Unfavorable Views of Obama Reach a High, Although Gingrich Trails in Popularity

Dah – Obama has been terrible as a President. He has increased debt, divided this country and destroyed the economy. Newt is no better. Romney is the only choice.

Deb, No, with me I belive it all started with those Greek columns. Or maybe it was the columns of light from the heavens.

Can’t stomach incompetence and corruption, but keep focusing on skin color Deb – cuz that’s what REALLY matters…….

I’m expecting Obama’s rating to drop fast now. There was a Bill yesterday he wanted the wording changed to give him absolute power to detain anyone for any reason. I still don’t get how someone that is supposed to be so in tune with the Constitution would want such power and disregard the Constitution like that. Then there is the dnc convention next summer and his support of keeping ows away from him. A very popular response is to turn Charlotte into Chicago of ’68.

“”"”"”Obama has been terrible as a President. He has increased debt, divided this country and destroyed the economy. Newt is no better. “”"”"

Posted by: Dave

Actually, Newts record is better than Obama’s when it comes to debt and the economy. As Speaker, he pushed Clinton and came closer to balancing a budget than any Speaker in history.

Thank you Deb. Couldn’t have been said better. What they are doing to erode the freedom of all American while they hide behind President Obama’s administration is obvious. What has been shown is how meaningles the Office of the President really is. If you are white, in the click it has worked. They let you be commander in chief. They knew that the only change that would occur under President Obama’s administration is they use his black face to discredit him while they show you who really runs things. Rich white mentality, not necessary white faces however. Do not get it mixed up. Some of these screwed up elitists are not white. The key word is rich.The separation of the classes transends the race issue. While we as americans sit on our judgemental butts, pointing fingers, the true power, not the presidency, work to erode the true definition of equality as we envision it and create a world of surveillanced ,taxed sheep subject to their rule. And like i said, that is hardly the office of president.

I strongly supported Obama and have at times been very disappointed that he didnt fight harder to get more of what he told the people he was going to try to achieve. Just remember, because it has been said time and time again doesn~t make it any less true, the man inherited economic and war problems bigger than any president except POSSIBLY FDR. He also inherited a senate with enough conservative democrats and a Senate majority leader who refused to lift a finger to prevent filabusters and pocket vetos up the gazoo that forced him to accept deals on stimulus and health care that were far different from what he actually wanted. Of course, my first point was that he wasnt assertive enough and was too warm and cuddly with the republicans who made no bones about wanting to see him fail at any price. One thing is for certain, he gets little credit for his big achievements. Excuse me, but he DID avenge 911 with HIS military policy changes, as well as actually greatly disable Al Queda. Nobody even mentions it. If it were McPalin, wed have 200k troops in Iraq by now and would probably be defending Kabul itself in Afghanistan. If this country actually chooses Gingrich over him, we truly are a sick nation.

“”"”"Excuse me, but he DID avenge 911 with HIS military policy changes, as well as actually greatly disable Al Queda. “”"”"”

Posted by: Ken

What military policy changes were those? Al Qaeda was greatly disabled before Obama even entered office. So from what we can take from your ost is if something good happens, Obama gets the credit, anything bad and it’s the GOP fault right? Nothing like partisan blather on your part.

Deb, You obviously are not a very good bridge player. You need to save that trump card for later in the discussion when no one knows you have it and you get to take the trick.

NEWCOUNTRYMAN | DECEMBER 14, 2011, 8:10 AM ….I don’t like him (as a candidate) because he believes in the redistribution of wealth, his fav presidents are Teddy R, W Wilson, and FDR – all progressive presidents, he has flip-flopped on the big issues, and who can say he won’t flip flop on his promise to get rid of Obamacare. Yes, he’s a good talker; but so was (and is) presidentr Obama!

Wow Angela! (8:03 AM); Could you get anymore OBVIOUS?

I sure am hoping all this improves within the next year, or Obama may lose even worse than I fear. He just needs 4 more years to make his great policies take full effect and become more succcesses.

Old battle cry – “America’s too racist to elect a black President.” Can’t use that anymore… New battle cry – “America’s too racist to reelect a black President.” – - – Sad when that’s all they.ve got.

49% against vs 48% for? That’s not much of a difference. Besides, a lot of people mistakenly blame Obama for the actions and responsibilities that belong to Congress. The worst thing about Obama is his lack of strength in dealing with Congress. Not even 6 members of Congress can agree on anything. Clearly Obama needs to show some strong leadership and begin getting tough on them.

OK Mr President, Dems in the Senate its time to put up or shut up. You have a bill that continues the payroll tax cut that Obama demanded and approves the Keystone pipeline deal that CREATES jobs (more than the 20,000 mentioned in the MSM). The pipeline route has been changed to satisfy the residents in Nebraska (its no long going over the aquifer).

Wayne | December 14, 2011, 8:26 am —- Obama’s first 2 years he had the House and Senate and did nothing. His own party couldn’t even agree on Obamacare without back room shady deals. Staunch Democrats either don’t see that or don’t want to see it. You guys are a riot. “”"”"Clearly Obama needs to show some strong leadership and begin getting tough on them”"”"‘. If he hasn’t shown it in 3 years, that should tell you something.

“”"”His big spending, big government policies just need more time to work.”"”"”

Posted by: Kimberly

Wow! Obama himself said if the economy hasn’t recovered withiing 3 years, he shouldn’t be re-elected. His words not mine. “”Big spending and big government policies”"? Those are not policies, they are actions that will bring us down.

Remember the McConnell manifesto. Get Obama and his health care bill out. It’s not easy when the richest, most powerful people in the world have organized themselves and are working overtime to get rid of you. People naturally believe that what is good for the powerful is good for them. If that were true, we would not have had the meltdown. Nevertheless, they have taken their toll in the arena of public opinion. Of course that can change. Just ask Newt Gingrich. lol It’s all about destroying the health care bill. The nation’s health care lobbyists are arrayed against it. Not because it won’t work, but because it will.

Where did you take the poll??? The Southern neotrds wouldn’t like Obama if he were GOD incarnate!!!!!!

He’s simply been one of our three worst presidents!

I’m going with the best choice, Obama 2012.

I am just tired of the excuses. “It was bad, it was the worst since the depression, we are in this shape because of fat cats, the republicans drove the economy into a ditch, the rich don’t pay theor fair share”. Never mind that it is and has been Government policy in place for years that caused the mess and more Government policy that is and has made it worse.

The President needs to simply clean house of the riff raff he selected as advisors, get some real men and women who actually have worked outside of Government and he could do well.

Wow JPT, you have been smoking what you should have been mowing.

Why is this surprising. He is a doing a rotten job.

Searambler | December 14, 2011, 9:01 am —- We will simply have to wait for the investigations on Fast and Furious and Solyndra. The illegal attack on Libya.

Hope and Change. Translation: We can all only hope we have some small change left to jingle in our pockets when Obama’s miserable term is mercifully finished.

Its not just Obama.

The American people disapprove of ALL politicians right now. They’re more interested in taking corporate donations and fundraising than helping our nation along.

Its not even a party issue, its a government is bought issue.

Get money out of elections.

When all you do is push your political talking points and really accomplish jack squattt I’m surprised he has any supporters left. Talk is cheap…

Please tell us WHY Obama is trying to stop the pipeline until 2013???
Posted by: commonsenseparty | December 14, 2011, 8:51 am.

Why do you think? Personally, I believe it’s because there are still some safety questions that need to be addressed. Like why TransCanada wants to use lower grade steel for the pipeline, or what happens if this dirty tar sands oil spills into the aquifer that supplies drinking water for half a dozen states. The U.S. Pipeline Safety Administration has not yet conducted an in depth analysis of the safety of diluted bitumen (raw tar sands), despite unique safety concerns posed by its more corrosive properties. TransCanada predicted that the Keystone I pipeline already in operation would see one spill in 7 years. In fact, there have been 12 spills in 1 year. The company was ordered to dig up 10 sections of pipe after government-ordered tests indicated that defective steel may have been used. Keystone XL will use steel from the same Indian manufacturer. TransCanada said in their paperwork filing in 2008 that they would create between 3500 and 4200 jobs. (Not the tens of thousands being reported by Republicans). And there was no guarantee those jobs would go to US workers. They already operate Keystone 1 in Sorth Dakota. Only 11% of the workers they hired were from South Dakota. This pipeline will not lower the price of gasoline in America one cent. Yeah, they said it would generate $5 billion in taxes – over the next ONE HUNDRED YEARS, and split up among seven states. Big whoop. If this deal finally goes through then TransCanada wins, and Big Oil wins. The USA? Not really. Ask yourself this: why doesn’t TransCanada build a pipeline through Canada to their own refineries? Canada has over a dozen oil refineries, from east to west. WHY must they go through our heartland and all the way to the Gulf for this project? What is it about this project that THEY don’t like, to the point where they want to go outside their own country to make it happen?

And why the hell are the Republicans trying to attach it to the payroll holiday extension bill? It has nothing to do with that bill at all. They KNOW it doesn’t, and they KNOW that Obama isn’t willing to sign the pipeline deal just yet. So they play POLITICS, and get to kill off a tax break for 160 million American workers while still claiming that they won’t raise taxes. Even though they KNOW that that’s what will happen. The Republican criminals in Congress need to go. ASAP………..

Unlike the far left liberal hacks I don’t believe the average voter is stupid. Even though independents put Obama in office in 2008 it was because they were sold a bill of goods of “Hope and Change”. Obama also had no track record. Well he does now and its not pretty. Two years of a fully controlled Congress at his beck and call and he manages to pass a healthscam law through back room deals that even today is overwhelmingly unpopular. Blame, blame, blame and finger pointing is his game and it isn’t working.

“Unfavorable Views of Obama Reach a High…” … Duh-uh!

Sea (9:21 AM); Both sides have been doing this since before we were even born. Remember the line item veto? Why are you so upset now?

Watch puppet Harry Reid now that this bill coming his way….try and see if you can see the strings. They’re not hard to see….unless you’re already BLIND!

Such polls never had much relevance, especially in an election year. But now even less: there’s the large percentage of entrenched “Obama-haters,” plus the catagorical backlash against incumbents in general (Congress has an even worse rating than the President). In that light, I’d say a 48% approval rating is remarkable. (At the Millie’s Dew Drop Inn, he’s got a 100% disapproval rating.)

“Can you explain why?”…The pipeline is a source of filth. Canada just wants to outsource an environmental nightmare to American oil companies to refine it in Texas ports and sell it to China. The jobs are temporary and nothing says they will go to American instead of Canadian workers anyway, plus the number is grossly exaggerated in order to trick middle class voters into supporting it. In the end it’s not a long term source of jobs anyway, it’s just a filthy pipeline for the sole purpose of maintaining the wealth of the wealthy. It won’t bring down gas prices. It won’t make America energy independent. States will get $8 million dollars a year in leases. Wow. Change my life. It’s a money pump for the rich, and that’s all it is. I’d rather keep that filth out of my water, streams, and since it is a particularly low grade of oil, out of my air as well. Send the pipeline through the north pole directly to China. Get rich that way. The Chinese probably don’t want the mess either though, and Canada definitely does not want that pipeline. They cherish their environment, but not ours.

Next they’ll try to attach the Brooklyn Bridge to the bill.

Prediction: In 2012 there will be a credible 3rd-party spoiler candidate who will drain enough votes from both parties to secure electoral votes. No candidate will have the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the election outright. The House will then decide the election, probably giving the election to the GOP candidate.

Searambler | December 14, 2011, 9:34 am —- I simply hold Obama to what I hold all President’s, to their own words. I will hold the next one to the same, no matter who it is. You should too instead of simply dismissing his campaign promises.

You People Talk As If President Obama Is The One Who Spent All The Money And Got America In Debt, Lets Not Forget That it Was George Bush Who Went Into The Whit House With A Surplus Of Funds And A Balanced Budget. Our Current President Has had To Dig Us Out of the Financial Hole That Bush And His Republican Administration Dug America Into.

Charity: I agree. There has been so much fraud and corrpution and there still is from top to bottom. We got into a war we shouldn’t have, Bush was the one who bailed out the banks…Obama bailed out the Auto Industry who paid it back and are doing well now. He got rid of Osama and did well in Libya. My problem is the GOP have a bunch of clowns who have no real solutions…all I hear is Obama is no good…but no REAL solutions. And why do the GOP want to tack on the pipeline to the extended tax cuts? I’m tired of all the politics. They have bashed this president from day one…Get rid of lobbyists, and lifetime perks for Congress and stop giving money to other countries…this has gone on for decades. And people have themselves to blame for overspending themselves! They bought homes and cars they couldn’t afford and now it’s Obama’s fault?

Real legislation and budget cutting must include the following:

Term limits for all federal politicians and bureaucrats (3, 2 year terms in House, 1, 6 year term in Senate)
Term limits for the Supreme Court (no more than 1, 8 year term, with public recall option after 4 years)
A 40% reduction in defense spending (focus actual spending on special forces)
End occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq
Close at least 50% of all foreign military bases
–Utilize returning soldiers for: guarding of border, security, infrastructure work, classroom instruction
Eradication of the Federal Reserve
Eradication of various cabinet level departments
Complete transparency of ALL federal and state spending/budgets
Eradication of the IRS and creation of a simple taxation system
Investment in infrastructure
Investment in alternative energy
Drill for oil and natural gas in the U.S., but maintain focus on alternative energy
Constitutional Amendment for a Balanced Budget

From my viewpoint, we’re danged if we do and we’re danged if we don’t. What about Santa? He’s pretty popular right now…maybe we could get him to run.

Both sides are corrupt! We must vote all incumbents out! Obama is just as bad as any other politician in Washington and caters to the 1%. Vote third party! Send them the message!

Yes to Santa for President, and yes to Obama looking like the kid from Mad Magazine. Or perhaps this theory has merit…
“Obama’s ears get bigger when he lies. He looks like Dumbo now.”
Posted by: Moonhill
I just don’t know if Obama can go on successfully as a cartoon character. (Everyone can’t have as great of a career as mine.)

TransCanada numbers count each job on a yearly basis. So 10,000 jobs in a two year period is counted as 20,000 jobs. It’s 13,000 construction jobs and 7000 jobs making pumphouses and the pipe itself. The proposed cost is $7 billion taxpayer dollars. Again, to use Republican words, “What part of we’re broke don’t you understand”. With all of the jobs that were lost in 2008 you are now going to bawl over a measly 10,000?

When it comes to people’s views, they are entitled. But when I see posters on here making fun of the president or anyone’s looks, I know they either have very low self-esteem or have the mind of a toddler. These posts sound like a small child wrote them. I would LOVE to see what these posters look like! :–)

“…Don’t hold the American people hostage because the republicans are trying to get something for the oil companies…”
Posted by: tmferretti
TMFERRETTI, as I correctly pointed out, it isn’t “holding them hostage” at all, since basically most of them claim to support it, but also say out the other side of their mouths that they just want to “delay” it. Get it? Get the BS? Not terribly complicated. And yet again, it is many thousands of American workers who win, and the country as a whole who “gets something”, not just “oil companies.” Yet, again: The pipeline makes sense, and supposedly Obama basically favors it, so yeah, it is far from a “poison pill” — it is having people go on record for creating jobs or not and truly favoring the pipeline or not, instead of BSing around and “delaying” it further and yapping about jobs while doing nothing to help create them. Like you, I hope some bluffs get called, for sure. Namely Obama’s asinine, disingenuous bluff. More cowbell from you also, please. LOL.

The news media always tries to bring down anyone running against the President. Even in this report you finally do say the President is not that popular but you have to ridicule the others more.

DEMNME5 – Have you just awoke from a coma from years back? Do you not know that the Democrats have been in charge of Congress since 2006 and then the White House; then the period of Jan 2009 to Jan 2011 the Democrats controlled everything and the Republicans could not stop them, so how can you blame the Republicans for the past 12 years? If the Democrats are so great then why didn’t they fix things? They made things worse. So why trust them ever again? Stop drinking the Democrats koolaid it’s side effects are not covered under the Obamacare fraud.

___”obama has done too much damage to the country”

POSTED BY: SHIGERU | DECEMBER 14, 2011, 7:45 AM 7:45 AM___________NOT TRUE !!! BUSH IS THE ONE THAT TRULY DAMAGED THIS COUNTRY. HOW SOON CAN YOU FORGET THE IRAQ WAR BASED ON LIES, OR THE UNRESTRAINED FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS THAT BROUGHT THE ECONOMY TO ITS KNEES.

I know, I know. Most of you are thinking — Bugs Bunny is funnier, wittier,
AND better looking than me, and I am just jealous. That is like…not entirely true. i just want to pump out rusty points in favor of Obama without interference from comedians.

It is not only Obama, it is all government. Just look what these idiots have done to us
in taking over every aspect of are lives telling us how to live.They are in your car with cafe standards that will drive up the price of all vehicles, Ford recently dropped it’s
compact size Ranger because of the new standards, and let’s not use your phone
while driving and truckers it will be your CB next. Go to your kitchen turn on the light
bulb, no they got that also, now use your new mercury filled florescent bulb just don’t break it, hazmat team will be needed

Adding the pipeline to the bill again illustrates the make or break mentality of the GOP at this time in history. They know they are cooked for 50 years if the health care bill flies. They are tossing everything they have over the wall to lower public opinion of Obama because the downside won’t matter anyway if the gates give way and health care reform is allowed to be the incredible success that it can be.

The GOP is now running from hope and change. Afraid that when they finally see it’s hopeless, they will be forced to change. It won’t be worth the 50 years of political exile that will follow if they don’t.

Obama should veto the pipeline bill and run on it, as he said he will.

I personally am tired of BOTH the Republican and Democrat parties. I will make best effort to never vote for a person in wither of these parties again. Some may consider this “Throwing away” my vote, I consider it making a statement. If more people would “Throw away” their vote it will send a message to these two parties that we are tired of their partisan crap and they need to wake up and do what is best for the American people. Come on sheeple you have a choice, don’t go with the norm and vote for a Republican or Democrat, be an individual and stand up for your rights.

If the President keeps putting is faith in the good sense of the American people he’ll have no problems come November.

The public knows he is trying to recover from this recession and that the republicans are doing everything possible to keep it going, hoping the President is not re-elected. It’s a no brainer; the middle class sees the obstructionism and delay.

The republicans can spin and try to complicate the issues all they want; they will lose because Americans are fed up with their defense of the wealthy and their total disregard for hard working middle class voters.

DEMNME5 – Have you just awoke from a coma from years back? Do you not know that the Democrats have been in charge of Congress since 2006 and then the White House; then the period of Jan 2009 to Jan 2011 the Democrats controlled everything and the Republicans could not stop them, so how can you blame the Republicans for the past 12 years? If the Democrats are so great then why didn’t they fix things? They made things worse. So why trust them ever again? Stop drinking the Democrats koolaid it’s side effects are not covered under the Obamacare fraud.

Posted by: Peter King | December 14, 2011, 10:46 am 10:46 am
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The 110th congress BEGAN on January 3, 2007. So my first question is why you feel the need to try to tack on a year to this when it’s simply false? During this congress the democrats had such a small lead they were rendered powerless and the republicans proceeded to stop everything and they began to be billed as “the most do nothing congress ever.” Now you guys try to change that. Then Obama got voted in. For about two weeks, due to illness, death and shootings they had a super majority. The entire rest of the time obstruction with filibusters were at play off the right. So it’s a myth “the republicans could not stop them.” They have. They continue to do so. Evidently some people will believe anything. Like you.

I see again someone is using my name to post nonsense. Ok ABC you do not want to control your blogs…bye bye…Have fun kiddies. I don’t have time for this. I thought these blogs were to have real discussions but that is not the case.
No matter Pres. Obama will be re-elected. Remember I said this!

Barb: Thanks for your support. I have no problem listening to these people because just knowing the clowns they’re backing tells me all I need to know. I CARE about my Country and it’s because I do that I pray that NO Republican wins the Presidency in 2012 because we NEED to complete fixing the MESS that GW and his followers have given us. YES it was gw’s mess and President Obama has been making steady strides in repairing his horrid damage while the Republicans in Congress stand in the way. Hey, Cons where are the JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, your LIARS promised????? THAT is why they will go down in defeat along with dozens of other reasons. They don’t care that in the quest to make our President FAIL they are in turn causing our NATION to FAIL ALSO!!! I know, as long as we get the black guy out, the ends justify the means.

Why does the GOP need the pipeline other than for their big oil friends? Even Transcanada admits it won’t create many PERMANENT jobs. Worse, the oil they sell will NOT necessarily be sold in the US, so it WON’T get us off of Oil from the Middle East.

Obama’s debt is only because of the crap he, actually WE, inherited from Bush. Iraq, Afghanistan, Medicare Part D, Bush Tax cuts. Those are the primary reasons why we have such huge deficits. And now that Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, our deficits should decrease as well even though the GOP wants us to stay in there indefinitely and continue to lose our brave soldiers and spend our precious coin.

DEMNME5 – “His followers” need more blame in this. They were dumb enough to give him a second term. I feel like I live in a world where they break the lamp and blame the kid across the room that wasn’t anywhere near it. Now they sit here running me down over who I voted for? Laughable. The fact they wish to turn a blind eye to this obstruction is also a joke.

The republicans can spin and try to complicate the issues all they want; they will lose because Americans are fed up with their defense of the wealthy and their total disregard for hard working middle class voters.

POSTED BY: TMFERRETTI | DECEMBER 14, 2011, 11:07 AM===That lame rhetoric is getting old. You got nothing. Ohio just spanked Obamacare and Virginia is now fully controlled by the repubs. Weiners 90 year old democratic seat went to a repub. Obama needs both Ohio and Virginia and thats not going to happen. we heard the same crap from you guys in 2010 and you lost.

Apparently 48 percent of the country hasn’t been paying attention….or are stupid!

ferretti…we have tax payers and tax users. Generally speaking, the users earn no money or they’re government employees BUT they are all paid for from the pockets of the evil, nasty rich people you and your president love to vilify (unless he’s hittin’ ‘em up for campaign cash). We should do whatever it takes to keep the “rich” happy. The top 5% pay nearly 40% of all the taxes paid. Why would you do anything to tick ‘em off or to incent them to be less productive. Can’t you see you and your bottom-feeding friends need them?

I don’t know how anyone can say Obama is a bad president. Could he be a little more assertive, sure. But, congress has blocked absolutely every initiative he has tried to put through and just created chaos in our country. The GOP’s sole goal is not jobs, not economic growth, not American citizens. It is strictly getting Obama out. Obama is not the ultimate authority in our government, congress has the power here. Our economy went from good (Under Clinton) to bad (Under Bush) The unregulated growth, corruption in wall street, wars, etc etc was perpetrated by Bush and it was handed to Obama on a silver tray. Obama our worst president, I think not. Rather, Bush, our worst president. Bush rammed up the national debt to levels not even close to what Obama has spent. He caused this mess and Obama is trying to pick up the pieces. I feel more comfortable having Obama as our president than the Mormon Church or one of the other GOP idiots who are running. Yes, If Romney wins, the Mormon Church has control of our country. Because, if you all don’t see, Mormons must obey their church. I think some people need to take blinders off and see what is going on here. But too many people are followers and don’t think for themselves. Wake up people….

DEADWRESTLER – ‘WASHINGTON — The emergency bailout of General Motors and Chrysler announced by President Bush on Friday gives the companies a few months to get their businesses in order, but hands off to President-elect Barack Obama the difficult political task of ruling on their future.’………….. December 19 2008.

As I said it’s perfectly obvious which party promotes the interests of the middle class and which party promotes the interests of the truffle eaters. It’s been like that for 80 years. The republican trickledown theory is bogus.

I don’t know how many middle class republicans are on this blog but it’s time for them to decide if they are willing to support people who defend their interests instead of the interests of wealthy. You can call it class warfare all you want, but that’s the way it is.

The republicans are against welfare for the working people of this country but corporate welfare is perfectly fine with them. I think they believe the wealthy are smarter than themselves, which is true. The wealthy are at least smart enough to vote for their own interests.

Any vote for any GOP or Tea Bagger proves that whoever pulled that lever is a effning moe ron . End of story . Anyone who makes the conniving conservatives run around in circles like Mr. Obama does has my vote FOREVER.

“That lame rhetoric is getting old. You got nothing.”
Posted by: GARY (in reference to tmferretti ).
No doubt, and obvious to all. Just the same old stale and easily discredited “talking points” and spin from the compulsively and repetitively-posting ferret. He laughably believes it is persuasive for Obama, or at least against Republicans, no matter how many times he so easily gets ripped and whipped. Ka-Ching. And happy days.

This is the worse crap that I have ever read. It is total nonesense that Obama out scores any leader in the U.S.. The guys a joke. Where has he been all of his life. He shows no knowledge of American History. I want to vomit when someone says he’s smart when he can’t speak on any subject unless he he reads it from his monitors!. Only the unformed/ignorant believe him. Dumb – dumb…

Thanks for the laugh Garr. I can tell from reading our post you’re so much smarter. *sarcasm.*

Obama is now politically paralized and will try to justify vetoing this bill with some politically idealistic babble about packing bills. If it were not so depressing that he’s ignoring a jobs gift horse in the mouth with this pipeline, it would be rather funny.

Hey Garr Rey: I’ll bet you THOUGHT gw was a genius huh.

(10:24 AM); “As I said, President Obama should go to the wall on this one; he’ll gain 160 million votes from the people who have seen their taxes increased.” Ok, one more time. No one is getting a tax cut. All this hubbub is about is S.S. withholding in their weekly paycheck remaining low. There is no “payroll tax cut”. Sheesh.

If it were not so depressing that he’s ignoring a jobs gift horse in the mouth with this pipeline, it would be rather funny.———Look , everyone but the sheeple like you realize the conservatives are playing another ideological game with this latest legislative issue , i.e. making the payroll tax vote hinge on some corporate welfare oil pipeline . Why this pipeline just HAS to be included in a payroll tax bill in the first place SHOULD be where the intellectual emphasis and analysis is applied . But conservatives are all disingenuous toads who try to lead the naive and easily fooled away from the real truth ., like the person who posted the original quote at the first of this post . The truth ? Take the oil pipeline (aka UNREGULATED corporate welfare ) out of the bill and it will pass instantly . End of story.

Overseas retirement is looking pretty good to me.——Sounds good to me ,i.e. one less whiny a55 mouthy stupid conservative to have to listen to be an “expert” on everything. You not packing yet ?

More are undecided about Gingrich than about the president.—–that will change REAL FAST the more they hear about him :-) And I”M SURE as soon as he gets the nomination, folks will be hearing ALOT MORE about Gingrich.

his dreadfully horrible record —????????? growing 200,000 jobs per month is ‘horrible”? really? What is LOSING 700,000 jobs per month? That is what bush did, and that is EXACTLY what Newt will do. Remember, Obama is not running against the infallible, he’s running against his opposition, who is by far, WORSE than him and who has a MUCH WORSE track record and worse unfavorability rating. The only candidate with a GREAT record as far as getting a job done, is Romney and the stooges are not going to run him! :-) so, no worries, mate!

TelltheTruth (12:38 PM); About the same level as the comment about Newt Gingrich’s butt. I think Axelrod should go into hiding. How ’bout this one, “I thought it was your nose that grew when you lied?”

A note to the troll – I’ve copied your posts as you steal my name (as well as others) and reported you to the editors. Hopefully they can kick you off with your IP address. Grow up. For the life of me I can’t get what it is you gain from this immaturity.

“…..he’s ignoring a jobs gift horse in the mouth with this pipeline…..
Posted by: newcountryman | December 14, 2011, 12:32 pm.

According to TransCanada, the “jobs gift horse” would generate between 3500 and 4200 pipeline construction jobs. Republicans shoot down numbers like this before breakfast………….

Posted by: Taintedbylies | December 14, 2011, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm ……… Not to mention, do you remember the hoopla against those liberal Supreme Court judges regarding eminent domain a few short years ago? Now they’re evidently for it.

OK, one more time. No one is getting a tax cut. All this hubbub is about is S.S. withholding in their weekly paycheck remaining low. There is no “payroll tax cut”. Posted by: newcountryman | December 14, 2011, 12:44 pm.———–I guess you are right , especially when one compares these paltry fake tax cuts for hard working low-middle class Americans to the Bush REAL tax cuts for billionaires and hedge fund traders .

Who here has been polled? I’m 50, been voting since I was 18, and I have never ever been polled about anything. Who here has? Posted by: Searambler | December 14, 2011, 12:50 pm……………Over 50, registered since I was 18, voted in every election since. Never been polled.

I know how I am voting forever : Anyone but a lying 1% er protecting conservative GOP / Tea Bagger !! And that includes that goon neo-con Ron Paul as well !

Meh… The real question at the polls will be ‘do you think the Republican candidate will be better’… I’m no fan of Obama and he wasn’t my first choice for D candidate last election. I was taking a serious look at McCain (in spite of the fact that he sold out his ethics when it came to torture) until Palin took the stage and opened her mouth. And to be absolutely frank there isn’t a R candidate running now that comes close to McCain. There are a few that are just as wacky as Palin though. I wasn’t thrilled with Obama and I think he made some mistakes but I get what he’s doing and where he’s coming from. The nonsense from the crazies like the birthers and the “where’s the jobs people” who won’t even bother asking their own Republican representatives what they did with the stimulus money they asked for and got just solidifies that I’m going to vote for Obama again.

“Compared to the lying Richpulbicans, Obama’s a saint.”
POSTED BY: CAROLE
You like to pretend to an unhealthy degree, or you are yet another sad victim of spin swallowing.
Obama is thoroughly dishonest, and corrupt as well. Wise up.

Veto the bill, take the hit on the payroll tax holiday and let the GOP take their hit in November. It will be worth the cost just to get rid of them and their TP friends. It won’t get rid of the corruption of lobbyists, but at least it will get something done in Congress. Then there will be plenty of time for discussing pipelines, jobs, payroll tax holidays, and improvements to the health care bill. Maybe they could even tell the all the lobbyists to vacate the premises and close the loopholes behind them. What a concept. Make capital hill a corruption free zone.

“Unfavorable”? Gee, I wonder why…could it be

Operation Fast & Furious
Obamacare
Solyndra
NextEra
Light Squared
Siga Technologies
Failure to PASS a Budget.
Failure to enforce Federal immigration laws
Skirting Congress with unelected ‘czars’
America’s Credit Downgrade causes OUR investments to tank
30% loss in value of our homes
17.1% Real Unemployment
Highest Food Stamp usage in history
Suing AZ., and Al. and SC. and Boeing.
$800B for ‘shovel-ready’ Stimulus jobs that produced NO JOBS
Dept. of Energy under contempt of court and over 100 investigations
No Energy Policy…Oil & Coal production anemic
No Foreign Policy other than alienate our allies
Acorn / Union cronyism paybacks
General Incompetence from an incompetent Cabinet of academics
Taking No responsibility while Blaming everything else
$4 TRILLION in DEBT his first term

AND 0BAMA CAMPAIGNS AND FUND RAISES…BETWEEN VACATIONS
N0bama 2012

why does this site allow racist comments?

vod-k-nockers – I can tell that you’re just one more extremist who expects nothing from a candidate except to be part of “the team”.

Most of those are pretty shrug worthy like ‘Operation Fast & Furious’. Since the Republican candidates want to invade Iran I’ll take another “Operation Fast & Furious” any day over another Iraq war. And it isn’t like the Republicans don’t have a laundry list of corporations that they’re not only beholding to. Heck it was the Republicans who were taking money right on the floor of Congress before votes.

“Obamacare”? Funny how at least half of what was in it were Republican ideas. In fact the so-called “death panels” was a Republican idea.

Failure to pass a budget falls as heavily on Republicans also.

Immigration is one that both parties are a failure at and will continue to be failures at until the extremists shut up. What cracks me up about the immigration “debate” is that both extremes use the same argument. They both cry that immigration is all the same whether someone is here legally or illegally.

The ‘czar’ thing was started by Republicans and it’s not a real title by the way. Funny that you object only to a Democrat doing it.

The downgrade was something that Teaparty Republicans openly hoped and tried for.

Job losses and declining home values were both coming for many years before Obama took office. I could add the fact that the same Republicans who cried that the stimulus didn’t create jobs also put in writing that they would create jobs if given the money. Ask them what they did with the money.

I’ll just say you have to be completely disconnected about the foreign policy if you think it’s gotten worse under Obama.

“Taking No responsibility while Blaming everything else” That one was hilarious considering that the Republicans blamed Clinton literally right up to the end of the last admin. And frankly considering that we are still paying off trillions in bonds the Bush admin sold to China to fund the war to nowhere, the phony tax rebate etc. it’s not untrue.

The only thing that the President has done to anger some conservative types is try to cleanup Bush’s, wall street’s, and some corporations messes!

Heard Obama was applauded recently, but for what? Vacationing, golfing eating campaign dinners with finesse? Couldn’t be for his policies and agendas – most of those haven’t worked, but that’s OK. Our military sacrifices and accomplishments (when he wasn’t in office), are his successes, everything wrong with the country is the GOP’s and Independents fault. Mr. G. or BO. Obama would love that. What will be will be, but clapping for a job well done when it isn’t true, is messed up.
(that’s all I have to say)

Taintedbylies – Nothing you just wrote has anything to do with the US Constitution. ABC can censor anything it likes in the forums and often does. And nothing I wrote was a ‘gripe’ about ABC censoring so changing the subject doesn’t change the fact that you were wrong.

I”’ll just say you have to be completely disconnected about the foreign policy if you think it’s gotten worse under Obama.”
Posted by: glacia
Right. I’ll just say you have to be beyond garden-variety delusion to believe it is “good” under Obama. No world leader, friend or foe, respects Obama to any appreciable degree at all, and most view him as a merely a blowhard pansy. Am I wrong? Name a world leader who does, in fact, actually respect or even trust Obama to any decent degree. Reality check — one among many needed for you it seems.

Oh and Bruno… to answer your question… yes you are wrong. Unless you can provide some evidence of your hyperbole it’s nothing but your own cheerleading for your team. That’s in fact the worst failing in our country; people like yourself who expect nothing from a politician but to be part of ‘the team’. If you expected as much from ‘your team’ as you claim to expect from ‘the other team’ you would be too busy criticizing the politicians you voted for to worry about the ones you didn’t. Do you know why all politicians are eventually corrupt? Because people like you excuse them for it. Is Obama a great president? I haven’t seen one of those in my 50 years but Obama is without question an improvement over the last one and when I look at the alternatives for 2012… I’ll choose him again over nonsense like invading Iran and reinstating DADT.

If some in America likes wall street tanking, the economy tanking, jobs tanking, getting into questionable wars(namely Iraq), outsourcing of jobs with taxpayer’s funds, and tax breaks for the wealthiest, perhaps, I would be angry at the President too because he has not done any of those things like his republican predecessor did!

I do understand the illogical anger coming from the right, I understand.

My problem with all the people that bag on Obama is that “some” of them (and I emphasize some) what the administration before him did to really mess this country up. The Bush administration first took us to war against a country under false pretenses. Made the American people believe there were WMDs and guess what there were none. Then while taking us to war, which by the way costs a lot of money, he cut taxes for the rich… which also costs money and ends up earning less. Normally its understood if you are going to go to war you are going to have to increase taxes in some way or another. Taxes pay for military, pay for government, pay for the war. But no he cut taxes causing our economy to fall because America had no money because we cut our income. Now does that sound stupid? If you knew you would have to go to the hospital next week for an extended period of time, would you quit your job? No! Then he starts spending money on Guantanamo and keeping “supposed” terrorists and torturing them for answers while waving his christian flag. No christian would torture another human being regardless of where or what they may have been involved in. Now Obama can’t do anything because the republicans want to play a political game and not allow him to do anything. Well that’s my two sense.

Conservatives, try as you may,however, it was the conservatives that started the current mess. Clinton left the country good shape. Bush handed the economically wounded country to President Obama! What is not true about this statement?

Once again, the media fails to tell the whole story, as the president is more popular than his rivals and Congress.

President Obama did not create this situation, but he did keep it from getting worse, and “independents” will vote for him because neither Gingrich nor Romney have any ideas.

For those of you who view Obama as a failure, I suppose you liked Osama Bin Laden alive.

The republicans are a failure, case in point, they deliberately tie unrelated items together in bills that should be clean. This is proof that the republicans are sinking and needs to resort to dirty tricks to remain relevant.

Pres. OBAMA. Has done a great job, The pols are not done by everybody,. If they polled everybody the numbers will be higher in his favor. He done a much better job that the previous Pres. People always want to put the problem on the current leader. You much remember that the previous leader started the country going Down Hill. Pres. OBAMA, has tried to correct the problem and the republicans keep turning down thing that need to keep us up. You peoplewho has a problem with Pres OBAMA, You really think a republician can do better, He!! No, we will be in the same state of debt as that man before Pres OBAMA. Think before you speak or write and poll everyone not just some

The subsequent time I read a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as a lot as this one. I imply, I do know it was my option to learn, however I truly thought youd have something attention-grabbing to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about one thing that you could possibly repair for those who werent too busy in search of attention.