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Poll - the public now approves of George W. Bush, sure, when he's out of office...

A big story is being made about a new Gallup poll which shows that more people now have a favorable view (49%) than an unfavorable view (46%) of former President George W. Bush. It's the first time since 2005 that this has occurred. In my opinion, this is about as big of a story as the fact I wrote with a pen at one point today.

First thing's first, Gallup has about as solid a reputation over the past year as Mitt Romney does of smooth-talking women.

Secondly, toward the end of his presidency, Gallup had then President Bush at 32% approval. Other polls had him even lower than that.

Lastly, Bush has been out of office now for 4.5 years. Given the fact less than one-third of the people in this country approved of the job he was doing as president toward the very end of his tenure, I'm sure there are a great number of people, myself included, whom have a much more favorable view of him out of the Oval Office than in it.

How much easier is it to compliment a person who used to drive you crazy at work when they're working elsewhere?

Talking about someone who drives you crazy at work: "I hate him! He screws everything up! The rest of us have to do our own jobs and find a way to do his also! He's driving me crazy!"

Talking about someone who used to drive you crazy at work, but works elsewhere now: "Yeah, I agree. He was a really nice guy. I kind of miss him sometimes. Oh well. I hope things are going well for him."

It's not like this country had a sudden epiphany and forgot about: 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, NSA, the wars in the Middle East, the lies leading us to wars in the Middle East, the Great Recession, going from a surplus to a huge debt, etc. No, it's nothing like that. Many people have simply forgiven the former president of his numerous mistakes and decided they like him much more as a painter of animals and himself than as the President of the United States.

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