Obama has been an unmitigated disaster since well before day one, yet almost half the country still thinks he is doing a good job. What is up with that?
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I’d expect a +15% Democrat sampling advantage in that poll. That seems to be they typical amount of oversampling these days 😐
The week-minded sheep lacking in critical thinking skills?
You have to have someone to compare to Jimmy Carter, doncha?
I would prefer the peanut farmer to the banker’s friend, anyday.
conservatives don’t poll….
…they hang up
Hahaha! Very true! 🙂
With over 60% of the people depending on the government and entitlements for their existence he is doing a “Good Job” of promising them what they want to hear.
Hard to say. Dick Morris did a segment recently that suggests his opposition is much greater than polls suggest. I hope he’s right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIeKDP_66U0
I don’t know if Dick Morris is saying that because he really thinks Obama is in deep trouble or to make conservatives feel good so they keep watching his videos and buying his books. You can make polls say anything.
One thing I do take away from the video is that Obama will likely lose.
Basically he has got a dumb deal from the President before him who engaged in two costly wars and failed to reign in the housing bubble and greedy banking sector. Bush was a a disaster on all fronts.
Andy
Wow. The fail is strong with this one….
yep…..
…and they had to put us in twice as much debt because of it
We have to hurry up and pass it, so you can read what’s in it………………
Typical whining crap that doesn’t hold water. The legislation that fueled the bubble (which was signed by nearly every member of congress) was written and signed before GW took office. Congress ORDERED the banking sector to eliminate qualifying requirements, then blamed those same banks when they reluctantly complied. The banks were no sweethearts. But your tidy story is BS.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Obama has us in THREE wars right now. And his deficits are 5X those of the Bush years. He has borrowed more in 2 1/2 years than all 8 years of Bush.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314
Andy, your historical perspective is a bit skewed. The housing bubble didn’t get reigned in because Barney Frank, the ranking committee member of the House of Res. assured us Fannie and Freddie(U.S. subprime lenders) were in fine shape. Further……ok, 2 costly wars. Obama campaigned on getting out of one……….we’ve increased the amount of conflicts we’re involved in. So, by comparison, Bush looks like a peacenik compared to Obama. I’d also call your attention to the fact that Bush was hampered by a hostile legislature the last two years of office. This coincides quit nicely with our economic woes. And lastly, there comes a point in time when men accept the responsibility of leadership and assume the consequences of their actions or in-actions. Regardless of how effective Bush was or wasn’t, Obambi is still going to have to assume the responsibility of leadership. He ran for the job, no one assigned it to him. His abject refusal to lead, follow, or get out of the way will send him down as the worst president in the history of the U.S. At least Jimmy Carter had convictions….. they were wrong, but he had them. Obama is without the ability to carry even that characteristic.
The last two years, Bush was a lame duck…..
Democrates controlled both houses, voted “for” the war/s, approved the funding, taxes, and on and on……
How can we blame Bush for then, and blame both houses for now…..
….that’s the Democrat spin
oh, and now the Democrats are trying to claim that the stimulus didn’t work….
….because we didn’t spend enough!
Who is more stupid? The fool or the fool who mimics him? Bush may have had a lot of faults, but Obama has racked up more failures in only 1/3 the time. The prize goes to the biggest boobie and that is Obama
45% do not disapprove of the man. HIs policies are consistently showing a much lower approval level.
“Who Are The 45%?”
Democrats. As stated above, conservatives are too busy working to answer meaningless polls.
I’m sorry guys but the housing bubble and the lack of regulation over the banking sector all took place within Bush Jnr’s watch. He had 8 years to sort it out and he didn’t. When you are in charge of the ship you cannot shirk responsibility.
He went two war on two fronts ( not learning from the Germans ) which added up the expense and then failed to regulate the bubble market which was junk debt holding up incredibly complex financial products. Even God gave him a small test with hurricane Katrina and he failed that also.
Now his dad is another matter. A lot of respect for the guy. He did well in the Iraq/Kuwait war and you guys threw him out for Bill and Monica and the cigar !
Bill Clinton got the benefit of Bush Snr work financially, and Obama has got the shitty end of the stick on Bush Jnr’s
End of story
Andy
Nope. Not end of story. You claim Bush failed us by getting into two wars. How much worse is it that Obama, failing to keep his pledge and get us out of Iraq, also involves us into two more and possibly 3 more conflicts? Andy, your reasoning defies logic.
You further discuss Katrina as a Bush failure. It was not. The people of New Orleans were told by the president 3 days prior to leave. They didn’t. They suffered. The rules of FEMA at the time required the Governor of the state to officially request aide. She was told. She didn’t in a timely manner. City owned buses sat idly by as the hurricane approached. They could have been used to belatedly escape the hurricane but the mayor didn’t use them to evacuate the city. Later, we saw despicable acts of human indecency throughout the city. Full grown healthy men crying because no one was there to help them, when even to that point they refused to move to help themselves. There were many failures relating to Katrina. It wasn’t Georges failure. And while I’ll note that Katrina didn’t only effect New Orleans, this is most often pointed to as Bush’s failure. To me, I’ve never before been so ashamed of my fellow countrymen. The failure was theirs and theirs alone.
So, Obama got the shitty end….. didn’t he want the job? Didn’t he say he could fix what ailed us? He has failed us in every aspect of his job. Did Bush have his flaws? He sure did. Given Obama’s record, I’d take Bush over Obama any day. But that’s just coming from a citizen……
Andy thinks because they don’t call it regime change….it isn’t.
…and has completely forgotten about the Gulf oil spill
and has completely forgotten Pelosi announcing “we won” and when that happened
Andy, while I confess I did not read all the responses to your initial statement, I read enough to know that no one is absolving Bush of responsibility. Indeed, they point out that if not for the stonewalling democrats, something may have been done, and that is well documented. In your favor, I do not think Bush took the impending crises seriously enough. However, he did see a problem and did try to do something about it. Unlike Obama, he acted within the law, and that was indeed his fault. If he was obama, he would have acted unilaterally in contradiction to the Constitution.
The housing bubble is relatively meaningless, since a vast majority of the bubble was investment housing, not primary residence, and concentrated in places like Florida and California. The dips who shouldn’t have been buying houses in the first place defaulted and went back to subsidized housing. The idiots who invested near the peak got what idiots who invest near the peak always get: screwed.
The lack of regulation over the banking sector is precisely the opposite of what actually happened, but don’t let that stop you from believing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvSqiZINrTo
The mayor of New Orleans was a black guy and the governor of the state was a woman. Political correctness requires that the white guy gets the blame.
Bush had nothing to do with the buses (remember the picture of the buses) not taking people to safety. He nothing to do with making the convention center a hurricance shelter with no food. He had nothing to do with bad press reporting from the dome about killings and rapes etc. He nothing to do with grown people disregarding his call to leave the city 3 days before it hit. He had nothing to do with misappropriation of money from prior years not fixing leeves. He had nothing to do with …. well you get the picture.
He took the blame cause the press could not blame the people, the mayor nor the governor.
“He took the blame cause the press could not blame the people, the mayor nor the governor”
Yes, and they had a burning desire to blame him.
The Bush Administration tried over 17 times to get Congress to act to do something about Fannie and Freddie. Does anyone not remember Barney F’s rant about them being in great shape and Maxine Waters ranting about race, as always. FF was a cash cow for the Dems and they didn’t want anybody messing with it. After Janet Reno threatened the financial industry if they didn’t go along with giving broke people money, banks found themselves forced into doing what they would have never done….make bad loans and construct means to bundle and pass them on to the next sucker. It was just another attempt at redistribution of wealth. It all started with Carter’s “Reinvestment Act” and I remember one economist saying it would work well, UNTIL a recession hit badly, then it would be a disaster. One could refinance every year as long as the value was increasing………It was just a gigantic theft.
I’ve forgotten the exact number, but Fanny and Freddie donated heavily to the democrats..
and yes, I remember every bit of that….mainly because there’s nothing funnier than Barney Frank ranting….who could forget that one
or farting on live TV.
The 45% are part of the 49% that pay NO taxes, NO attention to politics and have NO idea what is going on. They are the 30,000 college students in Mich. on food stamps, just because they are students….you know moochers. They proceed thru life smoking and joking.
The 42% strongly disapprove and only 21% strongly approve is what stands out to me in that poll.
These riots around the world started, quite unfortunately for President Obama, right after America was downgraded. Let’s hope and pray riots don’t happen in America as the economy continues to sink.
Well, I’d bet there are areas in the US where those riots definitely won’t occur 😉 If I were a business owner, I’d know how I’d protect my business interests!
The riots started before the downgrade and were just waiting to happen. Groups like Plane Stupid are just waiting for any excuse and are agitating for unrest. This leads other factions to be at the trip point also waiting. The US is not exempt and has its own radicals that have been primed for years. Someone is going to stub their toe and claim police brutality or racism and the whole thing will blow up in the face of the agitators.
Look at what happened when college students were told they would have to spend more money to get their liberal arts degrees in ethnic diversity and Peaceful living in harmony with nature!