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Subscribe to RSSAs Republican candidates for president battle on this Super Tuesday, President Obama’s score in the msnbc.com Voter Confidence Index for March is now -15 in the latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll.
Excluding the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011, that is his best VCI score in two years -- since January 2010.
It’s also 4 points short of where George W. Bush was when he was reelected in 2004.
For more on the VCI, plus historical information, click here. The chart will be updated today.
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President Obama's voter confidence will continue to improve in the coming months...
Especially after main stream voters get a taste of what the right is offering up as an alternative!
When Bararba Bush comes out and says this is the WORST primary she has witnessed in her lifetime, you know they have some serious issues!
The GNOP wants their country BACK - I want MY country forward!!!
When you're climbing out of ditch it's best to keep moving forward not backward...
(R) = reverse (Bass Ackwards), (D) = Drive (Forward)
Barbra Bush is just angling to get her other son nominated at the brokered convention.
I don't care how a person looks at it. When the presidents voter confidence is a negative number we have more problems than we really want to claim.
Bushs' number was -11 before the 2004 election and we all know what happened to the country after that.
Obamas' numbers are still below that. I don't like the look of this trend.
Paul,
The Republicans I talk to around here (NE Florida) would prefer Jeb over any in the GOP field today. Just a fact I thought you might be interested in.
The clear, clean and best choice is to re-elect President Obama.
I think in both situations it has something to do with the problems we are/were facing and alot to do with the negative political tone.
When both parties spend most of their time exaggerating the negatives of the other side it is hard for independent voters to have a lot of confidence.
I was definitely no fan of Bush but I think some of the rhetoric was over-blown and not respectful of the office. I think President Obama is being treated with even less respect by the Republican candidates.
Obama sucks but not as badly as you once thought!
That's MSNBC for you. How utterly pathetic!
He also sucks a lot less than any of the Republican alternatives......
The President’s ability to win continues to improve as States like Ohio see their Governor try to take bargaining right, give more tax breaks to the rich and now this …
Republican Governor John Kasich refused Government aid from FEMA for the tornados that hit southern Ohio last week, killing 3. Instead he said that the State would provide the needed support.
While Kasich actually turned away Federal funds (using Ohio tax payer money instead) he also deprived victims to the access of Federal low interest loans for rebuilding their homes and businesses.
Goodness! If teabaggers will lose all bladder control when any positive news is reported about President Obama, how are they going to react when he is reelected in November?
I am not going to go THERE! lol
Voter confidence with THIS list of accomplishments? You old hippie Libs must be smokin' some good Dope!
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States .
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .
First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to terminate America ’s ability to put a man in space-defunded NASA.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company (Boeing) in which State they are allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date & counting.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to not know how to properly pronounce Navy 'corpsman'.
First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’-including bowing to foreign rulers.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to say that America was not a Christian nation.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) just for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
So how is this hope and change working out for ya? Don't you feel better now?
It will leave me thinking I almost prefer wading through a Santorum surge. Either way, get out the hip boots.
Feisty---Barbara also said there should be nothing wrong with compromise. Why aren't other Republicans speaking out like that---so far only Mrs. Bush and Olympia Snowe.
The President has had a fine line to walk---difficult to push accomplishments outside of the economic arena when the economy is of such concern to everyone. And he has not been in full campaign mode---wait til he hits his stride there.
They're going to need their Depends! or as SNL would say "Oops! I Crapped My Pants". Then they can go along with the much improved lives under another four years of intelligent leadership.
Obama/Biden 2012
http://www.hulu.com/watch/10308/saturday-night-live-oops-i-crapped-my-pants
Why yes I do - a good laugh at the expense of an idiot poster cutting and pasting utter bull from an email chain letter is always great fun.
Where can these pollsters find enough voters to to actually commit to the thought they have 'confidence in this president'???? How many Disney characters did they ask? How many comic book characters were queried? Lmao!
Is carrot top a fictional character? I think so.... a wacky daffy duck clone!
ABO 2012
ssmithlg
Yours is a list of silly things a seventh grader might say about their principal.
The list of reasons adults might look at for why they should vote for President Obama are:
1) Osama bin Laden is dead. President Obama OK'ed a raid into Pakistan to do it.
2) Our troops are out of Iraq. We are on track to leave Afghanistan.
3) The American auto industry is profitable again for the first time since 2004.
4) Qaddafy is dead. Mubarak is out of power. America is on the right side of history again.
5) If you get sick, your health insurance company can't drop your coverage. Young adults can remain on their parent's health insurance till age 26.
6) Financial reforms are in place that will prevent future financial crisises.
7) We are finally on our way to energy independence. In 2010, we imported less than 50 percent of the oil our nation consumed—the first time that’s happened in 13 years.
"Where can these pollsters find enough voters to to actually commit to the thought they have 'confidence in this president'????"
Darn the American people, right?
And just look at the mess all of these polls have made on these topics, too:
Romney vs. President Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
Santorum vs. President Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_santorum_vs_obama-2912.html
Gingrich vs. President Obama:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_gingrich_vs_obama-1453.html
Maybe the GOP would be better off by nominating Carrot Top as a candidate. These losers don't seem to doing so well...
Beat it Birther Troll! You are a lemming and Rush Dittobot. Say hello to Sheriff Joe and The Donald for me.
Oh precious Amy. Still trying for that license to sell used cars. Obama owns:
1) $5+ trillion dollars worth of new debt
2) A $1.3 trillion dollar deficit this year
3) An anemic 2% growth in the economy
4) $4+ gas prices
5) An expansion of social services such as a 45% increase in food stamp usage
6) 8%+ unemployment
7) Financial reforms that allowed MF Global to lose $1+ billion in customer account money.
8) ObamaCare soon to be judged unconstitutional.
And how are things going in Libya and Egypt Amy? Do you even bother to look before you write this trash? Peace breaking out all over Amy? Not hardly.
Having seen Romney in person at a rally in Portland, I feel much more confident of President Obama' re-election. One minute Romney was decrying government spending, and the federal deficit, the next he was waxing lyrical about building up America's arsenal with more destroyers, more fighter jets, more tanks, enough to be able to fight two major wars at once. No mention of where that money would come from (of, course, Bath Iron works is in Maine, so he was probably pandering to our ship builders.)
[2) A $1.3 trillion dollar deficit this year] - From the spending bill passed by the Republican controlled House.
[4) $4+ gas prices]
Gasomics 101: Drilling does not affect gas prices at the pump despite rhetoric.
Gas prices are not a function of how much oil is drilled in the US versus how much is drilled in the world. Oil prices are set on a global level.
Gas prices are the result of three factors: global price of a barrel of oil [which includes speculation], state and federal taxes, and gas supplies coming out of refineries (capacity / shut downs).
No doubt republican voters in FL may be thrilled at the idea of Jeb Bush for President but seriously, no way is the rest of this country ready for another Bush president even if he isn't named George. Not only does the idea of another Bush bring thoughts of dynasties to mind but in today's GOP, I doubt he's extreme enough to suit the far right crazy crowd. Ronald Reagan wouldn't win the nomination with this bunch. The name Bush alone just won't cut it, in fact, it is more likely to turn voters off regardless of whether he is more capable--there's the shadows of George W and George H. W. behind him.
I still find it fascinating when Obama gets the blame for everything “wrong” currently in this country.
I see this picture in my mind: The devastation of the economy is pictured as a speeding train, one that takes significant energy to slow down. We as citizens have asked Obama to step in front of this train and stop it in its tracks. We knowingly realize that this is impossible and will take many efforts and decisions to slow this train (economic collapse) down. In this picture I see the right screaming, yelling and cursing at Obama…what are they saying? Why the hell is the train still moving?
It’s as if they disregard the reality of the situation. The events that happened are not likely to be fixed within 3 years or furthermore, in a decade. An example, and in my opinion, the most devastating portion of this collapse, was the housing market. The precursor still lies in that we’ve had years of struggle followed by a few more years of hard times. This is not Obama’s doing, not even close. The banking industry was gaining momentum long before Obama swore his oath until the proverbial sh*t hit the fan. And because of that, this is what we have now…a struggle to bring the housing market back to what we think it should be (over inflated prices, adjusted by home owners who want to make more than house is worth), but it is what it is.
My house was somewhere between 240,000 – 250,000 dollars. That was the appraised value in 2005. It now currently sits at 185,000ish, up 15,000 from just 16 months ago. In my mind I see this as a positive, the Republicans opinion, why is it not jumping up higher? The correlation is simple, deeply rooted and long term negative disruption on this portion of the economy takes years to alleviate. This same principle can be used for the other situations going on right now, especially the auto industry. The caveat being with good practice and implementation of standards, they’ll eventually result in net positive outcomes.
All I’m trying to get at is with 5 more years we could see significant change, and who knows, maybe gains and growths like before the time Bush took his presidency.
Back in 2007, the Main Reason for President Obama getting my support, was the Fact, that I could No longer stomach a Clinton in the WH. I'm sure that America would Never vote to put another Bush(Jeb) in the WH either.
Bush Sr. & Bush Jr. were both Economic catasrophes along with thier Thirst for Blood on thier hands! I guess that BloodThirst came from thier Dad & GrandDaddy, Prescott Bush, who aligned himself with Adolph Hitler & his Nazi regime.
America won't put another Bush or Clinton in Our WH as long as this Generation is Alive!
Aint gonna Happen!
Maybe some 30-40 years down the road, it might, but Not in the forseeable Future of America!
As we ponder what the next step should be concerning Iran, let it Not be Forgotten why we're at this Point. Former President George Bush(aka Dick Cheney) in his zeal to pay Saddam Hussien back for threatening his Daddy(also OIL), looked the other way & allowed Iran to continue on a Nuclur Path. Bush had the IRA part Right, he just was'nt Smart enough to continue with the Alphabet & add the N instead of the Q to it. Now Isreal is faced with a BigTime Problem & thier background in Stirring $hit does'nt Help the overall outcome!
O well, America could always Attack Syria, but since Ronnie Raygun allowed Assads Father to do the samething back in the 80's, Why Bother? I think it was to the tune of over 30,000 Dead in Syria, during Ronnie Rayguns tenure, and the World sat back & watched then!
Occupy SoggyBottom!
Buy stock in Depends underwear, because the sales will go way up.
Many people don't pay attention to the primaries but wait for the general election. That period from the conventions to the election will be very important. As more and more people wake up to the antics, beliefs and stupidity of the extreme right, President Obama will look better and better.
If Romney had stuck with a platform that is just slightly right of center he might have had a chance but he has decided to cowtow to the right wing extremists and that will sink him for sure. The others who will ultimately be described as "also ran" are right wing extremists already and not appealing to either moderate Republicans or Independants. Unfortunately for Romney because of his flip flopping, nod to the extremists and appearing to be out of touch with average Americans this will be a very disappointing election for Republicans.
Maybe in 2016 the Republican party will have moved more toward the center and someone, yet unknown, will emerge (as Obama did) and be a good choice. The Democrats don't seem to be grooming someone to follow Obama. Hillary has said it won't be her. Just in case they'll need someone.
I just don't get why people think electing another Bush is a good idea, given the results of the other 2 Bush presidencies. Is this family all the Republicans have to offer? Actually, you'd think the country would have learned its lesson with John Quincy Adams.
"It's the economy, stupid."
When Bill Clinton ran against George HW Bush, the economy was the deciding factor in Clinton's favor.
When John McCain ran against Obama, he was leading in the polls until July, when the bottom fell out of the financial markets and he acted like he didn't understand what was going on.
When Mitt Romney runs agains Obama, it will again be the economy. The question will be, "Do we want an improving economy that lifts everyone, or do we want an economy crafted by people that use tax avoidance accounts in Swiss banks and the Bahamas?"
If Santorum was smart, he'd be screaming for Romney to release the last 10 years tax returns. The American people would be so repulsed by Mitt's unpatriotic investments, and the small % of taxes he paid, that they'd reject him outright. Mitt's job creation portfolio includes minimum wage jobs at Sports Authority and Staples stores. Full time workers at either business cannot even reach the federal poverty level of 18,800 dollars per year for a family of four. Romney will be exposed.
Gas prices increased 67% since 2009; the weekly standard
Not good news for the middle class America is it ??
That's going to be interesting to see how Obama spins that fact!!
Stock market just dropped 200 points. Manufacturing has slowed. Gas prices will continue to climb. As will unemployment in the coming months. Inflation is kicking in. The dollar is losing value by the day. November can't get here soon enough to kick this regime and all of its czars to the curb.
Sailcat, that's a gruesome visual. We are going to need a very large boat and a lot of air freshener!
SteveH, they can be found right where they were when they elected President Obama in 2008. He IS the sitting president, you know... and a darn good one too. We'll be re-electing him in November. :)
You've made some excellent points, MkeMike. I wonder if Ricky isn't hoping his likely second place finish in the primaries will make him an attractive VP pick? Maybe he doesn't want to give up that option by exposing Nit, er Mitt.
JAS1 -- I for one cannot wait to you commit to a candidate! Ought to be fun watching you try to be a positive force as it is the antithesis of your very nature.
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I'm not seeing 'Obama/Biden '12' bumper stickers. It makes me believe that Joe and Hillary will trade positions, which may have been the deal all along to persuade Hillary to become a member of the Obama cabinet.
The official re-election site has plenty - you can even buy in bulk!
http://store.barackobama.com/essentials/bumper-stickers.html
If you want more than bumper stickers, I suggest the "Cup of Joe" coffee mug or perhaps the "Cheers Champ" beer can holder with Joe's picture on it. :)
In all serious, Secretary Clinton has said numerous times that she has no interest in the Vice Presidency - and considering the amount of responsibility she's had as Secretary of State, it would seem to be a lateral move at best that I just don't see her making.
P.S. - Where are all the Romney/Santorum bumper stickers and lawn signs? On my brief trip out to central PA last week, the only signs I saw were two for Ron Paul and a couple of old McCain/Palins still clinging to a telephone pole. And that's the conservative part of Pennsylvania!
I see a lot of Santorum signs here in Ohio. Uglier than dandelions. I just hope sopmeone cleans them up after the primary today so I don't continue to get nauseous on my way to work.
Isn't the Secretary of State already part of the President's cabinet? Obama/Hillary makes a lot of sense politically. Biden's a good fit at STATE.
So the exit poll form that I filled out questioned how favorable a view I had of the Tea Party.
It didn't ask about my view of occupy wall street. I found that curious.
"It didn't ask about my view of occupy wall street. I found that curious."
Why? The Tea Party is an established political movement with an established political agenda, endorsed candidates, and even their own caucus in the House of Representatives, with 60 members at last count.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/29/who-is-the-tea-party-caucus-in-the-house/
What's curious about being asked about that? You didn't have to answer anyway.
By the way, since you didn't even bother to capitalize their name, I think your view of the Occupy Wall Street movement is pretty self-evident.
Fancy that you should be worrying about bumper stickers when you should be worrying about that your candidate Romney supported what Rush said about women.
Romney just say he thought he used the wrong words, not that what Rush said was wrong, but that he used the wrong couple words. It appears he was just fine with Rush degrading women so they could push their republican lies.
I just got offered and sent for a new Obama/Biden bumper sticker just last week. Why is it that republicans are always pushing some BS story?
I guess I just don't get the moral, religious christian party that just can't seem to be able to tell the truth.
Usually, prior to the Iowa Caucus, the lawns are littered with signs; can't drive down the street without seeing dozens for just about every candidate running. This year, I noticed there was an absence of signs. I saw the same four or five Ron Paul signs that appear every presidential cycle but there just were very few signs for Romney, Santorum or any of the other candidates. You could drive for blocks without passing any signs. It was a mild winter, the ground was not frozen. It seems the lack of signs in Iowa foretold the lack of enthusiasm for any of these GOP candidates.
AmericansFirst,
First let me say I am NOT a Romney fan but he denounced what Limbaugh said. Are you at all worried about Maher?
Former White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton, the man who runs Obama's super PAC, did not reply when asked if he will be returning Maher's $1 million donation.
Why hasn't the president denounced these vile remarks?
You would think Obama set an example and decline the money from Maher. Maybe call Palin and tell her he's proud of her.
Rob in ma - No one is proud of Palin. No one!
Billl Maher is a satirist. Borrow a dictionary, and have someone read and explain the definition of tthe word.
Otherwise, stop the fake moral outrage: your's is the party of immoral hate and lying.
And grow up: juvenile humor-impairment results in you sounding like a stupid whiner.
Palin is not bright; and the morals she preachashes are the morals she wishes she had.
Now go look at the candidates for president your party has and ask yourself why your party is hunkered down in sanctimonious stupdity.
SS, LOL!
SeekingSanity: speak for yourself...I, for one, am proud of Sarah Palin. JNagarya: you have lost any argument when you start insulting people...
I'm just glad that the GOP is focusing on what's really important -- contraception! Nevermind the economy and jobs and taxes and deficits...those are all doing just fine!
I'll vote for that!
Sorry, meant as a "Reply" to Obama/Clinton 2012. I think that would be a great ticket.
Clinton is not that stupid. If she could run against him, he'd be history today,
Clinton should have run against Obama. Obama is a failure, and people are getting sucked into his fantasy recovery created for his reelection by his campaign and administration.
She did run....she just didnt get the majority vote for the Democratic party
ssmithlg....reading the first line of your post was enough, it is pure GIGO
We edured GI in January of 2009, GO will occure in January of 2013.
NOBAMA2012, the End of an ERROR
Did you also cut/paste that from a chain letter email, or did you make that up all by your lonesome self? Either way, still a laugh at the expense of the idiotic poster.
An impressive list of accomplishments just for RedDevPS
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States .
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .
First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to terminate America ’s ability to put a man in space-defunded NASA.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company (Boeing) in which State they are allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date & counting.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to not know how to properly pronounce Navy 'corpsman'.
First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’-including bowing to foreign rulers.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to say that America was not a Christian nation.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) just for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
So how is this hope and change working out for you Libidiots? Don't you feel better now?
Wow. A cut and paste from a chain email. Very persuasive...if you were trying to convince people you have brain damage.
Interesting tactic .. smothering by repeated pasting.
Brain dead that's the only criteria for the entrance exam at good Ol' Tea Bag U.
Yep, ol' Smithy is not only a birther but a tea bagger as well. Mindless Dittobot.
ssmithlg - again with the list which is totally debunked at Snopes. You're posting lies and you know it. What exactly does that make you? Oh forget it - we all know!
30 entries. Snopes has verified almost all of them - did not opine on the rest. Maybe cut and paste, but can you imagine the time it would take to type in all of Obama's failures?
Obama's vacation days = 80 days...George W's vacation days at same point in first presidency =225 days almost 3x as much
By the end of his trip, President Obama will have taken nine vacations and
visited Camp David 14 times for a total of 80 vacation days since he took
office. But at the same point in his first term, President George W. Bush had
taken far more time away - 14 trips to his ranch in Midland, Texas, and 40 to
Camp David, totaling 225 days.
so ssmithlg...not only is your post a copy and paste from a email chain......many of the points are simply not correct
Snopes debunked this list...they did not verify it as being true..........a little research will prove that most of the points on this list simply arent true....took me less than 3 mins to find out Bush jr had almost 3 times as much vacation days as Obama in his first term
and you say Obama is 1st president to have 8% unemplyment..........however the unemployment rate was already 7.8% the day Obama took office and climbed as high as 10% soon after he took office.... Unemployment was on the rise before Obama was elected..It would have continued to climb no matter who took office as the damage had already been done.........Obama has slowly(admitted slowly) lowered unemployment rates every year he has been in office in all but 2 states...so thats another point of ssmithlg's list proven incorrect
What's the easiest way to make Obama look good?
Put him next to a Republican.
What's the easiest way to make Obama look good?
Stand him next to the Keystone Pipeline when gas hits $5.00 per gallon.
Whoops, sorry, that's Not happening.
NOBAMA2012, the END of an ERROR
Thank God for President Obama. These Republicans running are the biggest jokes that have ever run for President. They even make W. Bush look smart.
Smart???????
"I've now been in 57 states — I think one left to go." —Obama at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon,
May 9, 2008
Smart ????
Whoops, this one slipped.....
"What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." –in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos
57 states? Really? If that is the best you got, smith, it is no wonder the GOP is swirling the drain.
I mean, damn.
ssmithlg
It would take 45 years to produce as much oil from the Keystone Pipeline, as we could save with higher fuel standards on cars. The Republican policy for all these years has been: burn it as fast as you can pump it. Another reason why I think "conservative" is no longer a synonym for Republican. Republicans are spend thrifts when it comes to oil and money.
OK, I just went to the transcript of Meet The Press from Sunday to clarify my facts on the Keystone Pipeline. The point is, it would take 45 years to produce as much oil from the Keystone Pipeline as we could save in less than half that time by raising fuel standards.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46593547/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/t/meet-press-transcript-march/
Amy, the immediate problem is the price of gas, NOT saving oil.
The United States is sitting on the world’s largest untapped oil reserve. A natural resource that would not only mitigate the over $400 Billion sent overseas to other countries but could create untold millions of jobs and put the country on a sound financial footing.
The untapped reserves are estimated up to 2.3 Trillion barrels, nearly three times the reserves held by the OPEC countries and sufficient to meet 300 years of demand, at today’s levels — for auto, truck, aircraft, heating and industrial fuel, without importing a single barrel of oil.
Here is a look at some of the largest untapped U.S. reserves:
A)
The Bakken Fields in North and South Dakota. New drilling and oil recovery technology is making the capture of this oil feasible and some development is now underway. It is estimated that there is at least 200 Billion barrels of oil in this region. At a price of $100 per barrel the value of this find is $20 Trillion.
B)
The Outer Continental shelf. It is estimated that around 90 billion barrels of oil sit beneath the ocean bed 50 to 100 miles off the shore of the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. The value: $9 Trillion.
C)
The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. About 10 billion barrels are locked up here with a current value of $1 Trillion.
D)
Tar Sands: Around 75 Billion barrels of oil could come from these areas which are similar to the Canadian tar sand fields and which now produce about 2 million barrels per day. The value: $7.5 Trillion
E)
Oil Shale. This is the most massive area of potential oil production in the world with an estimated 1.5 Trillion barrel potential. The technology necessary to extract this oil is now in place and being operated on a pilot project basis. The value of this resource: $150 Trillion
All oil that is beyond the 12 mile limit does not belong to the US it belongs to the oil company that pumps it. By international and maritime law it must be sold on the open market.
Any findings beyond the 12 mile (used to be 6 mile) limit belongs to all countries or belongs to no country however you want to view it – thus is sold on the open market.
Please provide a link to all those oil fields you claim are the largest in the world.
Here is a list of the top 50+ oil fields in the world. There is only one in the US (Alaska) and it is #20.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_oil_fields
This list of oil fields includes some major oil fields of the past and present. The list is incomplete; there are more than 65,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. However, 94% of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1500 giant and major fields. Most of the world's largest oilfields are located in the Middle East, but there are also supergiant (>10 billion bbls) oilfields in Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, and Russia. The US is not considered to have much oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_fields
We don't have to make Obama look good - he already does. However, stand him next to any of the buffoons running for the GOP and he looks stellar!
He has a beautiful family, is thoughtful and SMART! AND CAN SING!
Stellar!!
OBAMA 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=JVAhr4hZDJE&vq=medium#t
Plain ridiculousness!
OBAMA 2012
dirt.... I agree TOTALY, GREAT Video!
NOBAMA2012, the End of an ERROR
ssmithlg - you agree with 'dirt'. Well, that says it all, doesn't it?
Sure, you can order 'Obama/Biden '12' bumper stickers online, but my point is that the hundreds of thousands of free give-away bumper stickers haven't appeared yet.
No one has mailed or given me a new 'Obama/Biden' sticker yet...I'm just saying that Hillary as Vice-president sets her up beautifully for a run in '16. And since I'm originally from Chicago, I know how the quid pro quo works. By the way, America First, that's Latin for 'You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours'.
Sorry to bust your bubble, but my bumper sticker was free. They were offering them to everyone.
The important note is not too many people are putting those free bumper stickers on their cars.
Could it be that people are not super excited about an Obama second term?
OR, could it be, that the real election season, has yet to start!
Until the clowns choose their BOZO, the Dems aren't even in the race!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
I got my bumper stickers for free, too. I did pay for the "Cats for Obama" collar.
Hillary will run in 16 and will win the Taliban is just to dysfunctional
Who ever will become the Republican nominee better have his long form birth certificate ready to produce to prove he was born in the US!!!!!
Does Obama have one that wasn't created on a word processor yet?
Smith what is it about the moral republican christians that they always are pushing a lie?
If you believe any of the republican rhetoric on the person-hood amendment the republicans are pushing so hard, then President Obama was an American from the moment of conception as he was in an Americans woman's body, doesn't matter where he was born.
Occupy, you're smoking WAY TOO Much Pot!
"Person-hood", W.T.F. are you babbling about?
I see Smith you don't seem to understand or know about the things that the republicans are pushing. Then you accuse me of being out of touch.
The person-hood amendment that the republicans are pushing says that you are a human with all rights of a human from the moment of conception. When that sperm enters the egg you are human with all the rights of a human being and you are in the belly of an American citizen, how can you be anything but an American, no matter where you are born?
The republicans push the person-hood amendment for eggs to be human beings at conception to denying the ideal that President Obama is American because they didn't deem him human with rights until after he was born.
Republicans never seem to recognize just how two faced they are.
Obama was born in Kenya..... so your point is what?
Pot smoking "occupiers" never seem to recognize just how "faced" they are.
Americans First!
LOL!
Birther's are just soooooooo FUNNY!
OBAMA 2012
ssmithlg - you do know that when you spout the utter nonsense you do that you look like a total moron? The birth certificate stupidity has been sooooo denounced - even by Republicans. (Maybe after the Republican governor of Hawaii verified it's authenticity and the newspaper that ran his birth announcement two days after he was born produced the papers most people - even of nominal intelligence - knew to stop with the stupidity!) My guess is you go to Snopes for all of your info - just cut and paste all the lies they've debunked!
Obama/Biden 2012
Gerson in WaPost:
"Obama’s job approval rating, as measured by Gallup, is 45 percent or lower in 12 battleground states — Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. These are the political conditions at the worst moments of intra-Republican bloodletting. If this is the bottom of GOP political fortunes, it is not very low. "
"The strategy of a Republican presidential candidate is straightforward. While keeping the states carried by the GOP in 2008, he must win back Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina — none a particularly heavy lift. He must take Ohio and Florida. Then he needs only to win one more state."
With SUSTAINED Unemployment at Well Over 8%, $5.00 per gallon gas on the horizon and a National Debt of $15TRILLION Dollar$....... good luck with that Obama re-election DREAM there Bob in Virginia.
NOBAMA2012 the End of an ERROR
Well lets look at the facts the Gop has lost the black vote,the Asian Vote, the latino vote,the women vote,the kindergarten vote ,the homeless vote all they really have is the votes they can get by fraud,the vote of the nut job bible thumpers. I don't see the win your talking about
The republicans would rather have Vaginal Police Probe McDonnell. Along with Romney who supports what Rush is saying about women.
The whole republican push is to make women into second class citizens so they can push their religious agenda. Republicans like Bob think it is just fine to force a rape like proceedure to push religious control and then they want to call it freedom.
Instead of jobs, this is what the republicans think deserve their entire attention, stomping on women's rights.
Bob knows his guys are a joke, and if the National Election was held today, any of the Republican Clowns running would be crushed in a land slide. That is a polling fact.
Job1, with SUSTAINED Unemployment at Well Over 8%, $5.00 per gallon gas on the horizon and a National Debt of $15TRILLION Dollar$....... the GOP Can't Lose!
NOBAMA2012 the End of an ERROR
The clear, clean and best choice
Obama / Biden 2012
The clear, clean and best choice for the U.S. to look like Cuba by 2016
Obama / Biden 2012
hey Bob in VA
In Virginia – where his approval rating is 51 percent – his leads are even bigger: 17 points over Romney (52 to 35 percent), 21 points over Paul (53 to 32 percent), 22 points over Santorum (54 to 32 percent) and 26 over Gingrich (57 to 31 percent).
In Ohio – where President Obama’s approval rating stands at 45 percent – he leads Paul by 10 points among registered voters (48 to 38 percent), Romney by 12 points (50 to 38 percent), Santorum by 14 (50 to 36 percent) and Gingrich by 15 (51 to 36 percent).
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/04/10571792-nbc-newsmarist-poll-santorum-romney-neck-and-neck-in-ohio
And NBC electoral projection gives Obama 227 electoral votes not counting those 2 battleground states. And PA isnt going Republican.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553/ns/politics/
A report in World Net Daily says this race is shaping up to be a rerun of 2008.... perhaps worse! We could well be looking at (finally) a repudiation of the current version of the GOP!)
Lets all pray that Santorum wins in Ohio so the primary will continue we all need a good laugh
I get your drift, but I find NOTHING even slightly amusing about Santorum. I'm from Pa. He isn't considered at all laugh worthy here. He's a major menace.
I agree.I am also from Pa. and my theory is that Santorum will keep the fire alive and serve as a huge distraction and the clown car will proceed untill the final joke their Convention
I'll give some of you republicans credit -- you're optimistic. Obama's numbers get better every day, employment gets better every day, the price of crude has dropped 5 of the last 6 days, gasoline has started down, Republican approval numbers get worse every day, but -- you're still convinced you can win with either Mr. flip-flop, Mr Religious Fanatic or -- one of the most unpopular politicians in the nation--- Newt 3 wives Gingrich.
I'd like to see one Republican candidate stand up for women's reproductive rights! Any one of them willing to chastise Limbaugh for his sexist remarks?
No I didn't think so.
GOP - party of of old, out-of-touch white guys! YUK
Suzq...... nice self portrait. Is your nose always wet & cold? ...YUK
They are just words.....there is nothing in substance to back them up, so why are women allowing men to jerk us around with words....it makes us look frivolous. I can believe whatever I would like about any individual, and that doesn't make it correct, and I am even allowed to say what I think as long as we all know that I am just expressing an opinion.....We are not little children to be spanked and sent bed without supper. While the comments of Limbaugh were in poor taste, that is more a reflection on his taste than the validity or truthfulness of the remarks. They were an opinion, nothing more and nothing less.....Mr Grandpa used to say that opinions were like — — — — — — — — and everyone had one and many of them stink to high heaven. I don't feel the need to have anyone waste their time defending me, or womanhood....sexism, unfortunately, is alive and well. But it can only harm you, if you choose to allow it to do so.
Sue-3329001 - unfortunately Limbaugh's words and the actions of the GOP (holding a panel on birth control with no women on the panel) speak volumes about how the GOP views women and the disregard they have for us as equals. These are no longer "just words." They are a real threat to the future of women in this country. I'm stunned you can't see that.
SeekingSanity: I agree with you that Limbaugh is a disgrace. I think what you and many others fail to realize is that the real threat is not to the future of women, minorities, old white guys, or any other group. The real threat is to this country as a whole, as a republic, a place where equality is assured to all under the constitution. Equality that means every person has the opportunity under law to be or become whatever they choose, to earn and save whatever they can and to reach the highest level attainable by their hard work and perseverance.
Every time government creeps into the private lives of individuals, individual freedom is reduced by that same amount. The real threat is something that threatens the foundations of our nation. Unless we all stop this petty partisan bickering like I have seen on this board and that dominates Congress we will lose our liberty and our country. You all need to wake up Left and Right! Get your heads out of your respective butts and work together to preserve the greatest nation on earth.
Santorum is your basic religious nut and Romney is an opportunistic religious nut- take your pick. And by the way with about 15 kids between them birth control and contraception should be topics of national debate. Of course from these yahoos point of view, why not have 5, 10 or 15 children-its just more people to love you and serve you in heaven, right? Never mind that the Earth is dangerously overcrowded anyway-just have as many as you can -they'll be raptured up with you. Did anyone ever notice that the one persistent theme in religion is selfishness? How about thinking about something besides your own salvation because the rest of us don't care about your religion or your personal salvation. Do something that benefits the future, Try to pretend that there will be Human beings around in a few hundred years and do something for them. Maybe they would like to have a few natural resources also. Now for the hard part-pretend you are wrong and you're not being raptured up or whatever-you know-like those guys in the planes who thought they were going to heaven and their 72 virgins. And you will be cursed by future generations, if there are any.
The "Gross Odd People" (GOP), and the "Really Not Competent" (RNC) do NOT strengthen confidence in their limited abilities at all. The President thinks for himself, reads all information presented, researches all information needed, and is very Presidential in behaviors. This does build confidence that President Obama is NOT ignorant, not unethical, not a spousal cheater, not a Right Wing Religious Radical, and not Cognitvely Disabled. Now the GOP/RNC Clowns have NO Presidential qualities that our citizens have any confidence in at all. The President is a great father to his children, a great Christian, and a solid moral individual. Look over at the GOP/RNC Clowns, and the "Crazy Conservative Crap" that they continue to spew. They want to bomb Iran however, the fear "Lunatic Limbaugh" the Moron with a Mic." Really?? Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Party of NO has got to go!
P=F11, you are better at bumper stickers than "clear thinking"
With SUSTAINED Unemployment at Well Over 8%, $5.00 per gallon gas on the horizon and a National Debt of $15TRILLION Dollar$....... come November.... Obama is GONE!
NOBAMA2012 the End of an ERROR
ssmithlg - and your posts get less and less intelligent. the "end of an error" isn't your creation and just makes you look even lamer than the rest of your posts - if that's possible. Yep - it is!
DAMN, SS
....I just spit out my drink!
LOL!
the unemplyment rate has declined 2 years in a row under Obama...Smith you keep spouting off that Obama's unemploymentis a sustained 8% but it was 7.8% the day he took office...as it climbed then to 10%, 11% in some states the fact that Obama has lowered the unemplyment rate in 48 states for 2 yrs in a row only proves that your research is pathetic....He was handed that 8% unemplyment the day he took office.as the damage to the economy was done long before Obama was elected
Progressive- Progress without rational goals or objectives is merely chaos.
This argument will not go away. The RepubliCONS are correct on one score- what does health insurance have to do with viagara or contraceptives? is it proper for the govt law to mandate coverage for either? The concept of an intrusive government argument is here. Fortunately they BLEW IT
Of course the commieobama is doing better if the GD lying , bas-turd hypocrites of the Obamacommie press have anything to do with it!!!! I do not like Rimjob the blowhard but have you seen anything in the biased, lying press about this useless, foul mouthed scumbag, Louis C K and his sewer mouth, on Sarah Palin? Didn't think so. In fact the sleazeballs of the Media probably laughed theit azzes off while high fiving each other. Just a good example of what these bald faced scamming liars are all about.
Oh, by the way, just heard this scumbag is going to be a headliner at the press club later on and a big honcho at CNN is promoting his dirty gig!
http://www.funnyordie.com/pictures/ba1656a66e/louis-ck-s-drunken-tweets
think you better change your name because from your post its a contradiction in terms
Nuclear weapons, Middle East wars, global warming, overpopulation, infectious diseases, terroristic religions, etc. and nutjobs like you are worrying about some dirty words. Laughable and pathetic.
obama=banking cartel puppet
romney=corporate puppet
santorum=warmongering neo con artist puppet
gingrich=israel lobby puppet
ron paul=2012
So what you're getting at is we need to sift through Sesame street only to elect Mr. Rogers? I'll take my chances with the "cartel puppet."
sure go ahead and vote for more debt and wars
Which is exactly what we will get if any of the current Republican presidential candidates ends up winning in November 2012.
^^^haven't you forgot the illegal involvement with libya? obama is a warmonger and virtually the same as people like mittens. have you forgot obama voting for the wall st banker bailouts? he's furthering the debt everyday. obama's the same as the other neo con artists.
thetruth11 - there was no illegal involvement in Libya. However, if McCain and others had their way, we would have troops on the ground there and in Syria.
I think your use of the term "warmonger" is used a bit loosely. Try looking up the word in the dictionary and see if that defines what Obama really is...or better yet, thetruth11, give me an example of Obama being a warmonger in its truest form and I'll retract my statement.
illegally responding to the un to take part in the bombing of libya. obeying the the orders of the un to partake in that is illegal to the us consistution he responded under the orders of a foreign entity.
We have a treaty with NATO.
No one really to vote for republican wise. Plus all the news media is for Obama. I think Obama will win in a landslide. I am a conservative just so you know
Confidence ??????!!!!! Who are these idiots polling???? This country is in the worse shape I have seen in my 47 years!!
Debt, unemployment, crime, housing market crash, stock market low's, radical thinking, no family values, no morals.......
And the sad thing is the muslim could win again....sad times for our country.
Take your family values and morals and shove em somewhere where the sun don't shine! You think that the Republicans attacking your Unions and good wages in general and supporting the rich who pick your pocket is moral?! Wake up you religious nut jobs, before we don't even have a middle class in this country! There's more to governing this country than what you learn in Sunday school!
MC55 - the Muslim comment says everything there is to say about you - and none of it is good. In fact - if anything - it says your morals are more than lacking - they are non-existent!
You couldn't be more wrong. STOP listening to FOX. Things in the world have never been better than they are RIGHT NOW. Do a little research, and think for yourself. What decade was better. Other decades were simpler, but none better. Like any good GOP'er you like the status quo, and would like to go back in time. I am 50, and I just want to keep going forward. Things have NEVER been better for me. And yes, my favorite decades were the 70's and 80's. Do I want to go back there. HELL NO!!!
All these things would have happened no matter who had took office...Obama didnt do any of the things you just posted....The economy was headed for a down turn before Obama was elected....and Bush asked for the bail-outs and stimulus packages while he was still in office....Obama inherited a trroubled economy....he didnt cause it
Wow, MC55, if you are right (and I don't really agree, but just for argument's sake), it was the Republicans who got us there, and President Obama who is leading us out...but what, you want another 4 years of the Repubs because they didn't screw things up enough?
I will vote for Obama again just to keep these Republican religious nut jobs out of the Presidency. I just hope Obama grows a pair next time and tells these nut jobs to go jump in the lake!
Hear hear I second that. I hope the dems control house senate and white house and do some real clean up.
Just
Who do you think controlled Both Houses of Congress and the White House in 2009 and 2010??
I was just about to say? Wow barbara bush thinks this is the worst primary in her lifetime? But then the rumor of Jeb Bush sliding in at the last minute.......now it all makes sense that she would say it even if it is true.....The worst ever. By the way has anyone seen the South Park episode about barbara bush? LOL....sure was funny......oooooo giggle giggle LOL
More MSNBC campaign material for the Democrats the usual propaganda spewed forth by this garbage site......MSNBC is nothing more than a left wing propaganda outlet....
I guess they feed their audience of morally devoid Democrats well....
Tisk tisk......your embarassed of your party of fools right? It is not msnbc, IT IS YOUR PARTY. FIX IT AND QUIT WHINING
Gregg.... Not propaganda .. just facts
Answers to questions of how things are better in the last 31/2 years:
Negotiated a nuclear moratorium with North Korea (I know the list of success for this President will never be long enough for the pin headed Republicans)..... even when the Dow hit 14,000 and their 401Ks have spilled over with money!......it will still be about banning contraception with them!
23 months of job growth, rather than the 4,000, 000 jobs lost in the last 3 months of Bush
Bin Laden dead, Bush said he didn't care where he was..he didn't think about him much
Kaddaffi dead
Auto industry back and growing
Health care reform.. with preventive care which saves you money
401 Ks back
Credit card protection reform
Banking protection reform
Equal pay for women in the work force
TAX CUTS PROVIDED TO YOU unless you make over $250,000
A positive GDP
Ending of a useless war In Iraq
Stock Market back
Student loan reform
Pell Grant reform
Lowest interest rates in 50 years!!!
Killed 11 times as many terrorists as GW - That is a bonus
Started the withdrawal from Afghanistan
Removal of DADT
Managed a Natural disaster in the Gulf better than Bush handled a hurricane response.
Oil production coming from the US is at an all time high..rising oil and gas production, and a greater mix of energy sources and decreased consumption.
Stopped a pipeline that was opposed by the state it was going to run through until they can reroute it away from the aquifer.
Did I help you out and answer your question. Obama 2012
Thanks Papa! Great post! I will be quoting from it. Let's work to win the house and senate, so health care can be further reformed. We need a single payer system that take health insurance companies, and their huge profits, out of the equation. Your health care should not be determined by your employer. I think our system is the worst in the industrial world.
Nut job? How about Santorum bringing home a 20 week dead fetus to show his chldren. He slept with it and played with it? Don't belive me, Google it.
Ron Reagan Jr. said it best when he said, "the GOP won't be happy with anyone less than Himmler". I'd say that just about sums it up nicely.
Really who follows or believes in these polls?
They sample a couple hundred of god knows who with questions that almost gurantee a certain slant response and then they tell you what America believes.
I'm 52 and never been directly polled. I guess I don't count.
Do you have $1 million? Then you don't count of course.
If poll responses are accurante we are all in trouble.
Poll 6mo after the Pres. produced his Birth certificate. Nearly 40% felt he was still not an American.
Pres. Obama gets slammed for attending a christian church (Rev Wright) for almost 20 years,but almost half polled in the last three years believes or is not sure if he is not in fact a Muslim
President order OBL killed and almost half polled gave credit to Bush (Even though he shut down the OBL unit 5 mo after 9/11 and said he doesn't even think about him) and Pres. Ob approval only went up 4pts.
Pres. Obama could personally find the cure for cancer and those that hate him if polled would respond that it was a negative (Because he did it)
You are right as more and more people are sick and tired of him constantly being on TV can we have one day without this idiot ................talk about overexposure Man Im so sick of this fool trying to explain his stupid ideas Nov 2012 cant get here fast enough .........everyone I know that voted for him are sorry that they did.
Without a rant
What are the specific policies you hate and how are they directly affecting you?
What other President in recent history did you feel was on TV way to much?
and what other President do you feel was an Idiot and why?
I really would love to know.
Thanks
sanity,you really think Rev Wright was a Christian saying"God Damn America' while the Obama's sat there and chanted Hallelujah???.
Please don't take my word for it, do some research.
Rev Wrights church is a christian church.
It has already been proven the Obama family was not in the Chuch when that was said.
Lastly, you can go to youtube and watch that sermon and hear for yourself exactly what was said and it what context. I'm not saying right/wrong....I'm saying context of the sermon.
You can also find the "Chicken coming home sermon" spolier alert, he said this is not me saying this...this was US Ambassador (To Iraq) Crocket said ...and in that quote is the C C H to roost statement that the media blew up when they edited the two sentences before the well covered comment.
Listen and judge for yourself if it is what you believed he said with the content
Take care
When was that proven and he says things like that every Sunday I know other people here in Chicago that attended and left because he rants that way most of the Time NICE TRY YOU ARE LYING he hates white Americans and speaks often to it and Obama was there for 20 FN Yrs gimme a break how dumb do you think America is.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2ndLTobama... if you go to church you will note that in the creed that churches pray... it says that we pray for forgiveness for what we have done and what we have left undone.... Rev Wright said " God (will) damn America for the things we have done and the things we have left undone.... "the Bible say so" If you listen to the full text rather than FOX News version you will see it is the same that is said in every Christian Church! Quite being so stupid!
I'm not sure "how dumb America" is.....but am pretty sure you would be holding up the least of the least!