American History will treat Bush rather fondly; while Roh will be remebered only for his “halitosis.”

Americans love their War Presidents.

Maybe a little wistful thinkling on the part of are Marxist mided friends over there. Main problem with Bush is the Liberal media bias that is prevelent in America plus this War thing. Honestly, I don’t think Bush really cares about his popluarity rating.

Roh is a Korean version of Bill Clinton: A selfish critin’ who’s willing to risk endangering his own Country for his own personal, political gains. I seriously doubt Korea can survive another Roh. Within a single term, He’s destroyed good relations with his County’s most important Allies, which took half a century to build. Small Country like Korea cannot afford to piss to many friends off, when it doesn’t have many friends to begin with.

Roh and Bush are really parallel cases of clueless failures as national leaders, one on the left side and one on the right. There are excellent political positions and actions that could be taken on both the left and the right these days — things that would actually increase human social welfare and/or human civil freedom — but neither of these dopes has the vision or intellect or the skills to do so.

We are all the poorer for it.

The name for this kind of logical fallacy is questionable cause. It assumes a causal relationship where there isn’t necessarily one. There are numerous reasons the third Kim didn’t make it.

“”Nice try, but no.”.

Man, you are argumentative. Even when you have no rebuttal.

If that’s really all it boiled down to, then right now we’d be a bit more than halfway through the Kim Jong-pil administration. Or a Lee Hoi-chang adminstration.

Roh is really the Republic?? first elected president. Not exactly a case of beginner?? luck, but sometimes it takes a while to get a hang of this democracy thing.

Nice try, but no.

Change Republican to American and then drop the ?? approval ratings part, and that?? pretty much how I feel.

I actually think Bush may not be popular among the commenters here for not being conservative enough.

Well, popularity polls and real popular elections didn’t exist prior to Roh. But Sigmund Ri’s popular support was so low he actually walked out of his office one day and never came back. A good precedent for Roh, come to think of it.

Subsequent presidents, of course, were wildly popular. Park Chung Hee was reelected without a single dissenting vote. Chun Doo Hwan was above the popular vote; his mandate came directly from heaven. And he was so considerate of the people that he hand-picked his own successor for them, eliminating all the bother and fuss of a real election. The subsequent two presidents - the two Kims - were not really elected but had been standing in line long enough to claim seniority.

Roh is really the Republic’s first elected president. Not exactly a case of beginner’s luck, but sometimes it takes a while to get a hang of this democracy thing.