{"id":4350,"date":"2013-12-30T22:23:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2013-12-30T22:23:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:23:55","slug":"obama-most-admired-man-in-u-s-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4350","title":{"rendered":"Obama most admired man in U.S. Who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Gallup Poll has just released a survey that is going to surprise more than a few folks. It surprised me, for example.<\/p>\n

It says President Barack Obama is the most admired man in America — by a comfortable margin at that.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/hardball\/obama-clinton-most-admired-gallup<\/p>\n

The most admired woman happens to be former first lady\/Sen.\/Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n

Why is this so surprising? I see a couple of interesting things here.<\/p>\n

The first one is obvious. President Obama has had a rough year, particularly as it relates to the unveiling of the Affordable Care Act. The debut of the ACA was a disaster, technically speaking. The rollout came on top of a barrage of criticism of the ACA from Republicans who managed somehow to win the argument.<\/p>\n

Despite all the bad press, the president continues to stand fairly tall in the minds of millions of Americans. <\/p>\n

Much the same can be said of Hillary Clinton, who left public office at the beginning of the year as a controversy over her office’s handling of an uprising in Libya drew fire. The consulate in Benghazi was attacked, four Americans died in a ferocious fire fight and Clinton took lots of heat over the way her office handled the initial response.<\/p>\n

Yet, for the 12th year in a row, she remains America’s most admired woman.<\/p>\n

The second factor is interesting as well, in that Gallup isn’t exactly known for favoring so-called “liberals.” The poll long has been viewed by observers as tilting a tad to the right. Still, the poll is deemed reputable.<\/p>\n

The lesson here might only be that we need not pay too much attention <\/em>to the chattering class that so often seems to outshout the rest of the us.<\/p>\n\n

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The Gallup Poll has just released a survey that is going to surprise more than a few folks. It surprised me, for example. It says President Barack Obama is the most admired man in America — by a comfortable margin at that. http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/hardball\/obama-clinton-most-admired-gallup The most admired woman happens to be former first lady\/Sen.\/Secretary of State … Continue reading Obama most admired man in U.S. Who knew?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164,540,589,1842,2139,2784],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-barack-obama","tag-benghazi","tag-gallup-poll","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-libya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}