The Gross National Debt
(Real-Time)
Newsweek
Poll: Bush Approval Hits All-Time Low of 28 Percent
End-of Presidency Job Approval
Ratings
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President
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Rating
(%)
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Election
Results
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Bill
Clinton
(2 terms, D, 2001)
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65
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VP Gore (D) wins
popular vote but Bush (R) wins electoral college vote
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Ronald
Reagan
(2 terms, R, 1989)
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64
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VP Bush (R)
defeats Dukakis (D)
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Dwight
Eisenhower
(2 terms, R, 1961)
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59
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Kennedy (D)
defeats Nixon (R)
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John
F. Kennedy
(partial term, D, 1963)
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63
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(VP) Johnson (D)
defeats Goldwater (R)
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George
Bush
(1 term, R, 1993)
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56
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Clinton (D) defeats
Bush (R)
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Gerald
Ford
(partial term, R, 1977)
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53
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Carter (D)
defeats Ford (R)
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Lyndon
Johnson
(1+ terms, D, 1969)
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49
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Nixon (R) defeats
Humphrey (Johnson did not run) (D)
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Jimmy
Carter
(1 term, D, 1981)
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34
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Reagan (R) defeats
Carter (D)
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Richard
Nixon
(partial term, R, 1974)
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24
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Carter (D)
defeats (VP) Ford (R)
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By Ed Lanfranco
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 6, 2007
(Excerpt)
BEIJING -- Chinese
news reports linking the Virginia Tech massacre with American foreign
policy, sexism and the war in Iraq have put China's Foreign Ministry in
an awkward position -- defending press freedom in a nation where the
press is considered an organ of the communist government.
(Excerpt)
The
Hizbullah leader also alluded to Second Lebanon War, and accused the
United States of being behind it.
“The United States ordered the Zionist
regime to invade Lebanon last summer,” Nasrallah said.
“Israel went to war with Hizbullah to
serve American ambitions in the Middle East,” he said, adding that the Winograd
report “must have contained secret information
on collaboration between the Zionist regime and some regional (Arab)
states” during last summer’s war.
Nasrallah told Alalam that if published, the
information would reveal that the Bush administration made the decision
to launch the war against the “Lebanese resistance” and Hizbullah as part
of its plan to rebuild the Middle East in accordance with Israeli and
American interests.”
He said that Palestinian and Lebanese “resistance groups”, as well as Syria and Iran, have “foiled the US plots in the
region".
Reuters
(Excerpt)
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - Only 40 percent of Marines and 55 percent of U.S. Army
soldiers deployed in Iraq say they would report a fellow
serviceman for killing or injuring an innocent Iraqi, a Pentagon report released on Friday shows.
More…
By Ranni Amiri
Counterpunch.org
May 7, 2007
(Excerpt)
The
recently concluded Iraq regional conference held in Sharm El-Sheikh,
Egypt started with high expectations: reconciliation between Iraq and her
neighbors, debt relief, and the first high level contact between the US
Secretary of State and her Syrian and Iranian counterparts. On all these
fronts, it flopped.
Much hype surrounded the
30-minute meeting between Condoleezza Rice and Syrian Foreign Minister
Moallem, dubbed by the New York Times as "politically very
significant."
To call it that is a
stretch. If a rabid Zionist like Congressman Tom Lantos can meet with
President Bashar al-Assad himself as he did several weeks ago, hoopla
over the Bush administration's realization that Syria has a foreign
minister with whom to exchange pleasantries seems somewhat misplaced.
More…
Where is the U.S.S.
Nimitz?
Michael T. Clare and Renato Redentor Constantino
May 03, 2007
In the latest
flurry of media coverage on U.S.-Iranian standoff, the mainstream media
has neglected to mention that the United States is massing warships in
the Persian Gulf. Why?
Nicolas
Sarkozy has defeated Socialist
Party
candidate Segolene Royal.
Photo: Reuters
By Siegfried
Mortkowitz
dpa
(Excerpt)
Paris (dpa) -
France's new president-elect, Nicolas Sarkozy, represents a new type of
leader for the country in many ways.
Nicolas
Paul Stephane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa was born in Paris on January 28,
1955, to an exiled Hungarian aristocrat and the daughter of a
Greek-Jewish doctor who had converted to Catholicism.
Sharp-tongued and unabashedly ambitious, Sarkozy famously announced his
intention to run for the presidency in 2004 on a television talk show.
When asked if he ever thought about becoming president of France, he
replied "Whenever I look into the mirror."
A tough-talking defender of law and order, a workaholic who wants to make
the French work more, Sarkozy won Sunday's runoff election against
Socialist Segolene Royal because he made the French voters believe he
deserved to be president on merit.
After a falling out with his former mentor Jacques Chirac because he
supported a rightist rival in the 1995 presidential election, Sarkozy
spent seven years in the political wilderness after Chirac was elected.
But a strong showing by right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2002,
because of law-and-order concerns by a nervous French electorate,
prompted Chirac to name Sarkozy interior minister, in an attempt to
attract far right-wing voters.
Sarkozy carried out that mission with relish. In a 2005 visit to a
suburban ghetto north of Paris, he vowed to rid it of crime by using a
high-pressure industrial cleaning machine.
Several months later, during the riots that shook these rundown
neighbourhoods throughout the country, he referred to rampaging minority
youths as "scum."
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