Comments on: Obama’s Strong Disapproval

By: Bea

Bea — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:43:59 +0000

blahblahblah…Polls are nothing more than an excuse to write about one’s own agenda. Depends on where you poll, who you poll and how accurate the data. I don’t believe anything I read in these blogs about polling. Any intelligent person can figure out those that hate Obama will publish polls that are derived from that demographic. Those that like Obama will publish polls in favor of him. The truth of the matter is there are those that will hate him not for what he has done or can do, but for the fact that he’s black, or biracial.It doesn’t take a genius to figure out this country was in deep doodoo when he took office. And the naysayers were out for blood within the first week. I’m willing to wait and give it time. I lived through 6 years of the recession of the eighties. I can wait this one out too.

By: lyineyes1956

lyineyes1956 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:34:15 +0000

Doug, I must disagree with you regarding Obama’s education. You can’t prove a thing you said, and obviously neither can Obama! Or is he too ashamed of his own grades?

By: trueblue

trueblue — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:06:49 +0000

It’s not ALL about racism a bit more than half of it for sure is nothing but.
I’ve heard more stupid cracks and idiotic comparisons about this President some so inane I wonder at the speaker’s straight face.
I remember what people said about Bush when outrage about the war was running high – and I remember the republicans calling us unAmerican and treasonous.
So it’s disingenous for the republicans who have been calling Obama a nazi/marxist/socialist to complain when people label them racist. They asked for it. The stupid Kenya stories need to stop. The stupid Mafia stories are ridiculous.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:37:38 +0000

Jimmy Carter has spoken on this topic twice over two days, and both times said SOME of the critics are motivates AT LEAST IN PART by race. He did not say ALL of Obama’s opponents are racist. However, when polls by many organizations (Pew, Gallup, etc.) consistently show that 9-10% of Americans say they would never vote for a black person for president, and just about three times that amount strongly oppose Obama, its not hard to do the math. Probably 1/3 of his opponents are motivated, in part, by race. Where else do you think those 9-10% of people went? “Undecided?”
So that would also mean 2/3 of Obama-haters are not so racist.
As for Wilson, his vociferous attacks on Strom Thurmond’s half-black illegitimate daughter, defense of the confederate flag, and espousal of Robert E. Lee as a great American hero do make it reasonable for many to assume that this man is just a wee bit racist.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:29:01 +0000

People are just dumb the media says attack and like zombies they do it.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:26:51 +0000

Racism in America. I think that was made obvious during the election did you miss the women saying she “would not hire a black man regardless of his qualification” and she was no mu mu wearing redneck. Also after having George Bush a average student at best trying to run the country, next up is John McCain a C student who I must admit was my childhood hero (I grew up watching Vietnam) running against a graduate from Columbia and Harvard and a professor at the University of Chicago.
Many of the good ole boys did not see any reason to change and get some brains in the white house.
They just want a white man. You can be sure that every black person in America knows nothing has changed. If anything it’s worse. Obama can say ‘health care for everybody and a chicken in every pot’
and of course even the starving rednecks will cry foul. If you have any doubts come to Milwaukee
where racism is policy in many companies. Or you can watch Fox news.

By: QueSpr90

QueSpr90 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:14:44 +0000

“If you want a good test for racism go back to the speach by the defense attorney (Matthew McConaughey) in the movie “A Time To Kill”. In order to bypass the racism of the jury, he asked them to imagine how’d they feel he the young girl that was raped was white. Well ask yourself Mr. Langer, in the 2008 election 96% of blacks voted for the least qualified candidate in history of the same race… 96%, without as much as a peep out of you and the rest of the media. Now ask yourself what you would have said if that 96% and 0bama were white…. Before you go throwing the race card around look in the mirror buddy.”
The problem with this analogy is that, historically, Blacks % of the vote is ALWAYS high for the democratic Presidential nominee. Mondale received 90%, Dukakis received 90%, Clinton received 85% twice, Gore received 95%, Kerry received 93%. What’s also absurd about you claim is that, since blacks have been given the right to vote, they have ALWAYS voted for white candidates in high numbers, so you ridiculous assertion is nonsense. Racism does play part – this is still one of the most racist countries in the world – but you folks always want to dismiss it and then spout this nonsense.

By: Larry Miller

Larry Miller — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:40:26 +0000

Obama was elected to office with a major assist by his “base” the so-called (but anything but) MSM. They have a tremendous amount of dwindling credibility in his “programs” Once the so-called MSM wake up and report that “average Americans” sincerely believe our hapless Federal Government IS the problem and NOT the solution to everything as Obama sincerely believes ….health care so-called “reform” is one example, all bets are off. He’ll be in a free-fall like GW and he’ll never recover …. just like GW.

By: ann burns

ann burns — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:51:06 +0000

I am damn sick and tired of Republicans like Mr. McDaniel pontificating on what the ‘average American’ feels. I am an average American – and you do not speak for me. This man was elected by a majority of voters, and he has a 58% approval rating in the last poll I saw -it is YOU who is in the minority, sir. Not US.

By: Rick McDaniel

Rick McDaniel — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:42:32 +0000

The issue is not about racism, but rather about what is good for the people of this country, and Obama’s view is quite different from the average citizen.
Obama thinks too much like Jimmy Carter did……that social programs can solve the ills of the world, at any cost. As we saw with Carter, that isn’t possible. It simply bankrupts the country.
Yet Obama continues to ignore what is bothering people the most…..no jobs. Of course his popularity is going to plummet. He is doing nothing to address the main issue affecting people, right now.
Carter, by the way, was so blatantly obvious in his politically motivated “racism” charge, against Wilson, that he made himself look like the proverbial idiot. Just another Democrat, blindly making a phony case against the opposition, that is nothing but a lie.