxiety as to what I might face, because I've been hooked on Medicare for nearly eight years. say "hooked" not in the sense of being addicted, but because there are no alternatives to Medicare at my age, other than to tough it out on one's own, and very quickly either die or go broke trying to stay alive.
I hasten to add that BEFORE Medicare came in -- a time I remember with extreme clarity -- people of modest means really COULD afford to take care of themselves, because the cost of medical care was MUCH cheaper.
I am morally certain that Medicare, itself, is the primary reason why the cost of medical treatment has rocketed skyward with terrifying speed.
It's just the nature of the beast.
Centrally planned economies stink to high heaven. Always have; always will, because they operate on a false premise.
Unfortunately, most will not understand that, until they so deeply mired in debt and inadequate treatment that desperation sets in,and by then it will be too late. There will be no going back.
I guess everyone has to learn these things for himself, since most are incapable of profiting from example.
"And where are the snows of yesteryear?"
RN: Cost eventually catches up to hope. Ask the Greeks and Portuguese, et all.
Get rid of the profit motive via single payer. That goes a long way toward fixing the cost problem. Those who complain about cost really complain about the cost to the bottom line of those who profit off human misery. And Greece and Portugal can NOT be compared to the US. They gave up control of their own currency when they joined the EU. A fatal mistake.
In addition, Greece and Portugal are not in the same league as the USA vis-a-vis size of the country, population and natural resources. Not an apt comparison, IMO.
Read what FT said. To which I would only ad Medicaid, which is a huge contributor to skyrocketong costs as well.
And yes G&P can. Soon the USA will give up control of its currency to the coming one world order.
Let's talk in 30 years if we're both still alive.
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