NYT Poll Doesn't State The Obvious On Bill Clinton

  The New York Times did a few more outtakes on their recent polls in today's newspaper and they stated the obvious facts. But they did forget something.

One other place where there was a notable, though not exactly shocking divergence, in the views of Republicans and the electorate at large: Former President Bill Clinton. Mr. Clinton’s unfavorable rating among the general public was at 38 percent; but 76 percent of Republicans said they had an unfavorable view of him.

   This is all well and good but I guess that it slipped past the NYT people that if 38 percent of the general public had an unfavorable rating on Bill Clinton, then 62 percent had a good view of him give or take a few points.

   As far as the Republicans are concerned, they have an unfavorable view of anyone who isn't a Republican so their opinions should not count in a poll such as this.

 

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John Edwards Says Gonzales Should Resign

   I am starting to like Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards more and more each day. Yes, I know that I said this just a few days ago, but I am getting more impressed with this man as time passes!

   While Senator Clinton and Obama have remained quite once again on a very real national problem, Mr. Edwards has spoken first on the Gonzales-Attorney purge saying that, " If White House officials ordered this purge, he should have refused them. If they insisted, he should have resigned in protest. Attorney General Gonzales should certainly resign now."

    Now we'll just have to wait and see how long it takes the rest of the presidential candidates, from both parties, to say anything on the Gonzales ordeal. I do not expect to much from the GOP side.

John Edwards

Mar 13, 2007

Chapel Hill, North Carolina - Senator John Edwards released the following statement calling for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales following today's report of White House involvement in the recent firings of federal prosecutors.

"Today's news is only the latest and most disturbing sign of the politicization of justice under President Bush. From the abuse of investigative authority under the Patriot Act to the unconstitutional imprisonment of the Guantanamo Bay detainees and illegal torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Force Base, this president has consistently shown contempt for the rule of law.

"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales betrayed his public trust by playing politics when his job is to enforce and uphold the law. By violating that trust, he's done a great disservice to his office. If White House officials ordered this purge, he should have refused them. If they insisted, he should have resigned in protest. Attorney General Gonzales should certainly resign now."

 

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