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Subscribe to RSSAs President Barack Obama is set to begin his second term next week, he finds himself with a job-approval rating above 50 percent and with majorities supporting his general direction on gun control and immigration, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
But he also confronts an American public holding mixed attitudes about the next four years, concerns about the economy and a belief that tougher times lie ahead.
Click here for the full poll (.pdf)
It’s a stark reversal from four years ago, when Obama’s first inauguration – despite taking place in the midst of the Great Recession – contained high expectations and seemed more like a “coronation,” says Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff.
“If 2009 was all about hope, 2013 is about the ability to cope,” Hart adds of the public’s lower expectations about the economy and reducing partisanship in Washington.
General support for Obama’s gun, immigration agenda
In the poll, 52 percent of adults approve of the president’s overall job performance, which is down one point from last month. In addition, 49 percent approve of his handling of the economy, versus 48 percent who disapprove.
What’s more, the public appears to be receptive to the broad outlines of his top agenda items for a second team.
Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty Images file
President Barack Obama speaks on proposals to reduce gun violence on Jan. 16, 2013 in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House in Washington.
Fifty-six percent believe that the laws covering the sale of firearms should be stricter, compared with a combined 42 percent who want them less strict or kept the same.
That’s the most support on this particular question since 2006, but it’s less than the 60 percent to 70 percent who supported stricter gun laws during the 1990s, including when Congress passed an assault-weapons ban in 1994.
Related: NRA more popular than entertainment industry, poll says
Also, for the first time in the poll, a majority of Americans -- 52 percent -- favor allowing illegal immigrants who hold jobs to apply for legal status in this country.
And in the latest fiscal fight in Washington, more respondents say they would blame congressional Republicans (45 percent) than Obama and congressional Democrats (33 percent) if the nation’s debt limit isn’t raised and the country is unable to meet its obligations.
As for views on Obama’s qualities as president, he gets the best marks for being easygoing and likeable (61 percent give him high marks here), having the ability to handle a crisis (55 percent), being compassionate (53 percent), being knowledgeable and experienced (53 percent) and being a good commander in chief (51 percent).
His lowest marks come on achieving his goals (44 percent give him high marks here), working effectively with Congress (29 percent) and changing business as usual in Washington (28 percent).
'A lack of buoyancy'
Yet looking ahead to Obama’s next four years in office, Americans have tempered their expectations.
The public is split how Obama will fare in a second term, with a majority of respondents -- 51 percent -- saying they’re either “optimistic” or “satisfied.”
By comparison, a combined 48 percent say they are “uncertain” or “pessimistic.”
Asked another way, 43 percent are optimistic about the next four years, while 35 percent are pessimistic; 22 percent have a mixed opinion.
The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd talks about President Barack Obama's new set of gun control proposals.
In addition, more than seven in 10 are dissatisfied with the current state of the economy, and just more than a third are either “very” or “fairly” confident in Obama’s ability to promote a strong and growing economy.
And 60 percent believe the coming year will be a time to hold back and save because of harder times ahead, versus 34 percent who instead think it will be a time of economic expansion and opportunity.
“The poll reveals a lack of buoyancy in looking ahead,” Hart, the Democratic pollster, says.
Adds GOP pollster McInturff: “This feels like a long four years, and it feels like a long four years ahead.”
Public continues to sour on Congress, GOP
But if Americans have tempered the expectations for Obama’s second term, they have soured even more on Congress and the Republican Party.
Just 14 percent of adults approve of Congress’ job (which is near the all-time low in the poll), while 81 percent disapprove (which is close to its all-time high).
What’s more, 49 percent hold a negative view of the Republican Party – its highest negative rating in the survey since 2008. Only 26 percent have a positive view.
By comparison, the Democratic Party has a net positive rating, with 44 percent holding a favorable view of the party and 38 percent holding an unfavorable one.
And the conservative Tea Party movement – which took off in Obama’s first year as president – also finds its popularity at an all-time low in the poll, with 23 percent viewing it favorably and 47 percent unfavorably.
On Iraq and Afghanistan
Soon approaching the 10-year anniversary of the Iraq war, nearly six-in-10 say the war wasn't worth it, versus 35 percent who say it was.
Yet asked another way, 55 percent of respondents think the war was successful.
Meanwhile, a narrow majority of Americans – 51 percent – say the war in Afghanistan hasn’t been worth it, though 62 percent believe the war there has been successful
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Jan. 12-15 of 1,000 adults (including 300 cell phone-only respondents), and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.
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OH NOES!
Imagine the President who has met obstructionism from the right at every turn having an approval rating above 50%?
Hmmmm...
I wonder if the same cast of clowns have another dinner planned for the night of his second inauguration to plot how they can cause further suffering for the country?
Despite their objective, the country is recovery be it ever so slowly!
Imagine where we would be today, if Boehner & Co. had worked along side the President...
Imagine how good the economy would be right now if not for said obstruction.
Imagine how good the economy could be if we had a real President.
DNC shills!
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. JFK
Are you bad bad leroy brown?
Sorry letusreason .... leroy brown got it right . . .
No kidding!
I find it interesting that more than 50% of people think the wars are not worth it but successful? After 10 years in Iraq and how many in Afghanistan....this is success? I wonder what they deem as failure?
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
Mark Murray likes to make up articles to suit his agenda and you libs fall right into place. Obama has done nothing for business to flourish and you liberal donkeys think its Republicans that obstruct him from creating jobs? You are a F_cken joke!
This just in,obama still blames President Bush for everything.
The GOP needs to stand their ground and stop caving in the the stupid ideas of the left. That is what is wrong with this country.
"Imagine how good the economy could be if we had a real President"
You mean like the last one? Come on, man- Dick Cheney NEVER had the Dow where it is today! (neither did his vice president George W whats-his-name)
Red you are so wrong at so many levels , you must be one of them looking for freebee stuff from Obama which will never come. He is only a President in Name only
Leroy get's it! ☺
Since you're the baddest man in the whole damn town, would you mind doing guard duty on the troll bridge?
The floodgates have been opened....
people are fed up period, its no support there giving to president its desperation that something gets done period !
Imagine if the "Community Organizer" had a clue......
Besides a bigger welfare check for the Feisty's of the world, name one freedom you've gained since your boy has trashed the White House.
Tsk... tsk... you see whether you want to acknowledge it or not, he is the President and will be making decisions concerning all of US the next 4 years.
Grab another tall glass of Hate-Or-Aide and get over it the FACT you LOST! lol
I'm not sure my expectations can get any lower for the Vision-Less Panderer in Chief! 9,000 dead in Chicago over Obama's residency! And now we have a problem? Smells like a deflection!
14% of the American public approves of Congress' job??????????
How could that many approve???????????
"Imagine if the "Community Organizer" had a clue......"
......He'd have beat his lame competition from the right?
Twice??
Just more smoke from the BS machine,propping up their guy.
Feisty is the origional lemming......... How much is bammy paying you to troll on here?
If only America was not being held hostage by the Party of No, American Taliban....
Think what could be accomplished!
The original poster doesn't seem to understand that republican opposition can't cover incompetency from the president. It's called checks and balances. They're not supposed to let the president just do any old thing he wants. Mainly, the democratic aim has been social experimentation instead of getting down to business. What have they done in the past four years that's so noteworthy? Pretend kill Osama bin laden, and remove the don't ask, don't tell, don't harass, don't pursue policy? Let's not even get started on Obamacare, and the lying fiasco used to implement it. I don't care how many lies the media says about Jobs recovery, until this American gets a job, I'm not believing any of it.
IMO, one reason many would not be more optimistic of his second term has alot to do with what we all experienced with the GOP led obstructionism at every turn. Many of us expect the same, and in just the couple of months since re-election, it does not appear that the GOP will work any differently. The party puts party before country.
You think you have all the answers, please enlighten us ol grand re-reg!
Tickity Tock... troll...
Hey Feisty, I voted for your post # 1.12.. Voted "no value" that is.. LOL!!
You hit the nail on the head toons222!! Who are they gonna blame for the next four years????????????
The Great Recession is not going to end quickly while the GNOP is playing political gamesmanship with the country's future. That's not going to change until they're booted out of office or their right wing corporate masters are neutered by meaningful changes to the laws concerning lobbying and political contributions. (I would have said filibuster reform but I seriously doubt there are the balls in congress to pass any.)
fisty deadhead still believes skewed polls accurately reflect the populace. Not surprising. Of course "the public" has diminished expectations. Those that voted for him has seen nothing yet. The man's a serial documented liar who knew that the younger voters are mostly indoctrinated drones who hardly know who George Washington was. They don't even know that Hitler also surrounded himself with children while stripping the German people's freedom from them . Today's left is the same type of people which allowed Hitler to rise to power. They, too, looked for a savior.
My expectations are nothing short of impeachment and hopefully imprisonment.
For the drones out there, a little FYI; Gallup conducted a poll of the top issues concerning Americans. 4% said guns. The economy was by far the top issue.
The only obstructionist has been Obama himself. He is by far the most non transparent, deceitful, low down dirty president we have ever had. Just because sane people don't agree with his moronic decisions doesn't make them obstructionists. How many times have ideas from the House been turned away by Dirty Harry Reid and his cronies in the Senate?
Let the blame game begin! He isn't a leader or they wouldn't have been labeled obstructionist. They would have been wooed by his leadership skills and vision for the country. Reagan and Clinton ring a bell?
Feisty...actually Bush had an approval rating of over 50% going into his second term with the Democratic Party controlling the Senate since 2001 when Jeffords went Independent but caucused with the Democrats (and they did not work with him as much as the GOP does not work with Obama).
In the 2006 mid-term elections, the Democrats took complete control of Congress and then nothing really got done! So what about 2013...we (America) already have this t-shirt the only difference is the President is now Democratic and the House is GOP.
Different year, same issues, same parties and the same inability to work together. Change the name of the Presidents and the controllers of Congress and it still smells like the same old BS to me just in a "new" package to see if we will fall for it!
@Drive: you said"
"Imagine how good the economy could be if we had a real President"
You mean like the last one? Come on, man- Dick Cheney NEVER had the Dow where it is today! (neither did his vice president George W whats-his-name)
Please look at where the DOW was on 10/01/2007 14,000+, who was in office?
Am I supposed to be surprised the free speech Nazi's like yourself brag about suppressing dissenting opinions? lol
Go lick you gun little girl!
*yawn*
Where the he!! do the all come from. They are walking ads for greater mental health care. These idiots will harm themselves with there guns.
God bless our president.
He won by the vote of welfare recipients. He received 75% of the latino vote and I read a report that 57% are on welfare. He got 99% of the black vote. Wonder how many of them are on welfare. I bet those that work and pay taxes aren't even polled. That includes, white, blacks, latinos, etc. They also make sure they call democratic areas.
Hey Freak!
Remind us again where the DOW was when Dubya & his Dick left office?
Selective amnesia is NO excuse... lol
Hey G.I Jane - if true, you won't mind sharing the link with the rest of us... right?
That comment ranks right up there with "I heard" - put up OR shut up!
This ain't NewsforDumbFux!
"Please look at where the DOW was on 10/01/2007 14,000+, who was in office?"
Where was it when Obama was elected?
Who was in office THEN?
Man, did this article send out shockwaves at rwnj central or what! They're flocking like pigeons to breadcrumbs. Won't do them any good. The country saw what Republicans did, and still continue to do.
I read all the pathetic postings from the right wingers and have to laugh. They've run losers for the past two elections and try to put the President down because all of their candidates are incompetent! LOL it must really suck to be a Republican and know you are nothing but a total loser with no leadership while the liberals have elected a true leader who is respected the world over!
PatrioticJane - you are truly pathetic! Most of us work and do well. You on the other hand - still living in Mom and Dad's basement I'm guessing!
I am not a RE REG I am evolving my position...... just like Sambo did on gay marriage.
If any of you bammy supporters believe it is gonna get any better in the next four years, you have another think coming. It will be the same old @!$%#..... Its George Bush's fault, its the republicans blocking me.... waaaa waaaa waaaa.... in other words, it will be the same, we will be in the tank, and nothing will be bammys fault..... gee, is that not getting kinda old by now?
" He received 75% of the latino vote..... He got 99% of the black vote........"
Yes, I see your point. Everyone knows those are not American Citizens. Who the hell decided it would be a good idea to grant THEM the right to vote????
workingpoor, Obama's policies are responsible for the dismal economic recovery. Since the GOP agreed raise the debt limit a year ago, the Obama Administration hasn't cut 1-cent from government spending. Time to tell the President what he, Pelosi, Reid, and many other Democrats told Bush when they voted not to raise the debt ceiling during Bush's term in office, "It's irresponsible to raise the nations debt ceiling." I'm a fiscal conservative, not a Republican, and I mistakenly voted for Obama in '08.
When did a sample of 1000 American become acceptable as public opinion? I see these very small surveys being published as fact....
"I am evolving my position...... just like Sambo"
You simply HAVE to go on Hannity, and agree with him when he cries about people always playing the 'race card'. (go ahead- I bet YOU can get past his 'screener')
-SeekingSanity
while the liberals have elected a true leader...
Have you forgotten that almost half the country voted against Obama FOR a horrible Republican candidate?!
You should be sending thank you notes to Romney for running because if the GOP has fielded a decent Presidential candidate, we would not be talking about Obama right now.
I come form Elmhurst, NY. How about yourself?
Just wait until 2014 when we get rid of the rest of the obstructionists and gain control of the House and keep the Senate too. That popping sound you hear will be the rwnj's heads exploding!
drive-by-observer - Welfare and Dependency, Crime and Hopelessness brought to you by? The Democrats! Congratulations, enslaving races is NOT something to be proud of!
It is nice to see Ms. Redhead spewing again. After she found out her taxes were rising she fell off the Obama bandwagon, but she is back blaming that and everything else on the GOP again. I am going to see how long she is out after Obama raises the taxes again this year.
What we need is to pass an intelligence test to vote...... that would have eliminated the mistake we have in office now, and the division he has caused in this country. Anyone that knows anything can see thru this marxist as easy as pie.... raised by communists, hung around communists and marxists, terrorists for friends, does drugs with fellow communists..... then he gets voted as president????? How? Easy.... he was voted in because of skin color, and thats it in a nutshell.
Who in the f_ck is smoking what? This Liar-in-Chief is the worst thing ever after Carter who was just as stupid as this one. If this is truly what Americans believe about Dumbama, we are in much more @!$%# than we can handle. But, it stands a reason for most of those asked or polled have a vested interest in being supported by those of us who work for a living, eh.
What a fu_cked up country!
I bet you have solid proof of that pile of sh!t you posted. You should've asked Santa Clause for a brain.
Well Crusty Redhead I thought he was the great uniter, seems 1/2 the time he can't even get his own party to agree with him. He claimed he was going to work with both sides of the isle. Boy what another lie. I quess his brain is still waterlogged from spending all those nights with the old white men in the Chicago bathhouses. They knew him as Bath House Barry.
LOL!!!!
Looks like that grand old white male republican party is about to have a very hard time.
I'm still laughing at this from their "Retreat:" "Successful Communication with Minorities and Women,"
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SEE YA!!!!!!!!!!! Fix your wrecked ship, and hit the high seas!!!!!
Ah hell, these are republican bitches out doing the only thing they know; "BITCHING". Like dogs, always chasing that bouncing ball they dropped.
HAHA! The GOP couldn't put up a good candidate if their life depended on it! You guys are so funny! Man, it's like the lights went out and all the cockroaches(RWNJ) scurried over here! What? You guys get bored talking guns with each other?
2014! Be prepared, GOP, be very prepared to get another ass whipping!
2016! America will elect the next Democratic president.......AGAIN!
Independent for Sure - Republicans can't field a decent candidate because they don't have decent people in the party any more. The intelligent ones won't join the GOP because it is based in backward hatred and stupidity - you know - kind of like you post!
fishman - you are true filth - the perfect Republican. And, my guess is you know all about bathouses - visiting them is probably your favorite night out!
President Obama and all his left wing nuts posting on here believe Obama was elected KING. The left wingers have no idea what is going on. Thank God we have had a Republican controlled House to stop the programs this President thinks he is entitled to. Obama wants all kind of programs but won't pay for them except by putting the country deeper in debt.
The gun control issue is more about deflecting from Obama's failure on the economy and jobs than the safety of children. Obama is taking a page from his Chicago partner, Emmanuel, that one should never let a crisis go to waste, or something along that line.
When one can not govern by consensus because of a lack of LEADERSHIP and a big ego, you demean those who don't agree with you. How do you expect to work on needed legislation if you refuse to negotiate, refuse to meet with the opposition, play the blame game and whine about the big bad House refusing to give him everything he wants.
BTW, his so called Executive Actions really haven't changed anything, and a "assault weapons" ban will not pass Congress.
You've tried eh Buzz. Oh well my friend Mickey along with you and Fisty etc. find no wrong with Oblamo. Carry on Proletariats.
Almost Paradise is an Operetta put on by the FR Lefty Troop. Broadway Hit...
I see obama still doesn't get it, don't most Americans believe that a POTUS should be a unifier, not a divider?
Just think America, we can expect 4 more years of this blame game BS! It takes at least two opposing forces to create gridlock, but only one to lead us out of it. Looks like it will be 2016 before we find a leader who can.
This just in: Parents of murdered girls still blame Ted Bundy.
@Feisty: Just correctly at lefty's LIE!!!
SeekingSanity
The intelligent ones won't join the GOP
Actually you are a great example that intelligent ones have not joined the Democratic party either. Hence my waiting for a new party. The GOP is full of single minded drones and the Democrats are filled with mindless drones like you. Bring on a new one!
Yes, it must be frustrating to have a congress that doesn't bow to your agenda every time you want them too.
Sure you are... *wink wink*... sure you are!
Enjoy it while you can, your days are limited around here, you racist POS!
What happened, your BBQ shack burn down? lol
[...find no wrong with Oblamo...]
Just like you find no wrong with your party?
Oh my...is that the pot calling the kettle black I hear? Or is it just hypocracy in action?
You choose, caesar...
While you're at it genius, maybe you can explain to old "sarge" here just what a "super-majority" is...
LOL.....and you don't like him because of skin color, and thats it in a nutshell
meanoleman = 1stCav Div = The Horse they couldn't ride, the line the couldn't cross!!!!!
ME = 25th Inf Div = Tropic Lightning!!!!!! HOOAH!!!!
Man, do you'll have anything new? That was your cry in 2008, and it didn't work! What makes you think it'll work now? It's like your "birther" arguments BACK in 2008, 2/3rds of you republicans are beginning to cry that again. You'll are running out of stuff to say simply because NONE of you have the balls to say, "IT'S HIS SKIN COLOR!" Come on bro...man-up!!!
That's what you get when you elect a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER instead of a LEADER......
Leaders... LEAD.......... Organizers...... push the responsibility off on others or blame another.......
Alaska girl:
A liberal in Alaska....... that is a new one.
Should be in New York away from the rednecks up there having her restricted 24 oz dring in New York.....
Girl you must me in your teens or twenties? Sound like a pom pom cheerleader for Fiesty.
Live another 30 years and you outlook on politics will change- I guarantee it.
Democrats put in a socalist who could not run on his own, and the whole party shifted far left again. IF JFK were alive today- he would be a far right winger by your standards.
First term...expectations were high...George W. Bush's recession ruined everything.
Second term to start ....expectations lower ?? the actual results of the 2nd term will be better.
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Besides, when have you right-wingers started to believe in polls???
Most people want to reform Wall Street, you right-wingers refused to accept that; The GOP refused to accept the legitimacy of CFPB, the GOP in senate refusing to confirm its director
Most people still believe Bush is responsible for the recession, you right-wingers refused to accept that;
Most people want to raise taxes on more rich - not top 1%, but top 5%, you right-wingers refused to accept that.
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The list can go on forever.
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But then this frivolous poll which says something about all second term presidents, you jump all over it.
What you liberals do not understand is the way our government is set up. The President is not the ultimate authority. Checks and balances keeps one triad of the government from dictating the direction of the country. I know you want to blame President Bush for the financial problems that were handed over to President Obama but, Congress was controlled by the Democrats the last two years Bush was in office. Those two years were when the deficit started to go out of sight. Still, under President Obama's first four years, the national deficit (yearly), exceeded anything in the history of the U.S. During President Obama's first two years, the deficit was at its highest (when the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress). When the GOP gained control of the house, the deficit was reduced. I am not making this up, these are facts. So, my point is, Congress by law, is the body that makes the laws, and approves any budget. If you really want to see which party is at fault for the financial mess we are in, check out who was in control of the two houses of congress when the financial burdens on the country were initiated. I agree that President Bush made some bad decisions, when it came to the financial future of the U.S., but he did not even approach the mess President Obama put us in during his first 4 years. We would be in even more trouble if the GOP was not in control of the House. I can't even imagine why the majority of Americans support President Obama's policies. The biggest problem is that most Americans believe what they hear on CNN and the rest of the liberal news media. If the GOP were in office when "fast and furious" and the fiasco in Libya occurred, the media would be all over it and calling for the President's head. With Obama in office, the media has been silent.
Meanwhile, as the working people get home from actually working and not holding a cel-phone that was given to them for voting for a certain party that this poll was called on... Imagine that, people who dont work and dont pay taxes giving an approval of yes... If i could sit home all day and not work and collect food stamps and a check each month like Aunt Zeituni of course i would be happy... Some people just wont take a step back and look at the big picture..
Feisty, You do realize that rasiing taxes is the primary "plot" the democrats have going right now? I know in Massachusetts, Deval "Mini-Me" Patrick is causing more than his "fair share" of "government-imposed suffering" of middle class families. After the 2% increase in Social Security witholdings, Patrick is suggesting another 1% on the state income Tax. Add to this discussions of imposing a "mileage tax" to hit working families who commute to work every day in the wallet.
You know, I wouldn't mind them taking this money, which could be thousands of dollars from my wallet every year going forward if it would be used to pay off the country's debt, but Patrick is planning on building a rail-line down to Cape Cod. (They tried this before and it failed), annnnnnnd......of course, "it's for the children."
meanoleman . . .
Yes you are a Re-Reg ... your hateful posts will once again get you banned once Tyler and Sally figure out who you are. Grow up already! Find something to do rather than re-registering yourself on a forum that has repeatedly banned you for your hateful comments. Oh, and I thought peeps such as yourself didn't believe in evolution.
Ok, ok, I read it all, now let me see if I have this correct:
Democrats have no problem feeding the HUNGRY!!!
Republicans have no problem feeding their FILTHY RICH HANDLERS, AT THE HUNGRY'S DEMISE!
You losers need to lick your wounds and get over it.
Hey Micks, I dont have a party...as you said, you chose not to believe that. Plenty of Wrong within the Repub Party no doubt and no arguments. Im ProChoice for the record.
However again much like the draft, you dodge good. So while you continue down your road of ambiguity, i will continue to Assume what I will about you. How did you put it, the ball is in your court
PS its hypocrisy (not hypocracy...pet peeves and all ;) )
Could just mean people are stupid. Yep, you are living proof, people are stupid.
HOPE the potus gets a case of crabs, blue shankers, and lice....we'll COPE until he leaves office, even hilliary would be better than this obozo...
@ DaveM: Yep, I just love it when people such as yourself think they've got it all right. Yeah, as the right wing nut job rednecks die off here, there are more libs than one might think, and the numbers are growing every day. This last election for instance saw an 8% increase in voting for Obama than the last election numbers for president Obama in 2008. Oh, a little FYI, but not that its any of your business, my daughter is 23 years old, so no, not a pom pom cheerleader anymore.
But, hey, you just keep up your stereotyping. It is very revealing as to who you are as a person.
Right ON, Layton!!!
I wonder how that works out for the troops who actually served during these many years, what with the big cuts coming in defense budgets.
Or what the effect will be of imminent layoffs at many specialized defense contractors, sub contractors and manufacturers, many of these employees are veterans too.
These employees live in neighborhoods that support the local business economies in virtually every state.
Yes, I am curious to see what 2Q 2014 has in store for us. I hope I'm wrong.
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The wording of this article is misleading of course its a Libs website, but they word it like everyone is supporting Obummer on gun control but they wrod saying, "the people back the President on more strict gun control laws, They dont say the people back what obummer is asking for... A majority of teh people do NOT support his ideas, but everyone including Repubs believe in some laws assisting in gun control, but not banning guns from honest law abiding people and ammo limits etc, everyone can agree on the background checks of some sort and other restrictions . But the people DO NOT support what Obummer has proposed at all. NOR do the ysupport is immigration laws to legalize 12 million mexican citizens... They better get in touch with the people and not just those in the liberal news media, and ask real people
This poll is for $H!T and so are some of the Obama groupie comments..
Obstruction of his policies has barely been able to hold his uneducated reckless spending spree in check..
He has proven to be a skilled liar thus quite the politician..
Promising citizenship to millions of illegals to get the Latino vote.. These criminals do not deserve citizenship or food stamps or free medical care or drivers licenses? or welfare or college fund or social security and what ever else in the Federal hand out bag they can think of..
Same goes for all the people living off the system in the population centers that are over run with crime and gangs and urban decay caused by the same group of people.. A vote for Obama is a vote for free stuff like cell phones..
The Washington socialists have been positioning themselves for something.. A private police force Homeland Security which has unchecked freedom to spy on American Citizens.. They swear allegiance to the President and not the Constitution and have an EMP hardened fleet of vehicles along with millions of rounds of ammo.. The Patriot act that was to expire was renewed.. Restrictions on freedom of speech and an off switch for all Internet and television communications..
[Hey Micks, I dont have a party...]
Sure you don't.
You're a bit slow this afternoon..."clients"?
Chucky boy's boss is writing this crappy worthless story because the president had to hand Chucky his ass for asking DUMB questions during press conference.........argue with the president as if you know it all and are his top adviser Chucky............DOH!!!!!!!!
You know what I think is funny after reading most of this first post of comments? How does one president repub or dem do absolutely anything for you? Nothing, nadda, shaft, jack-sh-t. I have yet to see a president vote in favor on the public, what I think is funny is all these democrats are in favor of illegal immigrants, we'll see how in favor you are of it when they take you job for 75% less than what you make.
While I agree something needs to be done, we dont' need more workers here, why are we even trying to pass this, I don't care if they are asian, mexcian, european, we already have a mess of unemployment, why bring in more?
Also to you democrats who ever said it was the gov'ts job to provide a job for you, it's the people's responsibilities, meaning you and I to provide jobs, not the gov'ts, it's also not the gov'ts job to support you or give you healthcare, their job is to make sure you are not taken advantage of and business is done fair. When was the last time you saw fair business how did it all get out of control, HMO's, large corporations, outsourcing, yada, yada, yada. Both sides have been played for fools now you both sit here and agree that you side is the better side.
AND WHO GIVES A FLYING F-CK what the the DOW is at, and why does it even matter, we have an entire economy run on speculation that is what the DOW is, and you people don't see anything wrong with that huh, yeah as long as the DOW is good our economy is good, what kind of people are you. The stock market is another tool that people in the know can get rich off your money. You notice when the stock market dives, the rich don't suffer but it sure wipes out the middle class and lower, and we have to start over again, but funny how the rich seem to bypass that. All made possible by your DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICANS, you have over 50% of congress and house are millionaires and that percentage is slightly in favor of the democats, WHAT are you kidding me rich people helping the poor or so they say, LOL you f-cking idiots, the poor are easy votes if you give them something don't think for a minute they give a crap about the poor or you for that matter.
So tired of this crap, round and round, everyone's fault but your own, it's a wonder we got kids shooting kids, not because of the guns, but because we've got both sides rallying and agruing about who's right instead of spanking your f-cking little demon spawn and teaching them discipline.
Both sides make me sick bunch of pukes, and I could care less that they are millionaires it's the fact that they've got you all so wrapped up in their party and why it has to be like this no one stops to ask you just do it without question. I've always bucked authority and asked why which is why I love and hate this country at the same time, this countries policies and how we think people need and should be treated has become such a problem that you can no longer shake someone's hand or open a door for a lady without some sort of lawsuit or sexual harassment suit, you can't do anything anymore and I'm talking just being a normal decent human being, you can't question the system by yourself you need a mass "WE THE F-CKING PEOPLE". That is why we are in this mess because it's no longer we the people, it's you, me and him now and we all want it our way.
So tired, so tired of listening to all you people whining about this crap, how about we boot every single of these people out of office and re-write the constitution. We'll call the the "The constitution of the united states of the pussified"
You know what do me a favor and both sides kill each other off, that would leave us middle people to go about our business and actually accomplish the sh-t we want to get do in life, I can't currently because I pay 40 cents of every damn dollar I earn to pay for someone's else sh-t. Be it the poor f-cker who chooses to not get a job but suppliments is income nicely with drug money while the gov't and police tend to look away 90% of the time, or paying for some rich @!$%#s cheap sh-tty product that I can only find made by the CHINESE who have yet to make a decent product worth buying, NAME one please, anyone and I'll recant that last statement.
If I could I would bitch slap each one of you idiots back to the reality of the situation, we are in a recession caused by the same people you are defending, you notice how a lot of people lost their homes, I was one of them as well, lost 2 actually with the rental market hitting the skids in my area. Did anyone notice that the banks are still afloat and somehow all that bad debt seemed to get eaten up and insured by who? US.
A house, like a car or going to school is not a right it's a privledge, when did we forget that you earn stuff, not put it on credit, another reason we are so blind, you all bought into the american dream, well congrats you got it, 50K in debt and no job. Hope you are all happy everyone got their way, now what are you going to do about it, sit there and argue about which president f-cked up worse bush or obama, they're both idiots who couldn't save their way out of a paper bag.
You are trusting the same ppl that created this recession to fix it, who says this isn't the way they want it to go?
Ok I feel better now, rant off, I just write when I get like that, I don't proof-read or even see if it's coherent afterwards, I like to see how people to react to it raw.
MARVTOL - Exactly. The GOP needs to keep doing the same thing it has been doing for last 4 years. Just more if possible.
(he he ..ahem)
Feisty you really should get out of that pit you call home Chicago once in awhile. I am pretty sure sitting at home all day collecting your welfare check and blogging for POTUS or King in your vocabulary isn't doing your brain cells any good. There is an entire world out here that doesn't agree with you, or your Chicago brand of communism, or socialistic peasantry lifestyle. Why do you need a car that will go over the speed limit or more than one beer or helping of food? The same reason I can have any gun I want and as many rounds of ammo, because I can and that isn't going to stop any time soon no matter how much you gush over King Castro Obama. Get over yourself and your gloating, Obama won already and unless his pulls a Chavez which I am sure he will try (after all they are close) you will have a Republican in office in four years. Biden isn't ever going to take orifice and Cuomo is an orifice so they aren't going anywhere anytime soon except on unemployment in a few years like yourself.
Mickey, NY
[Hey Micks, I dont have a party...]
nah, not a lawyer..just fake infrastructure stuff. I notice you take the easy way out...Must be hard going through life like a rodent but survival of the fittest, especialy in NY eh? Must be a clever adaptation. Slave driving Boss at my 250k a year job is breathing down my neck so in short, despite our differences, have a good weekend.
[...have a good weekend...]
Yep...you got your 4 day week in...boss cut you back to 32 hrs huh.
[nah, not a lawyer..just fake infrastructure stuff]
Who said anything about a lawyer...all I did was mention clients. Again, you assume too much, ObiWan.
But do keep up that "infrastructure" work. Let me know if you need any advice. I'm sure you do, but won't ask for it.
[01/12-15/2013] View (Positive / Negative) of:
Democratic Party ... 44 / 38 (+6)
Republican Party ... 26 / 49 (-23)
Tea Party Movement ... 23 / 47 (-24)
Barack Obama ... 52 / 37 (+15)
John Boehner ... 18 / 37 (-19)
Harry Reid ... 16 / 28 (-12)
Feisty is a MS/NBC paid Socialist Blogger
Not surprising Feisty. Deadbeats, nipplesuckers, welfare puppies, and ignorant Obama Zombies are more than 50% of the electorate in this country.
Yep, this article proves it once again. You tell the same lies over and oevr and over again and people begin to believe them. When the President, his Chief of Staff, Democratic Senators and Representatives keep telling their anti Republican lies, AND their willing accomplices in the mainstream media regurgitate the same crap, it's no wonder that the polling of 1000 adults would find that 49% have a negative view of the republican party and only 38% would have a negative view of the democratic party. HOLD ON..... that's only an 11% difference of 1000 people or 110 adults. With all the total negaitve bull$hit that is thrown at the republicans on this site and in the media ONLY 110 adults think that the republicans are worse than the democrats. Fiesty, Dennis, Pigotry, Beverly......time to ramp up your vicious hate machines 'cause you're losing ground with the people who really are aware of the problems with this country and who's causing them. (Hint: it's not the people who value the text of the constitution).
Get Real,
Since when is the difference between a plus 6 for Dems and a minus 23 for Republicans 11 points?
It is 29 points
For all of those who keep saying the President won which he did twice, do you also acknowledge that there are more Republican Senators and more Republican House members than when he became President?
Given that, is "I refuse to negotiate on the fiscal cliff" what the American people have voted for?
But there are fewer Republicans in both chambers now than after the 2010 mid-terms
Zathrose - you prove again that Republicans are ignorant, crude and classless - the true gutter dwellers of the US!
Feisty,
Put down the big mac. Time for you to hit the treadmill. Remember, no carbs after 7. We also need to work on controlling your day-long hatred and hypocrisy. Baby steps though...
bryan . . .
You know what the President does for me? He leads this country. Now, before you all go jack crap bananas on my post, I have to inform you that I respect the office. Other countries respect the office. We admire a leader that takes things into consideration and does Executive Decisions when necessary. I am talking about ALL presidents. While we don't always get along with all of their policies, we should definitely respect the office. That is what this country is founded on. I've had a few Presidents who really didn't jell with my thoughts, but I respected them AND their position in this country.
When people start thinking about seceding and having state militias to take out our government because their party isn't in office, I'd sincerely ask how many of you are over 14? We've had Republican and Democratic Presidents in the last 20 years and we've all survived without taking up arms against our government. Why are so many stating that is what should be done now?
This is how this country works. And to quote some old guy that was "Moses" at one point in his career, "Love it or Leave it."
If you're not part of the solution, you are definitely part of the problem.
I wonder where these people in these polls stand as far as being recipients of government funds, mentioned in the seven stages of democracy listed below. Here is a quote from monticello.org, supposedly from Thomas Jefferson:
You might also want to look up the seven stages of democracy, attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler written over 200 years ago, and decide for yourself at what stage we currently are in, and how close we are to the end of our democracy,according to his writings. I can only hope that we do not need to have another fight against tyranny again in our country, but hope that we are able to fight for our freedom. Instead of hoping, like many other countries, that there will be a country that will come to our defense, and help us defend our freedoms.
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
Dennis....English 101. Read the article again. It says that 49% of the adults have a negative view of the republicans and 38% have a negative view of the democrats! That's an 11% difference where I come from, but then you're from the far left. Maybe numbers are different there. No numbers massaging by you and your kind, just read and COMPREHEND! Hmmmm, I wonder if the left counted the votes that got Obama re-elected?
And Seeking - every single time I see a post of yours, it has the word ignorant, stupid, or dumb in it. I've moved from thinking you're projecting, to that you're just all around a mean-spirited, hateful, angry, unhappy person. Good luck with that!
Tea Party going down.................
GOP going down....................................................
NRA going down............................................................................................
All the gubers going back down to total insignificance............................................................................
Get Real 2011
Beverly......time to ramp up your vicious hate machines 'cause you're losing ground with the people who are really aware of the problems with this country and who's causing them. (hint: it's not the people who value the text of the constitution
No need to ramp up hate. You've already done it. How much more unhinged can you become? You might want to check with a civics book regarding the Constitution. If you are a FOX viewer; forget it.
BTW: You are a nasty piece of work.
I am not a RE REG I am evolving my position...... just like Sambo did on gay marriage.
Okay Dumbo!!!
Get Real,
That is true but you are not looking at the full data that is available from the poll
Nice try at diversion but the complete data tells a different story, -29 !!
...libs & their lemmings just love to hate, don't they...
Dennis,
Yes there are, but the Republicans took control of the House in 2010 and did not lose it in the last election so the American people are saying we want a split government. If the President received the mandate that is claimed then he would have both houses back.
Hi Layton (and DBO, Feisty etc., good post @1.99) There is a spirit of cooperation building under the bell curve. Of course extremists still exist toward the lower edges of the bell, and they can make a lot of noise (mostly about how we should be very afraid of each other and our government), but we'll get things done in spite of them.
Seed money for trolls seems to have increased - NRA dues at work?
I find it rather humorous that Fiesty calls Viners " trolls", yet goes on to post this
True colors always shine through........
Only on MSNBC's First read can you have a garbageman quoting the rather relevant and profound words of Thomas Jefferson followed by garbage of haggisbingo....
haggis, .....you're no Thomas Jefferson.....
Well, the headline said it all! No one has hope. They are just trying to cope. So, who the hell are they polling that are giving Obama such ratings? From the real world, he has less than a 10% positive rating. Well, I should clarify, that 10% is among those who have dreams higher than being a welfare recipient. His rating among welfare recipients and those who don't want to work is around 90%.
But, if you call people at home during working hours then that is the kind of people you are going to reach.
On the positive side, those who voted to restore America to her greatness are realizing real quickly that the Republicans that they voted for aren't interested in restoring America to her greatness. That they are more interested in trying to be Obama lite, as they think that will get them re-elected, and those, have access to the money that flows through Washington so they can get rich off of the taxpayers and lobbyists.
As they say, if you want someone with real balls, elect a woman. This country needs more conservative women who are willing to tell the thugs that they aren't stupid and don't need to be given everything as second class citizens, which is what the libs think of women as.
What we really need to know is the percentage of "low information people" that were contacted by cell phone in this survey. You must also remember that this poll was conducted by a liberal (far left) news organization.
With these factors considered, these numbers are basically worthless and should not, in any way, have an influence on your opinion of this administration as was intended.
Despite all of this, these numbers reflect a nation that is divided and struggling and a leader that is unable and unwilling to work with Congress in solving our many problems.
Executive Order has become his way of leadership.
So at what point will Obama take credit for his own failures, Mohamed knows he has plenty.
jerry,
The House has changed leadership in a Presidential
Election 1 time in the last 100 years (25 elections)
C'mon Dennis. The full data has the same conclusions. 24% and 25% of the adults polled have a somewhat negative and very negative view respectively of the republicans (total = 49%) and 19% and 19% of the adults polled have a somewhat negative and very negative view respectively of the democratic party (total =38%). The complete data tells the same story about the negative views. Are you telling more of those lies that your kind are going to keep repeating over and over again until you convince that the Emperor has a new set of clothes?
garbageman:
If you met Jefferson and told him that his slaves have the right to bear arms he would have shot you on the spot like any other rabid dog.
Guns need to be well regulated just like cars are in order to keep rabid dogs from owning them.
Get Real,
Look at the full data Positive and Negative like I posted at 1.90
Use plain and simple math … just compare the full data
Dennis,
I was not talking about changing leadership, I was talking about increasing seats. They are more Republicans in Congress than when the President won his first election, that is not debatable it is a fact. That is not a mandate for the President nor for the Republicans, again not opinion but fact.
@Social - Feisty is a mental case. Like most emotion-driven liberal hysterics, she can barely squeak out two sentences before hurling some nasty epithet at those who don't "think" like her (and I use the phrase think very loosely since it's more raw emotion, really). So, just ignore and move on.
In any event, I got a big fat chuckle out of the Obamavoters suddenly upset that their paychecks were smaller and their health insurance more expensive this year. The average worker earning between $25k-$50k has seen a paycheck decrease of $80 to some over $150 less a month. But you people asked for it, you voted for, so pay up and quitchawhinin'.
Record amount of households in poverty; record amount of people on welfare/food stamps (and expenditures expected to rise 80% over the next decade); record deficit spending; highest sustained unemployment since the Great Depression; first time ever credit down grading; record high sustained energy prices; skyrocketing food prices; the most college graduates living at home after graduation jobless in two generations (at least they can still be on their parent's health insurance to age 25 thanks to Obamacare...they'll need it); continued devaluation of the dollar.
Yet some how, the Obamavoters call ^that^ a success story. Pathetic.
Dennis, we cannot have a reasonable & rational, discussion with these zealots!
Their heads are SO permanently planted up their anus's - they have NO idea whether to @!$%# or go bling! lol
Like the wingnuts, I heard somewhere about methane poisening!
Who doesn't like sniffing sheep farts? lmao
And if you liberals would allow us to put down those rabid dogs instead of feeling sorry for them and turning them loose in society, we wouldn't have them as a menace in the first place, genius.
Oh my! Now you gun nuts want to go around shooting people with mental problems!
Hmmm. That would sure reduce the numbers of republicons in the wild.............
Of course public expectations have been lowered, we have a far more divisive and arrogant Obama since the election. More finger pointing and blame, and even telling the press he will not negotiate. These are not the words of a leader. Obama has never united the country, he has done everything in his power to divide it, and for purely political gain. The Obama agenda is to destroy the Republican party in the hopes he can regain two years of Democrat control before leaving office having added more to our national debt then all previous presidents combined. The entire Obama approach is destructive not constructive, and exclusive and not inclusive. Obstruction to liberals means not giving Obama his way, but the nation needs a leader and that requires compromise. Reaching across the isle and working together is something Obama has shown to be incapable of doing, it is his way or the highway. Unfortunately it is the nation that will suffer for his inability to lead.
jerry,
The Republican State Leadership Committee released a report boasting that the ONLY reason the GOP controls the House of Representatives is because they gerrymandered congressional districts in blue states.
http://rslc.com/_blog/News/post/REDMAP_2012_Summary_Report
kkwilson . . .
Cell phone numbers are not published and are never part of the survey as the cell numbers change constantly. Working in a business where we just picked up 5 (five) new land-line numbers, I can tell you that the land-lines are hit "hard." I've never had my cell phone ring for a poll but have had the land lines.
And by the by .... go buy Nate Silver's book. Maybe then you'd understand what polls are.
Bycrackee - and every time I read a post from you it says absolutely NOTHING which I have to surmise means you are an empty vessel of a human being - so I guess you fit well with the crude and classless Republicans!
Feisty Redhead Roselle, ILii-despite controlling the house and senate and the Presidency for two full years Dems could not get anything done because the bad old Republicans did not let them. hahahahaha what a cheap excuse for being in power, the little guy made me do it. You and your kind are purely despicable, can you not take any credit for you actions. Libbles always have an excuse.
You libby's seem to forget the freedom to own guns is the foundation of your freedom today which you so wish to piss away. I bet the English didn't want early Americans to own guns either just as Stallin and Hitler didn't either. It is after all the first and mandatory route to a true ruling of the kingdom. You so desire to help your children you should get them involved in something constructive and outdoorsy like hunting or shooting instead of your mindless video games inbetween your legalize weed rally's. Hey by all means go do your thing, but unlike my attitude of live and let live and use your mind here and understand the problem lies with mental instability and lack of keeping criminals behind bars, you wish to push your religion of life unto everyone. Oh but that just isn't ok when the role is reversed right? Don't tread on me but it's ok to tread on them, yeah you libs are a real piece of work "substitute "work" as you wish). Remember in Chicago where your little rules of no handguns "which this rule has now been declared illegal" has one if not the highest murder rate in the US if not world other than Mexico. Oh which by the way has strict gun laws as well. Yep your using common sense alright..... that of an infant.
I don't think Obama is a great leader but I can't think of anyone presently, in either party, that I hold in that high of regard. Perhaps a more apt description is the dreamer is being replaced by someone more practical.
miklkit----You are aware that black men were part of the Continental Army right? I didn't think so. Maybe you should read more Jefferson
Below is an example of why the 2nd Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights.
The battle of Athens, Tennessee 1946 taken from wikipedia
Citizens of McMinn County had long been concerned about political corruption and possible election fraud.[1] The U.S. Department of Justice had investigated allegations of electoral fraud in 1940, 1942, and 1944, but had not taken action.[1][2] The wealthy Cantrell family essentially ruled the county. Paul Cantrell was elected sheriff in the 1936, 1938, and 1940 elections, and was elected to the state senate in 1942 and 1944, while his former deputy, Pat Mansfield, was elected sheriff.[1][2] A state law enacted in 1941 had reduced local political opposition by reducing the number of voting precincts from 23 to 12 and reducing the number of justices of the peace from fourteen to seven (including four "Cantrell men").[1] The sheriff and his deputies worked under a fee system whereby they received money for every person they booked, incarcerated, and released; the more arrests, the more money they made.[1] Buses passing through the county were often pulled over and the passengers were randomly ticketed for drunkenness, whether guilty or not.[1]
In the August 1946 election, Paul Cantrell was once again a candidate for sheriff, while Pat Mansfield sought the state senate seat.[1] After World War II ended, some 3,000 military veterans (constituting about 10 percent of the county population) had returned to McMinn County. Some of the returning veterans resolved to challenge Cantrell's political control by fielding their own nonpartisan candidates and working for a fraud-free election.[1] They called themselves the GI Non-Partisan League.[3] Veteran Bill White described the veterans' motivation:
Combat veteran Knox Henry stood as candidate for sheriff in opposition to Cantrell.[1] In advertisements and speeches, the GI candidates promised an honest ballot count and reform of county government. At a rally, a GI speaker said,
Battle
Polls for the county election opened August 1, 1946. About 200 armed deputies turned out to patrol the precincts—the normal complement of 15 deputies significantly augmented by reinforcements from other counties. A number of conflicts arose before the polls closed, the most serious of which was when deputy CM Wise shot and wounded a black man who was trying to vote.[3]
As the polls closed, deputies seized ballot boxes and took them to the jail. Opposition veterans responded by arming themselves and marching there. Some of them had raided the National Guard Armory, obtaining arms and ammunition.[5] Estimates of the number of veterans besieging the jail vary from several hundred[5] to as high as 2,000.[3]
When the men reached the jail, it was barricaded and manned by 55 deputies. The veterans demanded the ballot boxes but were refused. They then opened fire on the jail, initiating a battle that lasted several hours by some accounts,[3][5] considerably less by others.[6] In the end, the door of the jail was dynamited and breached. The barricaded deputies—some with injuries—surrendered, and the ballot boxes were recovered.
During the fight at the jail, rioting had broken out in Athens, mainly targeting police cars.[3][5] This continued even after the ballot boxes were recovered, but subsided by morning.[6]
Aftermath
The recovered ballots certified the election of the five GI Non-Partisan League candidates.[6] Among the reforms instituted was a change in the method of payment and a $5,000 salary cap for officials. In the initial momentum of victory, gambling houses in collusion with the Cantrell regime were raided and their operations demolished. Deputies of the prior administration resigned and were replaced.[6]
Seeking, constantly calling people stupid on a silly Internet message board can't be good for one's mental state. We'll pray for you!
I can't wait for a doctor to ask me about my gun ownership.... Just what does this administration have against doctors. I was asked today about my insurance as to whether or not it was the Illinois version of "xxx insurance or regular". I said regular employer type co-insurance why..... "Because the State of Illinois takes 18 months to pay because they are broke" from the office admin. They are broke because we have had crooked politics run by the left in this state.... hmmmm... Where did OBama and Emmanuel come from again? Who voted a black panther into office "ahemm Chicago" go figure... You libs are breaking this country from the inside out but oh you can't see anything past the end of your long Pinocchio noses.
I never expected a single-handed rescue of the USA from Obama. He is president again though, so his job performance couldn't be so bad.
If the economy is the main problem, much of the blame should be on corporate, especially big corporate.
Gun control is sort of a futile effort. There are more guns than there are residents in the USA, but there are more pills than there are guns.
And for a few of you libs who want to pounce on "Black Panther" that would be a reference to Congressman Bobby Rush in Chicago, "use to be" riiiight gang member. Wow only in Chicago... And then vote Jessie Jackson Jr. into office even as he is being indicted on criminal charges, Carol Mosley Braun, Rod Blagojevich, the list could be longer than this page you get the point. What an outstanding city you have there Feisty, something to be proud of, that and $100 plus a day parking what a great place to be. That is the price of liberalism to pay those who don't do, notice I said don't not can't.
Stop Funding Illegals ...
They are going to ask you about that and they are going to ask about your substance use and your tobacco use. Those that can assist need to notate and send in their outcomes to the government so that they can have monies to treat those in need.
The President is named President Barack Obama.
Trust me. Liberals know the difference whether or not they believe in Christ. Can the same be said about you? You believe in Christ but slander the leader of your country? Is that Biblical?
Bycrackee - LOL - you truly are a pathetic excuse for a human being - and a total bad joke!
Let's get something straight. I worked for a paycheck for over 40 years and paid taxes all that time. I don't take any government handouts and never have. Yet.... shock... I voted for President Obama because he stands for the future and not the past. I'm a liberal because I'm sick to death of GREED, GUNS and GOD trying to run my country. Feisty Redhead is dead on! Why don't the rest of you poor right wing losers try to do something constructive instead of just whining about everything you don't like.?
Republicans have no problem feeding their FILTHY RICH HANDLERS, AT THE HUNGRY'S DEMISE!
Kinda like your president extending the corporate tax cuts for GE, Citigroup, etc? At the same time letting the middle class payroll tax cut expire?
Oh that's right. You're a mental state lib so your party does no wrong. Go play in traffic.
Seeking, constantly calling people stupid on a silly Internet message board can't be good for one's mental state. We'll pray for you!
Better pray more for the libs on these boards, they are far more active in name calling and race baiting. Ginger in gun safe chicago has already proven that on this thread.
Lady, please get your socialist loving head out of fyour backside; the Bozobama failed the country on almost every front, but was able to BUY enough votes to slide, like the slimy liar he is, back into office. The economy is worse, even after his socialist, BIG government giveaways to non-working freeloaders who simply want big government to take care of them. Between that and registering ILLEGALS, the bozoboy got just enough to lie and buy his way back into office. We working Americans will still oppose the socialist at every turn when he tries to make HIS government do what people should do for them selves. And, just like his idiot predecessors, FDR and LBJ, he WILL fail.
Layton don't pretend to know me, I am not christian and I am not republican I am for less government intrusion in my life, I believe in evolution and life elsewhere. I am ok with your run at legalizing pot, I am for live and let live, does that sound right wing to you? So I guess that about wraps up your statement and slander as 100% B.S.
Mountainlady I believe it is the left that is whining here about not liking guns.... that is what stirred up all the emotion. The insistance on pushing your city lifestyle on those who choose to live outside your crowded crime ridden area. Must we all conform to your lack of control of gangs and mental case criminals with a loss of our freedoms, just because you don't respect or understand other peoples opinions or lifestyles. You don't seem to mind pot and gay marriage.
My "expectations" have been about as low as they can be since the day this obviously overrated, underqualified pretender was inaugurated 4 years ago. I certainly have no reason to believe that they will rise in the next four years, since now he is acting more like an emperor than a president. So, I will try to amuse myself by observing how his blind followers find new ways to defend his pathetically miserable performance.....sort of like the Emperor's New Clothes fairy tale.
Republican party utter piercing Cries about the debt, its funny how fast they forgot who got us into this mess, can anyone say Jr. !!!
The GOP said nothing when Reagan raised the debt ceiling 17 times !!!
No one said anything when "W" dumped two unfunded war and Med. part D on this nation !!!
Than we have Jr. pushing banks for easy lending to unqualified buyers that caused the bubble !!!
The Republicans had no problem with "W" tanking our economy, but now its their #1 issue !!!
I haven't heard Obama blame Bush for anything that wasn't Bush's fault. Remember kids he was the guy that said Bin Ladin was Marginalized. Told you to go shopping after 911, was bank rolled by the Saudi's, told you to be scared to death of any brown people you encounter in the airports, took more vacation in four years than I will ever take in my life, tanked the damn economy took the money and ran, yeah we should listen to you because you have terror alerts and insight. SARCASM for the hearing impaired.
Layton
You need to read the article before you comment. 300 of the 1000 surveyed were contacted on THEIR CELL PHONES.
Come out from under that rock.
People are right to be wary of Obama and sense that more tough times are ahead.
They voted for him because they thought Romney was worse and you can say they were correct in that perception to an extent.
But the Democrats are the stealth Republicans and masters of the sucker punch. I fear the wallop in his second terms will be slashing Social Security and Medicare....if the public wake up and stop him.
http://www.dropshots.com/GCaplan#date/2013-01-12/09:22:24
kkwilson ...
I READ the article I just didn't follow the link. My sincere apologies for THAT. I've never had a rock on me. Thanks for the insult little one.
Stop Funding Illegals ...
I don't know you at all nor did I pretend TO know you. My comment was about OUTCOMES for federal funding. Reading comprehension not your bag, eh?
i love how the liberals come out in droves saying "this obstructionist congress this and that" this president can't do anything with this congress can he,repubs are to blame right? if that is the case,then i guess you're going to have to stop blaming bush right? because as of 2006 there was a DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY OBSTRUCTING HIM! but we all know what you'll do, it is bushes fault right? not that OBSTRUCTIONIST (unless it was for MORE WELFARE) DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS! wake up my mentally retarded americans, this is ALL POLITICIANS not just those repubs. and another note-clintons' forcing banks to make loans to people who couldn't afford it was the CAUSE of the breaking down of our economy,add to it the wars and there you have it morons.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
What took you so long America? My expectations went down for our great Republic the day Barrack Hussein won in 2008.
You had to be a damn fool not to see the enormous mistake that was made. Obviously most of this was the ignorance of Americans simply voting for Barrack Hussein to pretend that they're not racists. This time, unfortunately, they just proved their ignorance without any caveats.
Hope and Change has become "cope".
More appropriately it has been reduced to "Ropes and Chains" as we have been enslaved by Barrack Husseins incompetence and lack of leadership.
The saddest part is that so many have submitted to his class-warfare/envy meme and accepted his proposal that the best you can achieve is to be middle-class. This is the agenda of the statists that you Libbies worship because of your self-doubt about succeeding on your own.
Of course the most important issues are STILL jobs, the economy, the debt ceiling and our dysfunctional foreign policy. And what does Barrack Hussein do? He concentrates on gun control and of course nominates all men to his cabinet.
So much for "focusing like a laser" and diversity.
Liberals/Progressives continue to insist the best they can achieve is middle class as Barrack Hussein has been promoting for over a year. It's a shame that a president only encourages mediocrity rather than success. But when you spend the whole campaign demonizing success and wealth creation the Libbies have no choice than to accept the indoctrination and live with it.
As our economy will continue to stagnate the Liberals/Progressives will deflect all efforts to fix the economy by chasing all the alleged bogeymen they fear through life. Of course this will be blamed on everything and everyone but their own incompetence.
God Bless and help America. It may be our only hope as we have to cope.
To those who are so willing to toss my freedoms and liberties away for a government check and an Obama phone that also believe Barry is such a Patriot and a scholar of the Constitution, KISS MY A$$.. I see him for what he and his Communist friends are, destroyers of a nation that are trying to hammer in the final nails of Americas coffin..
What I don't get is the Democrats think Obama is making stocks rise thus signaling a growth in value of these corporations.. In actuality the rise in stock prices is almost equal to the loss in value of the Dollar on the world market.. Yes in that aspect he is making the stock market numbers go up but we are quickly approaching the tipping point where the value of a buck will sink so low that our largest creditors will seek a change in the base of the world bank.. That change will be to switch from trading internationally on the Dollar to the Chinese Yuan.. If Obama can blackmail another 4 trillion dollar boost to the debt ceiling out of the Republicans that have been blocking it and releases the 3 trillion dollars waiting at the fed. we are finished.. Several billionaires have already started selling off US stocks and several economists are calling for a crash who have had excellent track records about previous events.. The lending crash from the loopholes and lawsuit that Obama had his hand in.. Which forced banks that were FDIC hand strung or extensions of government aided lending such as Fanny and Freddie to loan to people at percentages well above the set income scale or high risk.. Big shock when the default rate went through the roof and the banks became insolvent thus needing money from the peoples grandchildrens future.. To top it off he wasted a billion dollars fronting money to businesses that screwed us like Solindra.. Wake up! America is loosing ground in the world economy that it will never get back.. Borrowing to hand out free stuff to an ever increasing and more dependant US population.. Here comes the Socialist express and Obama is the engineer..
drive-by-observer
(comment) "Imagine how good the economy could be if we had a real President"
Ummm, the official "Last President" is now Obama the loser. THINK! You've been slammed by this idiot of a President! There are present voters that were only 13 years old way back then. Time to lay the blame where it belongs - if you're brave enough.
kkwilson
What we really need to know is the percentage of "low information people" that were contacted by
cellObamaphone in this survey. You must also remember that this poll was conducted by a liberal (far left) news organization.Just to clarify.
I would bet the 300 cell phones were Obama phones as the numbers are purchased in entire 9999 quantity exchange blocks by the government.. This is the same way the military PX buys them for our soldiers at a discount.. They would not dare call working people that live in the country because those poll numbers would not look so rosy for the Socialist in chief.. Republicans are crooks as well and they went along with a few bills that attacked our rights and violated the Constitution so I see no end to this crap.. Repeal the Patriot act and some of the stuff that gives dictatorial powers to the President and that would be a good start.. Stop interpreting the Constitution and calling it outdated it is well defined by its creators and freedom will never be outdated..
PRESIDENT OBAMA: But they are going to be paying attention to this election and
if Latinos sit out the election instead of saying we’re going to punish our
enemies and we’re going to reward our friends who stand with us on issues that
are important to us,
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.“
"We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
But for Obama and their worshipers Republicans are the ones that do not want bipartisan job.
No need to worry now--it's a Lame Duck Presidency---what would anyone ever expect?
Promises. Promises should not be believed in a Second Term in Office from a President, when nothing was done in the First Term--Hope and Change has turned to sacrificing, being taxed to death, and the unknown for many people like the the Unemployed, and Seniors--
Just look at your paychecks from here on--Is it going to be gasoline or groceries this week. Look at your Unemployment Checks; watch them get more taxed, along with Social Security--we are a nation made up of mostly poverty stricken people. "O" just hasn't told the truth yet. Ask your friends, and family--many who have taken them in to live with them.
Hey NEOCON'S
Let us not forget that it was the Bush administration that sent us down this rosey path. His policies and those passed into law by both houses don't go away just because we have a new President. It would not have mattered which party won the White House after Bush. He went to congress with his evil-doers & WMD's put two wars on credit. He and congress gave big ass breaks to wall street and gutted Federal oversight on banks. Again let us not forget it wouldn't matter which party was in control we would still be faced with this situation.
The better name for the Republican party at this time should be the Obstructionist Party.
Don't try and sell be the bill of goods that our President hasn't passed a budget......That hasn't been done in 6 years and is the responsibility of Congress, and not a function of the Executive branch, as he can only purpose a budget and laws for that matter.
So that makes the Republican party responsible for our current debt, as they have control over the check book. Show me where they don't have it (control over fiscal maters) and I'll show you where you can get prime real estate for 1.99 an acre.
Congress had a two year break from the Republican control and started getting things back on track., Notice not one Republican turned down any of the Stimulus money. Look at the Republican controlled states.....They pay the lowest in Federal taxes and yet get back more than they put in......how is that fair to the rest of the nation? The Republican party will do and say anything to try and make the President look bad.....At any cost (per their own words).
Remember when Bush was in office if anyone said anything against his policies you where tagged as anti American.....How is what your doing any different?
Re draw the district lines in the Democrat favor or start some voter blocking, pull the same crap and see if the Obstructionist Party doesn't pitch a bitch and call for blood.
You Noecon's are a joke....and everyone knows it. If you still want to stick up for the upper 1% fine just have your Representative & Congress people quit asking for federal dollars & pork.
As far as welfare....better look to see who's states are getting more & have some of the lowest wages in the country....Yup it's the red states...So go ahead call for all these social cuts and see if your rich neocons can support you then. Ask them if they are going to give you a job picking up trash at one of the vacant buildings they own that they where leasing to the local welfare office.
HearMe is the only one who really made sense. Who really thinks these 1000 people speak for all Americans? I certainly don't.
Imagine where we would be today, if Boehner & Co. had worked along side the President...
Thats easy... Bankrupt and another piece of crap euro style communist country.
Enjoy the Obama tax increases. Our great grand children will curse us for allowing this Executive Order dictator to ruin a once great country.
I find this terribly interesting. How does a president, which had an approval rating closer to 30% before the election some how miraculously have an approval rating around 50%. It's not like he has done anything between then and now. In my mind he has just gone worse. He further shows evidence he knows nothing about the economy and a balanced budget. He now focuses on gun regulation when he should be focusing on the government spending and the debt ceiling. But he has the audacity to use little children to promote a chain of bills that will do nothing to improve the safety of those said children. The president is a joke. In the past week I have heard nothing good about what the president is doing. It's even worse than what it was when he was trying to get elected. I think the polls are clearly not an accurate rating of what the country truly believes.
Stevie boy when are you going to wake up and smell the roses on the rear of the last four years. Typical lib can't take credit for anything bad. You will blame till the day you die, go ahead and cheerlead for the party of NO that is the left wing liberal democratic party that knows nothing of a budget (that would be your senate controlled wing not the congress), can't create one only knows how to spend what they can't back up, put themselves in the elite status and get you vagrants to keep voting for them with their week minded jedi lies you fall for. Please try and drive out of that fog your in and start thinking for yourself and not listen to Rachel. You guys love to twist everything into your own story line and ignore the truth. Part of that truth for me is neither party is really worth spit they lie to take all of your hard earned money and future and blow it on their golden parachute elitist retirements and permanent healthcare that we don't qualify for. An over bloated government and retirement for all of them and a free paycheck for those who won't try to earn their own. Now they want to try and take away my liberties due to a few nutjobs and falsehoods about gun laws that don't work. Your blind as a bat. The government yours and mine but mostly the left who have no thought of anyones freedoms unless they are in common with their agenda, like gay marriage and legalizing weed are the problem. They are the biggest wasters of money and cause of our biggest national tragedy of anything to hit the headlines. The biggest group of criminals in any corporation reside in political office and you gloat over them. Tread on anyones rights as long as they don't match yours, let your children become pawns for the cause, the misguided cause who's real agenda is raping our constitution and rights and freedoms all in the name that you just don't understand or don't agree with them. Criminals don't obey laws and bans are about control, control that will only affect those who are law abiding and will cause more to become criminals because they will not abide by new restrictions. How about the millions that will be out of jobs by these new laws, how about the devistation to certain peoples collections by these bans. How about you can't sell your car because it will break the speed limit, maybe that should be taken away, or your right to a second helping of food because your fat, Cuomo is already half way there with his soda rules in NY. This boils down to control over the peasants and if you are too blind to see that then you should take that cowboy hat off your pic because you certainly aren't a cowboy and definitely not an american at heart. Get yourself a hat with a red star in the center it will be more becoming of your political beliefs and last but not least, get over the past and at least live within the last four years because your party of living on bills they can't back up will doom your children so be sure and let them know you support it and take no fault for your actions, it is after all what your party stands for. I do agree with one thing it wouldn't matter which party is in office we have what we have at the time but at least the right wanted to try and stop the insanity whereas this party wants to advance the debt. Instead of taking care of and raising the revenue for those who don't you should be taking care of those who have the passion to work and take care of themselves when it's time for retirement. Obama promised no new taxes, that is the biggest falsehood of this administration, by all means tax the rich more but I don't consider $250k a year rich. What they are in fact doing is screwing you in the back door with the hidden taxes that your left wing media doesn't care to report on, it's all in the closet rape by the left.
I guess the next step from "cope" is dope.
This well help get Americans jobs... You get what you deserve America
Feisty Feisty Feisty...I understand your strong feelings toward your party. I understand the Republicans strong feelings towards our party. What I don't understand, is that you have given NO argument as to why BHO is even allowed to lead this once-great country. You say NOTHING, but you have the gall to call us "obstructionists" and you call us "racists" and you call us "little girls" and oh yeah, my favorite - Nazis. This is the Democratic party in a nutshell. NO ideas, NO plans, and NO solutions. All you have left is to attack, discredit, slander, character assassiate and BLAME. This is also what "Mister" Obama has run on all these years - the 3-D platform: Deceive, Deny and Deflect. It may be an old argument, but it is TRUER today than ever before. Why do you not see this? Lets take, for example, that President Bush was to blame for the defecits, okay? Now, Mr. Obama had 2 years of a super-majority when he got elected. What did he do. He INCREASED defecit spending, when he could have told Americans to tighten their belts and found REASONABLE ways to tax us, cut out loopholes, etc...HE DID NOTHING. His main objective was The Affordable Health Care Act, or Obamacare. He stole money from Medicare and Medicaid to pay for it, when 65% of Americans were against this 2,017-page, cleverly disguised "TAX". Then he rammed it through Congress in the middle of the night, during Christmas break. There is only one person to blame for this, and it is Mister Obama. Oh, and this whole "Nazi" ugliness...do you remember what Adolph Hitler said back in 1939? " To conquer a NATION, one must first DISARM its citizenry..." Do you know who else's slogan, besides Mister Obama, was "FORWARD'...? Yep, Hitler again.... and we all know what happened to Germany.
Okay, I have said my peace. Now let the insults fly from the left...
The Article written here has inflated" Obama's image with the American people.
Of course, we know that things and issues are unresolved. He making himself the appointee to use his Executive Order on everything presented to Congress and himself. Congress and the House of Representatives, literally do not exist for a VOTE.
It's a one man Presidency--no bi partisanship (yes, the Republicans, many Democrats have tried, but have been beaten down) by his threats of sending Legislation through without their approval. (Executive Order again) How can we have a Democracy if all decisions are slammed through, and not read by our Senators or Representatives. Of Course Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid know what is in the Bills--but they cannot tell us, until after it has been voted for--no Vote, How many Executive Orders?--
What will his Legacy be. Killing Osama Bin Laden?---Telling us that Al-Qaeda was demolished, when in Algeria Al-Qaeda is in full force again in Africa--? Borrowing 16,000,000,000,000 dollars. Where did the money go?---Most States are Bankrupt--The Article states he is up in the polls through the People's Favor.
Slanting the truth. We all have felt the truth for the last 4 1/2 years---worried about our financial future, and how this Country will be reconstructed into something that never resembled the most giving, non-Isolationist Super Power. with hopes, dreams for our kids, grandkids, and future generations living in a lively Economy--they will be living at a lower level of quality living that no one would have ever imagined. "It's the money, Stupid"---stop Spending to cover the inaction of tackling big problems. No better than the Bush Administration. No better.
Sorry Marchant.... President Obama has used executive privilege less than any president since these privileges were granted, less than half the times Bush did. Try looking up a few facts. Our immediate financial future was screwed before the end of the Bush adminsitration and now things are slowly and steadily improving. And BlowbamaDouche (sounds like a great title for you) President Obama is leading our country because he WON THE ELECTIONS!!! What a concept! That is the way this country has worked since the constitution was written. So far as no ideas and no plans.... I'm afraid you're describing the GOP and not the Obama Administration. All I've heard for four years is complaints and whining from losing Republicans and NOT ONE CONSTRUCTIVE IDEA!!! All your party has come up with is to pledge themselves to oppose anything the President suggests even if it brings down their country! Why don't you stop whining and start thinking? Compromise is NOT a four letter word.
Mountain Lady:
Your dissertation of your comments are now deceased. Using insulting, personal attacks stops all communication, and your credibility..
Try to be intelligent and risk telling the truth---the "Wool has been pulled over your closed eyes".
Good Luck! I am not insulted, just bullied by someone who disagrees with using a mean spirited debate..
This is just flat out rediculous. Look at yourselves! You're like a bunch of f$%king five year olds! My president's better then yours...my party is better then yours...
Give it a rest.
Yes, President Obama has been reelected by a small majority vote. Congratulations. It does not negate the fact that the article says that people don't expect much out of him. Why? He hasn't given us anything to believe in so far. All I heard in 2008 was "change is coming". I suppose to point out the fact that change is inevitable would be pointless. Change is the only constant in the universe. Based on that, I didn't expect much out of him in the first place. He's the same professional politician we've been voting in for years.
A lot of hot air and promisses that amount to nothing. Oh, wait...they did vote themselves a raise, I suppose the chainge in their pay rate was what he was talking about.The Fiscal Cliff? Both sides, without exception, are to blame!! You cannot argue the problem, and then try to remove yourself from it in the eleventh hour Mr. President! The spending habbits of your party are out of control sir. You still cannot simply program all the problems away. I know some of your supporters think you can just wave that magic pen of yours like their fairy godmother, but the truth is you should not spend more then you make...errr....you should not spend more then you take from us!! Continually raising taxes and saying it is for the "betterment of the people" and using it to farther the ends of our government is what lead us to the Revolutionary War. Continuing to spend my children's future away is what will, eventually, lead us to another civil war. I don't know about you, but I don't relish the idea of fighting with my younger or older brother who live in states other then the one I am in. So put your magic pen away for a while, at least until you have the money in the coffer to pay for what you are writing!
Using the DOW for a benchmark of presidency and the economy in the US? Really? Let's examine how the DOW really works. The DOW-Jones Industrial averages are made of of movements of a combination of stocks and government bonds. When we have a bull market, people are buying stocks in industry (industry is something you libs call "greedy", "bad", "the rich", and several other things...I call it what pays my bills). What you may not realize is why people invest in industry. Because it makes money. If a business shows profits, people invest to get a share of those profits. How does a business show more profit? By lowering overhead. Outsourcing. Sending jobs overseas. So when said business pays someone in China $110/week, instead of paying a US worker $14/hour, it shows a fairly nice profit. Wouldn't you agree? Oh, wait...we're in a bull market right now, aren't we? OF COURSE THE DOW IS UP!! ALL THE EMPLOYERS ARE PAYING PEOPLE OVERSEAS AND ELIMINATING OVERHEAD!!! WAKE UP!!! But Obama is doing a great job....
Bev, Fiesty...you're both in Chicago. That alone speaks volumes to me. Someone suggested that you go outside and play. You're too scared to go out and play in the murder capital of the country. And you guys elected him to be your mayor? Yeah, good luck with that...
Tell you what, I'll stop talking badly about Obama when he does a few things:
Now, some will say "he's just some disgruntled white guy". Maybe. But having to label me a "white guy" and thinking I have a problem with a black...errrr....African American president (are you African or American...you have to be American to be president. Drop the f$%king labels and just accept that you are American or go be African, or Mexican, or German, or Italian, or whatever. MAKE A CHOICE!!!!!)(And we wonder why we're so divided...WAKE THE F$%K UP!!!). Truth be told, I don't think much of his policies or what he's done for the country so far. I don't know the man personally, so I can't really form any kind of opinion. You see, I was raised to believe that a man is a man...color is symantics.
moshuluu and meanoleman seem to be proud of service. I was 101st. You both seem to be extremists on both sides of the line. Gentlemen, we are brothers under the same banner...can we not be patriots of that banner as well? You swore an oath to support and defend The Constitution of the United States of America. I'd love to know both your thoughts on what is currently going on in the government and if it is fulfilling the promise of the Constitution.
garbageman-2736857, notice that noone has touched your post throughout all this conversing. The reason? Because it is terrifying to look at the country and realize where we really are. And now we're limiting the people's ability to rise up and stop it...
You can always count on Feisty Butthead to be the first to post and to post the most stupid comments on the vine! Feisty's slavish dedication to all things Obama shows her lack of critical thinking and her low-information status. Is Obama always wrong and imature---no, not always. Is Obama always right and statesmanlike--- no, not always. Too bad Feisty can't/won't see these truths about the President, she would be much more effective and much less annoying with her posts.
Perhaps Feisty is just silly and can't help herself--- pity.
How can anyone in this country support Obama?? He has not had a balanced budget or even a proposal for 4 years. Our deficit is approaching $17 trillion. He refuses to cut spending. He is demanding to raise our debt limit, even though he was quoted 7 years ago as saying any need for that just shows we have no leadership. He has ruined our children's future and he has instilled class warfare as the beginning of his socialistic plan to bring us down. He has the liberal press giving him a pass on everything he does. He has misdirected our focus from the economy to gun control. Yes, the market is up, but our recovery is no where. Companies are holding back due to Obama and his policies which makes the market increase a moot point. Obama refuses to work with congress, even though he ran on that premise....again. It's either his way or the highway....or in other words...executive privilege. That's what I call working together. How about cutting our spending, lowering our deficit and showing America that you do care about it?
Talk, talk, talk. Insult, insult, insult. So many "experts", so many ignorant posters. Some posts are right on, some are three french fries short of a "Happy Meal". One thing is very obvious - we are a terribly divided nation.
The last election, I was sitting in front of the TV, watching the votes being counted, when all of a sudden, the news media announced "Obama wins the Election". I am in Montana. Our voting had just stopped, with only 11% of the votes counted. California only had about 7% of their votes counted. I'm sure all the other states around me had but a tiny fraction of the votes counted. I read that Florida had tens of thousands of voters who could not vote, due to the lack of places to vote. Many folks beaten down by the storm,"Sandy" had no communications, which I'm sure cost some voters their chance. And Obama won. He won by the electoral votes, as I understand. Some states have more electoral votes than others, and Obama campaigned basically in those states.
I have always been told, "your vote counts". It obviously doesn't when the election is decided before all votes are counted. I did not vote for Obama - I did not like his policies, nor his track record, coming from the most politically corrupt state in the Union. I did not like that he was a civil rights lawyer - I felt he might be partial to low income, down - trodden citizens, and against the wealthy.
I think we should abolish the electoral votes, and leave the voting to every American citizen. Period. I think we should impeach any President who refuses to lead Congress, find mediation, and solve our problems, rather than push blame on everyone but himself.
Kind of early for all this dismay....lol....Wait for 4 more years and the benefits of Obama's only claim to fame has finally fully kicked in,( Obama care). when that massive tax increase and stiffiling cost increase hits ALL of us and the economy come to a standstill , the next president can say Obama did it. All all of you who voted him back in can take credit for it.
Does it matter which party you support, when it comes to paying off the debt, the pockets of all of us will be hit equally hard. Don’t think you will be spared. We are all swimming in the same caldron.
But whichever way you look at it and whoever you blame for our predicament, things aren’t looking particularly good right now and we are not going anywhere fast. The President’s second term is taking on a similar shape to his first term. In the first term he was focusing on his re-election and blaming his predecessor, a costly way to run the nation indeed.
What and who he will be blaming for lack of progress during his second term, if things don’t work out, is anyone’s guess. Right now the GOP is in his sights, but if he continues to run the country from the sidelines, the mud will stick to his shoes. I think he is beginning to realize that delivering speeches and giving pep talks is one thing, getting things done is another!
History takes no sides, only the facts and that’s what he will be remembered by. Failures are looked upon harshly.
I’ll be honest, I am not his fan, nonetheless he is the President and I wish him all the best during his second term.
Feisty - What are the odds that yo would be the first to post AGAIN?? No, I won't even go after the paid troll accusations...
I sure hope the President does well this term, we could all stand for some good news. Perhaps if he learned from his first 4 years. Especially the part where he is name-calling, blaming and villifying the other side, and then is surprised when they don't want to work with him! Could you imagine if he was a co-worker - who would want to be on his team?
Steve @ #1.156
Sorry pal, people are not going to listen to this excuse for again for the next 4 years. Do what I do. Go to forums all over the net like Newsvine and see what others are saying, left and right people. My paycheck just went down $70 a month. Doesnt seem like alot but to a single parent like me, its a weeks worth of groceries, almost 2 tanks of gas, my water bill. Its time for this administration to stop hiding behind "its Bush's fault"!!
If not for Republican obstructionism this country would already be bankrupt. The 47% would have their FREE checks stop, our military dismantled, we would be 1-2 trillion more in debt, and this country would be that further to being socialist. I am not condoning the Republicans actions as it apparent their is a lack of leadership and platform, but they are doing what the constitution tries to provide for and that is balance.
Obama has little regard for the constitution, the bill of rights, having budgets so ti sets forth expectations of spending...no this president would have already ruined this country especially with the likes of those internal terrorists like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid two despicable manipulating snakes. You don't pass agenda in the middle of the night like the unaffordable health care act (3x projected cost not even implemented). Provide amnesty only for Mexicans and not all immigrants. His plans ALL revolve around spending other peoples money. Obama is an elitist and isn't afraid to show it. He MUST accept responsibility for something in heirs presidency still none...for Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the debt, democratic obstructionism. Kick the can is now and Olympic sport for DC. Shame on him and this congress they all need to be fired/impeached and these corrupt two party systems destroyed. Repeal Corpoarations are people act to end unlimited Soros funded campaign contributions. Identify elitists NWO supporters and Eltitist Zionist Jews in our government and abolish them from office.
JD and the other liars and disbelievers on this page. Obama won with a 5,000,000 more votes than your guy and killed him in the electoral college. Polls show is approval rating is double that of republicans in congress and yet you sit here and just yell.
This vine does not represent American voters or even the opinion of Americans. They hate your ignorance, they hate your lying distorting remarks about the President. You make yourselves look like NUTS! Over guns, over the budget, and how you disregard and hate of the poor. Not just poor minorities but poor people of all stripes.
You will have to live with it for the next four years, and, if you keep talking the way you are now, with this everyman for himself and total disregard for any kind of human decency will impale your party for the next election in 2016.
Your party is full of mean, uncaring people who are just flat out cowards and liars.
Even with all your schemes to hold down the democratic vote you still got creamed. All that damn money you spent and the American people voted for the sane guys and women.
I am sick of 29% of the country bullying the rest of us to go along with their nightmare vision of America. You don't like this country and this president than get the hell out.
And we are to expect change or some improvement in governing.
The roots bear the tree and fruit.
Our fruit is dropping to the ground to rot.
Social distortion
Your one of those that simply don't understand that just because a new president is elected doesn't mean that all of the previous policies and laws go away.
Bush had us in a 10 Trillion dollar Deficit even before Obama took office & spent the surplus. That is very relevant.
Congress controls the money.....It is their spending habits that have placed us here...Not that of the President.
Again the purse strings are not a function of the President, however when Bush did his state of the union and convinced both houses that there was a need to go to war he lied. That is a fact that we all know now.
Myself nor anyone on this side is blaming Bush 100%, but the reality is that is what started us down this path. The idea is for you guys to acknowledge that fact and move forward.
Again, you might want to speak to your Republican friends....The programs they want to cut will affect the red states the most as they are the ones that benefit the most from these programs. Look at facts please. Red states pay less in Federal tax and get more back in federal money than they put in. How do you think that is going to equate when it comes to cutting programs? You think your hurting now....Just wait.
You have the right to your opinion...But let's try to base it in fact not fiction. Our president doesn't need excuses....He needs support from both sides of the isle.
Please look hard and deep and ask yourself how would a Republican President have made any difference after Bush? How would he have changed the financial course? If you have the answer to those then please forward them on to your neocon buddy's in DC, cause right now they haven't got a clue.
Actually, it is Obama himself who has lowered the public's expectations ! After witnessing 4 years of his divisive strategy, rapidly accelerating national debt and "still high" unemployment ... the American people know to lower their expectations substantially ! LOL !!
If Obama goes seriously extreme again, expect a mid-term change of mind from the American voting electorate once again ... as it did in 2010 !
I fully understand ...Please do not fool yourself into believing you know anything about me. My point was.... I have never witnessed a President that relied on blaming his predecessor as much as Obama and his administration has.
Ok, what is the deficit now? What will it be after the debt ceiling is raised a second time? But keep deflecting back to Bush.
Great! But the level of accountability for this President is at an all time low! Hell, even the media is beginning to notice it!! Google "media bias for Obama"
So why have we heard so many?
Again, you do not know anything about me, I find your ass*umption that I am automatically a Republican, because I voice that I am not happy with the way this country is going, typical defense of the left and to be humorous at best. I also find it humorous that anytime anyone says anything on Newsvine that disagrees with Obama, they are instantly labled an extreme right, gun nut, tea bagging, racist, sore loser, neocon, etc, etc.....This country is more divided than ever....God help us all....
Karrusk - You need to understand something. Obama won because the majority of the country voted for him over the obstructionist racist hateful liars of the reichwing. It wasn't because he BOUGHT all of us free-loaders as you call us.
I have worked for everything in my life and i have 18 years of education. If you call me a freeloader i am gonna have to bitch slap your silly face until you stop uttering such bull@!$%#.
The Article says he's "Likeable". No President can do their job on likeability---people who voted used this as their main point. Vote on Substance and Leadership capabilities.
Voters MUST read, educate themselves for a Candidate before voting in the voting booth, or using an Absentee Ballot--reading everything about the person, knowing their background, friend associations, and their ideals for America. Nothing is for "free".
Too bad most Americans are gullible--seek the truth, and you may find it--Obama is trying, but he just cannot connect with both parties, or the People of the US--Clinton finally did this, listening to his people, and turned out to be a Brilliant President. Obama, take heed, for it may be too late. Act instead of reacting on small subjects, or people out of the Public eye who have done wrong. It's the big Picture that spans the needs of the American people who are now desperate, with an unknown future--taking no risk, because of the seemingly low expectations..
JediUtah:
George Soros Jewish?--Elitist Jews; rid them?---sorry they do not practice Judaism--they are non-believers. I know this for a fact---Progressive Liberals do not believe in religion. They were born into Judaism.
It is called ASSIMILATION when a Jew does not practice their religion or participate in the Judaic Life-- the Liberal Movement attracts many like the Leader Karl Marx, "Marxism", Soros, and others.
What an insult to this beautiful Religion--obviously you know nothing about it..
ItIsWhat!t!s
I'm reposting this because it makes so much sense and should be reposted over and over until half of the nation understands it. If you agree with this repost it.
No, not sarcasm.
@ garbageman (1.100)
Agree 1000%. The mechanic by which this can occur is simple: the voter (or able-bodied citizen) is not required to pay in full for what he votes for. The difference is printed and borrowed.
If I were president, I would do my best to force payment from the able-bodied. If they can't pay their share, I would send them to work camps or civil service. Perhaps that would make them give pause at the voting booth?
Alas, we are now at the "apathy to dependence" stage.
You would only need change the party of the president for it to be all his fault.
Layton-3733410
It's not about a party or an office, nothing a politician has done in the last 50 years should warrant anyone's respect they ALL have spit on our rights and sold us to the higher power, MONEY. You think I'm part of the problem, maybe you should look closer. So the fact that the congress has it's lowest approval rating, since they started taking rating, they deserve respect? Really tell me why? So we had effectivly 2 people to choose from out of the what 200million amercians that didn't run for office? How does that deserve respect, the gov't isn't going to fix the problem, they are part of it, as soon the federal reserve took over in what 1913 we lost our gov't our freedom to MONEY, the gov't is just another pawn in it, they have no desire to fix the problem, so why should they get my respect again?
I was wrong when I said what have they done for me, it should have been US. They've never done a damn thing for me and I dont' expect them too, I can take care of myself, but I do worry about the US as a whole, we need a US to be a country. Our constitution wasn't set up for a federal reserve there is a reason lincoln tried for the greenback and why I think it was Adam booted out another wanna be Federal reserve, they knew the consequences of what an independent money institution that can create money out of thin air could do. And they where right we are living in it now.
So maybe instead of pointing a fingers at a side that doesn't even factor in the solution maybe start by finding a new party. Oh that's right it's not possible because we are only allowed 2 right, lol and sigh.
It takes hope to cope.
Obama: Just another politician interested in polls and not interested in real problem solving.
From "Hope to Cope".....
....Am I the only one to remember that Obama's "Hope and Change" was a recycling of president Clinton's slogan in 92?
Now, It's from Hope to cope....think of what "cope" will lead to?......I know, " From Cope to ex-gun owners swinging on a Rope at a leftist riot when the US ask for a loan from China and they say Nope"
Hope to cope to dope (for voting for this clown)
From HOPE to COPE. Yeah, that fits...
Hope is what you have when you've got a bad case of diarrhea.
You HOPE you make it to the bathroom.
Cope is what you have when you FAILED in your quest!
All you people who voted for HOPE...it is now COPE and that's because you voted for the DOPE!
Your House still has a 15% approval rating compared to the President's 52% approval rating.
We are hoping we can cope with your lunacy.
lol.. Since Obama is clearly inept and unqualified, and was very suspiciously re-elected, any poll that shows him favorably cannot possibly be honest.
From hope... to hopeless!
The ones that fail this Nation is the Republican party, that's why they lost - the rest is history !!!
yeah they did fail there "catch44" they failed to stand strong on requiring the dems to address the spending cuts that should have been taken care of TWO YEARS AGO.but they passed the tax increase because idiots like you crying obstructionist, or do you not remember? this @!$%# was supposed to be addressed two years ago when the dems were obstructing the repubs(who wanted to do this "fiscal cliff business when it was supposed to be done-TWO YEARS AGO.) but go ahead you numb from the neck up individual,it is your 1rst amendment right,protected by the 2nd amendment,but i still think you are a little retarded
You people who really think there's a difference between Democrat and Republican, Conservative and Liberal, Left and Right, are over-educated idiots. Over 70 years of everyone bitching about change and thinking that when "their guy" get's in, things will happen! The ONLY change that's been occurring is that with EVERY administration, the People have had more and more of their rights stripped away. And now everybody wastes HOURS of their days on threads like this showing just how "intelligent", (and in many cases, unintelligent), they are... And you forget the first rule of winning a battle... "Divide and Conquer". The battle has been in play for YEARS, and most of you all are missing it. Especially the ones who let their emotions dictate what they THINK the law should be, rather than to effect change through the processes provided. The only difference between Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, et al., is how they spell their friggin' names. Just like a game of volleyball, each one setting things up for the next one to spike...
Thomas
If you do not believe MSNBC what are you doing on their newsvine and why is your letter not censored? You people cannot get your way honestly, so now you just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.
The lamestream media is "in bed" with Obama to such a degree that it has become nauseating !
Take the serious (just kidding of course) reporting of ABC this morning where they are showing off Michelle Obama's new hairdoo while playing Stevie Wonder's "Isn't she lovely ....." in the background. Real news has been replaced with major league bootlicking ! George Stephanopoulos may need to clean the shoe wax off his tongue ! LOL !!
In November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that a record 47,102,780 individuals receive food stamps.
One in seven Americans now receives food stamps. To keep up with the demands of the burgeoning program, spending has thus "doubled from roughly $39 billion in 2008 to an estimated $85 billion in 2012," and nearly quadrupled since 2000. According to Heritage, "Today, the food stamps program is one of the largest and the fastest growing of the roughly 80 welfare programs funded by the federal government."
A man can fail
many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins
to blame somebody else.
JKF
Obama's been a failure for a long time.
BO Sure does a lot of blaming.
farodeh, Simple and Freaky - and yet he's been elected over the trash run by Republicans - twice!
Simple i guess where your from a falilure has a law degree from harvard and won the presidentcy twice. GOPNJ logic is so funny lol
Imagine where we would be if the Dems would have gotten off their butts and did something the first 2 years of this presidents 1st term. when they had super majority. or even the last 2 years of the Bush administration. They did nothing, that's why they lost control of the House, and almost lost the Senate in 2010.
Maybe it's me, but this obviously applies more to Republicans today than anyone, blaming every irrelevant topic and everything wrong with their own selfish lives (which they are the sole cause of) on our President.
That's why I voted it up.
If the Democrats wanted to effect real change, they had their chance. And I'm not just talking about the first two years of Obama's term. President Bush signed many of the bills the Democrat congress passed. A lot of the actions he gets a bad rap for were approved by the democrats. But I guess liberals would have rather had him just sit back and veto everything, so they could then turn around and call him an obstructionist.
Barry is nothing but BLAME..... he has NEVER taken the role of LEADER......
Except when Mitt questioned his handling of Benghazi in the debate..... then you saw Barry tell the world, "I am the Commander-in-chief"........ too bad he never shows it........
Still waiting for the CIC to handle Benghazi........
Amen brother! I don't remember President Bush, or any other GOP President blaming his predecessor for the problems he had to deal with. Now, 4 years after President Bush left office, he is still blamed for everything from the deficit to the latest natural disaster.
It takes a MAN to accept responsibility and Nobama is far from a man....just a boy out of his element, i know he has a 50% approval rating, but look at who's in that group, mostly young people and a lot of college age who have never had a job, and are living off mom and dad, and have thousands of dollars in loans...
That's all he's done is blame, blame, blame. I don't see the economy improving much in the next four years, as more and more of the rich leave for greener and less restrictive pastures.
Do people really not remember the rightwing blaming Clinton during the Bush years? Heck, during the mortgage collapse, they were blaming Jimmy Carter!
The early Bush REcession technically started in March of 2001. But look at this article from 2008:
Undeterred, the Republican Party and its echo chamber have for years continued to perpetuate the myth that President Bush "inherited a recession" from Bill Clinton. As Media Matters detailed, the sound bite was introduced before George W, Bush even took the oath of office. On December 3, 2000, Dick Cheney told Tim Russert "I think so" when asked if "we're on the front edge of a recession." Within days, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich ("the Bush-Cheney administration should be planning on having inherited a recession as the farewell gift from Clinton") and House Majority Leader Dick Armey ("this new president may inherit a recession") followed suit. By August 2002, Mitch Daniels, Bush's head of the Office of Management and Budget, announced on Fox News:
Predictably, the drumbeat from the Bush team was reproduced with zero distortion from the always reliable media. While Fox News' Sean Hannity made the argument during the November 2002 mid-term election "this president -- you know and I know and everybody knows -- inherited a recession," CNN made the case for him two months earlier. On September 18th, 2002, CNN's John King announced, "That's why the president, in almost every speech, tries to remind voters he inherited a recession." Five days later, his colleague Suzanne Malveaux regurgitated the same line, reporting, "[Bush] took up that very issue earlier today, saying -- reminding voters that the administration inherited the recession."
To be sure, the Republican propaganda effort worked its magic. In 2004, pollster Geoff Garin showed that 62% of Americans believed the demonstrably false claim that an "economic recession actually began during Bill Clinton's administration, before George W. Bush took office."
Sean Hannity, four years into the Bush admin, blaming Clinton (and remember - Clinton handed Bush a $300 billion/year surplus, the Stock market at 10,300 and climbing to 11,300 Bush's first 5 months, and 4% unemployment):
And while we are on the subject of blame, there were tons of blame heaped on Obama for the stock markets slide during Obama's first 6 weeks (before bottoming out at 6600 in March). Look at these quotes and think - if it was Obama's fault that the DJIA fell for his first 6 weeks, isn't it to Obama's credit that it has risen for the last 4 years?
CNN's Lou Dobbs, the self-proclaimed "Mr. Independent," announced on March 9, 2009, "This is now the Obama bear market." That same day, the Wall Street Journal declared, "The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem." House Minority Leader John Boehner was among the Republican leaders bemoaning "the Obama economy" and insisted that since Obama's inauguration six weeks earlier, "Certainly the stock market hasn't acted very well."
On March 8, 2009, Fox News host Chris Wallace asked an uncomfortable John McCain, "Can this now fairly be called the Obama bear market?" That propaganda only echoed the Republican talking points regurgitated two days earlier by Bloomberg in article titled, "'Obama Bear Market' Punishes Investors as Dow Slumps" and the Wall Street Journal rant, "Obama's Radicalism is Killing the Dow." On March 6th, Sean Hannity was nearly orgasmic as he trumpeted the declines on Wall Street:
Just Four simple measures to illustrate what a GRRRRREEEEEEEEAAATTTTTT failure this president has been -
In 4 years -
1. Country back from the economic brink. DOW doubled at 13000+.
2. American Auto industry saved. Now turning profit.
3. Job less rate down by 3 percent. Jobless claim least in 5 years.
4. Osama bin laden - D_E_A-mother@!$%#ing_D
oh and he won the presidency TWICE.
Good lord.....What an unmitigated disaster ...what an utter utter utter failure this guy is...ROFL
Hey let me ask you this - Are you righties friggin out of your minds or what ? LOOOOOOOOOOOL
The gubers on the right don't see sh*t because, obviously, they're stupid and hard-headed.
I read this and this is what came to mind:
And you GungaDin are brainwashed too. The POTUS is a fraud and a major failure to our nation. Case Closed. POS !!!
The Great Depression will forever belong to Hoover, and it took 25 years before we fully recovered from that disaster.
The Great Recession will forever belong to bush/cheney, and it might take 25 years to recover from this republicon disaster also.
You republicons had better get used to being blamed for your failures, because that is your most famous product.
The auto industry is NOT "showing a profit" and shouldn't have been saved. Can you say chapter 11 ? Thats what SHOULD have happened. Jobless claims are down because people have given up, and America is closer to the "brink" than ever. Nice try though.
1. Country back from the economic brink. DOW doubled at 13000+.
My paycheck isn't any higher, in fact it's lower due to ACA.
2. American Auto industry saved. Now turning profit.
Yes, I'm sure all the union workers appreciate it. Too bad about the 10s of 1000s of non-union workers that lost their jobs though.
3. Job less rate down by 3 percent. Jobless claim least in 5 years.
Hard to count all those that gave up looking you dumbass.
4. Osama bin laden - D_E_A-mother@!$%#ing_D
Yes, thanks to all the hard work of the men and women in our armed forces. Not sure what obama had to do with it besides wait until the last minute to say... yes. Very hard work on his part.
go @!$%# yourself.
And the democraps can forever be famous for spending monies we don't have while blaming everyone else for their shortcomings.
Feisty
Would you please fall off the face of the earth! I am so sick of your liberal Chicago Democrat comments I could PUKE. You do not speak for the state of illinois, you just spout your stupid liberal democrat agenda! I hope they are paying you well. Oh of course they are, you are on welfare and food stamps, or I guess it is what they call a link card.
I think we need an araonal of shrinks! It would help is people delt with facts rather than their false beliefs they use as facts. Bush used executive orders 17 times, Obama has used them less than other presidents in their terms! He never changed one law that changes how a person is accepted upon applying for welfare! The welfare lines started becoming quite long in 2008, google it! 2011 welfare went down by billions of dollars, USgovernmentspending.com. All debts occured have been signed and approved by congress, no president is ever given a blank check! Reagan, Bush, and Romney all supported the 1994 assault rifle ban, which was upheld as Constitutional by the Supreme Court which only had one appointed democrat judge! Romney went on to sign into law, as assault rifle ban in his state as Gov, I guess it's a liberal thing!
tyler,how funny,"if we dems hadn't done nothing in the last two years of bush"...hahahaha you forget they did ALOT of this" obstructing" that you seem to believe is the reason for obamas failures but yet...it's bushes fault!hahahaa, and haggi boy calling someone "hardheaded" hahahaha you guys KILL ME with the HYPOCRASY! hahaha, oh yeah and bad congress, bad! if it weren't for YOU obama would be a grand success! but with a democratic majority congress for little georgie boy,it's ALL HIS FAULT, hahaaha the hypocrasy is GRAND on this liberal train, is it not?
This Prez keeps fantasizing that his reelection should give him power to mandate and or demand whatever he wants. Why should Congress allow him to go beyond his authority. Let him pout and have tantrums blaming everyone else for his delusions of grandeur and power.
This arrogant narcissistic Emperor in Chief made a lot of promises for his second term but as expected, is now back pedaling and waffling from these lies which were just that for political reasons. The economy and unemployment are still at a standstill no matter how much the Lame Left Media tries to portray it otherwise.
The national debt was a complete financial catastrophe from his first term becoming even worse should this dysfunctional socialist spender gets his way. He and his ilk are what's wrong dividing this country even further than ever before.
I keep reading about libs gloating over Obama being elected twice. Are they proud that they are members of the most uneducated, poorest, minority group which includes other minorities such as blacks and latinos? Obama went after only those people he could either con or make promises to. Now, we have almost more of this group than we do tax paying working people. When Obama was running, he went to great lengths at his rallies to attract voters. His first visit to O.S.U. was to accommodate 20,000 students. When only 12,000 showed, they got nervous. So, the next visit, Obama brought a rock star, had free pizza and free bus trips to go register and later to go vote early. What a swell guy. He gave many poor people, mainly blacks, free cell phones which bought a lot of votes. His promise to make citizens out of illegals and parents of anchor babies swayed the latino vote. Yes, he was surely elected on his past performance. Oh wait....he didnt run on that because it was so bad. He knew exactly what he was doing when he targeted the young, poor, minority and the uneducated. So...go ahead and gloat libs. You should feel proud of the group you are in. Don't forget to accept responsibility for the out of control debt, out of control spending and Obama's socialistic policies. It will be too late to find someone to blame everything on.
Remember what the exit polls showed: Oblama voters IQ 28 points lower than Romney voters.
Enjoy
The guy's a community organizer, not really Presidential material. Hope and change. Nope! Mope and cope.
Who got elected to the highest office in the land and has a decent approval rating. What are your qualifications Letusreason? Who did you vote for in the last election? Romney? Mr. Business who couldn't even understand how to read a POLL?
Layton you must be one of those folks who fell for this snake Oil salesmans BS, hows that freebee stuff holding out??
What amazes me is that I see so many different types of people through my job and almost all of them are against Obama and nearly everything he has done, are disappointed in his ability to do anything more than blame bush, see raising the debt ceiling as no different than raising the credit limit on the credit card of a unemployed person with no idea of responsibility, dont want him going around congress etc, and yet these so called polls say the opposite. I guess if you only poll liberal audiences you will only get liberal opinions, and since the liberal age average is much lower than the conservative age average and many wise sayings about wisdom with age, I think I'll disbelieve all the support Obama the king, the nobel peace prize nominee who was nominated for no more than hopes and dreams, gets from these so called polls. They are obviously faked. And it isnt really that hard to fake one. Simply make all your calls in various known liberal locals and you will get a liberal majority even if it isnt the true majority.
he is just a proud democrat, yes for sure snake oil sales and the loud proud mouth, reality his president is the most hated man in america.
RL19 - you're truly a pathetic liar. Even people who admit they didn't vote for Obama like him. But, when you've got candidates like Gingrich, Romney, Santorum, Cain, Bachmann - I guess you have to make up lies to make yourself feel less foolish!
wil lee
Faked polls? Like the one Rasmussen supplied to all you Repubs?
Seeking, let them be, they are dying out faster than dodos.
No kidding, BCWC! The party can't even follow the polls and they expect to elect one of their own into the presidency in 2016?! LOL
bcwc - you're right and they aren't worth the effort. Reading the posts you can see how far in the gutter the Republican Party has stooped. Even the gutter rats would avoid this group of perverts!
Have a good night blackcatwhitecat!
And just think, you thought Romney was Presidential material, and look where he, and YOU are!! LOL!!!
It drives them crazy, Layton. After all of that effort to have this man removed, they couldn't do it. I bet blood pressure medicine sales are at an all time high in red states.
sry blackcatwhitecat im not a repub but nice try. Your the biased one. I dont like either side. The dems are full of liars and thieves who only want freedom if they are the ones in control of it, the repubs dont care about control as long as they can profit from it. I simply point out the garbage as I see it truthfully. The libs though are the more blind of the 2 at least the repubs realize the entire gov't is corrupt and try to pick the lesser of evils, the libs really believe that each freedom we lose and each entitlement we gain is because the dem congress pres etc love us soooooooo much. But as I said nice try, but try looking in a mirror for your bias before you try to falsly accuse me.
When your voters have to be shown how to sign their names, I'm not sure if I'd trust their choice for President........
@Layton
When you enjoy the constant protection of the media, I'm pretty sure that would help your approval ratings.
Starman ...
The freebies are GREAT! I'm free from an idiotic Republican president being inaugurated on Monday. That in and of itself is the BEST free gift of all!!!
argumentativebutfair ....
RIGGGHHHHHTTTT! Fox has been so protective! As has the Wall Street Journal! If you don't like the "protective" MSNBC boards, I'd suggest you find one that accepts your posts. Oh, that's right. They don't allow posters.
Fox allows posts at its Fox Nation - but they ban anyone who digresses from their propaganda. The rightwing cannot withstand criticism, because they are not logically or factually based.
noncoms: That's a fact. That IS a fact.
REPUBS are gaining MORE seats in the HOUSE, are they NOT?
@!$%#_you . . .
No idiot. They are not. They LOST more this election. Good grief!
Judging on the number of "approves" on people's posts: There are many more Republicans on here at night than in the daytime...
They are probably too busy working during the day.
Ava -
Soneone's got to support the masses. And since too many of the democrats won't, that leaves the independents and the republicans.
The President has the majority's support on gun control . . . who woulda' thunk!?!?!?!?!
It you believe the gun nuts and the NRA . . . well, then again . . . there were those in the GOP that had Romney in office already. LOL
What Majority?? The voices in his head??
You need to get further into to poll. Each category shows people favor keeping guns out of the wrong hands but not the ham handed crap that Obama has asked for from congress. Dustbuster= Typical liberal pick and choose a number and cook it to suit your agenda.
1000 people. Clearly the majority of Americans lol
It's funny how this poll is conducted by the greatest liberal spin machine in the land, (NBC/Wash. post). I find it really hard to swallow this trash when quite litterally EVERY person I have talked to in the last 2 months has expressed a desire for the government to leave gun rights alone and focus on the economy and the national debt. Now don't get me confused with some locked in recluse either. I have probably spoken to as many people as the polsters in that time, as I am VERY social and actually do work that puts me in the public venue constantly. I have YET to encounter anybody who actually falls for let alone fully supports this crap. They all are scared of our government, scared of our current administration, scared of our current economical situation and the outlook for the future, scared that the current administration is going to make it worse and that we will lose more of our freedoms in the process, and scared that the sheep are going to just follow right along with the program until there is no way back.
Facts are facts, I have yet to talk to ANYBODY who thinks that more debt is a good thing in any way for this country. I have yet to talk to anybody who thinks that giving out more free sh-t to anybody is good for this country. They all say that to do so is just going to sink this country farther into the quagmire. None of them care who got us to this point, the time has come for it to stop and if this group of jackasses can't get it done then we need someone who will.
How can anybody think that going further into debt is good for this country or the "citizens" therein? Raise the debt ceiling? HELL NO! Cut off the money and let this ship find its own ballast level and right itself over time. Otherwise we are facing sure national bankruptcy, and severe economic disaster. When that happens this country will cease to exist.
As for gun control? Let us go back to Sandy Hook. The Chief justice correspondent for NBC just a couple of days ago stated openly on the Today show that he has since found out that the shooter NEVER had ANY longarms (meaning rifles of any kind, which includes AR type fake assault style weapons). He stated that the reports were false and that the shooter had 4 handguns which he carried into the school with him. The actual fake assault style weapon was found locked in the trunk of his car. Then when you consider that only 351 of the over 9000 murders by firearm last year were committed with a rifle of any kind, it's just assinine to jump on the Assault Weapons ban for that reason. You all do notice that 8,649 of those murders were committed with a sidearm (pistol) don't you? The only reason the government is going after assault weapons is because they are a threat to the take over effort of those who would steal your freedom. If any of them were sincere about gun control the conversation would be about pistols being in the hands of criminals, not Assault style rifles in the hands of law abiding citizens. Get a clue dumbass and keep your progressive libtard sheeple comments to yourself.
It's ALL just a bunch of indoctrination through Propaganda.
NRA has been training gun safety for over 100 years..... guess what Barry decided is needed?
7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
We have educational programs for young & old, but what does the left focus on? GUN BANS
In every situation the left preaches EDUCATION IS THE KEY...... except when it comes to firearms
The NRA is full of Sh*t. Most americans know this. Why don't you secede with your beloved NRA, gomers?????
Texas got over 100,000 signatures asking for secession. I have signed two petitions supporting the President's plan for gun control. One has over 300,000 signatures and the other is around 250,000 signatures.
Most Americans want more gun controls.
miklkit-you are comparing a state petition to two different petitions on gun control that are country-wide? what does that 100,000 have to do with the other two? a secessionist petition to a gun control petition? i have to say, what are you trying to say? that 100,000 texans want to seceed but more want gun controls(from a different non-state only petition that has NOTHING to do with the secession) from a country-wide petition? wow,you don't even "make a lik o' sense". you and HAG are both wrong,you WISH you had the majority on this issue but tough luck.
Let's all watch the coronation of his imperial majesty next week.
ohh yeah
That would be fun, but you Yanks know little about Pomp and Splendor.
Umm, his imperial majesty Mittwit Romneyhood lost........................
voting for obama saved our lives, hahahahaahahahahhha you guys are funny,see ya in four years and you will not be able to say the same(except hag, now there's one "hardheaded guy" hahahah). 300,000 signatures out of a land of MILLIONS " we have the majority" come on guys i'm busting a gut here, slow down!
@!$%#_you . . .
Exactly what are you offering in four years? Come on! I'm "busing" a gut here waiting for your response! Can't wait to see what you are suggesting the Republican party can offer to the American public that will embrace women, minorities, and well, if you want the vote, liberals.
Come on GUY! PLEASE fill us ALL in on what your party has to offer the country ....
Waiting ... tick tock .... tick tock ....
I expect more government spending and a larger national debt.
Ya think?
Appraiser is not good at thinking. Spending and the deficit have been going down for three years now.
spending and the deficit have been going down for three years now? haha you REALLY ARE a SHEEP!
Another NBC propaganda missive...
I take it you also dine at restaurants where you don;t like the food.
Your not very bright...reading NBC is like an all day comedy channel...
HA! "Your" not very bright.........Hmmmmm, pot meet kettle! You really make this too easy!
Oh, yeah, it's YOU'RE!
@BlackWhiteCat
It's like listening to Rebecca Black or Chief Keef. You listen to get annoyed by it, because we humans seem to have a natural desire to be pissed off about something.
arguementativebutfair . . .
No, only those with paranoid schizophrenic tendencies. The rest of us actually enjoy life, hope, and optimism. Letting go of anger is something us crazy liberals do as we just don't like staying cooped up in our basements.
It has been proved that constant anger makes one sick. And you are one sick republicon.
you guys should really read what you write, there's alot of hate speech coming from some liberals on this board AND ALOT OF CHILDISH name calling( hag comes to mind and what is it about the bold type,is that supposed to make your point valid? because your points don't have the credibility to rational or VALID) just look at your posts fools( i had to give some back to you intellectual morons) you know who you are...you are the ONES that ARE always right,no? haha no point liberals with destructive ideas!
Same with the Bush years,obstruction from the left.Nobody gets along so nothing gets done.You have got to admit that obama is by far the worse president that this country has ever seen.
Just go away, LOL
You have a short memory. George Bush was a far, far worse president.
Don't take my word for it. Just look at the data. Look at the shape of the country on Bush's first day vs his last. And do the same with Obama. There is no comparison.
They all seem to forget that Bush also had a 52% approval rating going into his second term and in his first was almost at 90% in 2001. Yet they all scream at the top of their lungs "Mr. Obama has a 55% approval rating right now." What they also fail to see is that he was just over 60% in his beginnings.
You mush be wearing your lefty blinders tonight.
President Bush was a good president.He had to deal with the senate and congress full of democrats.
Unfortunately we aren't at Obama's last yet so you're right. There is no comparison. See my link above and get back to us K?
lol, with that statement, i do not think you would pass a mental test to own a gun. hahahahahaha! You are funny, however.
And youall Believe the Bias Media on everything dont you? Well you deserve what your getting, Screwed!
this country would be great for America if George Bush and all the morons who voted for him twice left! It would be great for the planet if they all died!
OMG. Hilarious! President Bush was a good president?!! I now have to clean my monitor of coffee, but it sure was worth the hysterical laughter! Thanks for the funny! Priceless, really.
Dont worry with obamacare your wish might come true.
Is it to soon to impeach him before we go bankrupt from his overspending?
Alaska Girl, I was never a fan of President Bush, but Obama makes Bush look pretty good.
Are we informative tonight? I would hope that the comments were helpful in suggesting ways to solve our many problems ,but I guess that it is easier to bitch and moan. I am relieved that most of the commentators tonight have nothing to do with the running of any country,in fact I can't believe that most of you can run your own household. Lighten up!
Lanikai, would you like him better if he started two unfunded wars? Would that do it for ya?
listoire: Feel better?
HEY FRANK, If we all left or died, there wouldn't be anyone left to pay for your libs welfare checks. Hell, even the church's would close, and you'ld have to get your Jammie Foxx annointed savior to come on in and preach you yet another sermon. God bless ya son.
no more nonsense
Could you work on that dying part? Churches closing sounds really good.
@Jon Why don't you go a step further and look at when the recession started to go underway. Oh that's right, it was during the years the Democrats controlled both houses.
A-Girl, No, I would not like him better. If you check the record, you'll see that Democrats joined in approving the two wars you speak of. Never let the facts get in the way of your liberal BS.
That honor goes, by far, to W. Bush and Richard Nixon.... hands down
I could carve a better president out of a haggis. Anyone who would re-elect anyone with a record as bad as Obama's is a serious ass-clown.
AlaskaGirl: Are yooou kidding? There is no such thing as two unfunded wars- thats a bunch of bunk from the Democratic propaganda machine. Are you also forgetting the USA was attacked on 9/11 and over 3000 people lost their lives and millions of Americans no longer felt safe in their own country. If the US had not responded, can you even grasp the consequences.
Believe...........................You are lying, to be polite about it.
CHART OF THE DAY: Reminder, The Deficit You're Freaking Out About Is Bush's Fault
Haggis obama will be know as one of the worse presidents in American history,unless he get his B.S. agenda though and he become Americas first dictator.I think that is what you liberals want.Less freedoms and bigger goverment.
toons....the Libs will all be crying in their "Blowbama Beers", once their "messiah" realizes that entitlement programs (food stamps, welfare, free EVERYTHNG for the illegals) cost too much, and that there won't be enough money left in the coffers to pay his Union thug buddies, lobbyist vote-buyers and corrupt cronies. That POS Pretnder-in-Chief will toss them aside faster than his used, one-handed "quiet time" kleenex...
From HOPE to JOKE!
to Broke !!
An apt description of the ........... TEA PARTY! LOL
The Tea party in Floriduh is changing their name because of all the negativity associated with it.
i thought the "tea" in tea party stood for taxed enough already? you guys DON'T think we're taxed enough yet! does your welfare check go up as much as my taxes? you guys think your democratic"representatives " care about you don't you? and i like that-lol there hag,my children use that kind of stuff,kind of shows the mentality of these liberals(childish) " i know you are but what am i". i bet you guys said that alot huh? MY WAY or the HIGHWAY! and on another note- i don't believe in abortion,so i don't think anyone should be able to have them,period. now because i am male i realize that just because i don't need them others might. so i will not force my will on others,you libs should try it.(now insert guns where abortion is) and YOU SAY WE don't COMPROMISE! i say GO F@#K YOURSELVES you NIMCOMPOOPS!
I think the title says it all.
Back to the green hair again... eh honey?
Now run along and change it again real quick... lol
I think the hair says it all.
Typical lib, picking on peoples appearance. Really you should look back on that and be embarassed...So "openminded" that the kindness and respect part just fell out the opening..
Really Alaska?? Are you jealous of the woman? she is quite pretty. I'm sure you loved getting picked on for being the size of a buffalo in school. Wow i thought us Republicans were supposed to be mean.I call HYPOCRITES. How about we get a pic of you two in your avatar? Lets compare. We'll see who gets more up ratings. my bet on Srich.
Feisty and A-Girl must have been school yard bullies.
I thought the left was suppose to be compassionate and tolerant of others. Let the real left stand up against this hate speak and prejudice that is being masked by the koolaid being feed intravenously.
Yes, they stole lunches on the school yard. Now they're fat and say it's GW's fault....Pathetic Libs!!
You too seeking sandwiches.....douche!
Says little Jimmy while applying more lubricant to stroke himself with...
The idea that women like her feel the need to put a pic like that up, speaks volumes and she deserves every pervert who is beating off to it right now! BLECH!
Guess you're right if green hair turns you on! lol
When I see her pic, all the hear in my head is; "You're so vain, I bet you thing this BLOG is about you... don't you"...
Then again, some people have to go through life screaming LOOK at ME when NO one in their real life will! lol
Kermit the frog has three words in her vocaulary, ME, MYSELF & I. Don't believe me, take a peek at her comments...
Jim131968
Is that a pic of you? Hell I didn't know that guns could type also.
Fesity, we know why you went wacko-hypocritical in your post. We don't blame you being jealous of others, in fact, we'd like to help. Just because you're lonely with a house full of cats, doesn't mean that someday you won't find love. We also know that your only attention comes via boards like this and that you just can't...well, adapt in real life due to that hate/anger problem. We're pulling for you!
Put away that strudel!
Feisty - what's funny is that it's a photoshopped photo - not actually one of srich. I thought people were smart enough to know that by now but clearly jim131... is not! LOL
Oh Feisty, All out of ammunition much? You are so transparent.
I think it says a great deal about you and the way you wish to be perceived. I don't think you were a bully in school, I think you were treated quite horribly so like many others here I will keep you in the category of "You poor, sad, little troll".
"You poor, sad, little troll".
Says the troll with green hair
I really feel that if my hard earned tax dollars are paying for psychiatric care and meds for those of you with somewhat bizarre mood swings-which incline you to attack (and quite cowardly) verbally bash others here, you could have the decency to stay on those much needed meds.
I have never reported anyone on NV for personal attacks but Feisty's comments to Jim are so horribly rude and ill conceived that enough is enough.
I did make a complaint and pasted these comments to NewsVine Staff. If nothing is done (and I expect nothing to be done) I will after 4 years here delete my account. Yes, feel free to jump for joy.
What I see here and everywhere for the past year on the Vine is that those of you maintaining that you are here to talk and have adult conversations are in general just sad, bored, and quite ugly individuals.
I'm not sure how you will in the future entertain yourselves if you can't bash someone-not for comments which you disagree with, but the way they look or have their hair.
Those of you with half a brain have the tendency to lose it when you jump on an attack thread.
What's he going to do dig deeper it couldn't be any worse than the First four years.
That's all he can do considering he hasn't got a clue as to what it means to be a leader.
@Tammy-no's #12.1: Don't lead hogs. Have to be herded. A single goat can herd a passel of hogs. You looking for a job?
Mac, you wouldn't know how to create a job if your life depended on it. Just like the guy whose okole you've got your head stuck in.
@Thinking Long Term-no's#12: What do you care? He won't be deep digging in anything you're used to bedding down. The President stays within His own species.
@Lanikai Ron#12.3: Prove you're disease free and I've a job for you. Kinda like the President did to ole Romney. I'll clear up that sore throat of yours and relieve your sore hemorrhoids. Afterward you can expect at least $.50 cents. Sign your employment seeking voucher too.
The smarter half of this country knew there was no hope before the idiot was elected by the dumber half.
Your GOP math as usual is off, did you work for the polling organization that told Karl Rove Romney was going to win in a landslide??
Please Excuse William he cant read or understand reality
Starman - William does much better than you - any day!
Looks like the lefties are taking gas here today. Their leader continues to prove his lack of leadership. Another tragedy, another photo op.
Least He's not toting a diaper full like you "tea baggers".
@ Steve-no's#13: Gwaddamn!, which half you belong to?
I am still glad that I did not vote for Obama.
I know where Romney's house is in Wolfeboro if you want to go cry with him.
William one of the Millions waiting for there free stuff
@Bama-No's #14: I glad you didn't either. Embarrassing as hell trying to vote when It's multiple choice and you can't read.
William is a member of the Jim Jones club for koolaid drinkers. Shut up and drink up, you will soon not feel to or even care about a thinking for yourself. Follow the OBAMA he is omnipotent and omnipresent.
@StateRunMedia#14.4: How longs your stud been dead Ms Media?
have to throw this one out there for my liberal americans-"to announce that there must be no criticism of the president,or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong,is not only UNPATRIOTIC and SERVILLE, but is MORALLY TREASONABLE to the AMERICAN PUBLIC." Theodore Roosevelt. Do ANYONE of you liberals UNDERSTAND THIS? guess the party that is MOST treasonable/ DEMOCRATS, most repubs know an idiot when they see one,whether they are repub or dem,not the same with the left(they are always right and should have all the right to make anything THEY want without compromise) and the morons they vote for can do no wrong, right guys? delusional
Just who are these people who are polled? They must all live in California or New York and are used to the BS that the Liberals are always spouting or recipients of some type of government dole. Everybody I know is dead set against this dufus and his policies. Congress may get the blame but he's supposedly the one in charge. And he can't blame Bush for the last four years anymore.
Now, now not all of us New Yorkers like him. As a matter of fact most people that I know on Long Island can't stand him!
@chooch28#15.1: Gwaddamn chooch! Never learn anything when no one will allow you to get near 'em. Get yourself a bath. Brush that tooth! Don't know what you can do about that nose though.
Get rid of the Teaparty Obstructionist in 2014 and experience a real recovery.
Yeah we'll only 30 trillion in debt, and still haven't heard of a budget in 3 or 4 years by 2014 it'll be SIX YEARS!!
Maybe you should try some.... well......... REALITY
Yes, that way nothing will stop us from going full speed ahead and becoming Greece.
Does that mean that when you have all the Democratic leaders elected you ( and everyone else) can stomach they'll finally all learn how to read prior to passing Major legislation?????. POINT: Nancy Pelosi AND democratic leaders who pass legislation into law without reading it ---prior to passing it. And you libs think that's a good thing. People who are YOUR leaders passing laws and not reading. You guys think that's brilliant work? This is what you would rather vote for. Incompetence, stupid, and nothing but lies out of Washington, nothing but. AND PLEASE, dont retort and call me names and give me any of your self rightous B.S. about Republicans, not 1 voted for it.
argumentativebutfair . . .
You seriously should change your screen name. You're very argumentative but nothing close to fair.
When the do nothing republicon house is cleaned out in 2014, then America will see some real progress. And just think! The republicons in the Senate will not be able to filibuster everything anymore like they have. Did you know that you do nothing republicons filibustered 380 times in 2 years?
You can spin it anyway you want. I'm not happy with either party. They don't seem to have a clue about the average working people. The response to the debt is either cut spending or raise taxes and no one ever mentions cutting out all the waste and fraud. Some people will approve giving illegals a path to citizenship but it only makes the problem worse as more will come and this administration refuses to secure our borders and deport anyone except those they deem criminals.
Amen.
Consider this:
You might view the history of the world as being one of individuals imposing their particular views on how to live life on as many others as possible – at the point of a sword. Think Khan, Alexander, Caesar, British
royals, Hitler, Stalin, Hirohito, Mao, et al. Technology advanced, but the goal was the same.
Mid-twentieth century might mark the point where the people of the world got tired of that idea. That notion was replaced by the “group” wanting to impose their particular view on how to live life on as many others as possible. Though some still prefer to use (war) technology, the main form of coercion has become legislation – always compassionate, of course. Think UN, European Union, NATO, Islam/Sharia, NWO. (In the US think progressivism and fundamentalist conservativism).
The change from the individual to the collective does not change the intended outcome: imposing one’s particular beliefs on as many others as possible. Now, whether you deny the legitimacy of these groups or bow down in adoration, the question to ask yourself is this:
Are you “sheepish,” or, do you prefer to be the captain of your own destiny?
"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." - Noah Webster/American Lexicographer
Obama is seriously a joke. I laugh at people that tell me they voted for him and now they regret it.
Waaahhh, waaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Need a hanky?
BillofWrongs ...haha... good one
please remove your lips from Barry's azz , thanks
That was really profound, William.
Gee did anyone in the White House really think the 50% of the people who did not vote for him suddenly decide that they were going to line up behind him? Not going to happen.
Steven100 - 47% of the people did not vote for President Obama - you really need to take a reading comprehension course! Oh, and Real Americans try to work together to make the country better but you wouldn't understand that either!
Let's remind Stevie of a bit of irony here. Romney finished with 47%! Now, if that is not ironic justice, I don't know what is. That number sure came back to bite him in the arse!
No...it just proves he's more inciteful than you...if you took away some of your 47 percenters on the dole, things may very well have been different today. BTW...did your check come in the mail this week? And remember...no buying Colt45's with food stamps.
SS, Based on your simple minded statement, there are only a handful of Real Americans in Congress at this point. Some Republicans and some Democrats. But you must admit, Democrats in general have not tried to work with Republicans at all in the last 4-years and it started when they foisted Obamacare upon us behind closed doors without even knowing what they were voting for. Hawaii just lost a respected Democrat Senator, Dan Inouye, who did a wonderful job of representing the interests of our state. This fiscal conservative voted for Inouye every time he was up for reelection. However, it's a shame his last 4-years in D.C. were tarnished by complete partisanship. I would not go so far as to say he was not a Real American becuase of that though.
No, Reality, but my electronic payroll deposit was there as it is twice monthly. What else ya got? DumFux.
Obama won in spite of the 26 Billionaires financing all of those super pacs, and the Democrats won 26 of 32 Senate races. The return on investment for those Billionaires was less than 1%. You people who voted republicon are bought and paid for whores to those Billionaires.
What a surprise!!
It is a surprise, @WilliamofRites, espcially since about 90% of the media villainized and disparaged the tea party at every possible opportunity but absolutely adores the arsonist, property-destroying, assaulting, often-violent public health hazard that is OWS.
The tea party in Floriduh is changing their name because everybody disapproves of them so badly.
57% of the population are pessimistic or have a mixed opinion about how Obama is going to do the next 4 years.......
Imagine how the economy would be recovering if our President actually knew what it meant to cut spending and cut taxes. Sadly, most of the GOP leadership isn't much better. It's sad that someone from the middle class can't afford to run and be elected. I only wish that every elected official had to live under the same healthcare plan and pension plan that the rest of us are "forced" to live with.
I can't believe the amount of people that have "buyer's remorse" over voting for Obama for 4 more years.......Obama hasn't even started his 2nd term yet!!
A very sad state of affairs when all we can do is "cope" with the president of our once great country, don't you think? It is already apparent he does not have the "coping mechanism" to bring us together. His narcissism and his "his way of the highway" attitude will be the ruination of us all.
I can only assume his high approval is made up of many, many folks benefiting from the excessively generous entitlement programs many, many of us are paying for.
We have no choice but go into 'cope' mode, Reality Check. My taxes on a low-$30,000s salary (exactly what happened to the 'no one making less than $250,000 will pay higher taxes' promise will be the greatest mystery of the 21st century) just went up almost $100 a month/$1,200 a year, seriously reducing the amount of money I have available for food, electricity, medical bills, transportation, rent etc. I get to learn how to 'cope' on a $25-a-week food budget, and hope that my health doesn't falter or that nothing I own breaks down or that I don't wear out any of the clothes or shoes I have been wearing since 2008 'cause there sure isn't money for new ones.
What? You don't want to contribute to your retirement fund? That is what Social Security is, you know.
If you approve of the antichrist running things then oldbammy is your guy....personally as for me and my house we'll be locked and loaded......
So pathetic. Me, I'll be skiiing in NH or Maine with my family.
Good luck eating those dehydrated food packets.
william sans rights,are you flying up with capt."o"or does welfare provide transportation now?If Iwas you I'd be careful of the shower at the end of the trip.
Pathetic, Yes William you are, very Anti American arnt you
Yeah, what's it like to live in the basement all year round for 8 years? Or are you living in a bomb shelter?
My my, it must suck not being able to take a vacation. You must work for Walmart.
Hey Ed,still have a problem with a black man in the White House just like the rest of the Rethuglicans. Time to grow up and realize you arent fit to shine his shoes,not to mention Obama is 100 times smarter than you. What's your job,certainly no where near the POTUS. Luckily the Rethuglican party is on the way out,and you did it to yourselves. You failed to realize in this day and age with the internet you can't keep feeding people BS and keep them in the dark. Sucks to be you. For every step forward the country takes FOREWARD, you take two steps backwards. Then you wonder why your party is a insignificant and a total failure.
It was the red states that voted for Romney. The red states have the highest school drop out rate, the highest level of poverty, the highest level of teen pregnancies, the greatest amount of racism and intolerance and the least understanding of science. Yet, you look at the blue states, where people are well educated, have good jobs, and pay more taxes than the red states, and you call us stupid? We're not the ones whose daughters get pregnant and fourteen, drop out of school and file for welfare. Our daughters go to college and build careers. Our kids understand science and are capable of critical thinking.
You can call us all the names you want, pretend we're the takers. But all of us know where most of the takers really live. We know which states have their hands out for those federal dollars.
The reason you don't believe the polls is because you just don't want to. You prefer to go down to the DewDrop Inn and drink with all your racist buddies and bad mouth the President, who won the majority vote by a substantial margin and didn't leave Romney enough electoral votes to even dry his tears. When you only talk to other people as ignorant as you are, you get a very distorted view of the world.
Of couse the red states voted for Romney, they have a history of being Democrat, and now have seen where that leads. There eyes and brains have been opened and they don't want it anymore. I can't blame them. The Democrat lead states have the biggest debt problems, except for DC that collects more than it's share of the wealth. The polls show the amount of disatisfaction already and is only beginning. The takers don't want to loose thier "Sugardaddy" and that is the reason Obama got reelected, not to mention a good dose of fear, that the campain flooded the air waves with. Why do liberials always bring up Race? It doens't matter what race a person is if they make stupid decisions. The only ones bringing his race into the discussion is liberials, like it will make them feel better. He was running against a Hispanic, but I guess you can be raceist against Hispanics then, except when you need thier votes, then you buy them with citizenship.
I still beleive that the voting polls were tamper with, president and his so call goonies are a bunch of crooks to turn our free country into a social government so he can do what he wants, to be a dicator or king. We have to get this S O B out with Nancy and Reid, Congress should be replaced and that goes for senate too, the money they are screwing the tax payers out of. Congress and Senate are taking free healthcare and retirements (not 1 or 2) check on Nancy and reid' s status and others it's mind blowing. I could go on and on. Let's face it were being screwed..........WHAT MAKES THEM BETTER THEN ALL OF US? Why is the president trying to discontinue a 4 and 8 year term, he wants a no time limit to the presidents office? Check and see if the president is doing alot behind our backs?
GOP Trolls are wasting time here, nobody believes your BS
For someone that calls him/herself tryreality, you only have to look at facts. See the post above at #9.3, open the link, and get back to us. Damn libs, just can't handle facts. There has been a plethora of "opinion" posts on these threads today from the left and very little fact. Must be the moon.
Hey Feisty, best hurry and grab your kneepads, Obamas waiting. Thats if you even took them off.
I am just happy to have a President who can speak English and form an opinion that was not stuffed up his "rear" by Dick Cheney of Karl Rove....
I guess you call Huh, Huh, Huh english.
Hey Jack...those kneepads DON'T come off...
Sounds like someone is upset that people are starting to stop believing the liberal media BS.
arguementativebutfair . . .
Such a FOX statement. I seriously suggest, again, that you remove the "fair" from your screen name. You've nothing to post that states you are in agreement with the GOP but certainly like to drum up angst against all others.
I remember years ago when I was as angry as you with my life. My therapist suggested running. It's done nothing but good for me. I'd suggest you do the same. Endorphins are the BOMB!
TejasBob. Two words; "Rick Perry!"
What a sad story, Not even started his second term and Hope is lost? As for the polls, Democrats poll 100% against Republicans, and half the Republicans rate Republicans hi since they tend to fold on taxes, and spending issues. That would account for the under 25% rating. On the other hand Democrats rate Democrates at 100%, and Republicans are not had hard on them, because sometimes they do the right thing. Of couse the people who voted for Obama will stand up for him, after all few people admit to mistakes that they make.
RandogM Obama just changes his mind, because of news stories, or groups he needed to get reelected. But you are true he doesn't change his mind, one would need a mind to be able to change it.