Quote Originally Posted by amsterdam
have you even read a history book?

this is typical second term politics, the last 7 presidents before W had approval ratings WAY lower. This type of shit happens every 6 years in ANY administration.oh well.
What's typical? The lying? The war? The criminal acts? Were you so quick to defend Clinton when he was six years in? Just because there is a historical precedent of the second term usually going poorly, doesn't justify it nor make it anywhere near acceptable. If you shoot for less than average, then all you're going to get is less than average. And here I was, under the impression that we lived in a great country not a less than average one. Guess I was wrong

Oh, and I said nothing in there about polls or approval ratings (even though they are dismally low). If you're going to try to discredit what I said, you might try focusing on just that. What I said. Now that we're on the subject, I'll impart a little knowledge to you since you obviously know very little about statistics. Sure they're not totally accurate, but they are more so than just thinking that everyone must agree with you. If you flip a coin ten times and it comes up heads five of those times, do you really need to flip it a hundred times to find out heads comes up fifty times? Couldn't you project the results by using the data you culled from flipping it ten times? That's about as dumbed down as it gets. If you still don't understand, I would suggest you pick up one of those fancy books I've heard so much about.