Totally stupid CNN poll - worst presidential blunder

[liberal N proud]

What do you think was the worst presidential blunder?

Buchanan / Civil War 29% 27677 votes

Clinton / Lewinsky 24% 22549 votes

Nixon / Watergate 48% 45478 votes
Total: 95704 votes


Why in the hell do they bring up Clinton in such a poll?

http://www.cnn.com/

[Bob3]

1. for balance - their blessed blance bs.

still why no place to vote for say Katrina or 9/11 or the Medicare disaster or Iraq or well you get the idea.

[Yollam]

2. I nominate this for "Worst Poll Ever".

First of all, Watergate was a crime, not a "Blunder". And where is "Bush/9-11", and "Bush/Katrina" and "Bush/Iraq" Oh, wait, that was a crime too.

[bbgrunt]

3. this poll goes out of its way to ask inane questions on purpose.

I check the poll every day and refuse to even vote 98% of the time because the questions are so irrelevant and the scripted responses are loaded. Besides being totally unscientific, I think that CNN is insulting its audience on purpose in an effort to limit any real thinking or response from the public.

[Marr]

4. WTF? Clinton makes that list- and Bush does NOT?

That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Bush actually has a shot at making the list of "greatest blunderers"- and not just for one thing. He's screwed up repeatedly, on a grand scale. Katrina, Iraq, 9-11, domestic spying, Abu Ghraib, the Plame leak... etc., etc. Any one of those things dwarfs Clinton's affair.

I've never been a Clinton fan- but Jesus, he's nowhere *near* that list.

[txindy]

5. This comes out of the larger poll on presidential historians.

However, CNN chose to highlight those three. Not a coincidence, that.

BTW, the historians chose (A): Buchanan/Civil War. The historians voted on the Top 10 Presidential Blunders and, no, no mention of Junior.

Off to find the link....

Adding: Here it is and GUESS whose picture they 'coincidentally' chose to show at the top of the article! Un-freaking-believable.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060218/ap_on_go_pr_wh/presidential_errors_1

Scholars Rate Worst Presidential Errors

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So who had the worst blunder? President James Buchanan, for failing to avert the Civil War, according to a survey of presidential historians organized by the University of Louisville's McConnell Center.

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The second worst mistake, the survey found, was Andrew Johnson's decision just after the Civil War to side with Southern whites and oppose improvements in justice for Southern blacks beyond abolishing slavery.

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Lyndon Johnson earned the No. 3 spot by allowing the Vietnam War to intensify, Gregg said.

Where does Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal rank? Many scholars said it belonged at No. 10, saying that it probably affected Clinton's presidency more than it did American history and the public.

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[wtmusic]

6. Is there an agenda here

Ya think?

Let 'em know

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