Likeability

    Okay, as this keeps coming up, I thought I'd put together a list to help us track the seemingly all-important metric of "likeability" as it concerns our public servants and cultural heroes.

    More likeable than Hillary: Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Pope Francis, Al Franken?, Elizabeth Warren, Eric Snowden, Christiane Amanpour, Stephen Colbert-Jon Stewart-Samantha Bee, Joe Biden (or so they say), Elon Musk, Angelina Jolie, the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Richard Holbrooke?, Tom Tomorrow, Barbara Jordan?, Kofe Annan

    Less likeable than Hillary: Mitch McConnell, Rick Santorum, Rudy Giuliani, Chris Christie, Ron & Rand Paul, Ben Carson, the Koch Brothers, Newt Gingrich, Rush LImbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes, Glenn Beck, Jimmy Carter, John Edwards, John Kerry, Jerry Brown, Bill Bradley, Rahm Emmanuel, Harry Reid, Michael Bloomberg, Alan Grayson, Boris Johnson, Tom "The Hammer" De Lay, George "Baby" Bush, Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Condi Rice, Rachel Maddow, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange, Anderson Cooper, Ross Perot, Carly Fiorina, Christie Whitman, Deborah Wasserman Schulz, Megyn Kelly, Piers Morgan, Nancy Grace, Matt Drudge, Sanjay Gupta & Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews, Arianna Huffington, Markos Moulitas, David Petraeus, Jim Comey, Chelsea Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Ayn Rand, Leon Panetta, Robert Gates, Roger Stone, Lee Atwater, Clint Eastwood, Rev. Wright, Cornel West, Dick Morris, Karl Rove, David Cameron, Diane Feinstein, Ann Coulter, Maggie Thatcher, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sean Penn, Jim Webb, Corey Booker, Anwar al-Awlaki

    YMMV: Mr. Rogers, Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Colin Powell, Papa Bush, Al Gore, George Soros, Ted Kennedy, Justice Ruth Ginsburg, Madeleine Albright-Gloria Steinem, Ted Kennedy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Angela Merkel, the Queen of England/UK, Mario Cuomo

    Comments

    More: David Ortiz

    Less :Vladimir Putin


    The Republican nominee is insane. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson would have zero Congressional support, thus they would be neutered as President. Additionally, there is no statistical possibility of Stein or Johnson getting elected. Pundits who tell Democrats not to be too complacent about a Clinton victory miss a much larger point. If the country elects the insane guy or votes one of the two third party candidates in large enough numbers to make the insane guy a viable candidate, the country is probably not worth saving. The loons would have already taken over.

    A good sign that the country is on the right track is that George Zimmerman got punched for bragging about killing Trayvon Martin.


    whoa, whoa, whoa - likeability's the theme, stick with it. George & Trayvon - less likeable (yeah, George much less, but we're not grading on a scale - thumbs up or down). Jill Stein - Idunno, someone help. Gary Johnson - is that even his real name?

    Any more? oh yes, Peracles - definitely 'less'


    MLTH: Mother Theresa, Saint Francis

    LLTH: Adolph Hitler, Attila the Hun 


    No Torquemada? was going a bit more contemporary. Guess you don't place much stock in Hitchens' takedown of Mama Theresa either.


    Nor in his support of the Iraq War. Or of his claim in mid November 2000 that Gore had probably not won a majority because 500,000 votes were still to be counted- wait for it

    -from California!

    I don't speak ill of the dead but if forced to choose  between the Jerry Brown who worked in Calcutta and the de bunker who wrote the "Missionary Position" I go with the worker.


    Doing my best to leave Dag staff out of it too - some are likely to push the self-promotion a bit hard. "I'm the Antichrist"  "Unh-unh, you were Antichrist last time - this time I get to be..." "was not" "was too..." The banality of evil.


    Given we've both had occasional spats with staff and are still here I think we can take comfort that, like Hillary, we're at least likeable enough.


    Ouch, you cut me - I bleed. Yet damn'd be him who cries, "Likeable! Enough!"


     


    Don't flatter yourselves, boys. I like to keep a few irritating schmucks around for entertainment.


    Okay that is enough of this.

    I hereby render unto Mike W the Dayly Line of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of Mike from all of me.

    hahahahahaha

    (You have my email, and I expect the twenty bucks with the hour.) hahahahsah


    In that case I'm simply going to assume you're implying I'm the irritating one and PP is the schmuck. (sorry pp, had to throw you under the bus)


    How's that? I never got out from under the bus. Can someone hand me a #15 socket wrench and a flashlight? I think I see a problem here. The bossman should take better care of this rickety old thing. And BTW, is that a Groucho "what's a schmuck?" or another kind?


    You need an 11/16. This is an American blog site. We don't use no furriner's measuring system here. No wonder you can't fix the problem.


    Oh bloody hell, can't you guys get with the rest of the world? It's a wonder you advanced past furlong per fortnight.


    This is all fine Peracles.

    But never put a question mark next to my hero of all time.

    Al Franken.


    I'm just worried some pictures will turn up of him wearing clown shoes...


    Hillary Clinton has so much baggage, and so many people hate her, she's a liability to the Democratic Party. So if she's more interested in the country than she is her own ambition, she'll step aside for the good of the nation.

     


    Some people best serve others by taking their own advice.  Your comments suggest that you may be one of them, Wattree.


    Amazing, a comment from August 2015 snuck through a wormhole in space to plant itself right here on my diary. More time travel, please - I'm all in.


    All politicians become hated. Goes with the territory . And non of them ever step aside. 


    Flavius
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    Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are two of the most hated and corrupt politicians who have ever run for the presidency in modern times, maybe ever - they both make one nostalgic for Richard Nixon. They clearly demonstrate the sorry state of American democracy. Both their candidacies show that the American people are voting their anger and hatred rather than their hopes and dreams for America. So I fear that Hillary can very easily dump Trump right into our laps through default.  Debbie Wasserman-Shultz’s forced resignation shows that Hillary stole her candidacy through election fraud, so she’s not trusted, and she’s a corporate “Republicrat,” thus, many true liberals and progressives who are informed about what she truly represents are not going to be able to bring themselves to vote for her, so she’s going to divide the vote of like-minded people. Her candidacy represents the 2000 election on steroids. So when the the Republicans start dragging out all of the dirt on her, and the FBI agents are put under oath to nullify the non disclosure agreement they were forced to sign, she’s a Democratic disaster just waiting to happen. 


    Every prediction you had about Hillary being a disaster has been wrong. Comey did not support indicting Hillary. Trump is self-destructing and causing white women, usually a reliable Republican voting block, to support Hillary. Instead of admitting error, you reposition the goalposts. 


    In America we don't pick candidates based on how people respond to a poll but on the number of people who go to the polls and vote. Hillary very easily defeated a liberal O'Malley, a socialist Sanders, a conservative Webb, and a republican turned democrat Chafee with actual votes. Clearly voters didn't hate Hillary enough to vote against her nor did they like the other candidates enough to vote for them. You may disagree with that choice but in a democracy we go with the candidate that the majority of the voters choose. You get just one vote.


    Hi Wattree, now that the convention is over, I've asked dagbloggers to take a break from the debate over the Democratic nominee. We've had a year to argue about it. Everyone here has made their points--many, many, many times. It's over now. Hillary won the primary, and she will not be stepping aside, so let's move on. There are plenty of other matters to discuss. Thank you for your cooperation.



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