Obama Approval at 50%, Higher Than George W. Bush's at Same Point in Presidency
Somehow, that bumbling socialist usurper in the White House who has constantly apologized for America -- has the approval of half of the country.
Obama’s overall approval rating stands at 50 percent, the highest in a Post-ABC News poll since a brief run above 50 percent immediately after Osama bin Laden was killed in early May.
But what about all those Real Americans in Real America?
Overall, 55 percent of those who are closely following the campaign say they disapprove of what the GOP candidates have been saying.
But surely, a man who made his $250M outsourcing creating jobs will mop the floor with the Kenyan Marxist, right?
In a general-election test, Obama leads Romney 52 to 43 percent among all Americans; more narrowly, 51 to 45 percent, among registered voters. Among all adults, it’s Obama’s first time topping 50 percent in a head-to-head matchup with Romney since July; it’s his first time ever above that point among registered voters.
For those keeping score at home, the Black Jimmy Carter is currently outperforming the Great Leader who was supposed to usher in a permanent Republican majority. Yes, we've got a long way to go on unemployment -- but as the ad says, "pessimism never created a job."
How's that taste, GOP?
I would imagine those numbers taste like a "shit taco" to the republicans. Thank you Jon Stewart for putting that little phrase out there about three years ago when the democrats took over.
I think the voters are starting to pay attention and when they take a look at the republican candidates, that Muslim socialist Kenyan doesn't look so bad to them now.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Compared to Spanish. In that romantic tongue the same item sounds tasty.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
and you really don't want to know what's inside one of those
Bush was one of the worst Presidents ever.
Of course positive news is positive news.
according to many in these hallowed parts. So his having a good chance at re-election just like
W. is just further proof to the formerly deceived.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Thanks, a good laugh felt really good.
Oh, and has anyone heard anything about that pony I was promised?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I didn't get the pony either Patricia , reminds me , I can still remember how devastated I was when I found out that my mommy and daddy had lied to me , that there was no Tooth Fairy , no Santa Clause and no Easter Bunny . Unlike some , I grew up and got over it , mom , dad and me ... we're on speaking terms again , very good terms actually .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
....front-runner. They haven't selected a candidate yet and Obama's numbers just mean that a little more than half the country is in favor of voting for him. He needs higher approval ratings in order for anything to taste a shit taco for the right at this point in time. Let's see how its all looking in six months.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
George W. Bush? Who is George W. Bush? From what I have heard on the GOP campaign trail both nationally and locally George W. Bush never existed.
It is funny that none of the candidates mentions his name. They have to go all the way back to Reagan to find a republican to compare themselves to on any subject. If you had a drinking game and drank every time Newt mentions Reagan, you would be face down on the floor within minutes.
Even these republicans in the clown car know that no one wants to remember or think about Bush. Even they are that wise.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
And then their recollections are awash in fantasies which make many Reagan worshipers
seem only half full of it.
* Real as opposed to Unreal or Unadjectiveadorned progressives.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
is the way these slimeballs sidle up next to the corpse of St. Ronnie, when every one of them knows he would get run out of the party on a rail if he were to try to run for POTUS today. Fucking liars, every one of them.
"No one ever said these people were logically consistent."
- watchdog -
Well, I don't know if I'd ascribe wisdom to their actions in not mentioning the man... more like animal survival instinct...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
disappeared into a wormhole never to be seen or heard from again. You'd think W could at least get out once in a while and be a goodwill ambassador for the USA.
Isn't this the kind of media horse race coverage someone was complaining about in a post I read somewhere recently?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Who would insult horses like that? In all the craziness of this republican craziness, it feels good to have a little good news even if it is via polls.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Ok... how about a horse race with all the horses being batshit crazy?
You're right... an insane horse behaves better than the roster of fools the R's have trotted out...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
if they are hung with a new rope
The staff at Fox News begs to differ.
Good god. I so love this cartoon:
The Choice
Now for some additional perspective via the facts (source bls.gov):
Peak Private Sector Employment - Jan 2008 - 115,647,000
At Feb 2009 (first Obama Month) - 110,260,000
At Jan 2012 (current month) - 110,436,000
Hmmm, so we've up 176k private sector jobs but still down 3,662,000 lost during the Bush administration.
Now it's about cleaning up after the past administration.
Additional perspective:
Feb 2001 - 111,623,000
Jan 2004 - 108,883,000
Bush lost 2.74 million jobs in the first 36 months of his first term as well.
And we're now 1.187 million down from when Clinton left the White House.
Since all the jobs now added back came in this administration and since the Republicans had years of tax cuts and less regulation from 2001, where is the explanation for why we have over 1 million less private sector jobs today than we had when Bill Clinton was in office 12 years ago.
Spin that one Republicans!
Republicans will completely forgot that "Elections have Consequences" and they'll go back to obstructing everything they possibly can.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
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“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Depends on whether the roadkill's been out there a while, I'd think... *smile*
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Same fucking foreign policy, more fucking war, more surveillence, more drone attacks killing who the fuck knows how many innocents, fewer civil liberties, indefinite detention, more police state bullshit, same old fucking imperial shit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah,...........then GOP would be worse............How? OK, they'd fuck the economy but other than that?
Only the economy , just that . LMAO . Must be a Paulbot . Tell you what , help get Gingrich in the White House and get Republicons in control of both the Senate and the House , then you will really be happy . The election is going to be close , this isn't American Idol , the outcome is going to decide your future , decide the future for all of us . Am not an Obamabot or an apologist , just talking common sense , which seems to be more than some here can handle , more than they can understand .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
...poetry slam. There is nothing equivalent to the reptiles Shrub put on the supreme court and other federal courts, nothing equivalent to the zero net jobs he created during his poisonous eight-year reign. His deliberate bankrupting of the government in order to shock-doctrine the nation into ultimately abandoning govnment's ability to care for its most vulnerable; Absofuckinglutely nothing equivalent to that. His ruinous, swaggering wars, his contempt for and/or fear of articulate speech, his massive unfunded prescription drug and no child left behind horseshit mandates. His time was a catastrophe of ruin and diminution, and President Obama, while far from ideal, is NOT the same.
And only the economy? Did you just really say that angryspittle? Shockingly obtuse.
Ok, I know, I know. Obama is about a million times better that any GOPer but that doesn't mitigate my hatred of this continuous insanity with respect to foreign policy. With respect to that he represents a third Bush term. Economically he isn't anywhere near promoting the policies that are needed. Keynes has been tossed in the trash.
Perfect example of how the country gets successfully dragged further and further to the right. "Progressives" support the Democratic president because he's less extreme than the lunatics on the other side even though he's further to the right than any previous president with the possible exception of George W. Bush.
...and let Romney in, because what America really needs is to vindicate absurdist, wall tapestry notions regarding a societal reset/economic apocalypse in which we wake amidst the smoking rubble to found the progressive utopia you fetishize. Sounds great to me too, except that the rightist, fascistic, gun toting bastards who will inherit this often-mentioned "let's vote repug and game the system" jack off fantasy will eat you for breakfast. Just temper your tantrum, try to fix what's wrong, and vote for the better chance at a better world, even if your candidate occasionally disappoints you. And if you don't believe in a better-life-through-voting outcome, then shut the fuck up, because to many of us, believing is the only thing we have to hold on to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iKuMVqht4U
and after the Strait of Hormuz shuts down a barrel of oil goes to $200+ and the world economy collapses. Other than that not much different
Now the Senate just passed the anti-union FAA bill and Obama will sign the fucker.
Hey man, where are the comfortable fucking shoes asshole?
Not to mention bother Jebb to make sure there were enough chadds to go around
40some percent Romney? I weep for my country.
Oh yeah you come up with some interesting information but that's because you didn't use Rove Math. Does everybody remember " THE MATH " as Turdblossum called it? God that was funny. TB was sooo fucking funny, the fat piece of shit.
Are you talking about Human Ham Karl?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
he didn't even have to lie us into two wars for a better approval rating than the WORST president in our country's ENTIRE history....must be doing something right governing for WE, THE PEOPLE.....after-all, that's what he was sworn to do...gee the other guy did too...hmmmm
Why that's just incredible!
I caught a few minutes of tweety today and he said Obama's strategy is how he Deserves a second term.
I don't think he deserves a second, the problem is None of the republicans deserve a first.
The incredible Obama HOAX- the only president in history to hide his past history (at the cost of millions) he even surrendered his LAW license to avoid investigation- and the only president with an alias name- “BARRY SOETORO” an honest man would NOT do this but a swindler criminal would- especially if he had the backing of super-rich power moguls- Obama is a FRAUD who has deceived America- 17 top Document specialists have declared the birth certificate that Obama released on April 27th to be a blatant "IN YOUR FACE" FORGERY- and the audacity to put this FORGERY on T-SHIRTS & sell them at DEMOCRATIC fundraisers is mind blowing-
for Republicans who on principle abstain from operating with the backing of super-rich power moguls. I suppose it's asking too much for some documentation of your claims (and not just videos of other people making the same claims).
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...when the little cuckoo springs out of your forehead once an hour?
Tell us of the land of gumdrops and wonderbread you think is our past and future birthright. Tell us of your unique, personal relationship with an imaginary celestial friend who speaks these sweet truths to you. Have another six of Utica Club and tell us of your conservative friends who watched as their lives, fortunes, futures, and hopes were pissed on by their own party and yet never even noticed it. Tell us mo republican sweet sweetness.
Oh wait, before you do that, tell us what the fuck you are talking about, and what is resting among the few firing synapses in your noodle that might even remotely pass as substantiation for your hysterical drivelings?
What about the zipper on the back of McCain's neck? Would you have rather had a dolphin-man for President?
http://www.theonion.com/audio/mysterious-zipp...
Psst...
Your doctor called wondering why you've been off your meds for so long...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
This guy actually believes that crap. I'm talkin some serious delusions. But on a lighter note, he's funny as hell. ;)
No, really, this made my day. I laugh at the absurdity. And the simple minds that believe it.
I'll bet he's a big hit at parties. :)
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Hmmm... he might be at that... just not parties I'd attend... I like crazy people, especially at parties, especially as I can be referred to accurately as a crazy person, myself, but this much batshit'll clear out a mellow room in a heartbeat, y'know?
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
but they're fun to laugh at. In a state of amazement. mind blowing, jaw dropping, head shaking, shocking, amazement. I like the bewildered look on their faces when they realize everyone else is lookin at them just kinda goin....wtf? lmao!
You can't buy that kinda humor. he's gifted. bless his heart. ;)
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Bless his flabby little heart, indeed
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Pharma! Bush Tax Cuts! War with Iran! Giddy up.
also worried about his sex appeal ratings?
what kind of president worries about his sex appeal ratings?
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
His approval rating is EVEN HIGHER THAN BUSH'S??? You know what else? I can shoot a basketball EVEN BETTER THAN STEPHEN HAWKING!1!1!1!1 It's true!
where 49% of the people hate you, think you're incompetent, and want to see you fail.
Definitely not a job for those with a weak stomach, and certainly not a job for someone who craves positive feedback and a need to be 'loved'.
Why would anyone want such a job?
That not ONE of the GOP thugs du jour have made any reference to the past Republican president? Bush was so bad his own party won't acknowlege his presidency.
And NONE of them want to be seen with Bush.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
...at this point in Bush's Presidency:
2004 Feb 6-8... 89%
It would drop 14 more points to 75% during his last days in Office.
So why do Republicans act like they don't even know him now?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/116500/presidentia...
Denial. republicans are masters of denial - one of many human flaws.
Denial that he was damaging America, while he was president.
Denial that he even existed, now.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Where does the article say anything about Bush? By the way, CBS had Bush at 50% on 1/17/04, which matched his lowest rating to that point. (The date on the byline, 2/11/09, is screwed up; if you page down, it gives the polling dates as January 12-15, 2004.)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/17/opi...
And Obama polling above Bush is an achievement? Yippy Skippy.
...likely comes from his own base that he's been throwing under the bus for the last three years. These people who are dissatisfied with him will still hold their nose and vote for him come November. I know I will.
Obama 2012: He's as good as it gets. Lower your expectations.
Be an interesting campaign slogan, to be sure...
"Vote Obama... you know he's as good as you're going to get..."
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Hopeless…
and
Changeless…
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
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It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin
and now I'm going to JAIL. My collected ball of tweakerbelle bellybutton lint has a higher approval rating than GWB. I never violated THAT term of service. Oh. My. God. I'm so freakin' hammered right now. Let's hear it for Kenyan Marxists. Fanon would be proud. I don't even like wine.
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin
Bloggin' and sloggin' the bottom of the newsworthy barrel.
Here is an idea; lets say we rob a Liquor Store for 13.4 Trillion dollars. After the Cops catch us we get to go free (with immunity for any farther liability for this crime; say being sued by the wife of the clerk we shot on the way out) by paying a fine of 25 Billion dollars. Nice deal?
This is what Obama has forced the state AG's to buy into. Ever wonder why the Republicans did not run their "first string" candidates? The fix is in people; the "banks and Wall Street run this place" (Dick Durbin).
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