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Subscribe to RSSAfter last week's political firestorm over attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that President Obama's approval rating on foreign policy has dropped five points since August.
In the poll, 49 percent approve of the president's job in handling foreign policy, versus 46 percent who disapprove.
Last month, 54 percent said they approved of his foreign-policy handling.
Much of that drop can be attributed to increased political polarization just seven weeks until Election Day.
Indeed, 86 percent of Democrats approve of Obama on foreign policy, compared with just 10 percent of Republicans. Yet in August, nearly twice as many Republicans -- 19 percent -- approved.
Still, in the current NBC/WSJ poll, only 41 percent of independents approve of Obama's foreign-policy handling, versus 53 percent who did so last month.
The full NBC/WSJ poll -- which was conducted Sept. 12-16 of 900 registered voters (including 270 by cell phone) and which has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.3 percentage points -- will be released at 6:30 pm ET.
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I hardly doubt those numbers will continue to fall for our President. Peculiarly MYTH has not been able to define himself as a post-era Bush candidate and the leaked tapes will haunt his un
Much of the drop can be attributed to the fact that the Middle-East is on fire because it has become painfully obvious that Obama doesn't have a clue about what is going on in that region.
Maybe Barry can explain it all for us during his Letterman appearance.
YOU GET ALL YOUR INFO FROM THE COMMIE WING CALLED MSDNC, DONT BUY INTO THE OBAMA LAMA DING DONG FEST.
NO MORE 4 44
now that sounds more like the jibberish Bev would post
opps computer froze
edit: the leaked tapes will haunt his uncaring message for all Americas
4 more 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
Tell us again Barry. Tell us again how you killed Osama. Just keep spiking that football, it doesn't bother those fundamentalists in Libya, Egypt, Pakistan, Syria, or Iran. They just love hearing it over and over from you. Those chants from those fundamentalists during their recent attacks of "There are a million Osamas!!!", just ignore them. Karl Rove probably planted that propaganda in their little minds. Besides, what matters most is your campaign rhetoric, you have an election to run. Priorities you know.
Wait until Romney's numbers come out after his disastrous blunders last week.
Romney was quite willing to CEDE America's leadership in foreign policy to another.
Romney forgets WE LEAD, we do not follow.
Let's hear more about guy who made the anti-muslim movie, that sparked off the reaction.
All I know is he is an Egyptican coptic, living in America.
More, please.
Romney just said what everybody else has been saying...
If that 47% ever turns to 51% the country will never survive...
It's time to turn the page on this failed presidency...
The middle class and your grandchildren can't afford 4 more...
16 TRILLION and counting... tick tick tick
look at the rwnj's jumping at this like hungry fish. I guess after the beating they've taken recently, they deserve a little short term happiness. Enjoy, because Mitt or Ryan will stick their big feet directly into their mouths at a moment's notice. Then, there is the debates. That ought to be a laugher.
Bev, how can you afford to blog 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? You must be part of that 47% that Mitt exposed. Or, are you afraid to go outside your Se. 8 housing project because it is too dangerous? Chicago, home to the birth of Communism in these United States. What a slug you are!
Joe not only rude and degrading,you are showing what is fundamentally wrong even in this election as well as what has BEEN wrong in Washington, We are not helping one another,they are looking out for OUR interest as a country and until that happens you can put Bush back in office and you will still have this economy stagnet... Call on your fellow republicans and tell them to forget about the racr forget about being republican, think not just about the 1% but the whole 100%... then get we can get this nation moving properly... and stop talking down to people it show iggnorance.
@ terry " and stop talking down to people it show iggnorance."
That's all you liberals do to anyone who doesn't agree with your mantra so You stop talking down to people it shows your ignorance.
Wait until the debates and Mitt will really look like a deer in the headlights or out of touch. Either way he won't look good. After the last debate some Republicans will have switched to Obama and only a hand full of Teaparty right wing nut job Fascist wannabes will vote for him.
Poor, POOR Joanna: have you gone so far adrift that you now express sympathy for those involved in the deaths of Americans?
Really? Have you NO shame at all?
For the administration to deny that the attack in Libya wasn't an act of terrorism is simply denial to the nth degree.
The words from our president didn't invoke strength and resolve for the American way of life. He didn't even mention the actions that took place in Egypt. The host nation is responsible for the security of the embassies. There is a token security force within the embassy confines. There was zero rhetoric that was leadership material.
As was noted earlier...having the vice president of the country running around shouting Osama bin Laden is dead and GM is alive sounds a lot like school kids on a playground playing tag, screaming, "You can't catch me! Nah nah nah nah nah!" Biden's rant would get a 15 yard personal foul penalty for over celebrating or taunting in the end zone. A shining example of diplomacy.
Let's not forget the president's "dis" of Netanyahu. Nothing like stating to the world that your too busy campaigning to take the time out to talk to an ally that you claim to support. Not exactly where most people would expect the priorities to be.
The largest failure is believing that all these uprisings are related to a poorly made film depicting Mohammed in a blasphemous manner. The cause of these actions is the deep rooted hatred for our way of life. They do not believe in our freedom of speech; freedom of religion; or equality for women. The president actually believes that the Muslim world no longer hates America because he is the president. Our president, the narcissist. How naive.
@RealAmericansFirst-You post tabloid crap from liberal MSN, NBC, ABC "News" and follow it up with more tabloid CRAP. Your dumbass president will get re-elected and your dumbass will be the first he steamrolls over, wait and see; and when he does and you cry for help, and you will, I'll be standing over you, laughing as I walk away.
Ebeneser Howard: You sound like a very sick person! A foulmouthed hate-filled sick person. I hope you get help soon, rants like yours could make you physically ill, I know it makes me physically ill.
Chill out! Lay off of Fox News channel for a day or so, you'll feel better.
P.S. Your wrong. and altho people like you, and Mr.Romney, think facts are to be completely ignored, reasonable, thinking people think facts are important. In lieu of facts, perhaps you could just try common sense, you might surprise yourself.
Sandra Fluke is the only thing that sucks more than Obama's foreign policy.
http://swogcity.com/foreign.html
What, an NBC poll that doesnt help Obama?
Quick, oversample more Democrats!
Here we go again, Bob...blah-blah-blah.
Bob,
Likely voters in Virginia favor Obama 52 to 44. Among all voters, the president is up 50 to 43 percent, identical to his margin in a survey in early May.
Obama’s steady lead suggests that an unprecedented barrage of TV ads and dozens of in-person visits have yet to change the bottom line in the key battleground state.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/wapo-poll-obama-leads-in-virginia-135872.html?hp=r2
WaPo poll undersamples Republican voters, the poll is worthless except as Dem propaganda.
Romney is weak in foreign policy. He would outsource it!
Bob,
Even Rasmussen has President Obama leading in VA and the average of polls has our President up by 1.5, tied statistically but marginally ahead.
The administration doubled down with the "attack was spontaneous" narrative all weekend while others like the Libyan president who disagreed and announced that it was clearly pre-lanned.
Four people dead and you guys are fighting about polls.
I hope this stays in the press until we get some answers.
Dennis - Obama will take VA, as well as FL, NC (surprise there), PA, and OH. Pretty sure that will be enough but he may just surprise everyone and take a few of those little red ones too!
Obama/Biden 2012
three words. FAST AND FURIOUS
[three words. FAST AND FURIOUS]
Aww...so precious...more talking points...
Three more words: You're a putz...
PIZZA! PIZZA!
A poll that does not favor the President and msnbc wrote about it. yup get ready for some liberal name calling on these posts folks.
Dennis-you might want to look at that poll again, the "chosen one" is behind.
Barry has a foreign policy? Who knew?
Sure he does. It's called "Flexiblity", but they're waiting until AFTER the election to roll it out ;)
It's going to take even more of an effort to get Obama out of office since the media is his lapdog. They all repeat the same Obama talking points over and over and over. This article is a rarity -- that NBC would report ANYTHING negative about Obama is shocking. We've got ZERO foreign policy, which means the US isn't leading the world as it did before Obama came along, we've got an economy in shambles, with minorities being hurt the absolute worst, and what does the media echo over and over? "Wah, Wah, Romney is so cruel to say half the people in the US don't pay taxes!!!" We're living in the Bizarro World.
I guess politics is like sports after all...if you can't beat your opponent you can always complain about the referees.
SissyLou: Surprised you watch NBC, sounds like you only watch Fox "News". I hate to be the one to tell you but Romney/Ryan will soon be shown to be the big losers they really are, these two radicals are not conservative, they are extremists, BIG difference. My guess is your just another misguided Republican that will vote against their own best interest in November. Don't you know that those crude remarks Romney made at the fundraiser were actually directed at people like you? Romney is not smart enough to realize he was insulting his own voters! I cannot for the life of me figure out why the level of hatred is so high against the President, and so accepting of a mystery man like Romney, who refuses to release his tax returns, refuses to tell the American people his "plans" for them, supports voter suppression to get him elected, and lies incessantly about just about everything. What in the world is there to like, or believe, about Romney, or Ryan? It would seem that Republicans would have to check their brains at the door when voting for Romney/Ryan, especially since your guy thinks so little of all who would actually vote for him. You are going to vote for the problem in America, not the solution, a extremely rich guy that made his money on the backs of people like yourself, and a totally dedicated follower of Ayn Rand who hated the middle class,seniors and the poor, Go figure!
Have a great day!
I actually lost sleep last night worried that they had sucessfully made people forget the Middle East!!!! I was astounded that Americans did not care a bit about the fact that the world is far more dangerous today than it was 4 years ago!!!!
But at least the few who care about foreign policy... have noticed Obama is a complete failure. I am beginning to lose faith in humanity... if America votes for the downfall of our own country by re-electing this failure... I guess humanity is done. There will be no hope for a better life left on the planet.
End of Days!
End of Days!
Noid--if it is not going to happen, the TPGOP will make it happen--on their timeline in 5....4.....3.....2.....
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
Lol, can we take bets on how HUGE the Democrat oversampling will be in this poll? I am going with Dem +12. Also, at this point, WHY is MSNBC polling registered voters? What's the point? Likely voters.
Bill,
How does oversampling help one Party/candidate over the other?
I can see it either way. If our President is perceived to have a solid lead it will encourage Republicans to GOTV while Dems will stay at home.
On the other hand if the polls show our President to have a solid lead it could discourage Conservatives and they will stay home on Election Day.
As I see it the advantage for oversampling goes to no one.
One word - Fundraising. Boosting morale helps bring in the money.
It is apparent that liberals can't handle the truth. They only want to be served up some soft pudding.
"Soft pudding".......?
It is NOT that they can't handle the truth, they don't care about the truth. The President of Libya came out and admitted it was a pre-planned coordinated attack by terrorists, that they deliberately set into motion on 9/11. It has been admitted by OUR intelligence community that there was intel that let them know "something" was in the works. Now that Americans have died suddenly it was "not actionable" intel. According to who???? Our inexperienced president?, then Lord help us all. The media is culpable in that they don't dare tell the truth anymore, they are so in the tank for President Obama it is absolutely sickening. People you have to get off of MSNBC, Fox and CNN, and do your own research, we aren't getting the truth from the media, we haven't in a long time and probably never will again.
When will Iran strike Israel?
Apparently presidents must be gods - all seeing, all powerful, and all knowing. Is that too much to ask?
Obama campaign im free fall
Obama over past 9 days...
-6 in Gallup
-7 in Rasmussen
And the narrative is that Romney camp is spinning and in turmoil.
Rasmussen shows Romney ahead. Where do you libs get this stuff??
Can one imagine how the GOP/RNC "Speculator and Chief" would handle Foreign Policy? Oh my GOD! First of all this "Cognitively Disabled" War Hawk would order the US Military to bomb all of these nations. Which nation would he want to bomb first? That would depend on how he rolls the dice in his quiet room. How many foreign civil wars would the GOP/RNC "War Hawk" get our nation into? Again! It depends on how he either spins the bottle or how he shakes the dice. In London, the GOP/RNC "Speculator and Chief" was so "Alien" to our best ally in the world. The President is not going to panic, and he not going to let the "Radical Religious Right Wingers" change his Foreign Policy Philosophies. The President is not stupid enough to bomb every nation that is in civil unrest. The President is not "Emotionally Unstable" enough to send in our troops to every Middle Eastern Nation that insults us. The President is not ignorant enough to let other nations or their leader to dictate US Foreign Policy. Now "Romulian Romney" is very dumb enough to get America into at least Five more wars, and he is ignorant enough to make our nation more vulnerable to foreign attacks. "Romulian Romney" is ruthless enough to bomb Iran and North Korea. The President is very aware that our nation is not able to afford economically more wars. The Presdient is very clear on the issue of how physically depleted our Armed Forces are. The President is very intellectual in regards to how and when to put the power of the United States into action. The President is very clear that the US is not able to be the only "Police Force" in the world. The President is very clear that it is vital to work with our allies on all levels at all times. The "Bush Doctrine" of going it alone is a Cognitively Disabled, and a Emotionally Disturbed Foreign Policy Of Failure.
Check out the sample of this poll - Democrats oversampled anywhere between 12-20%. Why does the lame stream media continue to embrace BS poll sampling. Polsters can't possibly think Democrat enthusiasm is as high or higher when compared to 2008! Get real, the lasted data shows sampling of D vs R should be roughly equal. Granted this thing is close, but polling firms could wind up egg on their faces again ala Scott Walker.
What is there to approve of?
The world is a more dangerous place and America in limbo.
Obama's amateur, fumbling attempts at foreign policy have been an embarrassment to himself and to the US. People are finally beginning to realize it. A good example of Obama's foreign policy incompetence is the Palestinian statehood issue.
First, he publicly and loudly affirmed his support for a Palestinian state. This had the predictable effect of encouraging the Palestinians to seek their own separate state. Then, he had to order his Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, to veto any UN resolution that might actually create a Palestinian state, in order to salvage the Jewish vote.
Most presidents (not all) have had sense enough to be consistent in the messages they send to the international community. Reversals, like Obama's, only create an atmosphere of uncertainty and distrust. One can easily imagine how Obama's blundering could have started a violent increase in Middle East hostilities.
Why down? What could go wrong with Obama's "joined at the hip"...Jew Hating Muslim Brotherhood Brothers? just Embassies burning.......just a warm-up to Obama's 2nd Holocaust Plans
Romney suggested the administration's condemnation of the anti-Muhammed video was equivalent to "an apology for America’s values." Does Romney believe that cruddy video celebrates America's values? Are those values supposed to include blind hatred and extreme prejudice? Is hideously bad judgement now a cherished American value? Apparently, according to Romney, hatred is just as American as the flag and apple pie. That's very strange, coming from a man whose own Mormon religion has often been a target for intolerance. What an odd world-view Romney and the Republicans possess! I'm not eager to see them back in control of the military, the CIA, and the State Department. Nor do I cherish the thought of Mitt Romney's finger hovering above the nuclear launch button. It's no laughing matter...too scary...
Foreign Policy.......Obama has no time for that nonsense ! there is Campaigning to be done !!!!!
Obama spends hundreds of milliions of our money to turn Libya over to people who want to kill us.
Gets an ambassador assasinated in a 9/11 terrorist attack.
Major attack in Assganistan kills two Marines and destroys six Harrier jets and severely damages facilities. Us troops being killed everyday by supposodely allies.
And the Media is more concerned about Romney telling it how it is.
Seriously Romney!!!!!!!!!!! The nerve of you to say those things about people the 49 percenters%%%, Well i am a working person that has a great career and educated i might add, so according to you i guess i would be in that other 51 %%% however i would not vote for you racist ass if you were tyhe only one running, take that crazy slave mentality somewhere else ,....Guess WHAT rOMNEY wE dONT wANTCHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You dont know @!$%# and look at you know.... you were exposed lol, lol, lol.... how do you feel now actually you shouldnt be mad that someone leaked the story, you should be glad that you got a wake up call, you dont have what it takes to be president.................NOW PRESIDENT OBAMA DONT RUN ......JUST WALK AND GET YUR RE-ELECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't take her to seriously folks. Shes probably just upset because she can't find any of her babydaddies!!!
like you would of voted for him anyways, please, we can tell you are a full blown lib. Have fun!! Better get back to work you have lots of people to support, spread your wealth and smile!!
Where do they get these numbers? American citizens or Islamic Muslims?
In regards to the Romney statement..the percentage he mentioned are those who do not pay taxes, who vote for Obama and will not vote for him. As usual, the biased media and lefties are wrong about him including vets, and folks on soc.sec. - those ARE taxable income. Can you honestly say that it is fair that generational welfare recipients and illegals should drain the economy by having those who pay taxes support them? Down with socialism. Romney 2012
I swear, if people can't watch this video and figure out who he is talking about, then there is no hope for America. I read these comments and are blown away by most of them. I am glad he told it like it is.
Much of the drop can be attributed to the fact that the Middle-East is on fire because it has become painfully obvious that Obama doesn't have a clue about what is going on in that region.
Thank God we have Flipp Romney and Lyan Ryan to tell us! Whew! Oh wait! They have 17 of Dubbya's advisers advising them....CRAP! I'd keep air support over NY year round IF he EVER makes it too the oval office. Flipp/Lyan 2012! Bush 2.0....look out NY! :-) @Hagran1
In regards to the Romney statement..the percentage he mentioned are those who do not pay taxes, who vote for Obama and will not vote for him
So that includes himself? He pays a lot less than I do...well I think he does...the tax cheat won't show us....then again...I don't have tax havens all over the world either. :-) @Hagran1
YOU GET ALL YOUR INFO FROM THE COMMIE WING CALLED MSDNC, DONT BUY INTO THE OBAMA LAMA DING DONG FEST.
As opposed to the Romney News channel? Better known as Fux News? The place Journalist go when they can't form a coherent sentence after finally graduating The Journalistic school of Murdoch Community Propaganda School? LMAO! :-) @Hagran1
As usual, the biased media and lefties are wrong about him including vets, and folks on soc.sec. - those ARE taxable income.
Sorry. Vets AND Social security recipients DON'T pay income taxes. Your either an idiot. Or just an idiot. sorry. :-) @Hagran1
Sorry about you post that Social Security benefits are not taxable. The tax is based on total income, and up to 85% of the benefits a person receives are taxed at the person's full tax rate. Read the tax code before you post.