posted August 24, 2010 09:21 AM         

Average Trust in Govt. for Each Administration

Administration
Total Average % Trusting Govt.
Non-Trusting % (author addition)

Barack Obama
22%....Trusted
78%....Untrusted

George W. Bush
37%....Trusted
63%....Untrusted

Bill Clinton
29%....Trusted
71%....Untrusted

George H.W. Bush
36%....Trusted
64%....Untrusted

Ronald Reagan
42%....Trusted
58%....Untrusted

Jimmy Carter
29%....Trusted
71%....Untrusted

Nixon/Ford
40%....Trusted
60%....Untrusted

Kennedy/Johnson
68%....Trusted
32%....Untrusted

posted August 24, 2010 09:34 AM         

Curious what the trust/mistrust level of Johnson and Humphrey was.

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posted August 25, 2010 11:14 AM         

You know it's bad when demoscats want O'Bomber to be neither seen nor heard in their states or districts.

Hmmm katatonic,

Roosevelt was so trusted that immediately after his death we passed the 22nd Amendment limiting the President to only 2 terms in the White House.

posted August 25, 2010 06:03 PM         

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Yeah Juni, people are grumbling all over about O'Bomber's disastrous wet blanket economic, domestic and foreign policy catastrophes.

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Yes, my Independent opinion aside; Mi is a Dem state and things are achanging here. Staunch old timer Dems screaming for change and it isn`t The Obama bandwagon they are looking to jump in.
As the political weather heats up, I see a Republican for Gov here and Dems will take a back seat, seen but not heard.
The days of MI being a manufacturing and Democratic state have floated away ...

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posted August 27, 2010 09:21 AM         

"I see a Republican for Gov here and Dems will take a back seat, seen but not heard."

Hmmmm katatonic

Do you have any idea what's involved in passing a "Constitutional Amendment"?

posted August 28, 2010 11:15 AM         

did the people also want prohibition? maybe some of them, but it was such a dismal failure because NOT VERY MANY were happy with it. who asked them before it was passed?

The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by constitutional convention. The Congress proposes an amendment in the form of a joint resolution. Since the President does not have a constitutional role in the amendment process, the joint resolution does not go to the White House for signature or approval. The original document is forwarded directly to NARA's Office of the Federal Register (OFR) for processing and publication. The OFR adds legislative history notes to the joint resolution and publishes it in slip law format. The OFR also assembles an information package for the States which includes formal "red-line" copies of the joint resolution, copies of the joint resolution in slip law format, and the statutory procedure for ratification under 1 U.S.C. 106b.

posted August 30, 2010 11:22 AM         

Yes, a 2/3 vote in the Congress or a 2/3 majority of states is a very high hurdle to pass a Constitutional Amendment. That's why they're rare.

posted August 30, 2010 06:19 PM         

as to the "people" not trusting obama, well when a scary percentage of the people believe that obama is a muslim and not even american, that is hardly surprising is it? these are the same people that swallow whole the "humble" tears of glenn beck and sean hannity, get goosebumps at their rallies (no religious fervour there, huh?) and are otherwise duped by the 24/7 media smear against obama.

it's fine with me if the november elections bring in some more balance. that is what usually happens when one party gets too much say in washington. happened to reagan, clinton and gw too. proves nothing about "leftists" or obama.