If you look at the economic indicators out there, the Obama Administration is clearly making this recession a much larger crisis than it needs to be. We overspent and now we need to take a break from consumer spending to refill our personal coffers. The government--by throwing mountains of debt onto an already overstretched consumer pocketbook--is making the recession deeper and longer.
I think the honeymoon is over for Obama: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 36% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-one percent (31%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +5 http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...ministration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
According to both CBS and Gallup, Obama has a 2/3 approval rating. So I'm not sure where I need to "get out" to, AM radio?
According to reputable news agencies like Zogby (50%) and Rasmussen (56%), Obama is at or below the levels of previous Presidents at this stage of their presidency. I had to laugh yesterday while on a treadmill and watching CNN. They had Obama at 63%, yet the time frame up in the corner was March 10-22. Talk about manipulating data! I wonder how bad their recent 3-day data had to be to make them go back almost 2 weeks of polling to give him 63%. CBS? LMAO
If that's your conclusion, then you're beyond help. I feel sorry for you. You're so wrapped up in hatred, anger and victimhood, you're missing out on all the good things in life.
So far, there have been anti-Obama protests in Orlando and Portland, and I'm sure more are on the way. People are starting to wake up and see this guy for what he is: a radical who wants to change our way of government.
I am truly not sure how you get all that from my quoting two easily available published polls about a president who, by the way, I did not vote for. Ah yes. Shooter, aka Talkhard, who predicted this past summer that the Clintons would find a way to steal the nomination from Obama, African-Americans would riot in the streets, and the Republicans win the election. I mean, he's not a great political prophet, you know. Of course, if "our way of government" meant the past 8 years, didn't Americans vote to change that? Please by all means report on the tens or hundreds of thousands who show up to what has been called, to the vast amusement of the GLBT community, "tea bagging". But personally I think people would be better off studying history (what was the reason for the Boston Tea Party), economics (what is socialism, and why doing all possible to save the capitalist banking industry is not socialism) and the Constitution (what are the separation of powers, what are the rights/responsibilities of the branches of government, which recent president has violated it the most?) But then, posting on line is so much easier, isn't it?
Like I said, I'm sorry that I can't help you. If you look at those polls and believe there's a massive majority that supports these policies then you're beyond help. Change can mean all sorts of things. I don't think people voted for annual trillion dollar deficits and a full steam ahead course for the Europeanization of America. Heterosexuals tea bag as well. I don't think it's just gay people that find it funny. I agree that one should study history. There's an excellent book titled "Postwar" by Tony Judt. If you want to understand the dangers of what President Obama is proposing, read that book.
I'd be interested in what "Change" means for you. What do you want to see. Please answer with specifics.
A govenrment that doesn't favor the wealthy to the degree that I percieve . . . a government committed to grow and strengthen the middle class. The Bush era felt like an era of old school politics in which the poor got neglected, the middle class got few advantages and the wealthy were loving life. (ie Oil companies were making record profits quarter after quarter while the poor in Katrina got ignored). Obama feels like he comes from the poeple . . . and I hope he remembers where he comes from and that he is a president for the people and not just the rich or big corporations. As far as specifics actions Obama should take to get there . . . I don't know. I'll follow to some degree what he is doing, I will examine the results and hope at the end of 4 years that I get the feeling he was a president for the poeple and not a president for the wealthy . . . or worse the old brand of politics of saying all the right things but taking action to the contrary. I believe many are fed up with politics because it is all feels like political rehtoric among a bunch of rich powerful people. But one thing that was very clear in that blowout of an election . . . people want change.
You clearly mis-interpret the findings as negative when Rasmussen has this to say about them: The number of voters who say the United States is heading in the right direction remained steady this week at 35%. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 59% say the country is heading down the wrong track. The latest results show no change from last week and tie the highest level of optimism found in recent years. This is now the fourth straight week a third or more of voters say the nation is going in the right direction. With the stock market beginning to gain ground and the financial sector responding positively this week to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plan to soak up toxic assets in banks, President Obama declared at a press conference Tuesday night, “We’re beginning to see signs of progress.” He urged Americans to believe "a better day will come.” The only time U.S. voters were more positive was in October 2004, when 43% said the nation was heading in the right direction. The new number is six points above the level found the week Obama was inaugurated president, and up 12 points from the findings right after Election Day.
I didn't read what you have above in the report. If true, I think that is great. Kind of like the Blazers, I would preach patience with Obama, but I know American people are not patient or forgiving. I guess I thought it was bad news because I am simplton and went straight to the graph the link provided: (Won't let me cut and paste)
Quite clearly that's exactly what they voted for, way back in November 2004, and it will take close to a decade to reverse the damage caused their gulibility.
I often think that of you when reading your political/financial posts. All a matter of viewpoint I guess.
Here is my hating, self pitying, victim, or whatever maxiep calls it question. How many of these so called tea baggers ever supported Obama? So far as I can see, the "movement", which seems to have no real demands and no real program, consists entirely of those who adamantly, virulently, opposed him. There are lots of people who vote for Candidate A because they believe he/she more closely represents their views, or is more qualified than Candidate B, but they don't hate Candidate B. The "tea baggers" are not those kind of folks. They are, so far as I can tell without exception, the same people who loathed Obama from Day One. The ones who called him a socialist, communist, terrorist, fascist, elitist, Muslim, Christian nationalist, and empty suit - all at the same time. So for a few dozen or so to go wave pictures of tea bags and listen to a fake plumber talk about how he's horny and a blogger say how she hates all immigrants except herself is hardly signs of a massive popular revolt. You know you have built a movement when minds start being changed. The support for the current president is higher than his vote majority, so by any objective indicators, minds are being changed in the opposite direction. But there is no law against making an idiot of yourselves, if you want to wave pictures of teabags, nothing is stopping you. Personally, I'd rather make myself a good cup of tea, which means NOT using tea bags.
This guy might not be right on every aspect of these issues, but I sure can't criticize his passion: [video=youtube;pKFKGrmsBDk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFKGrmsBDk&feature=player_embedded[/video]
